With the “Cinema Workshops,” the Pinocchio Production association allows for the creation of scripts and the making of films imagined by children for one week each month by combining various forms of art (claymation, cut-out animation, photographic stories, puppet or theater films, animated cartoons, music videos, genre films, staged and filmed tales…).
This approach aims to offer an opportunity to implement the participants’ imagination and creativity using new forms of language, and to improve their daily lives during hospitalization by creating a space for exchange and enjoyment.
The “Cinema Workshops” at CHU de Nice
These are one-off workshops in a cycle of four one-week sessions.
Children’s age: 5 to 18 years.
Number: varies from 2 to 10 children.
Duration of hospitalization: the children are hospitalized for short, medium, and long-term stays as well as day hospitalization.
Concerned departments: Children from the pediatric hematology-oncology department.
The “Cinema Workshops” were held from March to June 2010 at the Archet 2 hospital within the pediatric hemato-oncology department. They will be conducted again in 2011 within the Health Cooperation Group.
The “Le Blé de l’Espérance” association, whose 2010-2011 fundraising campaign began on November 13, fully funded this project. Its goal is to bring well-being to hospitalized children.
Objective of the four weeks of the Workshop
To imagine, stage, film, sound, and draw a fantastic tale.
General Principle of the Artistic Proposal
Create a single film together to strive for a fairly in-depth artistic production that has been thoroughly explored and revisited.
Each session was dedicated to a specific stage of the project.
The development of characters, story, and settings was accomplished gradually, and the children could even continue working on it outside the workshops. This strengthened the dynamic and involved them individually and collectively in an artistic development that went much further. Each new participant would pick up the story where the team from the previous session left off, making it their own, projecting the next steps, and implementing them. This process is called the turning story. Other artistic forms used in the film include voice, sound, and music recordings, photographs, drawings, and mask creation.
The Associations
Since 2003, Pinocchio Production has offered “Cinema Workshops” in several hospital structures, notably in the AP-HM in Marseille, the CHU in Limoges, and the CHU in Nice. The association aims to extend this type of program to other health establishments nationwide, such as the Pediatric Hospitals Health Cooperation Group of Nice CHU – LENVAL.
The team consists of visual artists, puppeteers, filmmakers, theater teachers, storytellers, and art therapists who enrich the association’s artistic approach with their experience, techniques, and “know-how-to-say.”
List of people involved in the Nice project:
The team of the GCS Pediatric Hospitals of Nice CHU – Lenval
Mrs. Kreitmann, psychologist of the pediatric hematology-oncology department and vice president of the Indigo association
Professor Boutte, head of the pediatric department
Dr. Sirvent, head of the pediatric hematology-oncology department
Mrs. Dorrington Niblett, Director of Nursing Care
Mrs. Letroublon, pediatric healthcare manager
Mrs. Cozzi, pediatric hematology-oncology healthcare manager
Mrs. Bossuet Béatrice, communication department
The Blé de l’Espérance association
Edmond Maurin, president
The Pinocchio Production association
Romain Cherbonnier, director, educational consultant, and artistic designer
Marie Papleux, educational consultant and artistic designer
Gilles Della Rocca, coordinator of the association, director, educational consultant, and artistic designer.
