E-STAFF - video report on the festival

 

This is the final video report on the E-STAFF, the European Student Amateur Film Festival, that took place on Dec 2 2020 and on January 18-18-20 2021. The festival took place online between the six cities of the project. After 3 years of hard work, this is the end !

Here is the full program of the event : 

PART 1 : Jury training and Master Class with Polish filmmaker Agniezska Holland (December, 2nd 2020) 

PART 2 : Opening ceremony (January 18th, 2021) 

PART 3 : Screening of the short films (January 19th, 2021) 

PART 4 : Grand Finale (January 20th, 2021)

 

> Watch the trailer of the festival

> Watch the opening speech of Ms. Sylvie Guillaume, former Vice President of the EU Parliament

> Watch the students' debates as jury members

> Watch the results of the competition

In parallel to the E-STAFF, every evening on the same days the Italian coordinator, Ms Patrizia Petrocelli, organized the second edition of her film festival, Giovani in corto nella terra di Pitagora. Here is the link to the first edition.

ITA#35 Shooting the second shortfilm (+ video)

Here are some of our characters..it was complicated but it was fun , too

  

https://youtu.be/ctQpu6Je_Pw 

Finally we ended our shortfilm even if the students weren't at at school and they can shoot or take pictures near their houses..

ITA#34 : the new storyboard... till the end

 

 Finally

we had our shortfilm for the second year! We wrote, for the third time, our script because of pandemic .Now we are ready to edit  it ..creativity is a magic power and cinema is a magic world...you can do everything using imagination👏

CAT#52 - FEDAC Manresa - Participation in the Masterclass with Agnieszka Holland

 Participation in the Master Class with Agnieszka Holland

Today, the 2^nd of December, our students have taken part in a Masterclass with film Director Agnieszka Holland. The students had previously watched her 1990 movie “Europa Europa” and today they have been able to ask some questions to the director.

The event has been organised by the European Film Factory, which is a European project, supported by the MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe, and lead by the Institut Français in partnership with ARTE Education & European Schoolnet.

Our students have had 10 minutes to speak to Mrs Holland, and have been able to ask 3 questions. She has been very through answering, and has given a good amount of details and anecdotes about the film and the film making process.

We are very grateful to have had this opportunity.

The students from Gdansk, Annonay and Bernalda also attended the Master Class through a youtube link provided by the European Film Factory to follow the event live. We are very proud of the selection of Fedac Manresa to represent the E-STAFF for this event. Link to the masterclass here.

FRA#33 - Interview of Guillaume Laurant, scriptwriter of Amélie

This is the complete and subtitled interview of Guillaume Laurant, scriptwriter of the famous film Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain in French) who came to the Collège les Perrières school along with the director of the First Featured Film Festival of Annonay, Gaël Labanti. 

The interview was lead and shot by the French E-STAFF students on Feb. 17th 2020, on the final day of the festival. The students edited the video in class on the following weeks, just before the Covid-19 lockdown. However, they didn't have time to translate Guillaume Laurant's speech and add the subtitles, which was made in May 2020 through a distance learning subtitle workshop experiment, using Padlet (link here : https://padlet.com/clemperillat/fbjhq...).

FRA#31 - Student written reports of the mobility in Annonay

Here is a short selection of the written reports the French, Spanish and Bulgarian students made during the mobility in Annonay 2020, about the various film they saw during the First Featured Film Festival. 

For the students' video reports >>> click here.

For a trailer of the various activities and a recap of the training >>> click here.

PL#28 Remembering Film Festival in Annonay

Remembering Film Festival in Annonay 

The Annonay Film Festival was an unforgettable experience for all the students participating. 

It was time for broadening the film analysis knowledge as well as upgrading the editing skills. Students watched masterpieces of cinematography, discussed them, shot reviews and, above all, lived with French families - their families at that time!!!

Here is a short film report on the meeting. 

Here are the students' memories from the time they spent with wonderful French families:

FRA#30 - Student video reports of the mobility in Annonay

Ten international groups of 4 students filmed their E-STAFF mobility on the First Featured Film Festival of Annonay 2020, performing reviews of the films of the festival in English, and making a short video report about the cultural heritage of the city of Lyon. The groups edited the videos on the last day of the mobility during a specific workshop and here are the results. Note that certain sections of certain videos were deleted due to the absence of sound. Sorry for that inconvenience.

FRA#29 - Student mobility in Annonay - video recap

The second E-STAFF mobility on the Annonay First Featured Film Festival has ended. Here is a video about all the activities we made during this mobility, with our Spanish and Polish friends from Manresa and Gdansk. The students also made video reports and film reviews in international groups about this week. They will be available soon on the site...

The results of the votes for the final ceremony were :

Best Film : 
1. Nevada
2. Papicha
3. My Extraordinary Summer With Tess
4. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

Best Story :
1. Nevada
2. Papicha
3. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
4. My Extraordinary Summer With Tess

 Filmmaking :

1. Papicha
2. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
3. Nevada
4. My Extraordinary Summer With Tess

 Acting :
1. Nevada
2. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
3. Papicha
4.  My Extraordinary Summer With Tess

Cultural Heritage :
1. Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
2. Nevada
3. Papicha
4.  My Extraordinary Summer With Tess

Video slideshow of the training (included the trailers and extracts from the films) :

CAT#47– Our final day in Annonay – FEDAC Manresa Mobility to Annonay Report

CAT#47– Our final day in Annonay – FEDAC Manresa Mobility to Annonay Report

Everything comes to an end eventually, and so are Erasmus mobilities. On our last day in Annonay students have edited their video reviews on the 4 films they have watched during the week. They have also posted their opinions on the etwinning site about the movies and also about the cultural heritage they got to know during the past few days.

