Dear friends! Our festival is happy to announce it's 8th edition which  will take place in St.Petersburg 3-5 December 2010. We are waiting for your new works! The deadline for entries is 1 November 2010.

VII International Festival of Animation Arts Multivision took place at 5-11 December 2009
The choice of the Jury is 15 best animations in different nominations. This year we got a lot of brilliant animations in the program, much more than last year, and the jury had a very difficult task.
So the winners of the festival are

Grand Prix FARD (dir. David Alapont, Luis Briceno, France, 2009, 13’00)	1st place SOLDIER'S SONG (dir. Elena Tchernova, Russia, 2009, 13’30)
2nd place MAN IS THE ONLY BIRD THAT CARRIES OUT HIS OWN CAGE (dir. Claude Weiss, France, 2008, 12’00)	3rd place EL EMPLEO (dir. Santiago ‘Bou’ Grasso, Argentina, 2008, 6’20)
Best film for children ONE, TWO, THREE, LIGHT UP CHRISTMAS TREE! („Masha and the Bear“ series, dir. Oleg Uzhinov, Russia, 2009, 7’46)	Best visual imagery I WAS CRYING OUT AT LIFE. OR FOR IT (dir. Anna Khlmelevskaya, France, 2009, 9’00)
Best story HOMBA (dir. Anton Kaltchenko, Russia, 2009, 7’55)	Best experimental film MUTO (dir. Blu, Italy, 2008, 7’00)
Best graduation film BLACK FACE. THE SACRED LEGEND (dir. Bertrand Carriere, Amine El Faquir, Salsedo Nicolas, Clement Vitray, France, 2009, 6’50)	Special mention for visual energetic DIX (dir. Bif, France/UK, 2008, 7’00)
Special mention for the delicate parody INDIAN TEA («Smeshariki» series, dir. Djangir Suleimanov, Россия, 2008, 6’30)	Special mention for the wittiest animation CHUMP AND CLUMP (dir. Stephan Sacher, Michael Herm , Germany, 2009, 4’)
The competition in animation made by children: 1st place «Life. Love» dir. Polina Nuriaeva, Jenia Gorbonenko Children's animation studio «Multy» 2nd place «My Favourite Hero» dir. Roma Donskoy Sudio «Da» 3rd place «Autotherapy» dir. Seva Lobov Children's athelier at the State Center of Contemporary Art Many thanks for all authors and studios who sent us their works. We are waiting for your new animations at the next festival! Yours faithfully Organization Committee of Multivision Festival St.Petersburg, Russia

 

The list of the selected films is here

Dear Friends, the submissions are over now, we shall announce selected films at 25th November.
Then the jury will begin to work to announce winners at 11 December, at the closing ceremony of the festival.

The Jury:
Serguey Ovcharov, film director,
Dmitry Vysotsky, animated cartoon director
Andrey Sikorsky, animated cartoon director,
Bella Matveeva, artist,
Lisa Savina, art criticist







Dear friends! Just to remind you that 7th edition of our annual festival  will take place in St.Petersburg 4-6 December 2009. The deadline for entries is 15 November 2009.

The choice of the Jury is 16 best animations in different nominations. Never before the jury of the festival gave so may awards. This year we got a lot of brilliant animations in the program, and the jury had a very difficult task. So the winners are... read more...

One can download a preview version of the festival catalogue in pdf low res 1,6 Mb

The "winter" part of the 6th Multivision festival will take place at 5-7 of December in St.Petersburg. The films made at last 2 years wich was selected for 'summer part" of 6th Multivision: "Small movie for a big city" (see below) take part in the competion alongside with the animations received after 1 June
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Multivision festival for the 3rd time is taking part in the celebration of International Animation Day, IAD 28 October, the initiative of  ASIFA, the International Animated Film Association. One can read about the program-2008 here.  The screenings will be held at the cinema center "Rodina" in St.Petersburg and at "35 mm" cinema hall in Moscow 25-26 october.

Dear friends! Just to remind you that our annual festival with all nominations exept "Small movie for a big city" will take place in St.Petersburg 6-7 December. The deadline for entries is 15 November.

Special edition "Small movies for a big city" of the VI International festival of Animation Arts "Multivision", which was held on the drawn wings of 2 bridges: Dvortsovy and Troitsky in the center of Saint-Petersburg now became a history.

