Shooting Europe!
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Shooting Europe! is the European short film festival
organised by AEGEE-Karlsruhe
and AEGEE TV. This event combines art and creativity with thematic work on common social issues and cultural diversity such as human rights and intercultural dialogue.
among young people but also involving them in a process of active discussion.
Film festival
A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...
organised by AEGEE-Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe
The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
and AEGEE TV. This event combines art and creativity with thematic work on common social issues and cultural diversity such as human rights and intercultural dialogue.
Motivation
The key motivation for organising the AEGEE movie festival was the wish for a novel approach of not only promoting the idea of an integrated EuropeEurope
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
among young people but also involving them in a process of active discussion.
Aims
- Creating a platform for young, amateur and professional movie makers to show their work to the public and get the opportunity to get into contact with fellow short film producers and distributors, journalists and successful directors;
- Motivating movie makers to create a new perspective on European issues;
- Mobilizing the ambitious and creative people to contribute their points of view to the discussion on the issues touched on by the categories;
- Promotion of the movies and movie makers after the festival.