Category: CMF Blog
Sooner Rather Than Later
November 5, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
5Rights Foundation Calls For Swifter Legislation On Internet Safety The digital world was imagined as one in which all users would be equal, yet one third of internet users are children. This means that nearly one billion children are growing up in an environment that systematically fails to recognise their age and the protections, privileges, […]
Arts Education In Schools
November 4, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
Cutting Back On Creativity By Nathan Guy Actor, Drama Coach and Drama Lead and Creative Support Teacher at Griffin Schools Trust Do we have time for creativity in schools? If not, we should make time. Arts education should not be for the privileged few but thrown like confetti and woven into the learning process of […]
How Support for CMF Benefits New Indies
October 4, 2019 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
James Hill is the Co-Founder and Director of Fudge Animation, which was a new start-up in 2014. Here, he explains how support for the Children’s Media Foundation has helped Fudge Animation grow the company and develop their portfolio. Fudge is a boutique, full-service animation studio and a producer of animated Children’s content. Our latest property, a […]
Parenting for the Digital Age
September 30, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
Stop Criticising Parents and Start Supporting Their Digital Practices By Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology Department of Media and Culture, LSE (Member of the CMF Academic Advisory Board) Society has high hopes and considerable fears for the digital future. On the one hand, parents are told – get your children coding so they have […]
Pushing the Preschool Envelope at CMC
September 30, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
Priorities for Preschool In An Age Of Change Gary Pope, Co-Founder, Kids Industries Speaker, Moderator and Member of the Advisory Committee for CMC The work that goes on behind the scenes at The Children’s Media Conference is phenomenal. A world-class programme doesn’t just materialise overnight. The advisory committee, which I am super-proud to sit […]
A Reason To Be Cheerful – Part 1. The £57 million Young Audiences Content Fund
August 19, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
By Jackie Edwards Head of the Young Audiences Content Fund at the BFI It’s a funny old world… Although there doesn’t seem to be a lot to laugh about currently. Leaving all the global, European and British political brow-furrowing items aside, and looking just at our own British kids’ media industry doorstep – we’ve not […]
On-Line Harms: Resetting the Moral Compass
August 19, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
ON-LINE HARMS: THE GOVERNMENT WHITE PAPER By Cecilia Weiss Digital Producer and CMF Executive Group Member As a new member of the CMF Executive Group, I offered my services as a session producer for the Childrens’ Media Conference in Sheffield this year. Not only was it my first time producing a session at the […]
Writers Assemble!
August 12, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
Writers Of The World Unite in Sheffield By Denise Cassar, Award Winning Children’s Scriptwriter The Children’s Media Conference is a superb opportunity for writers to creep out from behind our screens, shed our coffee stained cardigans (just me?) and see what’s happening in the wider kids’ media industry. Each year we scour the timetable […]
Children’s Media Conference, Sheffield 2019
August 8, 2019 Diana Hinshelwood CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, Event Reports, 0
CMC CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS By Diana Hinshelwood, Producer, CMF Newsletter Editor and CMF Executive Group Member. CMF sent newsletter editor Diana Hinshelwood to report back from the Children’s Media Conference in Sheffield (2- 4 July). I had the best time in Sheffield. Booking into the wrong hotel and being called a troublemaker aside (I prefer the […]
The Decline of Arts in Schools
June 19, 2019 Greg Childs CMF Blog, CMF Newsletter, 0
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Children’s Media and the Arts covers a wide range of issues affecting young people, raising awareness of their cultural and creative needs with politicians in both houses and all parties. Having hosted a successful event for parliamentarians to meet the BFI’s Jackie Edwards at the launch of the Young Audience’s […]
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