The main objective of the project was to make a short film with an ecological theme by an empowering artistic, language and cultural learning process that enabled the participants to gain confidence to cope with the supercomplex world. The aim was to offer the students with different gender, social and economical backgrounds and with different learning abilities an equal opportunity to work together. The project had a target of strengthening among the participants the awareness of the diversity of the world. The understanding of other cultures helped the students to create ways to promote democracy, beginning from their own project activities. The environmental aspects of the project were planned to acquaint the participants with ecological practices that they could adapt in their everyday life. By making digitality a natural part of the project the participants were encouraged to apply it in various and innovative ways to both their working and freetime activities. The design of the project was based on the will to examine, develop, record, analyse and share the practice of cross-border cooperation to benefit further operators.The produced film is distributed to wider audiences as one outcome of the project.
The motivation for the project was based on the will to collaborate internationally with the upper secondary schools that share the interest of having Acting for the Camera -classes in their curriculum and to build a network for them. The common interest of the collaborators was to involve theatre, language and ecological learning into the cross-curricular process and to form a model of international cooperation. There is a growing interest in camera acting among the youth and at the same time there is lack of instruction and education for the teachers. The main target was to provide the participants with an international and empowering “hands on” process that helped the participants to recognise their strengths and put them into use when getting the opportunity to collaborate with the film industry professionals. The project could challenge the participants to add digital means into the artistic process. The aim was to examine what possibilities digitality would open to advancing sustainability in a cross-border context and to promote equality and democracy in international collaboration. The project allowed the resources that are often lacking from the ordinary Theatre and language classes for the development of new practices.