New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Regaining a sense of belonging

Email user
rutajekentaite@gmail.com

Basic information
Initiative title
Garden of Forgotten fruits: Film Dialog

Full initiative Title
Garden of Forgotten fruits: Film Dialog

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
Garden of Forgotten fruits: Film Dialog is a project that brings different age and level audiovisual artists into dialog with nature through creative processes. Project was inspired by garden of forgotten fruits in Pennabilli that was set by TONINO GUERRA, internationally renowned poet, screenplay writer and artist. "Pennabilli was the Himalaya of my childhood. Why did I come back here? Because it was a kind of lost heaven I wanted to find again. “.

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
Cross-border/international

Where was your intiative implemented?
Location 1
Italy

Location 2
Lithuania
Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries
- Member State(s), Western Balkans and other countries: Serbia
If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Pennabilli (Romagnol: La Pénna) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Rimini
Vilnius municipality, Lithuania,
Beograd municipality, Serbia

Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
Yes

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organisation
Please provide the contact details for the project promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the project)
- Name of the organisation(s): Nebula cluster
  Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation
  First name of representative: Ruta
  Last name of representative: Jekentaite
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Lithuania
  If relevant, please select your other nationality: Lithuania
  Function: Project Manager
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Gedimino av. 28 /6 flr
  Town: Vilnius
  Postal code: LT11140
  Country: Lithuania
  Direct Tel: +370 614 71774
  E-mail: ruta@balticproductions.lt
  Website: https://www.nebula-cluster.com/
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): https://www.instagram.com/film__dialog
In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
Social Media

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
Our initiative called "Film Dialog" is a project inspired by famous filmmaker, poet and artist Tonino Guerra. His work that can be found all over the province of Rimini and should be sought out for its beauty and mysterious charm: parks, fountains, gardens, restaurants and hotels that bear his signature and that he has called The Places of the Soul. They form an itinerary that moves the soul and stimulates the imagination. His legacy, was that what inspired to create a non-formal learning curriculum with an original approach and organize filmmaking camps in Tonino's home city Penabilli where students cound take those routes for soul and imagination. The original project aimed to create a learning curriculum for 9-11th grade students, to get them acquainted with the theory, practice and professions of the creative industries and audio-visual sector. Additionally, an important aim of this project was to include young people experiencing cultural exclusion in the environment where they can become both consumers and creators of quality culture. Whilst creating the methodology, project partners organised the test for kids - a filmmaking camp in Italy. Since the methodology is being finalised and the project has been highly successful between teachers, students and the community, project organizers are aiming to grow this to a much bigger initiative. We believe in continuing this camp, but also building a platform "Film Dialog" with the sustainability idea in mind. Too many great initiatives die too soon and we wish ours to grow bigger, to unite the current similar initiatives and to teach young filmmakers generation the power of pausing, noticing and loving the environment.

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
Education

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Community

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Core - values

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Industry

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Nature

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The project is inspired by the Garden of Forgotten fruits in Penabilli, Italy, planted by the renowned artist Tonino Guerra. The forgotten varieties of the plants indicate the eternity of culture and art, emphasise the importance of the historical memory of mankind, and represent the leading role of modern society in the protection of flora and fauna. It brilliantly helped us to shape the idea of the filmmaking camp by combining the film industry education with the core values of loving the nature. We believe teaching sustainability should go hand in hand with teaching young people to stop, to notice what's around them, to try and see the beauty in it. With that comes respect, with the respect comes love and sustainable care comes out of it naturally.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The filmmaking camp has been set in the Penabilli, Italy, a little town in which the community is small but tight. Combining the old generation of Penabilli citizens, which is very close to nature and have been very curious about the filmmaking camp with the young generation of future filmmakers has been beneficial to both sides. The project looks at the problem of sustainability holistically. The film industry can be very wasteful. We believe in teaching the new generation of talents from the beginning: to look deeply into the nature, into the community. With the love for it, it is so much easier to speak about the sustainability. Penabilli served not only as a perfect example of the sustainable and loving community but it is also a home of Tonino Guerra. We have used his home-museum for lectures thus keeping his memory alive, his museum buzzing with young ideas and allowing young students to get inspired by the buildings and places that have seen the greatest artists of our time.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
An important aim of this project is to include young people experiencing cultural exclusion in the environment where they can become both consumers and creators of quality culture. We aimed for this project to be as accessible as possible. Hence in Lithuania we have collaborated with two organisations. Meno Avilys, is one of them, they organize film education classes in rural Lithuanian cities. With them we were able to reach those who usually have less access to invite into our camp in Italy. Another collaborator of ours was Skalvija film school. With them we reached the most aspiring future filmmakers who are already well versed in industry at a young age. The third group of kids came from Catania, Liceo Artistico. They had a passion for arts but less means to travel or hire courses. So it was a perfect blend of different people to meet each other and learn from each other. As for accessibility, we have funded main expenditures with the help of Erasmus+ funding. Within the framework of the project, with the help of the expertise of experts and foreign partners, we managed include interdisciplinary work with young people experiencing exclusion due to geographical location, belonging to an ethnic group and economic situation. We believe that our project idea in innovative, beneficial and will have a long-lasting effects for the target groups and the community as well.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
The city of Penabilli is a perfect example of a little town with a close community. The is one ice cream shop, one pharmacy, one of everything - just enough but not too much. Everyone knows each others name. So it was very safe space to organize a camp. On another hand 15 young kids were very well seen. The community of which many people were friends of Tonino Guerra were happy that his legacy is alive, his museum is buzzing with new voices and ideas. We have included them into all events, the guides, the screenings. They also picked their winners and awarded with prizes. On the other hand for the young people it was a great way to show the place, where life is calm and quite, were they can finally stop and listen to nature, to their own ideas. Majority of their films focused on sustainability problems and allowed the community of Penabilli to have a fresh look at those and brought the discussions to the table.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
The project aims to achieve a multi-layered impact, from the individual development of participants and their communities, to the regional, national and international development of the participating countries.
We have included local, regional and European stakeholders into the initiave.
European funding Erasmus+ helped us to move forward with idea, to create methodology and organize first filmmaking camp in Italy.
We collaborated with Serbian film center, Lithuanian organizations as well as Italian ones to include diverse voices.
As for the local inclusion, Penabilli city with its mayor was active during the initiave and helped us with the planning.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
Audiovisual industry and nature observing, as well as building community.
By having a real opportunity to practice film-making development young people will develop audio-visual media literacy and technical skills.
All the methodology is build around observing nature, it is not so usually or popular in young generation, so we try to bring back - seeing and noticing.
Initiative takes place in very rural place - village without any city-life infrastructure, for many of kids it is a new thing - once a week happening markets, where you have to buy everything, going to neighbours to ask for things you need, working on garden and etc.

