Sabine Genz
Sabine Genz has been part of the VISION KINO Team and is, among other things, responsible for teaching material, monthly film recommendations for education and copyright issues.
Location Berlin, Germany
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The black and blue winter sky groaned with rain clouds that were about to fall heavily upon the crowded street. Hilary carried the loaded gun, and she seemed to be the only one looking into the thundery heavens.
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Sabine Genz replied to Sabine Genz
Thank you very much for your ideas!! Will think about that.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Jeg startet kurset for seks dager siden. Jeg drakk en kopp kaffe for tre timer siden.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
I really enjoyed creating my three characters: the unhappy woman who is working in a supermarket, the heavy-metal guy in public transport and his pinkish little daughter and would like them to form a family (grandmother-son-granddaughter), but what it´s not quite clear what to do with them. I need a real good "what if?-question" to get my story going.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
She felt as if the fresh waves that danced around her sailboat were giggling in the sunlight.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Straight out of Wacken - he liked it when people thought of Germany's famous heavy metal open air when they saw him. Dressed in black from head to toe, leather pants, heavy footwear, sweatshirt with some metal band printed with those misanthropic-looking, dragon-like figures. Skull rings on his fingers. Hair shaggy, long, in a color that is not one. Plus a...
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Takkk for kurset. Jeg liker Harald and Theodor veldig godt.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Yunha har kjøpt pastasaus i butikken. De fire vennene snakker med filmteamet i pausen.
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Straight out of Wacken*, that's how the guy looked to me. Dressed in black from head to toe, leather pants, heavy shoes, washed-out sweatshirt with some metal band printed with these misanthropic-looking, dragon-like figures. Hair shaggy, long, in a color that is not one: indefinable between dark blond and light brown. Skull rings on the fingers, whose nails...
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Sabine Genz replied to Victoria B
Really a lot of details, that makes that lady standing in front of (e.g. the bronzer in the creases around her mouth) - so I am almost afraid that she will notice that I am staring at her, too
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Sabine Genz replied to Sabine Genz
Yes Chris, you are absolutly right. Thanks for drawing my attention to that
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Sabine Genz replied to Rowan L
Hi Rowan, I like that user's guide style of your two descriptions. Like before: how you shouldn't do it and after: how can you manage. I think the person needs a lot of willpower for the second scenario, but it might work.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Lately she has only clammy fingers and cold feet, but keeps the heating turned down, afraid of the cost. But it would be enough for a coffee in the warmth of the small café across the street. How much time would she be able to buy with a coffee before she would be asked to either order something else or leave? Which would be the best place? In the back, next...
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Sabine Genz replied to Morgan Tucker
Yes, I agree, very vivid. I especially like the second description, which is so short and gives me the feeling of a drafty, oversmelling subway-station. Only 4 lines and I got the whole picture.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
I tried morning pages for a couple of weeks (but never without having a cup of coffee before!) and it was very interesting what flows out of your head onto the page. But morning is definetely not my time of the day.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Det er vanskelig, men jeg har lyst på dag fiere.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
jeg har spist en vegetarisk hamburger til lunsj. Hva har du spist i dag?
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Sabine Genz made a comment
et jordbær, jordbæret, jordbær, jordbærene
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Sabine Genz made a comment
I added more description on her face expression and give a hint on her age
She never seems to have time. I have never seen her relaxed like her collegues from time to time are, although there is always something to do when you work in a supermarket. She always seems a bit hectic. A small, wiry person, constantly under tension, never with a smile on her...
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Sabine Genz made a comment
She never seems to have time. I have never seen her relaxed like her collegues from time to time are, although there is always something to do when you work in a supermarket. She always seems a bit hectic. A small, wiry person, constantly under tension. She never gets involved with customers, when cashing up or when you ask her something, with her thoughts and...
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Gabriele er på kaffeen. Hun kjøper en te. (å være is irregular; å kjøpe is regular)
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Sabine Genz made a comment
jeg skal leser en bok. Boken er ny på bibliotheket. Det er mange bøker i biblioteket.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Jeg skal kjøpe mange tomater.
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Har dere pastasaus?
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Sabine Genz made a comment
I am the one with a happy childhood. My parents come from poor backgrounds, they grew up far away from any modernity in two remote Bavarian villages and met in a larger city where they both made it to some professional success. They fulfilled my every wish before I could even express it. The highest luck for me was on the back of a pony, my mare "Lightning",...
