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Cinema Kids, International Film Festival

1. GOALS OF THE FILM FESTIVAL

The International Children's Film Festival “Cinema kids” is held with the aim of developing creative initiatives and abilities of the younger generation, expanding citywide, intercity and international exchange of experience in the field of children's film and video creation. The film festival is designed to develop, inspire and support young filmmakers, to develop an aesthetic taste among a wide range of viewers.


 

2. TASKS OF THE FILM FESTIVAL

 

The main tasks of the Film Festival are:

- the formation of a children's cultural community based on core interests;

- preservation of the domestic and world cultural traditions;

- creation of a platform for communication and exchange of experience between film authors, teachers;

- acquaintance with the work of professionals from the field of cinema to enhance the professional level of participants;

- identification of talented beginner filmmakers.

 

 

 

3. AUDIENCE: PARTICIPANTS AND GUESTS OF THE FILM FESTIVAL

 

The audience of the Film Festival is adults and children: everyone who is interested in modern children's cinema, and those who make films for children and with the participation of children:

- film schools, video studios, creative associations (commercial and non-commercial),

- educational institutions and adolescent clubs,

- teachers, heads of film schools, associations and studios;

- individual enthusiasts in the field of cinema and video creation.

- viewers and everyone who is not indifferent to the cinema.

 

 

4. ORGANIZERS AND PARTNERS OF THE FILM FESTIVAL

The film festival is supported by the Culture Committee of St. Petersburg, the St. Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television, the International Film School "Cinema", Planetarium No. 1, Adventure Park for the Whole Family "Naughty Squirrels" and others. The partners of the Film Festival may include legal entities and individuals who support this Regulations and are actively involved in the development of children's filmmaking.

 


5. DATE, TIME AND PLACE OF THE FILM FESTIVAL

The film festival is held on April 19, 2020 in St. Petersburg at SPbGIKiT (Saint Petersburg State Institute of Cinema and Television).

Applications are accepted until March 1, 2020. Awarding of the winners of the Film Festival will take place on April 19, 2020.

6. TERMS OF PARTICIPATION AND THE PROCEDURE OF THE FESTIVAL

Participation in the Competition program and events of the Film Festival are free.

Participation in the Film Festival provides for compliance with all points of these Regulations.

Age of the Film Festival participants: up to 18 years.

To participate in the competition, it is necessary to send the completed application and a link to the file hosting service where the film is posted until March 1, 2020.

One application must be filled out for each creative work in the form specified in Appendix 1.

Each participant of the Film Festival (or creative group) has the right to submit no more than 3 creative works to the competition.

Applications are accepted by e-mail: cinema.deti@gmail.com

If the application has been received by a film festival employee, a message will be sent to the participant: “Your application has been accepted” (or “not accepted” if it does not comply with the Regulations of the film festival).

If the participant has not received a response letter from the organizers of the festival, please call back in three days after sending your letter +7 (812) 907 2884.

 



7. REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKS

Films lasting up to 30 minutes are accepted for participation in the Film Festival.

Works should be presented in the highest possible quality. The minimumal resolution for films shot at the amateur level is 640x480 pixels. Materials that are defective in image or sound are not allowed to the competition.

Video files are accepted in .mov .avi .mp4 formats using the h.264 / mpeg4 codec (in case of using a different format / codec, specify the possibility of participation additionally). You should place the file on any of the file-sharing resources, indicate the link to it in the application and make sure that the link will be active all the time of the film festival.

 

Creative work should have captions: the name of the work, the name of the team (association, studio), name and surname of the author (s), the year the movie was made (not earlier than 2019).

The film must be created with the participation of children (under 18 years old).

Films are accepted in any language. Works created in a foreign language must have synchronous translation in Russian or subtitles.
The films that have already participated in the festival can not be accepted for the second time.

Applications for participation in the film festival and a link to the file should be sent to the email address cinema.deti@gmail.com

Submitted works must comply with the legislation of the Russian Federation and not contain scenes and plots that offend the feelings of believers (of various faiths and religions); scenes of cruelty and violence; erotic and / or pornographic scenes; plots and shots promoting alcohol, smoking, drugs and weapons.

The organizers of the Film Festival have the right to withdraw creative work from the competition if it does not consist with moral values.



