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Description
The panel attempts to answer questions about courses on Audiovisual arts and audiovisual studies within or beyond the school curricula. In such courses, pupils and students have the opportunity to watch and discuss about films, share their views and create audiovisual works. They deal with film language and embrace critical pedagogy approaches. They collaborate as film crew and research team, share the pleasure of participation and exchange views. We examine the necessity of such courses, the educational objectives and the content that might have, the pedagogical framework and the teacher/educator’s training. The four different points of view of the panel enlighten the topic: the necessity of Film-and-audiovisual education that combines audiovisual literacy and art education, the use of the “Flexible zone” of the Greek Schools after the daily timetable, the film teaching in secondary Greek schools specialised in arts, dance and theatre, and the frame work of the University education for the High School film educators.
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Ioannis (Yannis) Skopeteas
is Associate Professor in Direction and Camerawork in Film and Digital Audiovisual Arts in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Digital Arts and Cinema. He holds an MA in 'Image and Communication‘ from Goldsmiths University of London and a Ph.D. from the University of Westminster, conducted on a state scholarship, concerning cinematography practice in the Greek features of the mid-1990s. He has written a monograph on ‘Videocamera and audio-visual recording’ and a book on ‘Narration and Genre in fiction films. With case studies from the Greek cinema’. He has written the script and directed more than 29 documentaries of a special scientific interest, in collaboration with other University professors and scientists, as well as more than 100 professional audiovisual works (advertising, corporate, shorts).
Katerina Giotopoulou
is Special Laboratory Teaching Staff in the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research subjects include Film Education, Literary Education, Film and Literature. At postgraduate level, she has studied Modern Greek Literature at University of Athens and she holds a Master’s Degree on Literary Education from Flinders University of Australia and a PHD on Film in Literary Education from University of Thessaloniki. She has published various papers on the above subjects.
Rea Walldén
is a film theorist and filmmaker, and Assistant Professor of Film Direction and Editing in the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema at the University of Athens. Her research interests include film and media theory, with a focus on avant-garde and experimental cinema, feminism, and film education. She has taught at Greek and British universities, and served on the Board of Directors of the Greek Film Centre, the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, and Women in Film and Television Greece. She has worked as a scientific consultant to the Greek Ministry of Education, participated in the Working Group on Audiovisual Education in the National Dialogue for Education, and represented Greece at the EU Working Group on the Modernisation of Higher Education. She has co-written the feature Thief or Reality and directed the documentary Obsessive Hours at the Topos of Reality.
Maria Leonida
is a media education trainer, researcher and documentary film director. Her work has been screened in Film Festivals around Europe. Co-founder and Director of Karpos, an NGO focusing in media literacy, running Greek and European projects which develops projects about the creative aspects of media language. Maria aims at a wider media literacy addressing both young and adult groups in a variety of learning environments. Ηer curricula are part of several EU Toolkits while three of the projects she co designed have been awarded in European level competitions. Maria trained in filmmaking in London and Denmark. She holds a BA in History and an MA in Art History.
Vassilis Kosmopoulos
studied film and television directing in Athens and Munich (H.F.F.), theatre studies (BA, MSc) at the University of Athens, documentary filmmaking for international audiences (DCM2006) and is a PhD candidate at the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema, NKUA.Awarded filmmaker, working on fiction, documentary films, cinematic installations, and experienced academic/artistic educator, at undergraduate & postgraduate level and in Art Secondary Schools, he has taught Film Directing, Audiovisual Education & Film Literacy. He has served (2017-2019) as Director of Production & Development and Director General of the Greek Film Centre, also participating in EFAD's "Film Education Working Group".
