Contact and Registration
Dr. Carsten Siehl / Lindenweg 36 / D-61231 Bad Nauheim / Germany
Tel.: +49-6032-868809 / Fax +49-6032-8046945
E-Mail: c.siehl@gmx.de
junges dokfest
The educational side program for young audiences, “junges dokfest – Watch and understand documentary film”, has been presented in cooperation with the Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting in Hesse (LPR Hessen) since 2009.
The section “junges dokfest” is aimed at school students from the 7th till the 13th grade as well as teachers and will take place before as well as during the festival.
Workshops and screenings will provide young persons an insight into the broad spectrum of documentary filmmaking, they can further practice their competence in understanding film and will write own reviews of selected films of the festival program under the guidance of media educators. The participants will also have the opportunity to engage in interesting discussions with attending filmmakers. Additionally three students will be involved in the Jury for the production grant “A38”.
Participating teachers will be offered special training in advance.
The educational side program will be instructed by the media educator and film scientist Dr. Carsten Siehl.
The works that will be shown in the “junges dokfest” program will be selected from all submissions for the film and video section. Submission for this section specifically, are not possible.
MEDIA TRAINING FOR TEACHERS
The media training for teachers is the yearly beginning of the project “junges dokfest” and offers the opportunity to get to know documentary films from a media educational perspective. Using selected short films of the current festival program as the basis to show film specific methods of mediation and tendencies of development of a young generation of filmmakers, who try different aesthetic forms and therefore directly oppose the so called “scripted reality” formats of the entertainment industry.
WORKSHOPS
Workshops on film analysis (for classes grades 7 to 10) and creative writing (for classes grades 11 to 13) take place in the class room before the film festival as well as during the Kassel Dokfest. Analytical and critical methods for the reception of documentary films are acquired.
SCREENINGS
A special film selection for young audiences dealing with different topics are shown in special screenings for school classes, which are moderated by media educators and are also attended by the repective filmmaker/s.
JURY
Since 2011 three young persons were invited to join the Jury deciding about the A38 production grant, in order to “rejuvenate” the focus of this award.
Together with Werkleitz – Center for Media Art the Kassel Dokfest awards this grant, which thanks to the Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting in Hesse (LPR Hessen) and the Medienanstalt Sachsen-Anhalt (regulatory authorities for commercial broadcasting in Saxony-Anhalt) is endowed with up to 3,000 € for accommodation and up to 1,000 € for travel costs.