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Our Children First: Opening Ceremony

Industry Panels – Industry, DURATION: 120min

Event Description

Join us on a mystical media journey where narrative and song are interwoven to tell the transformative story of media for children and youth.
It's the ‘call and response’ of ancient times as young people share their media habits – from storytelling around the fire to apps and games in the palm of your hand.

a. ‘Once we were silent!’

b. ‘Our Children First!’ - Setting the context with a welcome and an overview

c. ‘...Then we were given a Voice’ – Voices from our dynasties… with responses from our empires
As we bring together specialists and veterans in the area of children, youth and media, we are mindful that the mammoth task of finding common ground, fruitful collaborations and meaningful change is not an easy one. However, most of us have been working in this sector for many years and we have become acutely aware of the pitfalls and achievements; the highs, the lows and what keeps the wheel turning...

Our intention here is to recognise that we have to keep the wheels turning but we also need that extraordinary sparkle that makes this sector so enduringly exciting and memorable – after all, we are working with children and their imaginations… we are giving them hope, inspiration and above all we are allowing them to dream; offering them alternatives to what they are familiar with...

So how do we capture our children’s imagination when they are so diverse, so fragile and some so wounded by war, hunger, poverty... and others who still live in the magical world of make-belief?

In this opening session we travel to all the regions of the world, as our friends take us on a journey to Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, the Caribbean, North America... and the rest of our global village.

d. ‘…Now we have our own Voice!’
All participants introduce themselves.

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  Firdoze Bulbulia

  Moderator

  , MOMENTS ENTERTAINMENT

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  Fatma Al Remaihi

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  Fatma Mohamed Alloo

  Board Member, Zanzibar Film Festival

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  Layaly Badr

  Creative and Sales Managing Director, Rotana Studios

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  Mohsen Chiniforoushan

  Secretary General , CIFEJ

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  Marion Creely

  Executive Producer, EBU Children's Documentary Series

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  Aldana Duhalde

  Director of New Projects , Medio Mundo

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  Moneeza Hashmi

  GENERAL MANAGER INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HUM TV PAKISTAN

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  Faith Isiakpere

  DIRECTOR, MOMENTS ENTERTAINMENT

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  Andrzej Roman Jasiewicz

  Chairman of Children and Youth Section, Polish Filmmakers Association

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  David Kleeman

  Senior Vice President, Insights Programs, PlayCollective

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  Christine Mendoza

  Co-Director, Youth Documentary Workshop, The Educational Video Center

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  Sami Raffoul

  CEO, Pan Arab Research Center (PARC)

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  Beatriz Rosenberg

  Content Director, BR4Comunicacoes

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