Chicago International Children's Film Festival

Founded in 1975, Facets Multi-Media, located at 1517 W. Fullerton Avenue, Chicago, 60614 Facets Multi-Media is the largest conservator dedicated to the exhibition, distribution & education of foreign, independent & classic cinema. Programs include: Facets Cinematheque, Facets Rentals, Facets Film School, Facets DVD label and Facets’ Children’s Programs which organizes Facets’ Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, Facets Kids Film Camp, and year-round screenings & workshops for schools groups & families. In the Cinematheque, Facets screens 100 films a year as well as hosting tributes, retrospectives and premieres of films created by artists across the globe. Facets mission is to present and preserve high quality, multi-cultural cinema for diverse audiences and to offer seminars, classes, and a broad spectrum of educational and cultural programs for adults and children.

Facets’ Chicago International Children’s Film Festival is the largest annual festival of films for children (ages 2-16) in the world, programming 250 films and videos from 40 countries. With 25,000 children, adults and educators and over 100 filmmakers, programmers and celebrities each year, the Festival showcases the best in culturally diverse, value affirming new cinema for children and is one of the only Academy Award qualifying children's film festivals.

Facets’ Children’s Programs don’t end with the Festival! Throughout the year, Facets organizes year-round screenings for school groups and families; Facets Kids Film Camp, teaching children film theory, aesthetics, basic production skills, and critique; and special Take One! Workshops in various aspects of film production and film theory.

For more than 30 years, Facets Children’s Programs and the Chicago International Children’s Film Festival have set new standards for what children’s festivals can achieve by continually raising the bar for quality children’s programming.

Film critic Roger Ebert calls Facets “a temple of great cinema.”

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Facets Kids Film Camp
Explore your filmmaking talents at Facets Kids Film Camp, where kids ages 7 to 14 build a foundation in the technique, language and process of filmmaking! With dozens of hands-on activities including: acting, storyboarding, screenwriting, reviewing and making a movie, Facets Kids Film Camp helps kids create and critique films like the pros! Graduates go on to participate in the Children's Jury of the Chicago International Children's Film Festival and have the opportunity to travel to other film festivals worldwide as a Facets Film Ambassador youth delegate.

Year-round Screenings
Facets Children's Programs feature year-round screenings for parents & groups, presenting unique multi-cultural short films for children as catalysts for improving fundamental skills such as literacy, writing, critical thinking and inference. Carefully constructed, age-appropriate activities help students grasp the multiple learning opportunities in actively viewing and critiquing film.

Dream Screen
Dream Screen is a workshop that teaches children of diverse backgrounds to create their own stories and to animate them using drawn and cutout animation. Students from underserved communities participate in all aspects of video production: writing and storyboarding, drawing, art making, and camera work.

External links

• Chicago International Children's Film Festival
• Facets Multimedia, Inc.