One can see full photo report at our web-album

The winners of the competitive program are:

“The best animated short LOVE film” (prize 500 euro) “Wolf Daddy” Directed by CHANG Hyung-yun Animation Studio Nowornever, Korea	“The best animated short FAIRY TALE film” (prize 500 euro) “Gordij Mysh” (Proud Mouse) Directed by Natalia Berezovaya Animation Studio Pilot, Russia
Special Jury Mention for “Best Visual Solution” “Bendito Machine” Directed by Jossie Malis Zumbakamera, Peru - Spain	Special Jury Mention for “Graceful Idea Expression” “Procrastination” Directed by Johnny Kelly Royal College of Art, UK
Special Jury Mention for “Magic Realism” “Rain from Above to Down” Directed by Ivan Maximov Foundation for Social and cultural programs “Gubernia”, Russia

The Jury decided not to award “The best animated short WINDOW BRIDGE film” in a matter, there were no films that could be named a winner. So the prize of 1000 euro is going to the next year.

The Jury of the Festival: Dmitry Vysotsky, Andrey Sicorsky – animated film directors and artists, Dmitry Shagin – painter, Bella Matveeva – painter and member of the New Academy of fine arts, Valery Katsuba – photographer, Stanislav Dvorko – Chairman of the Community board on social advertising in North-West Federal District.

The animations were shown with the help of 3 video projectors Christie Roadster S+16K (48000 ANSI) at the screen 320 square meters on Dvortsovy bridge and with the help of 2 video projectors Christie Roadster S+20K (40000 ANSI) at the screen 360 square meters on Troitsky bridge. The construction of the giant bridge screens was worked out by Multivision festival with the kind help of Stroyproject Institute, the chief bridge construction developer in St.Petersburg. The event was supported by St.Petersburg government, and the entrance to the event was free for everybody. The audience of the event counted more than 20 000 people.

Thanks to all authors and studios, hope to see your works on our upcoming competitions! Lots of love from the festival team!

The competition in 2008 will be held in following nominations:
• “The best animated short LOVE film” prize 500 euro
• “The best animated short FAIRY TALE film” prize 500 euro
• “The best animated short WINDOW BRIDGE film” prize 1000 euro
• DEADLINE 30.04.2008
Competition in details - here

The winners are:

Grand Prix “Foolish Girl” (Devochka Dura) Directed by Zoya Kireeva “A-film” studio, Russia	1 place “The Bear Stories” Directed by Mikhail Aldashin, Marina Karpova “Pilot” studio, Russia
2 place & The Best Visual Performance “Tale of How” Directed by The Black Heart Gang, RSA	3 place “Lavatory – Lovestory “ Directed by Konstantin Bronzit, Russia “Melnitsa” studio, Russia
Best Animation for Children “Vasilisa” Directed by Darina Shmidt “Melnitsa” studio, Russia	Best Story “The Runt” Directed by Andreas Hykade Studio FILM BILDER, Germany
Best Experimental Animation “Leviathan” Directed by Simon Bogojevic-Narath, Croatia Studio Autour du minuit, France	Best Student Animation “Golem” Directed by Alon Boroda, Ron Nadel Israel
	Best Internet Animation “Air” Directed by Konstantin Birukov Russia

The Jury of the Festival:
Animated film directors and artists Alexander Bubnov, Rinat Gazizov, Dmitry Vysotsky, Andrey Sicorsky, artist Irena Kuksenaite, painter and member of the New Academy of fine arts Bella Matveeva

Many thanks to all authors and studios, who have sent films to the Festival! Up to new meetings!

Many artists of different genres will be present at the opening ceremony of the Plasticine Crow monument  as well as city government. Everybody  will wear costumes and play roles from cartoon films. It will be at 26 october 17.00, and next day, 27 october at 14.00 we shall have children's competition in plasticine sculpture, then screening of animayion by Alexander Tatarsky, then international screenings.

At night we have a great animation party at Soho club. Famous musicians will sing songs from cartoon films, everybody will were masks and costumes. The day 28 october will be dedicated to international screenings.

Multivision festival takes initiative to make a monument of the Plasticine Crow, the most famous hero of animations of Alexander Tatarsky reed more...

	Multivision festival is taking part in the celebration of  International Animation Day, IAD 28 October, the initiative of  ASIFA, the International Animated Film Association.  One can read about the program-2007  here The screenings will be held at the cinema center "Rodina" 26-27 october.
	Alongside with  international program we shall show the retrospective of the great russian animation film director Alexander Tatarsky. We dedicate the celebrations to his memory.

