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The strategic plan for Terrassa City of Film for 2018 aims at strengthening the relationships with other Creative Cities, in order to learn from their experience. This is why, last March, the representatives of the Local Audio-visual Board of Terrassa visited the city of Bradford under the guidance of the Bradford City of Film’s team, led by Steve Abbot and David Wilson. The meeting represented a unique opportunity to discover a wide range of good practices and successful achievements based on social awareness and creative visions for the...
Since its designation in 2015, Santos, Creative City of Film has been able to combine technological innovation, cultural diversity and urban sustainable development through its wide range of initiatives. In particular, the city showed how creativity plays a key role for urban renewal and inclusion of vulnerable groups and community empowerment in its Film festival CulturalMente as well as in the recycling center called Creative Ecofactory.
Once again, Santos builds synergies among creative fields to educate its young citizens and...
Following the designation of Terrassa as a Creative City of Film, the Audiovisual Board of Stakeholders organized an ensemble of events to celebrate the event with the citizens and to raise awareness about the Network’s mission and its embeddedness in the UNESCO values.
On January 19th, the Audiovisual Park of Catalonia hosted an institutional ceremony followed by a popular celebration at the Terrassa’s Old Square to inform the citizens about the projects of the city as a Creative City of Film and to engage them as an active part of the...
The Creative Ecofactory, an initiative led by Santos in Brazil, a Creative City of Film, was awarded the 2017 iFSocial Impact Prize. The World Design Guide – organizer of the prize – awards outstanding projects that aim to contribute positive results to society.
The Creative Ecofactory is an initiative established through a partnership between the Municipality of Santos City and Club Design of Santos. It aims to generate capacity building and better income for vulnerable groups by assisting them to use recycled wood to build furniture, which...
From 8 to 10 December, the UNESCO Creative City of Film Santos will host the 6th edition of the CulturalMente Santista - Santos Cultural and Creative Forum. This year, this major cultural festival will be highlighting the United Nations Agenda 2030.
Launched in 2012, the CulturalMente Santista aims to raise awareness in a diversity of audiences about the key contribution of culture for development, and foster participation in cultural life. The CulturalMente Santista lies on the fact that the cultural region’s identity is essential for social...
Santos, Brazil, a Creative City of Film, and Bandung, Indonesia, a Creative City of Design are coming together to organize the Santos Bandung Film Festival (SBFF) from 20 to 29 October 2017.
As a result of a collaboration between the two 2015-designated UNESCO Creative Cities, the Santos Bandung Film Festival will showcase a selection of 34 films providing reflections and discussions towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
This most innovative inter-city cooperation not only aims to broaden opportunities for...
Broadcaster and campaigner Esther Rantzen will launch this year’s Golden Years Film Festival in Bradford, a UNESCO Creative City of Film. The six-day festival hosted by Bradford in partnership with Picturehouse at the National Science and Media Museum will run from Saturday 30 September.
The festival – aimed at an older audience but open to all – has a top billing of films, events and discussions with broad appeal. Most events will be held at Picturehouse Bradford but there will also be screenings at the Bradford Club and Delius Arts and...
Galway and Rome, UNESCO Creative Cities of Film, are developing a new inter-city partnership project to share knowledge and expertise amongst the students in Film and Documentary. Galway and Rome UCCN Offices were facilitating a new international student exchange programme between the Centre for Creative Arts & Media, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
On 10 April, students from the GMIT BA (Hons) in Film and Documentary course traveled to Rome for five days. They attended lectures...
Galway and Rome, UNESCO Creative Cities of Film, are developing a new inter-city partnership project to share knowledge and expertise amongst the students in Film and Documentary. Galway and Rome UCCN Offices were facilitating a new international student exchange programme between the Centre for Creative Arts & Media, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
On 10 April, students from the GMIT BA (Hons) in Film and Documentary course traveled to Rome for five days. They attended lectures...
360 Vision 2017 is an invitation-only Virtual Reality Lab bringing together some of Australia’s best screen producers, directors, practitioners and artists to meet with key VR content creators and professionals for two days of inspiration, information and networking.
Galway City of Film received a special invitation from its counterpart Sydney to attend the 360 Vision event held in April along with Galway-based filmmaker Paula Kehoe.
Kehoe, originally from Melbourne and based in Connemara, is an award winning filmmaker who recently created...