8. NOMINATIONS AND PRIZES OF THE FILM FESTIVAL

Prizes are awarded to films of the Competition Program in the following categories:

Grand Prix of the film festival

Best feature film

Best animated film

Best documentary film

Best science fiction film

Best music video

Best commercial / social video

Best Director

Best acting (girls)

Best acting (Boys)

Best screenplay

Best camera work

Best editing and computer graphics

Best TV report

Best video shot on a smartphone

Best debut (for children who have performed creative work without adult support)

For an active civil position!

 

Winners are awarded with diplomas and prizes. All participants are awarded with certificates.

It is possible to have additional prizes and diplomas from sponsors and partners of the festival, as well as from other organizations.

 


9. FILM FESTIVAL EVENTS

As part of the Film Festival there will be:

Grand opening of the event.

Premiere of the competitive section films.

Festive presentation of film awards and honoring laureates.

Independent jury: famous directors and actors.

Master classes, creative meetings and seminars from the masters of the film industry.

Defile on the red carpet.

Photosession and video interview near a company press-wall.

Paparazzi, journalists from newspapers, online publications, TV.

Concert program, performance of artists.

Gifts from sponsors.

Contests, surprises, contests and events for guests:

- Participation in film casting.

- Cinema makeup.

- Cinema illusions

- Acting



10. SUMMING UP AND AWARDS

The jury of the Film Festival is formed by the organizers of the Film Festival. The jury of the Film Festival includes: movie and television figures, producers and directors. A professional jury evaluates the submitted work by meeting and voting. Winners are determined by the largest number of votes of the jury. The chairman of the jury has 2 (two) votes.

 

All decisions of the jury are recorded in the protocol and it is not a subject to revision.

 

All members of the jury undertake to refrain from publicly commenting works until the results are announced at the closing ceremony of the Film Festival.

Criteria for evaluating the work of participants in the Film Festival:

- compliance with the goals and objectives of the Film Festival;

- general art value;

- editing and directing;

- art of shooting

- sound engineering;

- design work (titles, graphics);

- emotional impact on the viewer.

The jury determines the winner of the Grand Prix of the Film Festival and the winners in each nomination. All participants who did not win prizes receive participant certificates.

The Film Festival jury has the right to introduce special prizes and special nominations, and also has the right not to award the Grand Prix or the title of Laureate in separate nominations.

The award ceremony will take place on the final day of the Film Festival, April 19, 2020.

All works will be posted on the Film Festival channel at www.youtube.com, where viewers can vote for their favorite work. Based on the results of the audience voting, the winner will be awarded with the audience sympathy prize.



11. COPYRIGHT

Sending their work to the Film Festival, the authors automatically agree to the terms of participation in it and agree to the informational and promotional use of the submitted works and also give consent to the processing of personal data.

Authors of the work pass non-exclusive copyrights to the Organizing Committee of the festival, implying the non-commercial use of materials (playback and demonstration as a part of the festival). A public demonstration of the works submitted to the competition is carried out with the obligatory mention of the name of the author.

The authors guarantee that they created their works personally and are the only owners of intellectual property rights. The authors confirm that they do not violate copyrights, and the exclusive right to these audiovisual works is not transferred to third parties. The authors confirm that they have permissions to shoot parents or legal representatives who participated in the filming.

The organizers of the Film Festival have the exclusive right to audio and video recording on film festival events.

12. FINANCIAL CONDITIONS

The costs assosiated with organizational help to the participants takes host. The costs assosiated with travel, accomodation, visa, medical insurance and meals takes the sending party.


13. CONTACTS FOR COMMUNICATION

Film Festival Organizing Committee:

Phone: +7(812) 907 2884,

Email: cinema.deti@gmail.com

 

 


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Copenhagen Asian Film Festival (CAFF)

Copenhagen Asian Film Festival (CAFF) is a new Annual Film Festival in Denmark (premiering in February 2020)

Dedicated 100% to Asian Cinema (both New and Old) and will be offering a wide selection of the Best Award Winning Films - and the Biggest BLOCKBUSTER's Asia has to offer..

Eleanor International Film Festival

Eleanor International Film Festival is a film festival that focuses on films that trigger people to think about modern social issues while they enjoy them as entertainment. In addition to the social issues being paid attention to by media, the festival also welcomes films that raise new social issues that exist in people’s everyday life. In this film competition, we target young film directors and have directors judging from all over the world to decide on the award winners. Those who win an award will be allocated a film-production budget by our company so that they have an opportunity to produce a short/long film. We look forward to receiving entries of various films with extensive expressions.

