WORKING TOWARDS A BRIGHTER FUTURE
PSAROLOCO MEDIA LITERACY PROJECT
WINNER in UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Awards 2021
ABOUT US
The Psaroloco Media Literacy Project Ι Labs (Since 2010) promotes media literacy with skills of creative access and critical content analysis and integrates teachers as the primary actors of this new audiovisual literacy through cinema.
​
It holds film screenings Psaroloco International Film Festival for Children & Young People experiential workshops specially designed for children and adolescents as well as educational workshops & teaching tools through PsarolocoEd. for families, teachers, and literate citizens.
It gives priority to vulnerable groups of children and adolescents. He has collaborated with SOS children's village of Greece and with the civil non-profit Tandem Society for the Experimental Laboratories Psaroloco at the Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Center of Children with Disabilities of Attica (K.A.A.P.A.A. former P.I.K.P.A. Voulas) and at the Special Vocational Training Laboratory (E.E.E.E.K.) of Agios Dimitrios. It travels with actions to remote areas around Greece.
​
Psaroloco Media Literacy is committed to broadening access to the arts for all children and is proud to provide PsarolocoEd Classroom for free. As a KYKLOS nonprofit, PSAROLOCO relies on the support of our audience members, donors, and supporters to make this program possible.
To learn more about corporate or philanthropic sponsorship of the PsarolocoEd program, please contact psaroloco.project@gmail.com
​
VISION AND MISSION
VISION
​
The Psaroloco Media Literacy is dedicated to a new vision of literacy for the 21st Century: the ability to communicate competently in all media forms as well as to access, understand, analyze, evaluate and participate with powerful images, words and sounds that make up our contemporary mass media culture. Indeed, we believe these skills of media literacy are essential for both children and adults as individuals and as citizens of a democratic society.
MISSION
​
Our mission is to help children and adults prepare for living and learning in a global media culture by translating media literacy research and theory into practical information, training and educational tools for teachers and youth leaders, parents and caregivers of children.
"We must prepare young people for living in a world of powerful images, words and sounds." - UNESCO, 1982
Dreaming of Psaroloco
The poster and visual identity for this year’s Psaroloco International Film Festival for Children & Young People focuses on dreams, emotions and storytelling. The illustration deliberately uses the simplest of material (charcoal on paper), and the simplest of form and style to create a dreamy, surreal and at the same time relaxed atmosphere. A kid, a seascape, an eye that has turned into a fish. The implication of play. Focusing on the youths’ gaze, it states that not only other worlds are possible, but already exist in every place and time where imagination is free to unleash all creative potential. Like in this year’s collection of films and workshops!
Illustration and design: Polyomino (polyomino.gr)