			It was like that One can watch the main russian TV channel emission about the event on the site of the channel (there you should clck on the picture at the right column to play video) One can download photos here
Several thouthands of  citizens of St.Peterbourg came at the Neva embankment and Winter Palace surroundings to see the best films about a city and citizens. The winners of the  competition, awarded by the Jury:
			Dmitry Vysotsky, Andrey Sicorsky – animated film directors and artists Bella Matveeva, Dmitry Shagin – painters, Dmitry Meskhiev – film director Olesya Turkina – Senior Curator, Contemporary Art Department of The State Russian Museum, are: Grand Prix of the Festival The Wind Along The Coast Director: Ivan Maximov (on the left)
The best animated short about a city City Paradise Director: Gaelle Denis ,UK (below)			The best animated short  for a city 300 stories about the inhabitants of St.Petersburg Director: Djangir Suleymanov
Jury also mentioned following animations:
Special Jury Mention for artistic perfection Tale of How, Director: Blackheart Gang, South Africa			Special Jury Mention for technique innovation in animation Tyger, Director: Guilherme Marcondes, Brazil
Special Jury Mention for poetic feeling How Mermaids Breed, Director: Joan Ashworth, UK			Special Jury Mention for characters reliability Horn OK please Director: Joel Simon, UK
Special Jury Mention for original interpretation of the artist role in a modern society Maestro, Director: Geza M.Toth Hungary			Special Jury Mention for best Experimental Animation about the city Akkad, Director: Gregoire Pierre, France
The Audience Choice  award (2 films):
Thunderbird, Director: Alexei Turkus, Russia			Lavatory – Lovestory Director: Konstantin Bronzit, Russia
			Special Jury Diploma for picturesque story of how Saint-Petersburg was built. PJOTR I PETRUSHA director: Yury Pronin, 2006
One can download the catalogue of all the films in the competition here

Organization commitee of the festival wish to express it's gratitude to everyone who participated in the competition. Your works have been appreciated not only by professoional jury but also by thousands of citizens of St.Petersburg who got a lot of unforgettable impressions. Many thanks!

One can find the list of the selected films on the site in a few days. 
The Jury of the competition 
Dmitry Vysotsky – animated film director and artist
Andrey Sicorsky - animated film director and artist
Bella Matveeva - painter, the Member of the New Academy of Fine Arts
Dmitry Shagin – painter
Dmitry Meskhiev – film director
Olesya Turkina – Senior Curator, Contemporary Art Department of The State Russian Museum

 The competitive program wilt be screened at open-air festival during Saint-Petersburg City Day. The City Day is the annual celebrations of Saint-Petersburg anniversary at the last weekend of May.
Numerous street displays at the day time and drawn wings of the Palace Bridge during the night will be used for screening the international program of the animated films about a big city and its citizens. The festival is planned to take place on the 26th of May.
The competition will be held in following nominations:
The best animated short film about a city - films about a city and its citizens, their relations, problems, joys and sorrows.
The best animated short film for a city - films harmonizing with city environment and suited for a city from estetic and ethivc point of view
Audience Choice prize
More info one can find in the presentation.
You can download the entry form at Competition.

Download the catalog (pdf, 600 kb) On the forth year of its existance the festival widely expanded it's international program which was very impressive this year. Instead of usual one day and night, the festival screening took 2 days to the huge public response.

Our congratulations for the winners of the competition!!!

Grand Prix & The Best Experimental Animation	1 Place
Yansan Directed by Carlos Eduardo Nogueira Produced by Mayra Lucas Brazil	Our Man in Nirvana Directed by Jan Koester producer: Ole Nicolaisen Germany
2 Place	3 Place
FLESH Directed by EDOUARD SALIER Production: AUTOUR DE MINUIT France	“GUIDE DOG” Directed by Bill Plypmton U.S.A.
Best Animation for Children & 5 place	Best Internet Animation & 9 place
Masquerade Denis Chernov, Alexey Lebedev Alexander Guerassimov, Ilya Popov, Anatoly Prohorov Petersburg studios, Russia	The Animal. Evguenia Golubeva, Russia
4 place - Shish, Directed by Marina Karpova, Pilot studios, Russia, 6 place - ‘Ce que je suis’, Directed by Joris CLERTE, France; 7 place (Three-way tie)- CARLITOPOLIS, Directed by Luis NIETO , France; The Tale Tell Heart, Directed by Raul Garcia, Spain - Luxembourg ; Yarn, Directed by Reka Gacs, Great Britain; 8 place - Sprossling, Directed by Anne Breymann, Germany, 10 place - Herzen and Tolstoy, Directed by Darina Schmidt, Alexander Druzhinin, Russia Svetlonos (Torch Bearer) Director: Václav Švankmajer, Czech Repubic is mentioned by jury as the Most Disputed Film

