The morning started with Hoca’s prayer and ofcuorse with breakfast for those who didn’t want to answer on his call. After eating couple sorts of cheese,olives etc. we went to our workspace – The Cultural Centre of Odemis. The cities population is aproximately 70.000 and what separates it the most is it’s mediteranian climate. After 7 degrees in Belgrade, 30 were more than welcome for Sonja and me. First exercise for all of us: to learn names of the participants (25). After many mestakes which includes my knowing the names of all participants except my room mate, there were activities which lead us slowly to the theme which will be discussed to the end of the week. In this case through every activity there are human rights and inclusion, and because of that we are here. The thing which shock me the most is the need of the participants to talk about questions which are too far from social and cultural aspects and are going into the things which are between biological and psichological. I was anoyed with that situation which started to take forms of religious meetings and preachures,and I have trayed to connect the theme of human rights to the media, which  in my opinion is much closer to our subject. Ofcourse every participant was in the discussion because the freedom of speech in  media is very important to all of us.  After that there was realy hard afternoon with the new activities which were held by  coordinators, and the direction we were going on suited only the organizators. There were only decriptive things, we were getting exercises, which were more like the survey for their needs and reaserches than the actual training.  Anyway  the programm which we got the next day sound more promissing. What is all about? Stay tuned!

Prvi radni dan. Jutro je zapocelo Hodzinom molitvom i naravno doruckom za one koji nisu zeleli da se odazovu na Hodzin poziv. Nakon konzumiranja nekoliko vrsta sireva, maslina i raznih preradjevina uputili smo sa ka nasem radnom prostoru – Kulturni centar Odemisa. Sam grad broji oko 70.000 stanovnika i ono sto ga posebno izdvaja jeste mediteranska klima. Nakon Beogradska 7 stepena, 30 je bilo vise nego dobrodoslo za Sonju i mene.

Prvo „razgibavanje“ za sve nas: popamtiti sva imena ucesnika (25). Nakon bezbroj lapsusa u koje se ukljucuje i moje poznavanje imena svih ucesnika osim mog cimera, usledile su aktivnosti koje su nas polako uvodile u ono sta nas ocekuje do kraja nedelje, odnosno kojim temama cemo se pozabaviti.

U ovom slucaju kroz sve aktivnosti prozimaju se ljudska prava i inkluzija, zbog cega se, izmedju ostalog, nalazimo ovde. Prvu stvar koju sam uocio u uvodnim aktivnostima jeste zelja za isticanjem medju ucesnicima, narocito starijih. Teme koje smo trebali u nekim uvodnim zagrevanjima zajedno da konstruisemo a usko su vezana za ljudska prava nekako su se svodila na nametanja volje „odraslih“ ucesnika. Ono sto me je zaprepastilo jeste potreba doticnih da se bave pitanjima koja suvise odmicu od socio kulturnih aspekata i zaziru u sloj koji se nalazi na margini izmedju bioloskog i psiholoskog.

Iznerviran situacijom koja je sve vise pocela da poprima oblik religijskog okupljanja i pripovedanje svetih knjiga, pokusao sam da temu ljudskih prava povezem sa medijima koja je, po mom misljenju, delovala mnogo bliza temi koju smo trebali da obradimo. I nesumnjivo, svi ucesnici su se ukljucili u razgovor jer je sloboda izrazavanja koju mediji kontrolisu/oduzimaju bila od daleko vece vaznosti svima nama. Nakon toga, usledilo je poprilicno tesko popodne sa novim aktivnostima koje su predvodili koordinatori, a smer kojima smo svi isli bio je onaj koji je odgovarao samim organizatorima. U vecoj meri odvijale su se deskriptivne stvari, a kako bi se izbegla potpuna rigidnost, dobijali smo zadatke koji su vise licili na obavljanje ankete za potrebe njihovih daljih istrazivanja nego li nama za potrebe tekuceg treninga.

Bilo kako bilo, u programu koji smo dobili, sledeci dan zvuci vise nego obecavajuce. Koji je razlog? Saznacete uskoro.

