FunKino – Cinema for Inclusion

Approximately 10 youths born or raised in Palermo, among whom at least 5 are asylum seekers, between the ages of 15 and 24 – some of whom come from shelters in the territory.

The project foresees the realization of a series of training workshops and the creation of a participatory audiovisual product with a strong social impact connected to the territory of Palermo. The “FunKino” participatory story-telling method finetuned by Zabbara in recent years, is designed to enable youths from different backgrounds, cultural contexts and languages to become skillful narrators, able to gradually become involved in the field of cinema.

This innovative methodology aims to create a participatory, group story for a film, involving all the participants, regardless of their origins and educational backgrounds, teaching them the narrative structure and how to create detailed stories, motivating them to become fully autonomous, responsible, decision-making authors.

The basis for a shared narrative comes from different visions of the world of the participating youths. In fact, all phases of this activity, from the participatory writing workshops to editing and post-production, are founded on the direct and active participation of the beneficiaries, who learn in this way the fundamentals of narrative structure, creating a strategy for a story on any subject via shared experience, narrative warm-up games and other activities. The participants write the subject together, contribute to the screenplay and participate in the direction and acting.

When the audiovisual product is finalized the “FunKino” methodology is written-up and disseminated for didactic and training purposes, in particular in various schools.

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