This international children’s film festival is an independent cultural project that was started up in 1995. Its main purpose is to programme and showcase high-quality films from other parts of the world in order to instil in child audiences a taste for cinema and to help them learn about the customs, concerns and everyday life of children from other countries.
The 20th Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños (…y no tan Niños) shows a sample of the best children’s films – feature and short, animated and fiction, as well as documentaries. There is also a section of short films made by boys and girls of Mexico and other countries. The festival, which has between 11,000 and 13,000 visitors, also includes various complementary activities in which prominent specialists take part in lectures, roundtables and special exhibitions designed to address the importance of providing boys and girls with access to good-quality films.
With the support of AC/E, the festival has invited Spanish lecturer, educator, education anthropologist and technologist, educommunicator, writer and illustrator Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez to the 2015 edition to teach the workshop El cine, una herramienta imprescindible para el aprendizaje (Cinema, an essential tool for learning) aimed at middle- and high-school teachers and directors of schools in Mexico. The workshop lasts two days (5 and 6 August) and is intended to encourage and offer suggestions and techniques to educators for using films as a tool for learning, a working method and an essential part of knowledge and research.
The 20th Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños (…y no tan Niños) shows a sample of the best children’s films – feature and short, animated and fiction, as well as documentaries. There is also a section of short films made by boys and girls of Mexico and other countries. The festival, which has between 11,000 and 13,000 visitors, also includes various complementary activities in which prominent specialists take part in lectures, roundtables and special exhibitions designed to address the importance of providing boys and girls with access to good-quality films.
With the support of AC/E, the festival has invited Spanish lecturer, educator, education anthropologist and technologist, educommunicator, writer and illustrator Enrique Martínez-Salanova Sánchez to the 2015 edition to teach the workshop El cine, una herramienta imprescindible para el aprendizaje (Cinema, an essential tool for learning) aimed at middle- and high-school teachers and directors of schools in Mexico. The workshop lasts two days (5 and 6 August) and is intended to encourage and offer suggestions and techniques to educators for using films as a tool for learning, a working method and an essential part of knowledge and research.