Audio Description Workshop for children

What happens when a film needs your voice? The Athens Children’s Film Festival and liminal invite children aged 10-12 to a special introductory workshop on audio description.

Across four sessions, children will discover audio description and how it can bring images to life through sound. They will create and record their own script, and have the opportunity to share the result with the Festival audience!

On a bright yellow background, in the bottom right corner, a small black creature with a rectangular head and two round ears wears headphones. In the top left corner, the following text appears in black: “Audio Description Workshop: An Inclusive Experience for Children Aged 10–12!”

What is audio description?

Audio description is a fundamental tool that makes audiovisual experiences accessible to people with visual impairments. Through carefully curated audio commentary, the “invisible” information of an image is transformed into speech, allowing the viewer to fully experience the viewing experience.

An inclusive experience

Maria Thrasyvoulidi, audio description (AD) professional and member of liminal, and Eva Gkritzali, AD user with visual disability and member of liminal’s Quality Control Team (QCT), design and implement the workshop.

Together with the children, they will explore what it means to observe an image, which information we choose to describe, and how we can convey it through words. The workshop activities will provide a starting point for a conversation around accessibility, inclusion, and how we can create cultural experiences that reach more people.

Two young women wearing casual clothes and headphones sit at a table, reading from papers into microphones placed in front of them. A console on the table suggests that they may be taking part in a live event or recording something.

What we’ll do in the workshop

The workshop consists of four meetings of two hours each, to be held during September-October. During these sessions the children will:

  • learn and understand audio description principles,
  • create their own descriptive scenario for a film from this year’s ATHICFF program,
  • record their audio description in a professional recording studio.
And we don’t stop there! The film will be screened at the festival with the audio description created by the children themselves, who will take the stage to present their work to the audience.

Workshop Schedule

  • Saturday October 3, 2026 | 14.00-16.00
    Introductory meeting – team introduction, short film screening and discussion.  
  • Sunday October 4, 2026 | 14.00-16.00
    Audio description principles – what we describe, how and why.  
  • Saturday October 10, 2026 | 14.00-16.00
    Script creation – writing descriptive text by the children.  
  • Sunday October 11, 2026 | 14.00-17.00
    Recording in a professional recording studio.
  • Sunday November 15, 2026 | 12:00 – 13:00
    Presentation of the film and recording as part of a special screening at Danaos Cinema.

📝 Registration

Registrations will be accepted until Friday, September 25 by sending an email to info@athicff.com with the subject “REGISTRATION FOR THE AUDIO DESCRIPTION WORKSHOP 2026”. In the email, please include the name, contact phone number, and date of birth.

❗ Participation in the workshop requires attendance at all four sessions.