Distribution of European films for children and youth

ended

Cinema Center Skalvija is an art-house cinema with a strong focus on film education and audience development for non-commercial film. As far as there isn‘t a distributor that specializes in young audiences in Lithuania, and other distributers very rarely acquire films for children and youth, there is a lack of European production dedicated for younger spectator. Skalvija as a distributer has a mission to fill in this gap and focuses on quality films for children and youth. Apart of regular cinema‘s repertoire, Skalvija has a strong networking experience with schools – since 2009 Skalvija is a leader of a national project “Mokausi is kino” (www.mokausiiskino.lt). It is a national film education project dedicated to young people. The film programme consists of over 50 different titles (national, non-national, classics, shorts, feature, animation, fiction, etc.). Cinemas in other towns of Lithuania also participate in the project and screen the films to their local audiences. Project has 8 partner cinemas in different towns of Lithuania. Yearly over 40 000 schoolchildren participate in a project. All the films that Skalvija acquires as a distributer are included in “Mokausi is kino”. Each year Skalvija distributes 2-3 European films dedicated for young audiences.