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
Along with other international tutors, kids will be creating short documentary films and learning to pause and to notice things. We believe that there are many programmes but not enough of them invite young people to not rush but to pause. Our program is a slow filmmaking program which invites people to do exactly that. Not to rush, to notice the unseen, to enjoy the moment, to get lost and allow the world to become larger than ones knowledge of it. To let go of control.

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
Quality media literacy and film education projects are more difficult to access for youth living in region because they are carried out in metropolitan areas or are not financially accessible to participants from low-income families. Lack of knowledge and experience in this sector makes it difficult for any young person to find out and attend the universities they want, as such information must first be obtained and only then young people can decide if they want to go deeper into this sector or no. We also noticed that the lack of activities that actively involve young people in the creative process develops the passive
user, which negatively contributes to the exclusion of the individual in the community, promotes a sense of hopelessness. Additionally, we will share our projects'
results with schools, teachers, head teachers working in a school in one of the European countries involved through eTwinning platform. We believe that it will help to inspire teachers, and those who implementing extra-curriculum activities to organize activities for their students aiming to develop their high-quality arts and cultural knowledge. Also the filmmaking camp can be redone in other museums-houses of renowned filmmakers. We believe it sustainably combines the young and the old, allowing us to learn from each other, rather than to wastefully forget and only make new.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
The filmmaking camp "Film Dialog" was implemented as a test of the methodology that we are creating with our partners. It was so successful that we wish to grow this project into a yearly initiative. The methodology is now being finalised. The main goal when creating it was to offer a contrast to the usual approaches - offer some stillness and teaching the kids art of noticing. All tasks and main activities was planned around that - how to pause, notice what is around us and document it. We had Tonino Guerra's wife and poet Lora Guerra as a teacher as well as great rising filmmakers and producers Beniamino Barrese, Elena Kairyte, Ruta Jekentaite and anthropologist Ruta Kiaupaite. experiences. The program developed during the project will be designed to be adapted for schools or organisations working with extracurricular activities, this program will focus on the youth which are facing social exclusion, living in rural areas, have less opportunities than others and fewer accessibility to cultural events and activities. The main goal is to share it, to make it usable as well as to collaborate closely with other institutions working on the same matters and to combine rather than separate.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
The project invites its participant to pause and notice what's around them. By doing so it tackles the problem of wild and reckless globalisation, causing climate crisis, depression and lonelines. We aim to train a new filmmakers generation with the values of community, care of nature and each other.
Both teaching methodology and filmmaking camps are planned carefully and slowly, inviting to do everything thoughtfully, not rushing and notice.

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
The project itself - building a methodology is almost completed. There are now final corrections being made and the project will be finished by May. However, the filmmaking camp which was initially a test for methodology has been such a great success that there is a clear need to make it a regular thing. It was loved by both students and the community. Penabilli offers infrastructure and calmness to continue this project. Hence the project partners are now looking to find new ways to both continue the camp whilst keeping it accessible.

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
PDF
PDF
- pdf-1-34709.pdf
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
Our project equips learners by the original methodology an attitude of loving the nature. The methodology is being shared with educators who can teach it themselves. We believe in combining and uniting the current programmes hence are speaking and collaborating with many innitiatives now and looking to build a platform in the future so no young peoples films are lost and methodologies can be shared between teachers worldwide.
Please attach at least 6 high resolution images or visual representations of your initiative to your application.
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- Annex-II-2021-1-LT01-KA210-SCH-000032369.pdf
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Yes

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