In association with the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the first edition of KinoKino Festival organised a roundtable on the role of teachers and professors in promoting film, i.e. audiovisual literacy as an important contribution to a professional discussion about the proposed Comprehensive Curricular Reform. With the intention of working together with teachers, professors, educators and school librarians and building a long-term collaboration with the education system to increase the quantity and quality of film in education, as well as training in the area of film, this year we are organising a special workshop – From Cinema to Classroom. The workshop is dedicated to short film teaching methods and designed to provide the participants with teaching tools to organise a theme class, either as a media culture subject within the Croatian language syllabus, or as a tool for other syllabi or intersyllabi.
In the three workshop slots, the participants will be given a chance to see and analyse some of the finest titles among contemporary Croatian short films, such as Una Gunjak’s The Chicken, the winner of the European Film Academy Award for best short film in 2014, the experimental film The Market by Ana Hušman, Luka Čurćić’s documentary Trust No One, the slapstick comedy Birthday by Petar Orešković, the love drama He Said He Was Very Tired by Ivana Škrabalo, as well as the films about school-related issues like Sweetie by Aldo Tardozzi, showing first-grader Tvrtko’s first walk to school on his own, and the drama We Aren’t Talking About You but About the Children by Luka Rukavina, set at a parent-teacher meeting in a high school.
The workshop mentors are Ana Đordić, a professor of Croatian language and literature and extracurricular film classes at Zagreb’s XIII Gymnasium, and Jelena Modrić, an associate professor at the Department of Editing, Academy of Dramatic Art. Both are also attending a PhD course in Literature, Performance Arts, Film and Culture at the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. They teach film professionally as part of the Croatian Film Association, namely the seminar Film Teaching at the Ante Peterlić Media Culture School and Film Classes at Tuškanac Cinema during summer, winter and spring holidays.
Ana Đordić was born 1983 in Zagreb, where she graduated in Croatian language and literature and philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. She works as a teacher of Croatian language and film art at Zagreb’s XIII Gymnasium high school. A member of the selection committee at Four Rivers Film Festival. Associate at Croatian Film Clubs’ Association on educational programmes and festivals and at Croatian Audiovisual Centre on the film literacy project.
Jelena Modrić was born in 1983 in Pula. She graduated with a degree in film editing from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she now works as a docent. A sound and image editor on many film and TV projects and an associate with the Croatian Film Association on educational projects and festivals. She also collaborated with the Croatian Audiovisual Centre on the film literacy project.
Dvorana Müller
Dvorana Müller
Dvorana Müller