The national program for the introduction of film education in Tunisian schools is renewed in 2023.
From 2016 and after two years of hiatus in 2020 and 2021, the “One Thousand and One Films” program resumed with renewed vigor in 2022 and is preparing to launch a new chapter in 2023, always with the same objective: to train the last 14 years at the foundations of image and cinematographic writing. Every year, 300 schools and colleges in the country’s 24 governorates participate in the program, bringing the number of students initiated into the seventh art to 6,000.
Initiated by a director, and supported by the Ministry of Public Education and that of Cultural Affairs (through the National Center for Cinema and the Image), “A Thousand and One Films” remains an exception in the educational panorama. , the only device to date to offer an image education program. ” Since the launch of this project, I have always thought it was necessary to work with schools first and foremost », explains Moncef Dhouib (to whom we owe, among others, The Sultan of the Medina) daily The print. « What we do is necessary: we are illiterate when it comes to reading an image. Cinematic language should be accessible to everyone, especially children aged 8 to 14. It is a question of better deciphering this tsunami of the image and its impact, where this urge to start the initiation with its manufacture soon comes from. »
Under the aegis of the director and a dozen trainers/mediators, recruited on a tender basis and mostly graduates of film high schools, the students are introduced to the camera in three phases: basic notions and elementary rules of cinematic language , writing a report (screenplay and storyboard) and shooting.
After being supported by the Rambourg Foundation, the scheme is now seeking other private financial backings, in addition to public aid: “ Although our expenses are structural, the project remains expensive “, says Moncef Dhouib, who aims to expand his project to more schools in the country.