8 o’clock in the morning. Meeting with Sonja at the airport Nikola Tesla. A few minutes later meeting with paparazzi – farewell to Zeljko Joksimovic. How a magnificent sight. NOT! Arriving at Istanbul. Running through the airport, decoding signs, crowded passport control. Short brake and flying to Izmir. 40 minutes flight and running into train. And in it- sensation! Us! During the trip in a smelly train ( in which we were standing all the time ) the passengers were watching us curiously because they didn’t understand our language and a reason of our trip to Odemis. Sonja started to speak Turkish in order to solve the mystery and allow the curios one to speak to us. Subjects were different, from Balkan occupation to War of Independence. Problem. While entering the train Sonja forgot to take with her paper with hotel coordinates , leaving it on a bench. Or it was me? Thanks to the passengers we came to our final destination, they give us the guide who showed us the way to the hotel. Meeting the other participants, introduction games. Sunrise, hoca’s call to a prayer. Magnificent feeling of Ottoman culture in our ears. Welcome sight in my room. Crow on the lamp. Goodbye on the balcony. Sleep.

8 pre podne. Sastanak sa Sonjom na aerodromu Nikola Tesla. Nekoliko minuta kasnije susret sa paparacima – ispra?aj Željka Joksimovi?a. Kako veli?anstven prizor. Al’ zamalo. Dolazak u Istanbul. Trka po aerodromu, dešifrovnje znakova, gužva na pasoškoj kontroli. Kratak predah i poletanje za Izmir.

40 minuta leta i utrcavanje u voz. A u njemu senzacija – mi. Tokom putovanja, u zagušljivom vozu (u kojem smo stojali sve vreme) putnici su nas znatiželjno gledali jer nisu razumeli naš jezik i povod našeg odlaska u Odemiš. Kako bi im razrešila misteriju, Sonja je zapo?ela obra?anje na turskom jeziku i time omogu?ila znatiželjnima da nam se obrate. Teme su bile raznolike, od osvajanja Balkana do rata za Nezavisnost. Problem. Prilikom ulaska u voz Sonja je zaboravila da sa sobom unese papir sa koordinatama našeg hotela, ostavljaju?i ga na klupi… Ili sam to bio ja? Zahvaljuju?i putnicima stigli smo na krajnju destinaciju – dodelili su nam vodi?a koji nas je otpratio do hotela. Sledi susret sa ostalim u?esnicima radionice, igre upoznavanja . Zalazak sunca, poziv hodže na molitvu. Veli?anstven ose?aj osmanske kulture u našim ušima. Do?ek u mojoj sobi. Vrana na lampi. Ispracaj na balkonu. Pocinak.

16-24. JUNI 2012.

DECA DANAS, GODINA SARADNjE UN

Deca i mladi u?estvuju i sara?uju u procesima savremenog društvenog razvoja. Mi želimo da se naša deca i mladi tako?e uklju?e u radionice, seminare i me?unarodne prezentacije novih tehnika i tehnologija društvenog uklju?ivanja dece i mladih u uskla?ivanju i osavremenjivanju obrazovnih tehnologija.

„2012-YEAR OF COOPERATIVES OF UN. International meeting “self made”, at the Cooperativa Lavoratori di Mompiano, and other places in Brescia.“

Breša u Italiji je mesto multikulturalnog susreta dece i odraslih voljnih da promovišu kulturno-prosvetnu razmenu znanja i iskustava dece i odraslih koji se decom bave. Skup u Breši ima za cilj stvaranje uslova za permanentnu me?unarodnu saradnju i razbijanje kulturnih stereotipa.

Video, fotografija, zvu?ni zapisi, blogovi, internet stranice, mali roboti, nau?na i tehnološka pomagala, slikanje, modelovanje papirnih predmeta, igre na otvorenom i u vodi, mehuti od sapunice, insekti, pauci, pri?e o pozorištu i knjigama… Breša je mesto susreta EDUKATORA ali su glavni u?esnici DECA.