In the afternoon, they have learn about the process of voting for the films in the context of any film festival. They have debated the films within each category and they had to argue the reason for voting one or another.

The last part was of course the certificates. We all got the certificates and took a nice group photo which will be for us a good memory of this last day.

CAT#46– Watching movies at the Annonay Film Festival – FEDAC Manresa Mobility to Annonay Report

CAT#46– Watching movies at the Annonay Film Festival – FEDAC Manresa Mobility to Annonay Report

Today it has been the second round of films for us at the Annonay Film Festival. We have watched a moving film called “Nevada” about a man and a mustang horse in a federal prison in the USA. Students have reviewed the movie and they have been touched with the story. After lunch, we have watched our last movie in the Festival. “Papicha” is about the political situation in Algeria during the terrorist attacks the country suffered in the 90s, and how young girls were going through the important changes their society was going through. It has been a tough movie to watch, but very interesting all the same.

CAT#45– Visiting Lyon’s Cultural Heritage – FEDAC Manresa Mobility to Annonay Report

CAT#45– Visiting Lyon’s Cultural Heritage – FEDAC Manresa Mobility to Annonay Report

Lyon has a lot to offer, and today our students, the Polish students and all the French hosts have visited the important landmarks in Lyon. We have started in the old town with the beautiful cathedral. We have then visited the Cinema Museum where we have learned about movie sets and effects, as well as accessories and other props.

After the museum, we have visited the passageways typical from Lyon and we have walked up hill to find a nice spot to have lunch. After lunch, we have returned to the old town where we have taken the funicular to the Roman sites. There, we have visited the Museum of the Roman heritage and we the roman theatre.  A beautiful day.

CAT#44– Watching the first movies – FEDAC Manresa Mobility to Annonay Report

CAT#44– Watching the first movies – FEDAC Manresa Mobility to Annonay Report

Today it has been a very cinematic day here in Annonay. Our students have seen two beautiful films: “Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain” and “My Extraordinary Summer with Tess”. Our students have needed help understanding the films, but they have enjoyed them. At the end of each film, students have reviewed different aspects about the movies individually and then, they have prepared interviews in international groups of 4. On Friday, after watching all four movies they will edit all the interviews with the objective to have a full video report of their participation in the Annonay Festival.

CAT#43– FEDAC Manresa First Experiences in France – FEDAC Manresa Mobility to Annonay Report

CAT#43– FEDAC Manresa First Experiences in France – FEDAC Manresa Mobility to Annonay Report

FEDAC Manresa students arrived in Annonay on Sunday Afternoon. Families were expecting us, and they were very welcoming. Students settled into their host students’ homes but they soon went bowling all together. That was a great way to break the ice.

Monday has been a busy day. After the welcome ceremony, our students have taken part in a film review workshop to prepare  for the movies they are going to see this week. After lunch they have been to Chateau de Deomas to do a filming workshop also in preparation for the video reviews that students have to record after watching the Festival movies.

It has been an intense day, but we have learnt a lot. We are now looking forward to watching the movies.

FRA#28 - Finishing the story board for Year#2

The story board of our second short film is now complete ! The film will have eight scenes for a total of seventy shots. There will be four main actors, three secondary actors, and many stock characters.

As the end of the project is coming fast, we finished much earlier than last year.  Time to rehearse and set a casting up...!

We will shoot our short film on March 30th and 31st in Le Colombier house, a very important place for Cultural Heritage. The students will make the first scouting next week.

Spanish, Polish and French students at the bus station in Annonay

Also, this week, we are welcoming the students from Manresa and Gdansk for the First Featured Film Festival of Annonay. The students arrived yesterday and we made the preview activities and media workshops today. More information to come soon !

Tag cloud on the 37th Film Festival of Annonay

PL#25 The report on the visit in Poland

The report on the mobility in Poland

We have started a new year - 2020! 

The year of many challenges, such as

• shooting the second film
• visiting  our project friends 
• or taking part in European Student Amateur Film Festival in Strasbourg in May 2020

We have, however, numerous good moments from the last year worth remembering!

One of them is the meeting in Gdańsk in December 2019 when Spanish, Italian and Polish  teams  cooperated learning so much about films and themselves as members of Europe.

Here is the report on what happened during these 5 wonderful days! 

Read it! You will see how wonderful time we had!

REPORT ON THE MEETING 

 

ITA#30 Education to cinema - Gdansk

On 13th December 2019 was full of workshops about education to cinema, E-Twinning activities a cultural Heritage game. At the end of the day the Polish coordinator gave the certificates to all the students and Teachers. There were special prizes for the different competitions and the all the students got some chocolates made for the Erasmus project.

ITA#26 - Departure to Poland - Dec 2019

After the video chat by skype we decided to revise everything about Danzica, recording a video called "What would you like to ...........?". Each students told the others the things they wanted to do and visit. We read some important info about Gdansk and the programme that the Polish coordinator sent us.

Last 8th December 2019 eigth students (1 boy and 7 girls) two Teachers and the Headmistress left to Poland from Bari Palese airport. The families drove us. For two of them it was the first time they went by plane.