The Youth Cinema Network includes 26 youth film festivals, 18 organizations and freelancers from 5 continents.

They have joined together to form the YCN network to share knowledge, best practices and information in terms of film and media education and youth film festivals. The YCN advocates for young filmmaking internationally by encouraging intercultural dialogue, developing international strategies, and showcasing local best practices.

Open conference panels for film educators, film makers, teachers, media workshops, cinemas, festivals and interested people:

Thursday | May 9th 2024 | 10:00 am -11:15am | liwu. cinema

Members of the YCN present recipes for good practice in terms of film education and co-operations projects.

• “Dubbing a movie scene” by Robert Hinterleitner (YAAAS! Linz, Austria)
• “Additional qualification in film education” by Vera Schöpfer (Filmhaus Köln, Germany)
• “16 mm Found Footage Workshop” by Sophia Wohlfahrt (REC Berlin, Germany)
• “Film in an urban space” by Hana Repše (Einmation Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• “A Filmmaking Tableau” by Alex Shipman (Silver Night Entertainment, UK)

Thursday | May 9th 2024 | 11:30am – 1:00pm | liwu. cinema

Let‘s talk about film as an opportunity for social participation, inclusion and empowerment for young people! Exemplary projects from all „film phases“ will be presented.

• “logline unit” and “TakeOff MV” by Betty Koschka, Benjamin Hujawa (Rostock, Germany)
• “Stories from our Cities” by Fredrick Ochieng (Sema Na Ochieng, Kenya)
• “Mels Block” by Mark Sternkiker, Christian Höntzsch (Rostock, Germany)
• “Young Cinema” by Heike Preußner (li.wu. cinema, Germany)

Thursday | May 9th 2024 | 4:30pm – 6:00pm | FRIEDA Studio

Based on the “YouthFestivalNetwork” project, this panel will address the following questions: How can young people shape their festival and how can they be empowered to do so? What workshops and participation formats are available in the network and what methods are used to implement them? What experience does the network have with innovative, interactive event formats to reach new, young target groups?

Friday | May 10th 2024 | 3:00pm – 5:00pm | liwu. cinema

The first part of this panel will focus on the current, practical use of AI tools. There will be impulses from the YCN:

• “How not to worry about AI …“ by Manolis Melissourgos (Camera Zizanio Festival, Greece)
• „How to create visuals for festivals with AI“ by Eivind Nordengen (Amandus Filmfestival, Norway)
• „ChatGPT and Firefly for preproduction and storyboards“ by Leomary Rodriguez (freelance film teacher, USA)
• „AI-assisted decision making“ by Godfrey Slavius (International Youth Media Summit, Tanzania)
  

The second part is designed as a lab. Based on the previous conference content and results, the participants define objectives for cooperation projects and use AI in dialog to reach their goals. This part will be accompanied by Alexander Rihl, M.A. (Institute of Political Sciences and Communications, University of Greifswald).

The YCN conference 2024 in Rostock is funded by :

• FFA – German Federal Film Board
• MV Filmförderung

an supported by:

• KARO gAG Rostock
• li.wu cinema Rostock