Workshop on the FunKino participatory storytelling methodology
Event details
Description
FunKino-Cinema for Inclusion: A theoretical and practical introduction to and the FunKino participatory storytelling methodology
Please choose either morning or afternoon session, and please, send an email to Sara Vannini (s.vannini@sheffield.ac.uk) to sign up
Morning: 10am to 12:30 pm - The Wave seminar room 7
Afternoon: 1:30 to 4 pm - The Wave seminar room 8
Both sessions include a light lunch
FunKino – “the cinema that is having fun” is a participatory storytelling methodology designed to allow people of different backgrounds and with different cultural and linguistic skills to create stories for the cinema industry, to build a new contaminated imagery in a group setting, and to be able to gradually approach the language of this industry. FunKino is based on democratic, multi-sectoral, co-created and collaborative processes. By combining different “narrative warm-up” games (borrowed from V. Propp, J. Campbell, M. Lahad, I. Calvino, G. Rodari, among others) participants learn the basis of a common “grammar” that allows them to become a real community of authors, beyond their individuality. FunKino has been developed and refined by the association Zabbara within different contexts of exclusions over the last five years.
Programme:
This workshop will be practical: after a short introduction, participants will engage in some exercises to experience first- hand some of the elements of the methodology. This practical experience will be followed by a discussion and Q&A session.
At the end, there two original short films created using the FunKino methodology with migrant youth and youth at risk of societal exclusion in Palermo, Sicily, will be shown:
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Sciatu Meo (15’) - directed by Alessio Genovese | 2021
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Boza or die (15’) - directed by Alessio Genovese | 2023
About Zabbara:
The association Zabbara ETS is active in the production of films with a high social value. Zabbara’s work is two-fold:
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Promoting the empowerment and awareness of individuals at risk of social exclusion by providing meaningful opportunities for personal and professional development;
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Developing innovative cinematographic contents to approach and reflect on society by creating theoretical and practical paths of participatory cinema.
Speakers and workshop facilitators:
Daniele Saguto
Daniele is a sociologist with multi-year expertise in creating and managing cultural and social projects. He is President of the In Medias Res association (Palermo, Trento, Italy), where he coordinates a school support programme for the Rom community, as well as participatory and community projects in the San Filippo Neri (formerly Zen), Danisinni, and Sperone districts of Palermo. He is one of the coordinators of the international Youth Press Agency network, as well as of the territorial group Refugees Welcome Italia- Palermo. Since 2018, with Zabbara, he has been promoting the participatory cinema projects “FunKino – Cinema for Inclusion” with young people at risk of social exclusion, and “FunKino – Across Walls” with the inmates of the Ucciardone prison in Palermo.
Alma Fantìn
Living between Italy, Serbia, Portugal, and Germany, Alma studied Political Science and graduated with a master of Planning and Managing of Educational Intervention in Social Distress, with a thesis titled “Migrating voices. Narrative practices within the Funkino project and the collective Vozes de dentro”. She started her collaboration with Zabbara in 2021, while enrolled at the University of Bologna “Social and legal practices in the reception and integration of migrants” course. She is currently working in a mother-child protection community for women with different challenges and backgrounds, in Bologna, Italy. Since forever, she has devoted herself to writing.