Kids World Film Festival
Women in Film & Video DC ⟩ Kids World Film Festival
There are two main components to Kids World Film Festival:
Media Literacy Training:
The Kids World Film Festival begins in the weeks prior to the actual screening. More than 150 fifth and sixth graders in the Washington metro area receive media literacy training in their schools. The media literacy sessions help teach the students to utilize their critical thinking skills in order to understand how messages are created through media. The program is also designed to demonstrate the value of becoming savvy media consumers.
Film Festival:
Their training culminates in a field trip, which has been held at the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the U.S. Navy Memorial Visitors Center, and the Documentary Center/GWU. Students participate in their own film festival, during which they will screen and review a handful of short films from around the globe, as well as participate in a question and answer session with some of the directors. The students taking part in the Kids World Film Festival come from metro-area schools that might not otherwise have the funding or resources to present such a program.
The Kids World Film Festival exposes fifth and sixth graders to short films that promote cultural understanding, tolerance, reconciliation, unity and peace. The kids will experience the joy of filmmaking and film viewing, as well as film’s power to create positive social change.
