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In 2008 Cine Regio, European Network of Regional Film Funding institutions, started the KIDS Regio subgroup in order to initiate a platform, which shall help to improve the basis for valuable and promising European co-productions of children’s and youth films.
As a first step, Film i Skåne hosted the first KIDS Regio Expert Meeting during BUFF International Children and Young People’s Film Festival in Malmö in 2008, initiated by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and in co-operation with BUFF Financing Forum and Film i Skåne.
During that meeting a discussion on the situation of children’s film in Europe was set up, beginning with an appraisal of conditions for production in the different regions, and aiming at the development of strategies to improve the situation of children’s film in Europe. In response to the results of the first KIDS Regio Expert Meeting and the suggestions made there and following an obvious need for further exchange, a follow-up conference on European children’s film had been planned.
Initiated and supported by members of the Cine Regio Network, MDM and the Federal State of Thuringia, the conference has taken place in Erfurt, Germany, on June 24th and 25th 2009 under the title
“The Future of European Children’s Film – 1st KIDS Regio Forum”
Authors, directors and producers as well as sales agents, distributors, cinema owners, TV representatives, funders and representatives of the existing lobby groups who are active in this field all over Europe, have discussed possible synergies and solutions in order to define a course of action that can improve the situation of the European children’s film.
 Download the Conference Documentation
The conference documentation gives insights into both the presented studies and the discussions during the workshops, summarizing the findings and results that led to the Erfurt Declaration, where the participants of the 1st KIDS Regio Forum have agreed on a five-point agenda, claiming that the production of feature films for children should become a natural and self-evident part of the European film culture and industry.
KIDS Regio has established its office under the roof of the German Children's Media Foundation GOLDEN SPARROW, further working on the agenda set by the participants of the 1st KIDS Regio Forum.
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