Join a session with guest speaker Maria Leonida, film director and media tutor, to discuss how film and audiovisual materials can be used in media literacy education.
Aiming at a variety of audiences, with higher or lower language skills, with a transgenerational and transdisciplinary attitude, Maria Leonida proposes deconstructing film and audiovisual language to self-contained units with narrative elements. These units may stand as puzzle pieces that could be mounted in a multiplicity of ways.
Our aim is to infuse the basics of media awareness through creative processes which encourage discussion and a gradual deepening of meaning-making. Abstraction, synthesis and storytelling are implemented in paper and pixels alike, enhancing skills of both learners and trainers.
Date: July 8, 2024
Time: 12-1 PM EST
Location: Free and online. Click here to register.
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About the Presenter:
Maria Leonida is a media tutor and documentary film director. She is also Co-founder and Director of Karpos, an NGO focusing on media literacy and running European projects. Her documentaries have been screened in Film Festivals and TV channels around Europe (EBU, ZDF, ERT). Her latest film, “The Bet,” portrays a high school during COVID-19 (https://thebetdoc.gr/).
Maria designs and coordinates projects about the creative aspects of media language for a range of learners in formal and non formal settings with a wide experience in vulnerable groups since 2003. She aims at inspiring a wider creative input to audiences and her curricula are part of several EU and national schemes. Three of the projects she co designed and coordinated have been awarded in competitions on a European level. Trained in Greece, UK and Denmark.