The workshops are co-organised by New Horizons Association educational department and aimed at students interested in making films for young audience, in particular students of Direction, Screenwriting, Production and Animation specializations.

- Polish cinemas almost exclusively screen Hollywood productions about toys, animals or robots conquering the galaxy or saving the world, while realistic films telling about child hero and his natural surrounding and his relations with peers and adults are absent. Meanwhile in Germany, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, France, or even Czech Republic many narrative films intended for kids are released each year. The challenge of making movies for young audience is telling a story suitable for a given age, while not infantile or overly simplifying the heroes psychological side. We propose this challenge to our students – said Piotr Mikucki, Dean of the Direction Department at the beginning of the workshops in February.

The second part of the workshops is behind us – students of Direction, Screenwriting, Production and Animation specializations at the Film School in Łódź developed their projects under the eye of Philip LaZebnik and Aneta Wróbel.

The aim of the workshops is to develop 4-8 student projects elaborated by 4-8 pairs of authors, that would participate in annual session of Warsaw Kids Film Forum pitching in the Autumn 2018, and later on they would be developed until applying for funds from the Polish Film Institute’s priority resources. In 2016 PFI (PISF) opened a priority fund and had allocated 10 million PLN for production of films for a young audience. The priority is for selected area (films for young audience) and the funds that were given can not be used in other projects, as a result the chances for a debut in this particular thematic area is significantly higher than in any other.