The Croatian Film Association is providing film education material via the digital platform „Filmska naSTAVa“ to all Croatian primary and secondary schools!
Filmska naSTAVa is an interactive film education program intended for primary and secondary school teachers and students throughout the Republic of Croatia.
The program is intended for children and young people and their teachers. All of them have the opportunity to see various award-winning films by young authors in their classrooms, shown as part of the Croatian Children’s Film Festival and the Youth Film Festival & Four River Film Festival. The films were chosen according to their aesthetic value, but also according to the age of the students participating in the program. By watching and more closely analyzing the works of their peers, the participants of Filmska naSTAVa also get an incentive to engage in film production activities in their schools.
The platform enables students and teachers to actively participate in the creative teaching process, provides teachers with pre-formulated questions for guided discussion. It is available at the link filmskanastava.hfs.hr and is free to use.
The use of the platform begins by watching the introductory videos made by the leaders of the Filmska naSTAVa, and their purpose is to acquaint the participants with the world of film and film creativity of children and youth. Selected films are watched, and after watching the films, teachers are expected to lead and moderate the students’ discussion, aided by directed questions which are shaped according to specially made templates. Films on the digital platform remain available to students so they can watch them again, as well as independently answer quiz questions created for the purpose of more detailed content analysis, in an interactive way. These activities provide basic film knowledge (from theory to film history), film literacy and help young people develop an understanding of film language.
One-hour programs, in which students and teachers will watch films together, consist of short films awarded at the Croatian Children’s Film Festival, the Youth Film Festival and the Four River Film Festival.
The program is based on the methodology of film teaching, created according to the ideas and many years of practice of its leaders Ana Đordić, prof. and doc. art. Jelena Modrić at the instigation of Vera Robić Škarica, former president of the Croatian Film Association.
“The intention of the project is to encourage the balanced development of film literacy throughout Croatia and to develop a system that will bring film art closer to schools, regardless of their geographical location. There is a special focus on schools that are not able to participate in regular CFA’s programs such as the School of Media Culture ‘dr. Ante Peterlić’, Film Workshops for Children and Youth in Kraljevica, Educational Programs at the Tuškanac Cinema and Film Classes at the Tuškanac Cinema. This project contributes to the development of young people’s competences. Teachers are professionally trained in an area that is underrepresented, both in teaching and in the in-service training program, thus becoming more competitive in the labor market and opening new opportunities for working with children and youth. So far, we have really positive feedback from teachers and children who are already involved in the project.” said Sanja Zanki Pejić, head of festival and educational programs at the Croatian Film Association.
The program is supported by the Croatian Association of Technical Culture and the Ministry of Culture.
