“An environmental walk” with Stefania Charitou

Creative Documentary Center

For the educational program of the 8th Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival

A seminar for elementary and high school students in the form of a walk, with Stefania Charitou as a speaker, will be held in the cities of the Festival network: Kalamata, Filiatra, Tripoli and Xylokastro. A walk in nature will be the subject of discussion on ecology, natural resources, energy and climate change.

Audiovisual media can record and interpret pieces of reality and thus inform and sensitize the world. With the help of a mobile phone (camera, video camera and audio recording) children will form small groups to record with moving or static images or with audio, parts of the nature that surrounds us (earth, animals, vegetation) and to study the relationship between human beings and nature. The purpose of the seminar is for children to reflect on the two-way and binding relationship of the natural environment with humans, at a time when the consequences of the ecological crisis are visible.

The seminar is addressed to children from the age of 10 and will be held with the help of teachers. It requires the use of a smartphone or camera. Prior to the seminar, students will receive study material as well as a questionnaire to complete. Therefore, communication with the class teacher is a prerequisite.
Seminar duration: 4 hours.

Brief CV 

Stefania Charitou studied Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. As an IKY Fellow, she pursued a postgraduate degree in Cinema, London, first at Birkbeck College of Film and Visual Media History, and then at Goldsmiths College, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation: “The multiple film: technologies, spaces, practices”. 

With a scholarship from the Mexican state, she conducted postdoctoral research at the universities of Puebla UDLAP, on the subject of film piracy and at the B.U.A.P. in the distribution of documentaries. She has taught Cinema at Goldsmiths, UDLAP, Cine-Arte universities, and has many years of research experience as a collaborator with the LUX archives and the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection (Central Saint Martins College). She is a founding member of the Besides the Screen research network, which deals with all forms of cinema that are not films. In recent years she has collaborated with the Olympia International Festival for Children and Young People and the Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival.

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