Imaginary worlds

Creating imaginary worlds for children to make their own through play and dreams is more complex than it seems. Creators and specialists of invented worlds share the secrets of their trade and explain how they engage very young children in their magical worlds and create cultural codes for future adults. With:Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier, Cartoonists
Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar graduated in 1991 with a ‘Major Distinction’ in Animated Film from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre in Brussels. They went on to make three short 2D films featuring characters with very different personalities: "pic pic le cochon magik" (a superhero pig) and "André le mauvais cheval" (an anarchist horse). In 2002, they made A Town Called Panic, a short film and later a feature-length film officially selected out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and nominated in the Best Foreign Film category at the 2010 Césars. In 2012, Ernest and Célestine, based on books by Gabriele Vincent, which they co-directed with Benjamin Renner, won a César for Best Animated Film in 2013.
In 2013, Cowboy and Indian returned for a TV special of A Town Called Panic - The Christmas Log. In 2016 they made the stop motion film, Back to School, and then The Noise of Grey, and in 2019 The County Fair.Magali Le Huche,Author and Illustrator
Magali Le Huche trained at the Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, after graduating from the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Atelier de Sèvres, where she follow the teaching of Claude Lapointe. Along with other former students of the school, she founded the 'Ô Mazette' association. Through this association, she organises exhibitions and workshops for children.Edwige Chirouter,Professor of philosophy and education sciences
Edwige Chirouter is a university professor of philosophy and educational science. She holds the UNESCO/University of Nantes Chair in "Philosophy practices with children: an educational basis for intercultural dialogue and social transformation". She is the coordinator of the Erasmus Plus project for international cooperation PHILéACT.Julia Thévenot, children's Author and Publisher.
At the age of six, Julia Thévenot swore she would be a writer. Unwilling to renege on this magical promise, because you never know what might happen, she decided to devote herself to children's literature. So she became an editor (with Sarbacane, since 2017) and then an author (Bordeterre and Lettre à toi qui m'aimes, pub