European Film Week

Another way of presenting Europe

Eva Ramón Reyero

European Documentation Centre at the UFV1

Our Goals: Make European Film Heritage better known amongthe youth.Provoke a debate about European Cinema.Convey more information about European Cinemato our students of Visual Communication andJournalism.

Methodology:InformationEducation

Development:Organisation of weeks devoted to European CinemaCollaboration among professors and studentsSeek of institutional support

ActivityPlan

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Core Participants

Engagement of Professors in the project:Cinema, History, Social Sciences or other areas

List of topics and selection of filmsSupport of students of last year degree (ECTs)

Institutional SupportEmbassies, Cinema Museums, Cinema ArchivesAreas of Culture & Educationat the Town Halls

DistributorsThey are essential to find copies. And to shown a film in public

Contact with the PressLocal Press, Specialised Media, University Press 3

Cinema produced by Member States atpresent

Films shown at the UFV’s Assembly Hall,mainly for students

Most films available at UFV’s Library Archive

Professors gave conferences about the films

I European Film Week (2002)

Support of GD of Education and Culture of the European Commission.Letter from Viviane Reding: “These conferences will help people, speciallythe youth to discover the treasures of European cinematography heritage”4

22 films 719 attendees

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New waves in European cinema: theirinfluence on experimental cinema

Working group: 7 Professors of CinemaSelection of topics / films, conferencesPreparation of film fact sheets

Outstanding Institutional SupportGoethe InstitutTown Halls of Boadilla del Monte, Pozuelo AlarcónEuropean Commission Cined@ys programmeFrench Embassy Cultural Service

II European Film Week (2003)

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II European Film Week (2003)

25 films, 12 short films,15 conferences, 1,240 attendees

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• Working group: 5 professorsand 5 students

• Participation of critics and film experts• Outstanding institutional support• Publication of conferences and articles

Writers and European Cinema

III European Film Week (2005)

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Projections at ‘Círculo de Bellas Artes’ (Fine Arts Club)‘Cinema Doré’ (Spanish Film Archive) and ‘MIRA CulturalSpace’

III European Film Week (2005)

Media: Temptations ‘El País’, ‘El Mundo’, ‘UniversitiesNewspapers’, ‘Radio Círculo’, ‘City FM’, ‘Radio 3’,‘Telemadrid Radio’, ‘Guía del ocio’ (outdoor activities)

3 areas: Cinephile, Spanish Cinemaand Black Cinema

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27 films,

23 conferences /debates, 2 round tables,

2,811attendees

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Dreamed EuropeSpecific Goals:Explain EU’s historical development

Show hardships and inequalityof immigration inside the EU(European Year)

Working Group (Professors of Cinema)Institutional Support:

Círculo de Bellas Artes, Goethe Institut, FrenchEmbassy Cultural Area, Belgian Embassy CulturalService, GD of Education and Culture of the EuropeanCommission. EQUAL PROFIS Project

IV European Film Week (2007)

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Projections at ‘Círculo de Bellas Artes’(Fine Arts Club) and at the University

Media: interviews in ‘Radio Círculo’ andPrensa Universitaria.Conferences / debates:At the origin of the Union: The cinema as European remembranceof the present

Europe inside Europe:mapping exclusion

Journey to Europe: the desirefor EU citizenship

IV European Film Week (2007)

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20 films, 2 documentaries, 4 presentations /debates, 1 conference, 870 attendees

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Summary: Core Participants

1- Engagement of Professors in the project:Cinema, History, Social Sciences or other areasList of topics and selection of filmsSupport of students of last year degree

2- Institutional SupportEmbassies, Cinema Museums, Cinema ArchivesAreas of Culture & Education at the Town Halls

3- DistributorsThey are essential to find copies

4- Contact with the PressLocal Press, Specialised Media, University Press

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I Film week

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II Film week

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III Film week

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IV Film week

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Technical direction of the Film weeks

Eva Ramón ReyeroSusana Sánchez Sánchez

cde@ufv.es

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