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Hvor bor du?
Hvar heter du? -
Jeg pleier å snakke med Bugi, min nabo
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Jeg heter Sabine. Jeg er tysk og jeg kommer fra Berlin.
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Sabine Genz replied to Niraj Sharma
Although we think experience film in a cinema is crucial, this november we prepared alternative event formats so that film education networks between schools, cinemas and extracurricular partners can be maintained. For example screening in schools or streaming in homeschooling, we did arrangements with distributors for that. And we recorded talks with...
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Speak freely and appear (or better: be)committed and passionate
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Sabine Genz made a comment
The pandemic conditions came too fast for our SchoolCinemaWeeks in spring, so we just had to cancel. But for the SchoolCinemaWeeks now in November, we prepared alternative event formats so that film education networks between schools, cinemas and extracurricular partners can be maintained. For example screening in schools or streaming in homeschooling, we did...
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Sabine Genz made a comment
same with me, my head moves a lot and for my attempts to smile in between my reading a did not pause enough, so that does not look relaxed but tensed
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Not really surprised - maybe I expected a little more on "Quite unconfident"
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Sabine Genz made a comment
I got very nervous and hectic and you can tell from my voice if anything goes in another direction like expected, e.g. a ppp does not work.
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No, Victoria, money is not the main obstacle, although of course money is needed. SchoolCinemaWeeks are shouldered by many strong partners: you need decision-makers in politics (education & culture) who have recognised the need for film education and are prepared to support it - not only financially. You need partners in the film industry like distributors,...
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@VíctorLópezOrtega We have the privilege that attending the SchulKinoWochen is recognised as a teaching time in all federal states. This is not a leisure activity for pupils.
School classes attend a film screening in the cinema. Afterwards there is a film talk with a film educator, which people from the film team or with experts on the theme. Additional, we... -
Sabine Genz replied to Carola Bravo
Hi, Carola, sorry for my late reply, I didn't check during my holidays. We startet out with strong partners in the Länder (the federal states), which were already working in the field of film education. Additional, there was a strong need on the part of politics and the film industry, to have filmeducation implemented - at first to develop an audience for...
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Sabine Genz replied to Gail Robertson
@StephanieHartman Thanks for bringing transportation up! This might also be an issue in Germany.
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Sabine Genz replied to Gail Robertson
Thank you, Ian, that's a very interesting question. We just try to figure out for the upcoming SchoolCinemaWeeks. Dear participants from schools and cinemas, what do you think?
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Sabine Genz replied to Ruben Wolfram
If you speak of expensive movie licences you probaby mean school-licences for showing films in the school, not in the cinema. As in SchoolCinemaWeeks we show the films in cinemas, there is no problem with licence fees. The distributors waive the minimum charge and get their share from the entrance fee as usual. Like with "normal" programs, the cinemas settle...
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With german copyright law, it is not the point where you rent or buy the film, but to what audience you show it. We made up an website about copyright and intelectual property concerning films and schools with many case studies: https://www.wer-hat-urheberrecht.de/infothek/infothek-fuer-lehrkraefte/fallbeispiele/
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Sabine Genz replied to Gail Robertson
We hear that often: it is very time-consuming to organise the excursion to the cinema in consultation with colleagues, especially if it is not in the immediate vicinity. And more and more pupils who can´t afford the trip and entrance fee! There are schools with a parents-led support association, and in Germany we also have a governmental, so called "Education...
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Sabine Genz replied to Ruben Wolfram
Dear @RubenWolfram, it is still too early to speak of real change. Just because the effects of the corona pandemic show how important it would have been to invest in digital infrastructure in schools in the past, the often desolate situation in schools has not changed until now. Perhaps teachers have become more open to digital teaching and learning, that...
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Does this work?
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Hi Ruben, audience development in this context is understood as bringing more people to the cinema and especially develop a basis that also in the future people will go to the cinema. It is simply a matter of figures.
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Sabine Genz replied to Sarah Dorra
@SarahDorra
I would explain film form simply is more formal: is it a narrative film, a documentary, an experimental, a short film? Is the narrative-movie structured linearly or not? How is the perspective? It also touches on questions of the genre, which often follow certain conventions, such as rom-com, thriller etc.
