European Children's Film Association I Association Européenne du Cinéma pour l'Enfance et la Jeunesse
Just Film, a sub-festival of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival dedicated to screening children’s and youth cinema announces that the European Children’s Film Association (ECFA) will appoint a jury and present the prestigious ECFA Award to one film from the programme.
The winning films from each ECFA member festival will move on to the final round where all ECFA members are allowed to participate and choose the Best European Children’s Film of the Year. The award is handed out during the International Berlin Film Festival, Berlinale.
The winner of last year’s ECFA prize was the animation My Life as a Courgette.
ECFA, the European Children's Film Association was founded in 1988, it is aimed at film makers, producers, promotors, distributors, exhibitors, TV-programmers, festival organisers and film educators - all those interested in high quality films for children and young people. At the moment the ECFA has more than 100 members, mostly companies and organisations, from 36 different countries.
Just Film, a sub-festival of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival sees an annual attendance of 16,000. The festival has two competition programmes – a children’s and a youth film competition, the latter having an international jury.
The 17th children’s and youth film festival Just Film will take place between the 17th and 26th of November 2017.
More information:
http://www.ecfaweb.org
www.justfilm.ee