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Academia Film Olomouc (AFO) is the international festival of documentary films, held each April under the patronage of the Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic. The festival maps scientific, and educational films from the fields of humanities, natural as well as social sciences, educational programs of both domestic and foreign television productions (BBC, Discovery Channel) and current scientific, artistic and technological advances (recently e.g. podcasts), and is characteristic for its panel of industry professionals in the fields of filmography and the natural sciences. Provision of interest to a variable audience demographic is the key point of AFO – the youth component of the audience is provided with screenings for schools, the organizers prepare screenings at the Olomouc Upper Square for the general public, and the festival hosts showings of recently crucial AFO films in the main European metropolises (Brussels, Paris, Vienna, Prague). Presently, AFO is held by the Department of Theatre, Film and Media Studies of the Philosophical Faculty of the Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic). == Origin of the Festival == Academia Film Olomouc was initiated in 1966 by key institutions that guaranteed the development of science and education in Czechoslovakia. Those were the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Short Film Prague and the Palacký University. The origin of the festival was inspired by then unique a festival of didactic films in the Italian town Padua which was extraordinary by the fact that it was held within the university campus. Short Film Prague was the main promoter of the festival since its very beginning. It was an institution that produced educational films by Jiří Lehovec, Jan Calábek or Bohumil Vošáhlík since the 1950s. These pictures presented current scientific discoveries and innovative methods so that they were comprehensible to scientists as well as students of given study field or talented pupils from elementary schools. Topics of the oldest science documentary films were often connected with very specific problems that are difficult to explain even nowadays, such as principle of the world, weather changes, possibilities of sound recording or motion and time relativity. Visually they portrayed organisms of plants, cell nuclei and photosynthesis. Such films gained international reputation in their time. What is more, an independent department, which dealt with similar topics, existed in the 1950s and 1960s within the Czechoslovak State Film, part of which organization was Short Film Prague. Connection of the university and film industry became a logical means of bringing up-to-date science observations closer to widest public. There was no institution, though, that would provide the project with necessary background. The festival in Padua was a model for the workers of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, who turned to the Palacký University, whose students ranked among the most active in holding cultural events in the 1960s. The university professor Jiří Stýskal sponsored the first Olomouc screening of science documentary films with his colleagues Eduard Petrů, Alena Štěrbová and Miroslav Tomšů in 1966. The festival was given the Academia Film title twelve months later after its positive reception. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Academia Film Olomouc」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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