Ova konferencija u ?ijem radu u?estvuju specijalisti de?ijeg obrazovanja iz Italije i drugih zemalja treba da podrži me?unarodnu saradnju „prirodnih i spontanih“ aktivnosti dece koje ?e ih motivisati da ponovo otkriju društvenu integraciju, odnosno: da spre?e negativne uticaje tehnološko-potroša?kih procesa, da novim informativno-komunikativnim tehnologijama damo humanu ulogu u stvaranju frekventne lokalne ali i svetske saradnje u ovoj oblasti.

Uprkos rastu?em nadmetanju u potrošnji i razvijanju potroša?kog mentaliteta ovaj skup treba da pokrene povratak prirodi, harmoni?noj i uskla?enoj edukaciji u skladu sa stvarnim životom. Ovim skupom uz pomo? dece želimo da pokrenemo ME?UNARODNI VODI? U BUDU?NOST.

Sing Tao Daily 23-04-2012

High-school students in Hong Kong awarded in the 3D computer animation international awards again.  Junior student of Shun Tak Fraternal Association Yung Yau College earlier participation in the 3^rd VAFi Croatia International Children and Youth Animation Festival Competition, the theme of transformation of the ”child” in Hong Kong lead them to got the runner-up in junior division. Judge of the competition from Serbia invited Mr. Chan Owen, animation director of the college to participate in the Seventh International Student Media Summit held in Belgrade, Serbia in August, they will become the only Chinese to participate. In addition, Chan said judge from Serbia is very appreciative of our students, has been able to master the 3D computer animation techniques, and they have personally written to invite them to attend the Seventh International Student Media Summit held in Serbia in August, and will be the sole representative of the identity of publicity of creative Media and learning outcomes of Hong Kong students, they can exchange the creative media culture with the team of the United States, Britain, Japan and other countries.

The Sun Daily 23-04-2012

Three Hong Kong students with a 3D animated short film ”friends” in the 3^rd VAFi International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival Competition, beating more than 30 sets of animation from Russia, Italy and other countries, won the second place in 11 to 14 international group. ”Friends” addicted to playing computer games in Hong Kong children is modeled, is about a boy from poor communication to the process out of the virtual world of dating.
Junior Students of Shun Tak Fraternal Association Yung Yau College Justin Mak, Chun Wai Yeung and Wai Kin Law in VAFi contest organized by the Croatian Film Board last week, with a film about two minutes of the 3D animated short film “friends”, was the second of the Junior Division. Because of their very good job, the school has been invited to participate in the Seventh International Student Media Summit held in Serbia in August; this is the first representative of China to be invited to attend.
The three students spent nearly six months to make this animation; Justin surprise to be award, this experience made ??him more confident of animation and will want to continue studying 3D animation courses in the future.

Wen Wei Daily 23-04-2012

3D computer animation school team of the Shun Tak Fraternal Association Yung Yau College after winning the International Animation Festival award in Croatia last year, this year gain another victory. In Croatia 3^rd International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival VAFi with the 3D animation ”friends” won second prize in the 11-year-old to 14-year-old international group.
“The 3^rd VAFi International Children and Youth Animation Film Festival held in local time on April 12 to 15, 2012. There are three groups in the competition – the primary group (age 10 or below), junior group (age 11 to 14) and senior group (age 15 to 18). This year, 23 countries and regions are participating with a total of 183 works. Yung Yau College submitted 10 entries, 7 works in middle and high school groups successfully nominated. Junior Students of Yung Yau College Justin Mak, Chun Wai Yeung and Wai Kin Law won the second prize in Junior (age 11 to 14) group. Their work”friends” described a boy from a wealthy family, and indulging in the gameworld, and poor communication. The boy is not happy about that, he hopes to go out to meet friends, but encountered trouble. They only got Merit Award from this work in last year animation competition in Hong Kong. They spent two months later modified to focus on optimizing the end of the story, and then submitted to the Croatian entry. During the race around the world, participants in the local theater to watch all the finalists can also participate in workshops and seminars organized a special trip from Japan to the local animator. Yung Yau College students have been arranged to stay with local families to understand the locals living culture.

