“Young Filmmakers workshop introduces the seventh art to children 

Teaching children and adolescents the nature of cinema and the most important components of the seventh art was the focus of the workshop organized by the Directorate of Tartous Culture within the celebration of “We Play and Learn”.

The event titled “ Young Filmmakers” was attended by children aged  12 – 18 who received cinematic training sessions, in addition to practical rehearsals given by the film director Al-Muhannad Kalthoum.

Regarding the goal of the project, the film director Kalthoum stressed in a statement to SANA that this initiative, which was launched from the city of Damascus to contribute to building a new cinematic generation, aims to teach children and young people what cinema is and transfer cinematic thought to this generation to learn how to make their own films and deal with the camera.

He pointed  to the fact that the talents of a number of children  enable them to benefit from this project.

Kalthoum considered that this age is appropriate to build the child’s experience and his cinematic visual culture, expressing his happiness with this experience, which is his first in Tartous within his project “Child’s Cinema”, that has a free enabling aspect to spread a culture that contributes to building knowledge of the Syrian child.

Rawaa Ghanam