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Shun Li and the Poet wins the heart of European schoolchildren

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- The Fred at School initiative holds its successful first conference in London

Shun Li and the Poet wins the heart of European schoolchildren
Fred researcher Nicolo Comotti presenting a paper at the event

Andrea Segre’s Shun Li and the Poet [+see also:
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(Italy) has won Best Film at the first Fred at School initiative, voted for by students. This was announced at the first ever Fred at School “Building New Audiences for European Cinema” conference, held in London on 2 July. The other nominees, shortlisted from the European Parliament’s LUX Prize competition, were Olivier Masset-Depasse’s Illegal [+see also:
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(Belgium), Filippos TsitosAkadimia Platonos [+see also:
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interview: Filippos Tsitos
interview: Filippos Tsitos
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(Greece) and Gabriela Pichler’s Eat Sleep Die [+see also:
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(Sweden). Shun Li co-writer Marco Pettenello was present to acknowledge the honour, and in his remarks he lauded the short-listing of a Greek film and said that Greece belongs in the European Union.

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Julie Ward, a Member of European Parliament (MEP) from the UK, said that being an artist all her life and a relatively late entrant to politics, more people from diverse backgrounds should join politics. Fellow MEP Arne Lietz, from Germany, spoke about extending initiatives like Fred at School in his country but warned that the state federal structure is quite complicated to manoeuvre.

Fred at School is an educational audience development project supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme and presented by Fred Film Radio to raise awareness of European films and culture among young people. This year, students with a mean age of 15, from schools in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Croatia, Romania and Iceland, participated. It is an inclusive project with films made accessible to visually and hearing-impaired audiences, and the films selected were age-appropriate and with subject matter relating to issues of European citizenship. 

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