Being invited to Kljuc, Bosnia for “Sharing & Learning & Improving” training course immediately brought cheerful features on our faces. Some of us, a history student Milos Zivkovic for example, are enjoying their training course seminar experience for the first time. Others, like animation assistant Vid Rajin, are experiencing their first visit to Bosnia. There is always a lingering feeling of immediate joy when meeting new fellows outside of our own homeland (or beyond familiar modes of thinking). One ought to appreciate every opportunity for new friendships.
The diversity of participants made our acquaintances interesting, with the young people coming from Hungary, Macedonia, Spain, France, Germany, Lithuania, the Neatherlands, Bosnia and Serbia. Having gradually met all the members as they were arriving on the first day, it was informal group introduction time the following morning. Everyone agreed on the proposed schedule, an example of informal education advantages, and certain not-so-strict house rules. Energiser games kept everyone’s enthusiasm at a decent level, and activities themselves involved more than pure listening sessions. Standard training course subjects like peace building, democratic values, environmental care, human rights and such were introduced in engaging ways through group drawings, making charts, debates and project building exercises. There was enough free time as well, with a whole day labeled as “Freedom (with obligations)”, obligations being short continuation of our daily activities in theory, and a must-see visit to the Old Town’s castle in practice.
Kljuc (meaning “The Key”) is a historical medieval town tucked in the rolling hills of untamed natural landscape. Like so many places in Bosnia, it offers astonishing vistas that depend on the altitude of your viewpoint (as well as your leg stamina): the higher you climb, the better the view. We reached the monumental Old Town of Kljuc several times, making more than a dozen of photos which are bound to cover most of the profile pictures upon our return home (or to the nearest Internet Cafe). First thing that comes to mind while enjoying this incredible land is the enormous potential of epic film shots. You could imagine at least one fictional film trilogy set in these kinds of magical places. We even heard legends which would easily fit into any random adventure storyline, such as that of a Rider who rode beheaded from the top of the mountain all the way down to a place which is now a small memorial house made of stone. Only tellings, or maybe inspiring realities?
Back in our workcastle, the practial activites continued, intersected with theoretical presentations and amusing silly energiser games every now and then. We also met friendly locals (whose names usually start with the letter “A”). Townfolk gave us their unofficial tour of Kljuc. Some even let us stay in their bar long after the closing time. Internet non-existence was hardly even noticed, with so many other ways of socialising.
Every training course comes to it’s conclusion in a slightly different manner, not because of the varietz of evaluation systems, but due to the diversity of the people and strength of new friendships. Some tears may be felt if not shed, mixed with smiles of contentment. A good memory of the people will stay until our next meeting, somewhere in beautiful Bosnia or big wide world.

Vid Rajin
Media Education Centre, Animation Assistant
www.vidrajin.tumblr.com

On 6^th of February…

I have received the following email:

Dear Igor,

Thank you for your application. We are happy to inform you that you have been selected to participate in the Nisi Masa Stop Motion Workshop march 11-18!

“How?” you might ask.

Three weeks before that confirmation, I received an email from organization where I’m working at, Media Education Centre. They forwarded me an application form for that NISI MASA STOP MOTION WORKSHOP (Malmö, Sweden) with statement: you are qualified for this. Well, of course I am, especially when my boss telling me that.  So, I fill that form and few weeks later I received that positive answer.

