Looking forward to young people making their voices heard at international A-type film festivals, the Shanghai International Film Festival’s citizen-themed essay contest has been launched
On June 6, the Shanghai Film Critics Society’s first aesthetic education base school officially opened in Jiading Primary School Affiliated to Shanghai Normal University. The theme of this event is "Towards beauty and kindness, educating people with light and shadow". The Shanghai Film Critics Society will reach a strategic cooperation with Shanghai Normal University Basic Education Group to organize film master classes, film theme exhibitions, film aesthetic education teacher training, film Aesthetic education research and other theme activities are carried out in various forms, taking the first step in "industry-school cooperation". At the same time, the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival Citizen Theme Essay Competition "Truth, Goodness and Beauty in 2024 Movies" was also officially launched at the event.
Liu Haibo, president of the Shanghai Film Critics Society, said that the Shanghai Film Critics Society has done a lot of work in promoting the creation of film criticism and promoting public welfare undertakings in recent years. Popularizing film criticism among young people is also an important aspect of the society's social responsibility. In December 2023, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on the Comprehensive Implementation of the School Aesthetic Education Infiltration Action". Article 8 of the document specifically mentioned the "Social Aesthetic Education Resource Integration Action" to explore local culture and promote qualified regions, schools and Social resource exchanges, cooperation and two-way interaction promote basic public cultural service projects and various social resources to serve school aesthetic education teaching and practical activities. The establishment of the Shanghai Film Critics Society's first film aesthetic education base school is in response to this policy. In the future, the Shanghai Film Critics Society will bring together industry guests, celebrities and students from selected societies to conduct film aesthetic education activities with different themes, so that films can fully play their role in collaborative education.
As an important part of the launching ceremony, the 26th Shanghai International Film Festival Citizen Theme Essay Competition "Truth, Goodness and Beauty in Movies" has attracted much attention. Li Ying, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Citizen Cultural Association, introduced that in order to cultivate new forces of film criticism, the Shanghai Film Critics Society, in collaboration with the Shanghai International Film Festival Organizing Committee and the Shanghai Group Arts Center, will organize the "Truth, Goodness and Beauty in Films" Shanghai International Film Festival Citizen in 2023. In the themed essay collection activity, a "Youth Category" was opened for children aged 8-18. In just a few weeks, more than 300 film reviews from primary and secondary school students were received. “I am very happy to hold a film review and essay launching ceremony for the youth group this year, and I look forward to more young people having their voices heard at the International A-Class Film Festival.”
Jiading District actively carries out film and television education in primary and secondary schools, and has established 25 film education base schools and 20 film education off-campus practice bases to deeply explore the value of film education. Wu Baoying, Shanghai's special principal and principal of the Jiading Affiliated Primary School of Shanghai Normal University, said that the Jiading Affiliated Primary School of Shanghai Normal University is a "young" school with special arts education in Jiading District. The school advocates using art as a carrier to cultivate future stars with comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and physical skills. With the completion of the first film aesthetic education base school of the Shanghai Film Critics Society, the puzzle of school art education will be more complete.
In the future, the Shanghai Film Critics Society Aesthetic Education Base School will activate a new ecology of "social aesthetic education" through a series of activities such as the exploration of innovative aesthetic education teaching methods, film aesthetic education teacher training, and film aesthetic education master classes on campus, and provide synergy for the "home-school community" Contribute to educating people.