Results

To achieve the planned results of the project, DokuFest engaged a professional Media company to develop training tutorials for use in online and offline mode. The project through a Media company developed comprehensive tutorials for the following modules for Digital Media Clubs through online provision.

During January 2021, a competition was held between 20 champion schools where 12 schools participated. There were about 100 participants in the award ceremony. The competition was held in 5 categories such as: Photography, Video, Essay, Lesson and Newspaper where as a prize for Essay, Lesson and Newspaper we rewarded the clubs with book collections, while the winners of Photography and Video were rewarded with the most objective for the camera and collection of books.

Throughout the planning we have contacted potential partners to create a training program that would boost creativity in the respective age groups in two directions. The first direction was the teaching of digital techniques for creating videos and stories by students through stop-motion, while the second focused on raising students’ awareness   on   certain   topics by addressing Sustainable Development Goals through visual storytelling.

DokuFest team outsourced the technical expertise from AMAM Studio who were contracted to conduct trainings in the form of a camp, every weekend in Prizren with the interested schools. This camp focused on the creation of video materials addressing the respective SDG4: Quality Education, SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities, SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities and SDG 13: Climate Action.

The camp (in the form of a ‘Summer School’) took place in five consecutive weekends, with active participation of 17 Champion Schools, attending with 87 students and 19 teachers in total. During the two days of the camp, students acquired necessary skills and techniques to create a stop- motion video story built around a narrative structure of the message they want to transmit. As a part of the intercultural part of the program the project team facilitated a visit to the Castle of Prizren and provided an exclusive experience of film screening at a local cinema that has a unique sound and visual system.

All these learned innovations are then transferred to the final work that is being exhibited in 7 municipalities, that of Gjilan, Gjakova, Prishtina, Prizren, Obiliq, Shtime and Podujeva, which was followed by a cocktail. The exhibition was held in 8 different locations, where in total there were approximately 300 participants.