More about that NISI MASA’s“call” you can read here: http://ww.nisimasa.com/?q=node/420
Target audience between 7 and 12 years old.With my reputation? Seriously?
When I read that application form, it was more than obvious that I would apply as a director. The biggest problem for me after that decision was: what story? I never, but seriously, never made story for the children. For that reason you should always have a group of friends who are somehow related to that ‘children story’ making process, if possible. So I called my friend asking her for help, she agreed, and as the deadline approached, she screwed me up so badly that I was on my own. Well, not completely, a lot of friends also tried to help me, giving me some ideas, but nothing that I’d like. And my selection process is simple:  If my (twisted?) logic can’t accept it as my own point of thinking, that’s not good enough. Of course, it’s foolish to except from someone to guess your taste.  In this case I just seek for some kind of foundation for my story, that’s all. And I got it finally. Suggestion was simple: why not something about rabbit and wolf, kids will like that. And that’s true, but it’s so… not me… But it was good start at least. Soon after that I saw these animals kissing each other in my head, and I said, oh how cute, kids will like that for sure! And almost immediately after that I realized that both of these animals are male. If you had asked me at that point why or how, I would not know how to answer. Anyway, I liked what I saw, and just in case, I was advised by reliable source who studied Swedish literature.  She gave me a blessing, and my last check was a friend who is also an animator like me, and he understands my style. If you tell him the synopsis of your story and if he is able to make from that piece a whole story of thirty minutes in length, just by shooting from his head, you know you are on the right track. And finally after all these checking I wrote “A Different Fable”, LGBT love story between wolf and rabbit. With some plot and moral added, of course.

The division of teams, preparation and truth about my story

So, NISI MASA has formed five teams, and members of my team were: Rebecka Ryngfors (Sweden) applied as Director of photography, and Sven Sosnitski (Estonia) who applied as Sound designer. In real life Rebecka is working as animator (really good one!) and Sven is music composer (with really unique style!). We introduced to each other via email and immediately start working on preparation (from our homes). In this stage Rebacka has been in charge of designing characters and drawing some part of the storyboard, and Sven was in charge, of course, for creating sounds by looking my notes from script. In the meantime I got a tutor who is a professional writer for children, Janne Vierth, and his job was to help me to polish my story. After only few Skype meetings, the script was polished and ready.  And I was aware that he will ask me the question like: why same sex love story? In that time I already knew the answer. Main reasons are exam in cultural anthropology and gay pride. Don’t even try to connect these two, I will tell you immediately what all is about. Gay pride is somehow still, or rather always, fresh wound in Serbia. Government won’t give to that population they right on that pride and period. Safety reasons, of course. Meanwhile in my Cultural anthropology, book that counts more than 900 pages, I read about ethno centricities. I already knew everything I need to know about it, but in that period when I was about to make story for the workshop, something pushing me even harder to think how some cultures react on this LGBT ‘celebration day’. I am cultural relativist, and I don’t give a damn about conformity. If some subculture wants to celebrate something, give them what they want – democracy for God’s sake!  So, main idea with my story was to provoke children to discuss about LGBT topic. And I think it’s a good way, because when you see same sex animating characters, gay “situations” looks less taboo (of course in some cultures it’s not taboo at all) than in real life. I don’t want to discuss why it looks like that, you can investigate on your own, or even write thesis about it.

Anyway, script was ready and I started to work on scenery design, and I decide to make (almost) all backgrounds/foreground in 3D. It was a brave decision from my side because I didn’t know what kind of equipment waiting for us on the workshop. To make it clear, if our characters will be made out of clay, and all background and foreground are made digitally, that means that characters needs to be captured in front of green screen. In post production that green color needs to be ‘washed out’ with digital background and voila, you have some really interesting results. How long it took my computer to render all that, I don’t want to mention.

