GET INVOLVED!
DON’T JUST SIT THERE AND WATCH – »GET INVOLVED!«: This is your opportunity to take part in hands-on projects before, during and after the festival week. »GET INVOLVED!« is about experiencing and understanding films in a participatory way. In its 44th edition the many workshops and events will mostly be able to take place in person.
What is »GET INVOLVED!«?
Our own film selection, our presentation, my film review: The participation of young people is very important to LUCAS. Regardless if you’re a new cinema lover or a passionate cinephile from Frankfurt, the Rhein-Main area or Europe, school classes or festival guests – there are suitable »GET INVOLVED!« projects for anyone who wants to get in touch with the medium of film. You can have exciting discussions with filmmakers on eye level, in which you can explore why and how cinema lets us experience new worlds. »MITMISCHEN!« allows young people to realize many things about themselves and the world by experiencing international film culture in a collaborative setting. LUCAS puts an emphasis on film literacy projects, in which film lovers have an opportunity to explore their own ideas, work methods and decisions whilst also dealing films in either playful, analytical, participatory or intuitive ways.
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GET INVOLVED!
Film Talks In Advance
Critics
Stadtteiljury Fechenheim
Young European Cinephiles
Film Talks In Advance
Quiet on set, we’re asking the questions! In the TV studio of the Medienprojektzentrum Offener Kanal Rhein-Main (MOK) young people interview filmmakers whose films are in the LUCAS competition. Ahead of time these upcoming interviewers get to prepare for their interviews in workshops by thinking about important questions to ask: Where did this story come from? What do certain things stand for in the film? How did the actors prepare for their role? The pre-recorded Q&A is then available to watch during the festival week in the locas cable network program of the MOK, in the Mediathek Hessen and on our festival homepage.
Contact and consultation
Contact: s.schmidt@dff.film | Tel: 069 961 220 672
Critics
Which films do I find good, and which not so much? And most importantly: why? Writing a film review is about convincingly and confidently expressing your opinion. That’s exactly what is offered at the Critics workshop. During the festival week, these young people will watch films and then they attend a workshop with film educator Lara Verschragen, who will help them analyze aesthetic and narrative aspects of these films in the form of a film review.
A festival pass for the entire week is included.
Age groups for LUCAS #45: 13 to 16 years of age.
Their results will be published here during the festival week.
Contact and consultation
Contact: s.schmidt@dff.film | Tel: 069 961 220 672
Stadtteiljury Fechenheim
The “Stadtteiljury” is assembled in a different neighborhood every year and consists of kids and teens who take part in this project to learn how to express themselves in individual ways. In the project’s first implementation, the focus will be put on film reviews and multimedia skills. LUCAS will be collaborating with the self-managed JuZ Fechenheim e. V. and the Kinder- & Jugendhaus Fechenheim.
Anyone between the ages of ten and 14 years can participate. The participants will watch short films during a week of workshops in the summer vacation at the self-managed JuZ Fechenheim e.V. In doing so they are able to practice their analytical film reviewing skills by working with different media formats, such as podcasts, interviews, vlogs and many more. During the festival the “Stadtteiljury” watches the short films screened in competition, discuss their opinions, and finally choose a winner and award it in the official award ceremony – in their own special way with a multimedia laudatio. For the finale of the project the “Stadtteiljury” presents their work and winning short film in their Fechenheim neighborhood. This project has been made possible through the Stiftung Polytechnische Gesellschaft.
Contact and consultation
Contact: s.schmidt@dff.film | Tel: 069 961 220 672
Young European Cinephiles
The Young European Cinephiles is an annually changing group of young cinephile Europeans, that curates and presents a film selection. As a result, they contribute youthful and international energy to LUCAS.
As a part of the GET INVOLVED! project six teenagers start working together in the months leading up to the festival to select their films. These young people have already gained experience at other film festivals, film archives or film institutions, thus making them knowledgeable cinephiles. During the festival week the YECs present their film series which have been curated according to a theme or genre.
