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Exiting from…

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Empowerment and Activation of Young People in Disadvantaged Situations -TV series focuses on problems of social inclusion of vulnerable young people from disadvantaged social and personal settings, zooms in on personal stories of children and young adults at the threshold of leaving known, albeit disadvantageous circumstances – care providing institutions – and starting independent life.

Connection/ Конекшн

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Aiming to promote a better communication with the world, the 42- minute documentary Connection / Koнекшн reviews the qualities and defects of the Serbian and American mentality. University students from Belgrade and the U.S. talk about their views on national identity , patriotism and nationalism, stereotypes, diversity, prejudice, ethnic minorities, the system of values, same sex marriages and adoption of children by homosexual couples, unemployment, politics, violence, similarities and differences.

Code of Ethics

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In cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, ShockART presented the Multi-Media Guide on the Code of Ethics to a wider audience through national and local TV stations in 2012. The impact of the Multimedia Guide and rise of public awareness was enhanced through organization of six round tables throughout Serbia for the representatives of local self-governments, CSOs and media and production and broadcasting of one-hour programmes on national and local TV networks.

SOFA / Misconceptions

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This TV serial is envisioned as a thought provoking sequence of interviews with intriguing intellectuals from Serbia who have been promoting values through their work and will challenge citizens to assertively engage in altering political, social and economic environment and to increase their commitment to, and incite a sense of responsibility for the building of a democratic society.

The main objective of the SOFA series was to challenge traditional misconceptions that pose an obstacle to progress and specific changes to promote a multi-cultural and democratic Serbia, through addressing it as a cross-cutting issue in the context of specific socio-economic concerns rather than isolating it as a single issue.

The Game of Truth

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The project “The Game of Truth” addresses the need for higher participation of youth in democratic transition and fostering the free speech and informed debate in the media sphere.

It uses analytical journalism approach to enable citizens- young people to take part in the debate about wide range of issues affecting their lives. Use of media sphere is a starting point for understanding and deliberation about issues of common concern such as democratic transition, active citizenship and overcoming destructive prejudices and legacies of the past.

Chill Out

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Tracing the thoughts of three 17-year-old girls and their authentic environment, the film builds a story about adolescent drama of growing up in a society that promotes aggression, alienation, profanity, hopelessness, social autism,etc. CHILL OUT, the term adopted as the film title, embodies the prevailing attitude of the new generation brought up on a mixure of Grand Productions and MTV. The film itslef seeks the answer to the question: What are current generations like and what values are they reflection of?

Fostering the Future

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The purpose of this project is to raise public awareness on problems faced by children without parental care. Public debate provided a unique opportunity not only for viewers to ask “hot” questions, but also for decision-makers on various levels to reflect on the current practices, clearly voice out the existing barriers to changing the child protection system, and openly, at times quite passionately and heatedly, discuss possible options and realities of reforms in the child protection sector in Serbia.

Above the Clouds

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The documentary based on “Working Together for Child Protection”,a project implemented by Save the Children UK and funded by the European Commission, aims to improve the child welfare systems and the protection of children’s rights in Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro by supporting the development of a coordinated, cost-effective and sustainable child protection services and promotion of community-based child welfare approaches.

The Obstacle is the Path

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The overall objective of the project was to build capacity of MoLSP, Local Self Governments (LSG) and other central and local stakeholders in the social welfare system, in order to effectively implement the SWDS. The Donors and MoLSP were to send the following message through this film: GoS and MoLSP and their partners are actively implementing the SWDS and wider social welfare reform agenda, that the support provided by DFID and NMFA has contributed significantly to the progress that has been made, that the work completed to date forms a firm foundation on which to build and move forward in terms of social welfare reform in the broader EU integration context.

Tenzin

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The film offers a personal story of Ivana – a single mother from Serbia that adopted a little boy from Tibet she now lives with in France. In the Vasiljević family, little Tenzin has an even tougher time since, along with the solving the complexity of his identity and confronting the problem who he is and who he belongs to, the issue of nurturing a different culture, tradition, philosophy of life surfaces. This film is a generically civilizational story which uses the comparative contemplation of cultural differences of three worlds – Serbian, French and Tibetan – to stress the advantage of adoption for the development of a child, as well as the need to respect the rights of children regardless of them living in families with their biological parents or not.