International travelling youth meeting involving 4 EU members: Hungarian,
Romanian, Greek and German young people in the Youth in Action Program.
Participants: 13-29 year-old filmmakers from 4 countries
10 people from each country (5 girls and 5 boys) and 2 leaders out of each
country:
Greece:
Youth Plan /Neaniko Plano/
Team leader: Nikos Theodosiou, Olympia Film Festival artistic leader and
Camera Zizanio Film Festival director,
Romania-Transylvania:
Hungarian youngsters living in Lutita (Agyagfalva in Hungarian)
Transylvania, Romania
Team leader: Enikő Farkas, ASOCIAŢIA CULTURALĂ ŞI DE TINERET " FANCSIKA".
Germany:
Clip Medienzentrum Berlin
Team leader: Tobias Rahm - Clip Medienzentrum leader and
Medienfestival Berlin technical leader
Hungary:
The Video and Art Workshop of Makó
Team leader: Czibolya Kálmán, Workshop leader and Zoom to Europe Film
Festival director
To achieve this, we actively involve the local youths of the programs.
With our program we try to strengthen in them the sense of being European
citizen, solidarity as well as the commitment towards the actual problems
by the important formal and informal activities.
Participants from different countries express their feelings on the
everyday struggle of the discrimination, distinction and exclusion by the
mean of the films
The speciality of this event is that it is being realised in Makó and
Agyagfalva (Transylvania), that is a small village where only Hungarian
people are inhabited.
Our aim is to create a cultural dialogue by working and being together.
Shortly about the schedule and the programmes:
The travelling details: Arrival at Makó on 6th July.
In the morning of 9th July we travel together to Transylvania, where we
spend 4 days: Romania - Lutita (Agyagfalva, the name of the town in
Hungarian).
Then back to Makó on 14th July.
The closing ceremony will be on 16th in Makó.
The participants return home on 17th July.
“Zoom to Europe and Transylvania”, an International Meeting of Children
and
Youth Film Festivals and Video Workshops that is part of the European
Program – Youth in Action, will be held in Hungary and Romania, from 6 to
17 of July.
The participants of this program will live a unique experience because
they’ll have the opportunity to experience the authentic rural life of a
region located in central Europe. A life that has almost disappeared from
all developed countries.
Lutita (in Romanian) and Agyagfalva (in Hungarian) is and islet of a
different era, and is inhabited exclusively by people of the Hungarian
minority in Romania. You’ll stay there for 5 days, from 9 to 13 July.
A village with only 700 inhabitants, that is very vibrant and very
beautiful. Full of children who will ride their bikes and we’ll always
greet you with cordiality.
You’re going to meet hospitable and polite people. You’ll stay at their
homes and taste the local cuisine. All made with ingredients of their own
production: cheese, butter and milk from the cow, homemade jams, fruits
and vegetables from their small gardens. And of course, bread baked in the
oven of the house.
A beautiful landscape that will surely make your cameras work ceaselessly
and can inspire countless ideas for your films, lies around the village.
Furthermore, there you’ll start the shootings for your films. The
preparation of the films will begin in Mako, Hungary.
MAKO
You’ll arrive in Mako on Tuesday evening, July 6, after a two-hour trip
from Budapest Airport. You’ll stay at the brand new Pulitzer student
dormitory, in rooms that have all the comforts: bathroom, air conditioning,
refrigerator…
On July 7, we will have acquaintance of the youngsters participating in
the program, the presentation of the region of Transylvania through images
and videos and the preparation of the scripts.
You’ll be back in Mako on July 14 and the next day the integration process
of the films, will start. The closing ceremony will be held on Friday,
July 16th with the screening of all those films.
TRANSYLVANIA
On July 9, in the morning, the bus will departure for Transylvania. It's
probably the hardest part of the program and the trip would take more than
10 hours, although the distance is 550 km. This is because the road is
narrow and the bus can’t speed.
The truth is that the trip will reimburse you. After the first 80 km where
the road crosses the continuation of the endless Hungarian plain, the
ascent at the mountains of Transylvania begins.
Transylvania is well known around the world from the legend of Dracula and
has been transferred to the big screen several times. But if you're
waiting to see scary places, cliffs and dark alleys, you'll be
disappointed.
The area of Transylvania, which we’ll cross, is comprised by a succession
of plateaus that surround the lush friendly green mountains. In every
corner of the road, you can see new spectacular scenery. The variations of
the green are endless.
The picturesque villages and towns, which the highway passes through, are
endless. In many places you can obviously see the signs of poverty. Don’t
forget that Romania is one of the poorest countries of the European Union.
The organizers of the meeting, in order to make the long trip more
pleasant, have planned many short stops and a longest one (which will last
one hour) to visit a beautiful medieval castle.
LUTITA
In Lutita / Agyagfalva, all the activities will begin on Saturday, July
10. The main meeting point will be the Cultural Center of the village,
which is now renovated.
In the Elementary school, 50 meters from the Cultural Center, we’ll be
able to have and internet connection.
The days that we’re going to spent in the village will be full of
activities, as residents are preparing to entertain us with their local
customs and their music. But there also preparing surprises with local
music, food and fireworks, for the last day!
