FRA#6 - First Featured Film Festival of Annonay 2019 (photos and videos)

The mobility in France has just ended. Before getting a complete report about it, here are some photos and a short summary of the event.

This mobility was mainly focused on cinema and on the first featured film festival of Annonay. With the help of the festival director, Mr. Gaël Labanti, we scheduled four screenings on two days for a total immersion. The mobility also featured two preparatory workshops and a final recap during which we invited a journalist and the deputy mayor of the city.

Due to a limited number of days (because of our school's restructuring process), the cultural heritage aspect was restricted to the visit of the Lumière Museum in Lyon on the final day but only for the visiting partners, as we had already done it with the French students a few weeks before.

On the first photo, we can see the media workshop of the first day at the castle of Deomas, which is the new headquarters of our MJC - Maison de la Jeunesse et de la Culture (House for Youth and Culture). Two employers of the MJC, Brice Sodini and Alicia Cosculluela, supervised that workshop, which aimed at training the students how to make interviews. This work was used after each film we saw during the festival.

Here are the photos of the mobility :

Welcoming the Bulgarian and Spanish students at the Lyon airport on Sunday

Hosting families organized joint activities during the evenings

Cinema workshop at school : preview activities (in English) to prepare the 4 films of the festival

An evolving mind map about the Annonay first featured film festival

Practical activities (drama, filming, editing) based on the film preview of "Parvana"

Preparing the reviews of the film "Woman at War" in front of the old theatre

Exclusive interview of Denis Do, the filmmaker of "Funan" in the old theatre

Final recap at school: written review of the film "Ladybird"

Preparing the E-STAFF competition: here are the results of the votes on the 4 films we saw during the week

Final day in Lyon: at the train station, a plane wrote the word "Bisous" (kisses) in he sky. It was Valentine's day!

The pilot also drew a heart. A nice way to end up this mobility...!

Thanks to all the visiting students and their teachers for those moments. Also, thanks to all the hosting families and to the staff of the Collège les Perrières school who helped making this mobility possible.

VIDEOS

First, here is the trailer of the mobility, which presents the key activities that were performed during the week :

Day 1 : previewing activities.

The following video presents the activities that were made in order to prepare the students to watch the four films on the festival. The cinema training was made in the Collège les Perrières school and the media training was made at the castle of Deomas :

Specific training on Parvana.
The following video presents the details of the training on the film Parvana (The Breadwinner in English) with the E-STAFF students :

Day 2-3 : going to the festival and making interviews

After each film of the festival, the E-STAFF students made short interviews based on the training of the first day :

Specific interview on Funan.The following video shows an interview of Mr. Denis Do, the filmmaker of Funan, by the E-STAFF students right after the screening:

Final Day : recap time.

This final video presents some reviewing activities about the four films, a vote for the best film, and the visit of the Lumières Museum by the Spanish group :