1st Children's film Festival 2008

Pakistan’s first-ever 9-day “Children’s Film Festival” held at The Ali Auditorium from June 14 to June 22, 2008. This festival was organized to promote Arts education, and learning through the Arts, in Pakistan.

Nearly 11,000 people, including children, families, teachers and general film-lovers, visited the festival during its 9-day run. The management of the festival was overwhelmed at this response to the first initiative of its kind.

The major objective of this festival was to explore and encourage art media as a learning support for children. The Institute is interested to bring arts education into true practice through a range of projects.

The festival enjoyed national level press and electronic media. Almost all major newspapers published the festival news. Key English and Urdu media channels not only gave the festival news in special reports but also some of them broadcasted 30 min programmes on the festival.

AIE is committed to promote arts education in schools to improve the educational experience of children. Holding such festival is one of the very important part of our mission. We plan to provide your school and children more opportunities and platform to participate in arts education projects. We hope that you will encourage and support us while participating or promoting such initiatives.

The feedback of the festival visitors was very encouraging. It seems that there is a great need for the creation of such events in order to establish Arts education in Pakistani society.