The first Cinemaissíto animation workshop for adolescents between 12 and 16 years was organized in spring 2009. Using stop motion (frame by frame) technique, the participants created nine short animations on the Children’s Rights theme.

The workshop was realised in cooperation with Finland-Swedish information centre Luckan and Ung Info.

From the produced and edited material, the series ”The Children’s Rights” was created, which has its première in Cinemaissíto 24 October at 15.30 (Luckan). Welcome!

The Children’s Rights
An animation by Cinemaissíto
Guides: Karin Ducander and Luciano Rocha
Finland, 2009
6 min
Directors: Jim Söderberg, Max Madisson, Jade Hall, Joona Päivähonka, Balihan Ermutlu, Jon Galán, Alex Oliver Laine, Daniel Lappalainen, Ivan Boytson, Iiris Kinnunen, Rosa Hietikko

About the Guides:

Karin Ducander studied visual arts in Angoulême, France and in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She has been working as a free lance illustrator for children's books and an animator since 1992. She has also worked at the National Opera in the sets, props and costumes departments , as well as designing and making sets, masks and puppets for Circo Crappo, Totem, Unga Teatern etc. Since 2003 she has also been conducting animation workshops in Senegal, Rwanda, Malawi and Finland.

Luciano Rocha graduated in visual arts in São Paulo, Brazil; he first worked as an illustrator for a number of magazines as well as in an animation studio making puppets, props and small settings for stop motion. Since then, having found his true vocation was animation, he has, among other things, been conducting animation workshops in schools and social projects in Brazil and Finland for the last ten years.