The Ministry of Culture presented its project this Monday at the Embajadores Río Cinemas in Madrid Cinema Schoolan initiative that aims to incorporate into the educational program the attendance of students in the theaters and the subsequent analysis of the films shown.
3rd and 4th year ESO students from IES Santa Teresa de Jesús, in the center of the capital, attended the event. Some of them have been very animated before the pass, commenting that cool more than watching a movie in class. Others did not know very well what they were coming to, although they hoped that the movie would not be too long.
The institute was chosen for this pilot test at the proposal of the producers, distributors and exhibitors with whom Culture already meets to deploy the project, which the Ministry led by Ernest Urtasun intends to extend to all centers in the country that request it next year. 2025-2026.
The screening of the animated film Robot Dreamsby Pablo Berger (who according to the minister proposed the idea to him a few months ago), has given the starting signal to a plan that is still in a first pilot phase.
“We are very happy to bring children and young people closer to the rooms to create the audiences of the future,” Urtasun said in statements to the media. He has detailed that the Ministry itself will assume the costs of travel to the rooms, while it will partially cover the costs of the tickets. This last expense will be covered by the rooms themselves, in no case by the centers or the students themselves.
Initiative open to different ages and all centers
The director of the Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), Ignasi Camós, has also indicated that the initiative is open to public, subsidized and private centers. Also at various age ranges. He acknowledges that there are still “many details to close,” such as how to incorporate the centers or put the tool at their service.
“The idea is that it does not remain in an extracurricular activity. We want before the screenings to have an hour in the schools themselves where they discuss what they are going to see and, after the screenings, another two hours dedicated to commenting and analyzing the film,” Urtasun explained. Not in vain, the projection of Robot Dreams It has been accompanied by a didactic guide on some of the formal and thematic aspects that the Oscar-nominated film can address. In addition to this orientation, teachers will receive “specific training.”
The head of the ICAA has also indicated that they have been in talks for months with the French counterpart organization, the Center National du Cinèma et de l’Image Animée (CNC), which has been developing this initiative in schools in the neighboring country since the mid-1990s. ninety. “The idea is to adapt the project. For example, they have recommended a specific age range, but we would like to try a broader one,” Casadó pointed out.
The selection of the works will be carried out by “a small committee”, with the intention that they be feature films from different periods and approaches, although always European and mostly Spanish. Minister Urtasun has announced that the next stops of the pilot project will be in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) and in Córdoba, where the films will be screened. Sanctuary and The teacher who promised the sea.
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