Refugees have entered European countries, but they haven’t entered the public sphere. When they do, it is as characters in other people’s stories – desperate faces, surging hoards and floating bodies – something ‘other’. We rarely hear from young refugees as experts or legitimate voices.
The strategic partnership “Displaced In Media” is set up to contribute to a European innovative and collaborative infrastructure that supports refugee participation through media. We do this because if refugees and migrants are to become citizens of Europe, we believe they need to be participants in – rather than subjects of – public debate.
Between March 27th and April 2nd 2017 over thirty journalists, film makers, photographers, media educators and social workers from all over Europe took part in a peer-to-peer training hosted at Ondertussen in Amsterdam. Throughout the five-day training the participants presented their work, gave each other feedback on their local challenges and worked together on methodologies to include refugee perspectives into the European public sphere.
The participants will test these methodologies in their local practices and exchange their experiences and outcomes on ECF Lab Hacking the Veil. In spring 2018 the group will meet again in Seville to develop a recipe book for refugee inclusion through media.
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We see pictures of migrants from news footage, illustrating rhetoric about the political and economic causes and pre-assumed effects of migration – but what are these people’s names? Why are they here? What are their own personal stories?
On 20 May, The artists of €urovisions (the new show of European Souvenirs) will perform in Eye Film Institute in Amsterdam. EYE is the Dutch centre for film culture and heritage, is dedicated to developing a vigorous film culture in the Netherlands. €urovisions also makes use of the archive of Eye’s collection.
The BFI Future Film Festival returns with an exciting line-up of events and screenings, to help media-makers develop their own unique pathway into the world of film. Each day will have a different focus (fiction, animation and documentary) and you can expect in-depth masterclasses, hands on workshops, screenings of the best new films by young, emerging filmmakers and inspirational Q&As.
A epic live-cinema performance through time and history, combining live music, DJs, VJs, animation and archive footage; an audio-visual spectacle not to be missed. Created by the Doc Next Network with 5 young European artists over several months, with residentials in Istanbul, Seville, Amsterdam and Warsaw and support from a range of tutors including Toni Serra and Chris Allen of The Light Surgeons.
European Souvenirs at the BFI Future Film Festival is with the special support of 