This year’s teenagers are from Georgia, Italy and Germany and they can hardly wait for in depth and exciting discussions about their selection. The topic of LUCAS #45 is “Power”!
More on the film series of the Young European Cinephiles.
Contact and consultation
Contact: s.schmidt@dff.film | Tel: 069 961 220 672
GB 1963. D: Peter Brook.
CA 2014. D: Xavier Dolan.
GE/FR/IT 2019. D: Uta Beria.
Film Patronships
Draw the curtain for the film patrons! The patrons will present a movie out of the competition selection for our festival audience. The preparation will begin a few weeks in advance at school: How has this film impacted us? What would we like to ask the producer, director, or actors? Is there a key scene that we could recreate ourselves? How do we want to organize our screening and presentation? In short, these young film lovers will be the experts for “their film” and they get to grapple with the medium of film with the guidance of professionals.
Age groups: all
The online presentation of the film patrons for MISSION ULJA FUNK serves as an example.
Contact and consultation
Contact: s.schmidt@dff.film | Tel: 069 961 220 672
Screen Talks
Get your questions answered! After certain screening young film lovers will have the opportunity to fire questions at the filmmakers. Why did you choose that camera angle and why that type of music? These screen discussions take place in a quiet workshop room so that conversations can be as focused as possible. Along with a guiding film educator, these discussions are an ideal format to share and exchange ideas and thoughts provoked by the film and to ask professionals the questions, you’ve always wanted to have answered.
Contact and consultation
Contact: s.schmidt@dff.film | Tel: 069 961 220 672
Classics.Class
What kind of film is considered a classic? That’s exactly what these young film lovers try to find out in the Classics. Class project. By screening films throughout film history according to a certain topic these kids and teenagers discuss how and why films can shape an entire generation. Fitting to an exhibit of the DFF, this year’s Classics.Class explores milestones in film history and in doing so curates a film selection, which will be screened for LUCAS’ audience. A 6th-grade class worked on the same topic as the current DFF exhibit: RAPTURE OF THE DEEP. Film under water.
More on the film series Classics.Class.
Contact and consultation
Contact: s.schmidt@dff.film | Tel: 069 961 220 672
NZ/DE 2002. D: Niki Caro.
Teaching Material
Experienced film educators write film-specific teaching materials for the films screened in competitions 8+ and 13+, that teachers can use and incorporate in their lessons free of charge. They will also be digitally sent via E‑Mail after a group booking. These materials allow school groups and other groups to spend time actively thinking about and working with the competition films in a way that corresponds with the DFFs film education philosophy.
The teaching materials for the upcoming festival can be available here in german language.
Previous materials can be found here.
LUCAS On Tour
LUCAS films go on tour, which makes it possible to take part in the LUCAS festival all year round! This offer is not limited to the location of the festival center and therefore helps the festival program be more sustainable and appreciated by cinema lovers. To make this possible LUCAS works in collaboration with DFF’s FILMmobil project, which takes previous competition films on a journey and integrates them into exciting film education projects. Every year Eschborn is a must-stop location for LUCAS: A special occasion for the local students to take part in a GET INVOLVED! project and experience hand-picked LUCAS films.
Contact and consultation
Contact: s.schmidt@dff.film | Tel: 069 961 220 672
Festival Reporter
Do you want to interview the filmmakers, cast and producers of children’s and teen films, watch current films and experience life during a film festival? If you’d like to experience the fast-paced life of a reporter and get close to filmmakers, then the “festival reporter” project is just right for you. A school class will be supported by media educators as they organize everything from a shooting schedule to their final report.
Their teacher will also be actively included in their project and gets to benefit from an all-day training offer by a production team as well. Afterwards the finished report will be broadcasted and livestreamed via the Offener Kanal Rhein-Main and will also be available on mediathek-hessen.de. “Festival reporter” is a project offered by the Medienzentrum Offener Kanal (MOK) Rhein-Main in cooperation with LUCAS – International Festival for Young Film Lovers.
