A Festival For Kids Too

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EITB published a note regarding the chance that children will have to join in the events of the upcoming Zinemaldi in Donostia:

San Sebastian Film Festival

Children will enjoy three films in Basque at the Zinemaldi

09/13/2007

Over 20,000 children will attend the morning screenings of ‘Ice Age’ on the giant Velodrome screen. ‘Piccolo & Saxo’ and ‘Vinnare Och Förlorare’ will be displayed at the Take Your Parents to the Cinema screenings.

Kids will also star in the Donostia-San Sebastian Festival with two initiatives encouraging a first approach to films the big way. While it is possible to watch films in an increasing number of manners turning their attention towards ever smaller portable formats, the magic of enjoying cinema on the big screen is also an unbeatable experience for the new generations, the viewers of the future, offering them their first contact with the Film Festival.

With Big Films for the Kids, over 20,000 children will enjoy the morning screenings at the Velodrome, where Ice Age will be shown on the giant screen installed for the event. Pupils from the Basque ikastolas and schools in Gipuzkoa therefore participate in a unique experience, that of watching a film in a theatre for 3,000 viewers, with extraordinary dimensions, an event which has now been a huge success for years at the Donostia-San Sebastian Festival.

Moreover, children also have the opportunity to do things their way: Take Your Parents to the Cinema is an initiative permitting the whole family to participate in screenings with tickets at the very special low price of €1, giving them the chance to discover European premieres. Piccolo, Saxo et Compagnie (Piccolo & Saxo) and Vinnare Och Förlorare are the two films to be screened under this initiative at the Principal Theatre on the 29th.

All three films will be screened dubbed into Basque especially for the occasion, thus permitting their distribution to other Gipuzkoan towns and villages in the future.

Similarly, the Velodrome will house the screening in a version dubbed into Basque of ARCTIC TALE, by Sarah Robertson and Adam Ravetch, a documentary for a family audience showing the effects of the climate change in the Arctic by following a family of polar bears and another of walruses.

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