Regional Student Projects

Regional Student Projects

Let’s Make a Movie

Over the course of two years – 2023 and 2024, Geotechmin OOD and Ellatzite-Med AD jointly with Harlequin Association have been implementing the project Let’s Make a Movie which has inspired nearly 100 students from Etropole and Srednogorie regions to make 9 documentaries about 16 mining professions.
Let’s Make a Movie is a multi-component project which aims to inspire creativity and engage students in the art of filmmaking. It familiarizes young people with key mining professions as a way to spark their interest in mining by doing their own research.

In 2023, more than 40 students and their teachers from 12 schools in Etropole and Srednogorie regions took part in the initiative. Firstly, the youngsters were trained by university professors from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts “Krastyo Sarafov” and the Bulgarian National Television. Consequently, the budding filmmakers assumed the roles of screenwriters, directors, operators and film editors who worked enthusiastically as real life crew members. As a result, they produced 2 short documentaries about key mining professions.

The documentaries “Loving Your Profession” and “Professions for You” won the Special Award for a large-scale film project at Harlequin International Youth Media Festival in 2023. Furthermore, the films gained prestigious awards at another international youth film festival in Rome, Italy.
The project gained popularity and recognition among local communities, thus attracting more people to participate in it in 2024. More than 50 students and teachers from 7 schools joined the initiative and trained to develop filmmaker skills.

Let’s Make a Movie project continued with the production 7 audiovisual works dedicated to key mining professions at Ellatzite-Med. The filmmakers and commentators in these documentaries were students attending a dual training programme and their mentors. The film “Four Metres Above the Ground” made by students from Hristo Yasenov Secondary School in Etropole won Best Documentary Award at the 13th edition of Harlequin International Youth Media Festival in Varna.

The festival’s audience and the local residents in the regions where mining is the primary industry learned a lot about the opportunities provided by the dual training, the advantages of mining professions, and the mutual cooperation between the mining industry and educational institutions.
You can watch the documentaries here.

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