Cinema Off School
About the conference
Cinema Off School is an international conference focused on issues of film and audiovisual education, organised by the Association for Film and Audiovisual Education together with the International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlín and the Creative Europe – MEDIA Office since 2016. Conference started in 2015 at festival Animánie in Pilsen (Plzeň) as an informal meeting and discussion about the possibilities of further development of film education. Since 2017 the conference is held annually as part of the Zlín Film Festival and hosts Czech and international film education experts, representatives of institutions supporting film education and representatives of academia, educational and cultural organisations.
Past issues
Cinema Off School 2022
Sunday, May 29, 2022
Venue: Zlín Congress Center (Small Hall)
Organizers: Association for Film and Audiovisual Education, Zlín Film Festival, Creative Europe Office – MEDIA
Topic: Legally and easily – film in school teaching
The Cinema Off School 2022 conference focused on projects and organizations that offer films in schools both in the Czech Republic and abroad. It is not only about the films themselves but also the methodical work with them which helps teachers to teach through films and about films. One of the fundamental obstacles to the availability of films is the legislative issue. The simple use of films in schools is prevented by a vaguely worded copyright law. We therefore address the legal context in the final panel discussion which was attended by representatives of cultural institutions, experts in copyright and licenses, as well as representatives of film producers.
Cinema Off School 2022 – program brochure
Recorded conference stream on youtube
Cinema Off School 2021
Sunday, Sept 12th 2021
Theme: Teacher in the lead role
The sixth edition of the international conference Cinema Off School focused on the most important profession, which can make a significant difference in promoting the field in educational programmes – teachers. While educators use film excerpts, whole works in their teaching, they often serve only as background or illustrations. There are few qualified teachers of film and audiovisual education. All the more valuable is the experience of those who teach film, audiovisual and multimedia in primary, primary art and secondary schools. In addition to domestic experiences, we will also present examples from abroad – among others, the Moving Cinema project.
Recorded conference stream on youtube
Cinema Off School 2020
Sunday, Sept 6th, 2020
Theme: Seeking for the young audience
“Finding the (young) audience” or age rating of films and working with film with a focus on particular age (target) groups. Due to the emergency measures resulting from the pandemic situation in our country and in the world, the participation of foreign guests took place online.
Participants included Cary Bazalgette (UCL Institute of Education) from the UK, Nguyen Nguyet (Gruvi) from Denmark and Joanna Solecka (Alphapanda) from Poland as well as Czech guests: Vratislav Šlajer (Bionaut), Linda Arbanová (Aerofilms), Markéta Pášmová (Zlín Film Fest), Bob Kartous (EDUin), Aleš Danielis (CinemArt), Eva Spilková (CinED, AČFK), Luděk Horký (ČT), Martin Pošta (APK) and Barbora Kyas (Juniorfest).
Recorded conference stream on youtube
Past issues of the conference will be added soon.