A day trip will take us into the interior of Transylvania, and another one
at an imaginary clearing of and adjacent forest. There we’ll have a
wonderful picnic, play football and walk in the forest.
You may wonder if there is nightlife in the village. We inform you that
three coffee bars here! And if you have a problem with the local tastes,
you can order pizzas that will arrive in a very short time, from the
nearby town! Of course there are two small supermarkets where you can get
anything you want.
And about your safety: the door houses are always open because there is no
way for a robbery to take place. The village provides medical care.
Don’t worry about missing the World Cup final… The organizers have been
taking care of that. On July 11, in the evening, they’ll set up a big
screen where all football fans, locals and quests can enjoy final.
ADDITTIONAL INFORMATIONS
- Both Hungary and Romania are members of the European Union. In order to
travel to these countries, you only need your ID.
- There is no need to change your money during your stay in Hungary and
Romania as full boarding costs are covered. But if you want to buy
something extra, you have to convert Euros into local currency as the two
countries have not yet joined the euro.
- Hungary uses the forint and the exchange rates 1 euro = 281 forints.
Romania uses the Lei and the correlation is 1 euro = 4,2 Lei (exchange
rates change daily).
/Nikos Theodosiou/
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Detailed program:
Tuesday – 6th July 20.00 Greek, German, Transylvanian and Hungarian groups arrive.
Going to the accommodation (Pulitzer Hostel)
21.00 Dinner together, short opening ceremony
Wednesday- 7th July 8.00 – 9.30 – breakfast
10.00 – opening of the project
Greetings and introduction of the participants
Responsibles of the Youth in Action Program: the leaders of the different
countries.
Establishing of the mixed groups from different countries.
13.00 – 15.00 – Lunch
15.00 – Film workshops
Group activities, creating exercise goals, brainstorming of film ideas.
18.30 - dinner
Thursday – 8th July 8.00 – 9.30 – breakfast
10.00 – giving the daily tasks out
Making films
13.00 – 15.00 – Lunch
15.00 – film making
19.00 – Dinner
20.00 – Evaluation of the day
Preparation for the 12-hour-long journey
Friday – 9th July 6.00 - Departure from Mako (by a 50 seated bus)
Makó – Nagylak – Arad – Déva – Sebes – Sibiu – Segesvár – Agyagfalva /Lutita/
trip Hungarian, German, Romanian historian towns, castles, memories,
history of a common life.
Approx. 1 hour stop at near Deva, Hunyad, at Vajdahunyad vár (castle)
During the travelling historical tour guide.
Cold lunch at bus, tour pack
Expected time of arriving to Lutita: 18.00 – 20.00
Going to accommodations – at families, dinner
Saturday - 10th July Breakfast with the families
10.00 – Meeting at the Cultural Centre – discussing the next 4 days.
Introducing the village (with translation)
13.30 – Lunch together at the Cultural Centre
16.00 – Cultural presentation of the local youths.
Dinner at families.
20.30 – Public screening for the inhabitants and the participants.
Introduction of the Greek, German, Hungarian participants. – short films –
Cultural Centre
22.30 – Dance without borders – a la Rácz
Sunday – 11th July 10.00 – Film tasks
Farm program – trip and lunch
Shots
19.00 – Dinner at families
20.00 Sport without borders – Football World Cup Final – watching together
Monday – 12th July 9.00 – Trip to Békás szoros – Korond- Farkaslaka, Székelyedvarhely
Tour pack, cold lunch
Dinner at families
Tuesday – 13th July 9.00 – Folklore day – bread making, Hungarian stove cake, rug spinning,
local memories, historical things.
Horse riding
Lunch at the Memorial
Filming together
Sport afternoon
Dinner: bread with fat and onion
Farewell party with a big fire
Wednesday – 14th July 8.00 – Romanian , German, Greek and Hungarian participants take
journey back to Makó, Hungary
18.00 – Arriving time
20.00 – Dinner in Makó
21.00 – Evaluation of the past days, setting up new tasks.
Friday – 16th July 10.00 – Breakfast
Filmming, editing, post-production
13.00 – 14.00 – Lunch
18.00 – Evaluation of the project
19.00 – Closing ceremony
Mini concert
21.00 – Screening of the films
23.00 – Closing Party
Saturday – 17th July Morning – Departure of the participants from Makó
Wass Albert:
Transylvania
There is a strange country somewhere
Its mountain is a church, its valley is a sanctuary
It is a sorrowful country
Its name is Transylvania
The nighs there are more blue
The fields are more yellow
And the leaves are falling constantly
When it is night.
For the bell ringing of silent villages
Organs of praying forest
The sound of a creek can be heard
There is constant autumn there.
The sole soul of Transylvania:
I wispear you that the spring comes in vain
The snowdrop
The old snowdrop ceased to grow.
Because there the forest is for transom
And the name of the mountain is Golgota
And the one living there
Is a deadly lover of an old summer
Accompanied by damned dreams
If he has comatose from the landscape
Because that country is damned
Very foggy and very lonely…
Even this way
It is very precious
For its pour children.
(1928)