CALLING // 22nd International Faludi Film Festival and Photo Competition

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The Faludi Ferenc Academy announces its 22nd thematic international film festival and the related photo competition. This year’s theme CALLING challenges our vocations, the motives behind our actions. We all try to find our path which would lead us to a fulfilled and meaningful life.

Competitors are invited to process this theme in the form of a film or photo. We are looking for professionally demanding elaborated works that are suitable for creating a forum, in the language of pictures, for a dialogue between different viewpoints and opinions.

 

Deadline for entry and submission: 18 October 2019.

 

One may enter both the film and the photo competition, the two are separately handled.

 

Categories for films:

- Short film categories: short feature film, experimental film, animated film, documentary – maximum length: 30 minutes

- Television documentary category (in Hungarian or films made with the sponsorship of the Hungarian Media Patronage Program) – maximum length: 60 minutes.

Special prizes for film students and first film directors.

One director or creative community may not enter more than two films.

 

Categories for photos:

- series of photos

- independent photos.

One photographer may not enter more than 3 submissions.

 

JURY:

- film: Ákos Lázár Kovács, Karl Markovics, Károly Ujj Mészáros, Tamás Almási

- photo: Gabriel Kosmály, László Haris, Péter Korniss, Wojciech Grzędziński.

Prizes up to HUF 3 million in total.

 

Seemore details on the webpage of the Academy.

www.faludiakademia.hu

film@faludiakademia.hu

facebook/faludifilmfestival

22. Faludi International Film Festival and Photo Compatition // SPOT

 

 

 

Tercer Tiempo - Festival Mundial de Cine Futbolero

El Festival de Cine Fútbolero nace como iniciativa de estudiantes y egresados(as) de las Universidades: Nacional (UN), Pedagógica (UPN) y Distrital (UD), en Bogotá; Integrantes de Barras Fútboleras (América, Millonarios FC, CI Santa Fe, A Nacional) y Escuelas de Fútbol Popular, a su vez, investigadores en áreas como Administración Deportiva, Trabajo Social, Antropología, Ciencia Política, Sociología, Educación Comunitaria, Ciencias Sociales y Educación Física.

Busca significar el Fútbol como Espacio Intercultural de la humanidad, mediante la cinematografía y el encuentro de distintos actores de este fenómeno social. Propone como ejes de trabajo: Medios Audiovisuales, Conversatorios, Práctica Deportiva, Literatura y Presentaciones Musicales.

BRIDGES PELOPONNESIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

«BRIDGES» PELOPONNESSIAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL  was established in 2008 in the framework of celebrations of 150 years of the foundation of Corinth. It was held Under the Auspices of Ministry of Transport and Communications in Greece and was organized in cooperation with the Cultural Centre of Corinth.

 


Program

In order to be able to accommodate the needs of the vast number of cinephiles and cinemagoers of Peloponnese, which has proved to be big and varied during past organizations, this year`s festival edition has created Special theme screenings as the «World Cinema – Bridges» section. As the BRIDGES Peloponnesian International Film festival concurs several times with the International Day of People with Disability, a part of our screenings is dedicated to films about human disabilities, under the symbolic title «We can do». Other special categories are «Films made by Women», «World Cinema» and «Nostimon Imar»(films made by filmmakers of Diaspora). Furthermore, the audience will have the unique opportunity to watch films by upcoming filmmakers premiering in the festival. Some of the most outstanding feature films created recently are going to compete for the festival`s Grand Prize «Golden Pegasus», which is going to be given to the film indicated by an internationally acclaimed Jury of cinema professionals.

Los Angeles Crime and Horror Film Festival

The Los Angeles Crime & Horror Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating independent crime and horror films, along with the many subgenres of crime fiction, true crime, mystery, psychological horror, and more.
 
With screenings in Hollywood giving recognition to independent films and filmmakers, LA Crime & Horror Film Festival places a spotlight on films and documentaries in crime and horror from around the world.
 
We provide independent filmmakers with awards, exposure to Hollywood professionals, a platform to connect with audiences, and a venue to network with other filmmakers who share your passion for crime and horror storytelling.

Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival

With each season culminating in events with screenings in the heart of Hollywood, the HIDFF embraces diversity of gender and cultural perspectives around the world, and celebrates our differences to promote understanding and empathy through independent film.

 

Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium

Double Exposure, a project of the investigative news organization 100Reporters, celebrates the finest new films inspired by the investigative instinct. It combines film screenings for the public with a professional symposium for journalists and visual storytellers. The festival returns to Washington, DC this October 10-13.

 

 

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