Arrival

We manage to prepare everything on time, 10^th of March came, fantastic concert in Belgrade by post rock band called God is an Astronaut, and next morning airport. Good friend of mine took me to the airport that morning and I flew to Copenhagen. Yes, Denmark, not Sweden. When I saw my booked flight I thought some mistake has been made, but if you are really bad in geography like I am, just by looking geographic card you will notice that distance between Copenhagen (Denmark) and Malmö (Sweden) is ten times shorter than Malmö and capital of Sweden (Stockholm) where airport, which my air company uses, is situated. Now, one advice if you ever decide to visit Scandinavia countries. Don’t even think of to bring cash with you, especially not Euros! And especially not in Sweden! These countries respect their own currencies, and in markets, shops, restaurants, etc. in most cases will not accept euro, and chance to find currency exchange office is equal to the situation where you see a rabbit ridding a squirrel. Not gone happen. And if you find it, it will cost you, a lot. Credit card in your pocket equals less agony. From Copenhagen’s airport I take the train, (they accept euros but will give you change in Danish krone if you don’t point out differently) and in 20 minutes I was in Malmö. Hooray! With too many Danish krone in my pocket! Shit… Anyway, I was on Malmö’s train station, with map in my cellphone. Bad idea. As much as I zoom on that screen I can only read names of the streets, but can’t see in which direction I should go (it was picture of map in pdf). It was time to ask someone on that train station for help. Police officers (three of them) were my first (and only) target in that moment. On my question how to get there and there, one of them replied with robotic voice: “We are not from Malmö, but we can help you”. After that answer one of the officers took out a map of Malmö, size of almost 2 square meters, from his back pocket, and they start searching. Finally they showed me where to go.

In 10 minutes I got lost, again. There was some bakery store in front of me and I entered inside searching for help. I set my eyes to sparkle, and with an irresistible smile I ask worker from that bakery for help. She was so kind that I even get printed Google map with navigation where to go from location where bakery is. I wanted to say thanks by buying something from that store but as I mentioned earlier, I had only Euros and Danish Krones. Shame, I know. In 20 minutes I was finally in hostel where all participants are placed. I get my room, and something was not quite right. I have to share room with three girls. And Iwas the only guy who needs to share room with girls in whole hostel. I immediately start explaining to those girls that it was not my idea or decision, that I know it’s unpleasantand that I also have my manners…  and their response was:”We have nothing against to share this room with you.”  I shut my mouth.Mingling time. In afternoon we had welcome cocktail from best of NISI MASA’s team: Lina, Anna and Peter – project managers.

Work(shop)!

The Workshop was located in Mediagymnasiet. God, it’s a huge school building, almost like some kind of factory. And by the way, their educating system is just fantastic. Students from Serbia, like me, can only cry with sadness, because Serbian education system looks quite ridiculous compering to Swedish one. Anyway, workshop started with master class by one of the best Swedish animator, Lotta Geffenblad.  That master class pretty much reminds me on my master class that I hold last year in Greek university for media and new technology. And it was fun. Lotta is really amazing animator, full of experience and it was really pleasant to hear what she has to say about medium called Animation. Now, about equipment they give us for this workshop purpose… To each team is given Apple MacBook Pro laptop, Canon DSLRcamera with professional filmtripods (really big ones with fluid heads)and we had dozens of professional lights to choose – there was at least 10 tungsten lights up to 800 watts, each one equipped with soft box diffuser and different color gels.And they even bring ‘Kino Flo’that I asked for my green screen purposes!  It was like shopping in candy store! And there is only one word for that NISI MASA’s crew: AMAZING!

Setting up high budget equipment was pretty easy job – easier then setting up web camera and table lights, believe me. And we got really good instructions of how to use animation software called Dragon Frame by great Swedish animator Mikael Lindbom! Only difficulty for my team was lightning – for green screen you need to kill all shadows that may appear on green plate. I spend at least one and half hour just setting those lights, and in that time rest of my team already starts working on something: Rebecka was creating characters, and Sven starts organizing sounds we’ll need.

After that we were more than ready to animate. Animating is something I really love, and this was my first experience with Claymation technique. My previous experiences were mostly in digital 2d and 3d technique, and from stop motion I’ve been using only cutout and pixilation. But if you are an animator, you should know that principles of animation are the same for all kind of techniques, even if you want to animate with sand. Except for the fact that you can’t use ‘pose to pose’ – animators will know what I mean. And I made few mistakes from very beginning, because I am not used to moving around soft objects such as clay. Every movement was to jerky. In one hour or so, by repeating and trying, I finally got used to it.