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Did you try to use teaching material/study guides? For example provided by the distributors or institutions like kinofenster.de (from Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/Federal Agency for Civic Education https://www.kinofenster.de/), VISION KINO (https://www.visionkino.de/unterrichtsmaterial/), Institur für Kino und Filmkultur (http://www.film-kultur.de/) -...
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Sabine Genz replied to Julie Garrod
I love that film, thanks for sharing!
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Sabine Genz replied to Sigutė Čepaitė
This is not so easy to answer. Are there local project for schools in your country? If yes, a good way might be to connect them to build a network. If not, you might start with a local or regional project, find partners - had you ever contact with Meno Avilys? This is the english page (because I want to know what I am linking on, but there may be more...
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Sabine Genz replied to Nat S.
And this is brandnew: You don`t have to install the app mentioned above, it is available as an website now: https://nwdl.eu/languageoffilm/
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Sabine Genz replied to Anna Morozova
SchulKinoWochen started in 2006 as a follow-up project to the school film weeks "Lernort Kino", which was launched in 2001. From the very beginning, they have been financed mainly by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Federal Film Board. The foundation of VISION KINO and the SchulKinoWochen was also supported by the Federal...
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Sabine Genz replied to Joanna Synodinou
The visits for students are optional yes and no. No school or no class is obliged to attend SchoolCinemaWeek/SchulKinoWoche, but if the teacher/school decide to go, than the students have to. Attending the SchulKinoWochen is officially recognised as teaching time, so students must attend. In some cases this makes it difficult to recommend a film. For example,...
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Dear Jerry, sorry I somehow missed you question. I think it would be very difficult to just transform SchulKinoWochen to another country. But I would like to encourage you to start local and to spread the idea. If you have concrete questions or need some help, you can contact us. You'll find all the contacts on our website...
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Sabine Genz replied to Anna Morozova
Dear Anna, there has been local initiatives which offered kind of school cinema programs before VISION KINO was founded. So one of the first ideas for establishing VISION KINO was, that this new institution has to turn this patchwork quilt into a nationwide program, that brings schoolchildren into the cinemas. I asked my colleague who is in charge for...
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Hi Nina, as always in Germany it is different in the different federal states. Some have a quite good film/media (online) platforms for schools, so it easy to work with films which are already licensed - in Berlin it´s Edupool: https://berlin.edupool.de/home?pid=3nao5nlqfj1ljq9s8okepk5sf4
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Compared to the rest of Germany, Berlin-Brandenburg is quite ahead with their "orientation framework film"
https://bildungsserver.berlin-brandenburg.de/fileadmin/bbb/rlp-online/Teil_B/Medienbildung/Materialien/Filmbildung/orientierungsrahmen-film.pdf -
Sabine Genz replied to Charlotte Frost
We have a central website (https://www.visionkino.de/schulkinowochen/ or for timetables https://www.visionkino.de/schulkinowochen/laender-termine-und-beteiligte-kinos/), but the most interesting websites are these from our partners in the federal states (there are links to these site on the schulkinowochen-website linked above). Teachers search there for...
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Sabine Genz replied to Terry Jerry A'wase
Thanks, Terry - I hope you will be successful with bringing schoolclasses to the cinema in your country
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According to the new Urheberrechts-WissenGesellschafts-Gesetz (new copyright law) §60a (1) UrhG it is allowed to use up to 15% of each work for the students if you want to illustrate the teaching. So yes, you can use clips. There is some more information about using and making clips and about the funny-namend-law on our website about copyright law in Germany...
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There will be some more detailed informations about school cinema programs in Denmark, Finland and Germany at step 4.9. - but I don't want to keep my Danish colleagues from answering here ... ; )
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But even the capitalistic world is hungry for creative people. Among the top 10 skills 2020 according to the World Economic(!!!) Forum for the fourth industrial revolution there is "Creativity" now on the third place. On second there is "Critical Thinking". Things are changing, so don't lose your hope!...
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Sabine Genz replied to Nat S.
