INTRODUCTION
Kinemagik International Children’s Film Festival is an annual festival that strives to bring the most imaginative and delightful international & national children’s cinema to young audiences in Kolkata.
Children today watch and consume more audio-visual content than ever before. However, in the multitude of content that is created year on year, children very often cannot access films that are specifically made for them.
Kinemagik Film Festival is a platform that curates and distributes children's films made by filmmakers from across the globe and across time. It brings the magic of cinema to children and young audiences.
The festival in it's first edition is non-competitive and will present features, shorts, live action and animation films over two days of festivity.
OBJECTIVES
· To promote and distribute children's cinema and other audio-visual content that is created exclusively for children.
· To curate high quality, entertaining, multi-cultural cinema for children who otherwise don’t have access to such content.
· To cultivate understanding of human societies, cultures & experiences through cinema.
· To encourage children’s content that inspire humane values, provoke imagination and are educational in nature.
· To create space for critical appreciation and pursuit of cinematic art among children and youth.
· To support the works of talented and dedicated children’s film-makers and encourage the exchange of ideas and lived experiences of filmmaking among them.
ORGANISER
KINEMAGIK INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL is organized by ABOA HASA Foundation – a non-profit company registered under Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Govt. India. committed to working with children, women and marginalised communities with the aim of nurturing through education and cultural exchange. Since its inception in 2019, Aboa Hasa has organised vocational training programs for women, educational workshops for children and advocacy campaigns for eco-sustainable menstruation.
Kinemagik Film Festival is an initiative by Aboa Hasa to promote the culture of cinema among children and youth.
