Participation and Learning Trajectories on the Rio Int’l Film Festival’s Section for Children and Young People

Abstract

This paper presents the Generation Program, a segment for children and teenagers at the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (Mostra Geração and Festival do Rio in Portuguese) in Brazil. The authors are members of the curatorial and production team and both belong to GRUPEM (Grupo de Pesquisa em Educação e Mídia) – the Education and Media Research Team linked to the Board of Education of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. The considerations produced by the research team contributed to the analysis of this experiment. This paper prioritizes aspects related to audiovisual production made for and by children and teenagers, but also includes some of the recent history of practices involving cinema, audiovisual material and education in Rio. It also considers some public policies that interfere with the development of audiovisual education with and for audiovisual languages.

Keywords

• Film festivals
• audiovisual languages
• children and youth.