Yes, Natalie, they will - as long as this course is online, that means till about the end of June 2020
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Sabine Genz replied to Günther Weber
Not like Deutsches Filmmuseum, I´m afraid. But there will be teacher trainings within SchulKinoWochen Rheinland-Pfalz - just to be planned at the moment, and there are workshops and training the whole year round, organized by filmbüro R-P. I couldn´t find a website of filmbüro, but here is the contact:
Filmbüro im Pädagogischen Landesinstitut
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Hi Verena, nice to meet you here. It´s indeed not easy. We tried to answer many question with case examples when it comes to showing films in schools, but also here theres are udifferent legal opinions:
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This is a tricky question, which will be answered different in the different countries. In Germany, you are allowed to film (or photograph) people in the public, if they are just happen to be in the picture (if they are just "Beiwerk"). Otherwise - at least in non-corona-times - it would not be possible to film the Brandenburg Gate or other touristic places,...
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Sabine Genz replied to Günther Weber
Günther, thank you very much for your compliments and your encouragement for our work! We are very happy to be able to adress teachers like you!
We are working on highlighting the role of film in school and it’s importance for mediaeducation and cultural education! There are little improvements concerning curriculars, but your are right, there is still a lot... -
Sabine Genz replied to Charlotte Frost
Very good point, Charlotte. Depending on the genre or history of the film, contemporary witnesses can really be impressive discussion partners. Such an encounter across generations is very valuable, because all participants share experiences and draw ideas from this conversation. In conversation with the contemporary witness, the students also learn to...
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This is an outstanding incentive given by local municipality, an example to be followed! Often it is due to the lack of money of the families that school cinema events cannot be attended.
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Sabine Genz replied to Aadil B
There is a swiss website I could recommend: https://www.kurzundgut.ch/ There are many international films in english or films without dialogue, but unfortunately all the texts to the films are in german.
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Sabine Genz replied to Chryssa Moulakaki
Thanks for sharing your experience, this is really inspiring!
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I think separating national from european (and of course depending of what continent you are from: asian, south-american.... cinema) from global cinema can make sense. Watching stories from other parts of the world expose you to different ways to tell a story and immerse yourself in completely different life worlds than your own. You are encouraged to think a...
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Sabine Genz made a comment
Thank you all for you interesting Lumière Minutes. It brings the whole world close to you by watching just a few minutes. Feels like we all united and very close.
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I think the canon of the Federal Agency for Civic Education is wonderful, but it lists not enough titles for a younger audience. Therefore, it really makes sense to complement this list with further film recommendations. Thank you for mentioning the films of SchulKinoWochen! This list is the selection of the current SchulKinoWochen films, even more film...
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There should be solutions within schools, regions, nations or even european or worldwide solutions, as @Patricia G. mentioned. Of course, a teacher cannot be expected to pay for films out of his or her private pocket. On the other hand, it is important to understand that not everything can be free of charge. The artists and people in the film industry must be...
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Sabine Genz replied to Jesko Jockenhövel
That was exactly our plan - to expand KitaKinoWochen to more regions. There are a lot of cinemas which showed interest and there are some which do the program on their own. But one of the biggest obstacle is always the same: funding. So spreading it over the whole of Germany will take some time.
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Sabine Genz replied to Jadwiga Mostowska
During SchoolCinemaWeeks schools or classes normally watch one film and work with it. Some classes go more often, like two or even three times and compare films, but that does not happen very often. Filmloving teachers may go during the rest of the year. Classes (or teachers) just choose the film they like and go watch it in a cinema, the don't have to attend...
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Dear Dorota, sorry I'm answering that late! In every of the "Länder" (federal states) we have a partner organisation, which do the communication with school heads and teachers. They have all the contacts in the region (mostly develop over the last 10 years), as they manage the actual programme, give advises which film could be the right one and send out the...
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Sabine Genz replied to Patricia G
For all german speaking participants, VISION KINO started a private facebook group, called "Filmbildung" to keep the exchange and discussions about film education going. We are looking forward to you joining it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/587874261860549/
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Dear Patricia, you are lucky to live in filmloving Berlin (as you told in the beginning). For preschoolers do you know Spatzenkino, a festival the whole year round: https://spatzenkino.de/ (of course they are in corona-pause) and there is not only Berlinale, but also the International Short Film Festival for kids KUKI https://www.interfilm.de/kuki-festival/
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Sabine Genz replied to Günther Weber
That is a very good plan, you should go for it! After all, owner-managed cinemas also have an interest in attracting the audience of tomorrow (of course, students are already an audience of today, but if they get the change to develop a love not only for films but for the cinema, they will go as grown-ups, too). For this, there are cinemas which are very...
