National strategies, Structures and models

National Strategies: Slovenia

Commentators have noticed that smaller countries often seem better able to align their systems and structures towards a common purpose - in film education as well as in other spheres.

National Strategies: Slovenia
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National Strategies: Slovenia

Slovenia, with a population of just over 2 million, is one of the smaller countries in the EU, but its film education punches well above its weight. Their bi-annual film education conference attracts more than 200 teachers, and additional academics, film industry personnel, and freelance educators. Comparable events in the UK and Germany attract roughly the same number.

In 2018, after many years’ preparation and lobbying, the Slovenian government endorsed a film education strategy for the whole country. An English translation, which runs to 16 pages, is available to read here.

Task

While the report isn’t as dry and difficult as it may sound, we ask you to focus specifically on the following issues:

  • Look at the definition of film education on p3: is there anything in there that you might disagree with?
  • Sections 1.3 and 1.4, on pages 5-9, cover the kinds of activity that one would expect from the Ideal Model of Film Education; do you think anything is missing?
  • On page 2, at the bottom, it says ‘it needs to be stressed that a certain amount of redistribution of funds from film realisation and production to other areas is included in this data.’ What do you think would be a reasonable balance of public funding between film production, distribution and education, in your own, or any other country?

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