The festival offers school screenings, Q&As with the filmmakers, workshops for teachers and students and pedagogical materials offered by the festival to carry out these activities.
Faced with an ever-increasing consumption of audiovisual content, MajorDocs EDUCA aims to stimulate the young critical eye through screenings and debates on documentary film and to provoke an empathetic experience towards some of the key themes of our society, as well as enable the student to discover the authors’ creative process.
Documentaries offer great pedagogical possibilities to explore, through emotions, human, artistic, historical, social, ethical, scientific or current affairs. The films included in the MajorDocs programme will deal with this and much more.
In order to broaden the students’ experience, enrolled teachers will be provided with free didactic materials devised by experts in the use of cinema as a pedagogical tool.
Mercedes Álvarez will share her approach to cinema. Together with Miguel Eek, they will explore the potential of documentary cinema as a gesture and language in the field of humanities. The intention of this conversation is to reflect on the documentary as a language capable of delving into current, past and future social, cultural and philosophical realities. Aimed at students and teachers of philosophy, anthropology, art history, psychology, history, among others.
When? September 19th at 11:00 a.m
Where?Aula Magna Edifici Ramon Llull
MajorDocs EDUCA begins with the presentation of the program, a free and practical training aimed at teachers, designed to be applied with students aged 14 to 18 who attend the screenings. This year, Mercedes Álvarez, filmmaker and professor, will share her approach to documentary filmmaking and its connection to education. During the session, the role of documentary cinema in education will be discussed, and tools based on the creative forms of the three films in the program will be presented to encourage dialogue and reflection in the classroom.
Each teacher can choose one or more documentaries from the catalog and the day they will attend the free screenings between October 2th, 3th, and 4th at CineCiutat. The screenings will be accompanied by the presentation of the director and Q&A. In addition, these films are then worked on with the pedagogical sheets that the festival offers to the teachers who participate in the activity. They will consist of two pages for each film and will contain:
For more information, please contact us at educa@majordocs.org.
If you are a teacher and you are interested in MajorDocs EDUCA program:
