Workshop: Read What You Watch
The workshop connecting cinematic art and literature is intended for primary school children, intended to encourage children to engage in critical thinking, rouse their interest in reading and offer a framework for discovering new and creative ways of interpreting books and films.
The workshop is divided into two parts, with each part consisting of a film screening, discussion with expert moderators and a practical task. The task involves reading a book that has been adapted on film and writing a review with the help of the workshop brochure. The three best reviews will receive a package of books for young readers and a set of tickets for screenings of their choice at Kinoteka cinema. The winners will be announced at this year’s KinoKino festival.
Workshop moderators are director Marina Andree Škop and film critic Nino Kovačić, while the films screened as part of the workshop will be Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio (Italy, France) and Čejen Černić Čanak’s The Mystery of Green Hill (Croatia).
Marina Andree Škop
Producer and director who has been making children’s and youth films and series for the past ten years. Born in 1973 in Sarajevo, and holds a degree in editing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She developed and produced three TV shows for children, which aired on the Croatian Radiotelevision. In 2019, together with Dražen Žarković she co-directed the children’s SF film, My Grandpa Is an Alien, which had a theatrical distribution in seven European countries and won fourteen festival awards. She is a member of the Croatian Producers Association and the Croatian Freelance Artists Association.
Nino Kovačić
Nino Kovačić is a freelance author, programming and production associate of different film festivals (Animafest, Zagreb Film Festival, ZagrebDox, 25 FPS, Croatian Film Days, etc.). As a film educator he runs film analysis workshops, primarily for children and youth. He published film criticism and articles in professional periodicals (Filmonaut, Croatian Film Chronicle…), online (Kulturpunkt, tportal, Zona filma…) and at Channel 3 of the Croatian Radio. He is a member of the Croatian Society of Film Critics and FIPRESCI.
