16. Filmska revija mladeži & 4th Four River Film Festival - HFS

THE Yellow Flag Award
for the contribution to nonviolence on film
filma u jednom kadru (voditelj: Jura
Troje), radionici radiofonije (voditeljica:
Ivana Štedul), radionici stop
animacije (voditelj: Vjekoslav Živković),
radionici filmske maske i šminke
(voditeljica: Zdenka Mihelj) te radionici
specijalnih efekata (voditelj:
Neven Mihajlović Cetinjanin). Što se
tiče Karlovca i borbe mladih filmaša
protiv nasilja, žuta je boja uvijek
u modi!
Debate Does violence
on film cause violence
in reality? + Workshop
program
› A white flag is raised as a sign
of surrender. Completely contrary
to that, the yellow flag is a sign of
struggle, a struggle against violence!
Nonviolence on film, best presented
through the works of young filmmakers
from Croatia and the world,
is promoted precisely by the Yellow
Flag award, which was raised for the
first time at the Youth Film Festival
and the Four River Film Festival last
year in Karlovac. The Yellow Flag
will this year once again be awarded
to the authors whose films, through
their themes, stories and characters,
most successfully speak out
against violence as a great affliction
of our societies, especially among
young generations. Given the fact
that one image speaks louder than
a thousand words, the moving images
send out an immeasurably
important message when it comes
to the needs of the youth and adults
to live in a society that promotes
peace, freedom and cooperation between
individuals and groups. Once
again, the full attention of all film
fans should go to the films which
deal with the problem of violence
in different communities and which
suggest solutions for the prevention
of violence. Young filmmakers are,
understandably, most interested
in the problem of violence in environments
closest to them – in the
family, among their peers, in school
and on the street – but their works
which deal with violence mirroring
a constant human need for domination
or about violence presented
in films in cinemas and on TV are
equally impressive. Which of the
films in this year’s festival program
will receive the Yellow Flag as an
award for the contribution to nonviolence
on film will be decided by
a jury of three, by all accounts, exceptional
high school students.
› A youth TV show about film,
produced by the Croatian Radiotelevision,
Kokice (Popcorn), will be the
media sponsor of the Yellow Flag
award. The show has for ten consecutive
years promoted the filmmaking
by children and young adults from
Croatia and the world, as well as film
culture, new films and classics for the
youngest cinephiles. Last year, the
Yellow Flag award already received
a lot of positive feedback, while this
year it will be accompanied by two
more events. They are the debate
Does violence on film cause violence in
reality? and a workshop program
comprised of five workshops. The
debate is conceived as a discussion
between two groups of young people
who will, from different points
of view and by expressing their own
arguments, answer the dilemma
presented. Their undoubtedly lively
and thought-provoking exchange of
opinions, as well as attitudes of adult
participants from public life (film
and TV-directors Dalibor Matanić
and Aldo Tardozzi; editor of the Kokice
- a show about film for children
Zinka Kiseljak; television host Daniela
Trbović; T-HT head of department
for tportal and film critic Alemka Lisinski),
will help the three-member
jury to reach the final conclusion
whether violence on film really
causes violence in reality. Considering
the fact that the issue whether
films affect human behaviour, especially
that of young people who
are still undergoing the process of
socialisation, causes a series of different
opinions and suggestions
around the world, therefore, the debate
in Karlovac will undoubtedly
make a valuable contribution to this
dilemma. All the participants of this
year’s YFF and FRFF will be able to
watch the debate, and they will also
be able to participate in the five
workshops also devised to promote
nonviolence on film. The workshops
offered this year are: live action onetake
film (held by Jura Troje), radio
broadcasting (held by Ivana Conjar),
stop-animation (held by Vjekoslav
Živković), film mask and make-up
(held by Zdenka Mihelj) and special
effects (held by Neven Mihajlović
Cetinjanin). As far as Karlovac and
young people’s struggle against violence
are concerned, the colour
yellow is always in fashion!
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16 th YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL & 4 th FOUR RIVER FILM FESTIVAL
animirani • animation