And we were quite good. And very fast too. We finished animation process before everyone, postproduction again before everyone, and we were also first in delivering our final work. I’m mentioning this not because I want to say that my group is something more special from the other teams (but for me my team is sacred!) but instead I just want to explain how everything was so fluid for us. And I didn’t sleep 35 hours in one moment, but who cares! It was worth it for sure.Again, here I can speak just for my team (because almost every hour inSweden I spend with them) and only I can say is: we were really great!

Screening ceremony & goodbye party

The public screening of all our films were shown at place called Victoriateatern (small city theater). Everything starts with public master class with our tutor Janne Vierth, professional writer, and his talking about how to be better writer for children. After many great advices, they start screening our films. All five films are accompanied by applause.Soon after that we were invited on the stage to talk with audience. After answering on their questions, big applause signalize that everything is finally over. And I was honored that in audience was my good friend from Sweden, which I have not seen more than two years, Sarah. After screening I went with Sarah for a short walk, in a beautiful city park.

And after saying good bye to Sarah I went back to my workshop friends! PARY TIME!

What to say about this workshop and people who were there in general. We are all come there from different cultures (Estonia, Spain, Russia, Romania, Hungary, UK, France, Netherlands, Serbia… including Sweden) but sense for humor stays the same. And not only that. Working and laughing, listening the music together, discussing about everything, without nervous, without pressure – followed us all from very beginning to very end. Fear of ethnocentricity which has haunted me and forces me to make my film was not there anymore. There was absolutely no space for that.  My final impression of this workshop? Pure success. Thanks to NISI MASA’s project managers, their sponsors, and of course, to all participants.

Film of my team can be found here:

The Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia and Media Education Centre invite you to join us in the debate on Thursday, 8 March 2012 at 15:00, Americana Hall at “DOM OMLADINE”, Decanska 1
INVITATION

Delegacija Evropske unije u Republici Srbiji i Medijski edukativni centar pozivaju Vas da u?estvujete u debati
koja ?e se održati u ?etvrtak, 8. marta 2012. godine sa po?etkom u 15 ?asova, u Sali Amerikana Doma omladine Beograda, De?anska 1
POZIVNICA

Aleksandra Mojse
Vladimir Stajic
Marinka Tanaskovic
Brajovic Andjela
Ana Zuvela
Jana Nenadic
Mirjana Sarac
Marina Dzaleta
Aleksa Jankovic
Tatjana Vorotovic

Profesors:

Soline d’Aboville
Dragana Markovic

This year (like every year) four young members of the Media Education Centre will be jurors  on the Giffoni Film Festival. Together with the leader of the Team they will be in Salerno-Giffoni from 14th to 24th of July 2012. Serbian Jurors with Italian friends and young Jury members from more than 20 countries will have opportunity to watch the best global production of films for children and youth.

When you choose a theme there are two main paths you can go by: you can either follow the suggestions that sping out from the current world and try to interpret them in your own way or follow your own personal path of concepts that are like knots in an uninterrupted dialogue.
This year the GIFFONI EXPERIENCE has chosen a third path that is to remodel the direction the wind blows in such difficult times and continue to follow its very own path by observing the crucial topics of our existence as individuals: Energy, Emotion, Discovery, Taboo, Love, Link just to name a few.
It is now time for HAPPINESS. A somewhat challenging choice. The undefined shape of a concept that seems hard to catch, ever changing, and gets lost in the dawn of human thought.
It is a fruitful, rich and full of incentives theme (the original Greek word for Happiness means all of the afore mentioned words), a theme linked to lightness which inevitably clashes with the heaviness - almost unbearable – of this historical momen where the word Crisis suffucates every breath of beauty and even the most positive nature.
GIFFONI EXPERIENCE shouts for happiness. And strongly believes in it. It does not intend to cast down its weapons of light before the dark proceeding of the shadow line and therefore suggests to all its children, youth and families a “colourful” considerationon of the many nuances of happiness.