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Sabine Genz replied to Johannes Lohmus
Interesting thought, Johannes. And by the way: it's YouTubes 15th anniversary today!
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I am referring to: "Of course, in a French class in Germany, a teacher would show a film to improve language skills, but this it not normally connected to to teaching about film narration or film style." With our practical guide for foreign language teaching, we would like to support teachers exactly in this respect: to consider film language aspects as well....
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Sabine Genz replied to Jesko Jockenhövel
You hit the point Lupita! It happened to me when I asked a teacher to ask her students to take their garbage with them after the screening, she said: "Why? We paid for the ticket, cleaning must be included". After they had the film and a film talk with a film educator for 3,50 Euro.
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This is indeed one bad point in our federal system - there are some "Länder" (federal states) which put film in the curriculum, others focus only on media literacy which doesn´t have to include film.
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Steps towards film in the curriculum in Germany are little, but Berlin-Brandenburg did one, maybe you know this already: https://bildungsserver.berlin-brandenburg.de/fileadmin/bbb/rlp-online/Teil_B/Medienbildung/Materialien/Filmbildung/orientierungsrahmen-film.pdf
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Sabine Genz replied to Jesko Jockenhövel
You are very right, teaching the teachers is crucial - we hope we can contribute with this course.
In Germany there are quite a number of providers of films for non-commercial public screenings - in fact, the problem is that you have to search every single internet site as there is no central search for titles. A list of providers can be found on page 34 of... -
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For all german speaking participants, VISION KINO started a private facebook group yesterday, called "Filmbildung" to keep the exchange and discussions about film education going. We are looking forward to you joining it: https://www.facebook.com/groups/587874261860549/
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Sabine Genz replied to Martina Petrovic
VISION KINO is a public-private partnership, receives half of its funding from the German Federal Film Board and half from Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media (that´s kind of a Ministry for Culture and Media). That´s where the 47% for SchoolCinemaWeeks are from, from our "normal" budget. Money from ticketing goes to the cinemas and the distributors.
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Sabine Genz replied to Carmen Beckenbach
The SchulKinoWochen were advertised via program booklets and program flyers at all schools in Baden-Wuerttemberg. According to this all schools received mail from the project office. In addition, each teacher who had already participated in the school cinema weeks received further information by mail or e-mail. Interested teachers could easily find detailed...
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Thanks for sharing that interesting idea! What else would children and young people like to have in this space?
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I organized school cinema events in Berlin for several years and in my experience it is often the teachers who think that the students are overwhelmed with subtitles and they don´t dare to pick a film in the original language - but if they are there by mistake, the pupils are o.k. with it. That the German voices sound or fit better is also due to habituation,...
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Good point, Carmen, we 'll keep that in mind!
As a first step, we started a private facebook-group called "Filmbildung" for exchange about film education yesterday. It may work, so if you happen to have a fb-account, please feel free to join (and any other german speaking person is welcome as well) : https://www.facebook.com/groups/587874261860549/ -
That´s a great offer, wonderful films - and not so small scale!
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And of course I would like to add for the germans here Vision Kinos monthly film recommendations (which are on hold for the moment):
https://www.visionkino.de/filmtipps/. For Corona-Times, we have this site: https://www.visionkino.de/unterrichtsmaterial/aktivitaeten-fuer-zu-hause/ -
Sabine Genz replied to Nat S.
@LupitaG. Yes, but the lack of clarification by the legislator in Germany leads to the fact that even judges see things differently; there are judgements in one direction, but also in the other. Schools are no private space, but they are definetly no public space either, otherwise anybody who likes could just walk in, that makes things difficult.
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Sabine Genz replied to Lucky dialwa
You are right, Lucky, having a nationwide school cinema program costs a lot of money and you need powerful partners. But I would like to encourage you to start small, in just one region or city, and spread the idea.
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Sabine Genz replied to Anja B
Thanks for giving us insight to the cinema you work in, there should be many more like this! You say, the screening is followed by a debate with an expert, if the school demands it. How often do schools demand? In 20% of all screenings? Or less or more?
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That´s perfectly alright to jump back and forth, welcome back Ivana!
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Sabine Genz replied to Teresa Holmes
That´s perfectly alright to do so! There are also still other people who are just now in week two or three. You have time till the end of May to complete this course. We are glad you're back.
