Creating links between young people and cinema, forming active viewers. Methodologies, strategies, and tools.

Moving Cinema is a European project that started in 2014. Its main objectives are to create strong connections between young people and cinema, provide them with the tools to become autonomous viewers, and ultimately, form active, sensitive audiences capable of enjoying diverse cinematic expressions. We prioritize European auteur cinema, both contemporary and heritage, focusing on filmmakers and films that differ from mainstream habits but, nonetheless, can deeply and intensely engage young people.

With these objectives in mind, we explore four areas of work: screenings and dialogues, young programmers, filming with mobile devices (linked to viewings), and discovering films through VoD platforms. We develop various actions in each of these areas and analyze them with the goal of defining work models and the processes they involve.

The resources are published on the website with the intention of disseminating them and making them transferable to all organizations, institutions, and individuals interested in the transmission of cinema. For this purpose, training programs are also delivered both in the countries of the organizations responsible for the project and in other European countries.

Through its activities, Moving Cinema builds an important network of festivals, cinema venues, exhibition spaces, educational centers, and institutions that work together for the film education of young people.

Moving Cinema is a project led by A Bao A Qu and developed since 2014 in collaboration with Meno Avilys (Lithuania) and Os Filhos de Lumière (Portugal). In 2015, the Centre for the Moving Image (Scotland) began its participation in the Young Programmers work strand, and La Cinémathèque française (France) joined the launch of “Inside Cinema,” an online space for discovering films through materials from the creative process. In 2016, the BFI – British Film Institute (UK) also joined with “Inside Cinema,” and Kijufi (Germany) joined with mobile device practices and VoD platform viewings. Otok Institute (Slovenia) joined in 2018, participating in the development of all the project's focus areas.