The SIGNIS World Congress 2009 to be held in Chiang Mai will include 16 workshops for media professionals from different audiovisual areas. In accordance with the Congress’ theme «Media for a Culture of Peace – Children’s Rights, Tomorrow’s Promise », some of the workshops will be directed towards the theme of media for peace and social transformation.Jan Servaes will organise an interactive session on the means of Making community Media Work; in Media in the Internet Age, Steven Gan w...

Today in National Palace “Ukraine” the Grand closing ceremony was held of the 38th Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist.This year’s festival took place from October 18 to 26 in Kyiv. Around 300 films have been shown in three competition and over 20 non-competition programs of Molodist in festival center “Cinema Kyiv” and cinemas “Zhovten” and “Kinopanorama”.In competition of student films 30 titles participated from 25 countries of the world, the shorts competition include...

Today in National Palace “Ukraine” the Grand closing ceremony was held of the 38th Kyiv International Film Festival Molodist.This year’s festival took place from October 18 to 26 in Kyiv. Around 300 films have been shown in three competition and over 20 non-competition programs of Molodist in festival center “Cinema Kyiv” and cinemas “Zhovten” and “Kinopanorama”.In competition of student films 30 titles participated from 25 countries of the world, the shorts competition include...

On the occasion of the SIGNIS Board meeting in Bucharest, November 2007, Peter Malone of the SIGNIS Cinema desk announced the winner of the SIGNIS-WACC award for a film on human rights. This award is made jointly by the two Christian media associations at the time of each organisations assembly. Philip Lee made the announcement on behalf of WACC (The World Association for Christian Communication) from its headquarters in Toronto. The 2007 award goes to Nick Higgins (Scotland) for his documentary...

At the end of October each year, the Christian churches, theological seminaries and universities are active in film events. The occasion is the Festival of the City of Angels.This is a theme festival, rather than competition. It was inaugurated in 1993 after the Rodney King riots. The churches got together to offer something positive and constructive for the city. Since Hollywood is in Los Angeles, the decision was to hold an annual film festival as a gift to the city. The festival runs from Fri...