The Jury:

• Iliya Maksimov
  Director of  the first russian feature-length animated films The Dwarf’s Nose, Dobrynia Nikitych and Zmey Gorynytch (Melnitsa Studios).
• Dmitry Vysotsky – animated film director and artist
• Andrey Sicorsky - animated film director and artist
• Bella Matveeva - painter, the Member of the New Academy of Fine Arts
• Gala Filatova - artist and perfrmancist, the founder of Purga art-club
• Arcady Ippolitov – Senior Curator of The State Hermitage Museum
• Serguey Ushan - Creative Director of Zero Communication Agency and Zero Cinema Club

The organizers wish to express their gratitude to everyone who participated in the festival. Your works have had a huge impact on the development of and interest in animation art in Russia. We look forward to further cooperation and invite you and your colleagues to take part in the next edition of the Multivision festival.

Yours faithfully,
Svetlana Petrova, Festival Director

Dear All! You can find the competetive program of the 4th Multivision festival at the Animations   The festival will take place at 2-3 December at Rodina cinema center in St.Petersburg.

Multivision festival is taking part in the celebration of  International Animation Day, IAD 28 October, the initiative of  ASIFA, the International Animated Film Association.  One can read about the program-2006  here You can get know about the celebrations of this year here The screenings will be held at the festival partner art club Purga.

The 4th edition of the International Festival of Animation Arts "Multivision" will be held at the day and night at the 2 of December 2006 in St.Petersburg, Russia, in Dom Kino (Maison f the Cinema) and the cinema center "Rodina". The new works are welcomed! One can find the regulations and the entry form in "Competition". We are waiting for your animations!

The 3rd International Festival of Animation Arts Multivision is happy to announce the winners:
Grand Prix
“Sherlock Holms and Doctor Watson”, director Alexander Bubnov, Russia
I Prize
“Maestro”, director Geza M.Toth, Hungary
II Prize
“Declaration of Love”, director Dmitry Geller, Russia
III Prize
“Watch the doors”, director Anastasia Zhuravleva, Russia

The other films from the Best 10:
“The Naughty Bear-cub”, director Nathalia Berezovaya, Russia;
“Peter and Petrusha”, director Yurii Pronin, Russia;
“Imago” - director Cedric Babouche, France;
“La gallina ciega” - director Isabel Herguera, Spain ;
« Tounneling », director Ivan Maximov, Russia;            
Horror story for Niusha (Smeshariki) director Denis Chernov, Russia; 
“The Big Rooster” director Serguei Gordeev, Russia;
“Zhiharka”, director Oleg Uzhinov, Russia
The Best Experimental Animation
“The Сity”, director Peter Bronfin
The Best Animation for Children
“Zhiharka”, director Oleg Uzhinov, Russia
The Best Animation made by children
“Story on the long paper”, Japan
The Best Internet Animation
‘Strashilki” (“Children Horror Stories”), directors Dmitry Dudenkov, Yuri Alexandrov, Russia
The Best Interactive Animation
“Hotel”, director Han Hoogerbrugge, Netherlands
The Press Award
“The Big Rooster” director Serguei Gordeev, Russia
Congratulations!
More about the event one can find at Events

The selection committee will choose new animated works for the contest program and award winners in following nominations: "The Best animated film for children", "The Best internet animation", "The Best experimental animated film". This year festival jury will select the best work in newly introduced nomination "The Best interactive animation". The critic's choice and viewer's choice awards will also be selected. Festival will also have non-contest program, which deals with any kind of animated arts: flash-art, video-art, games etc.

A new esign of our site will appear very soon!

The special children jury being very objective because of wide choice of the ages of the participants: Ilya Bougaev (11) Anya Spiridonova (11), Polina Popova (10), Katya Tarassova (5), Semen Masseev (4 года) chose the best animation and awarded prize to the winner:

Evolution of Peter Sentsov. Film Company “Master-film”, director Andrey Sokolov (Russia)

 

 

The date of the adult programme will be announced later.

Last year the children and the “adult” program was held at the same date, but now it is splited: we would like to pay special attention to our youngest spectators and present them their own party.

The special children jury will choose the best animation and award prize to the winner at the 3rd of December.

All the other prizes will be given by professional and press jury during the official Award ceremony at the traditional night “adult” program of the Multivision festival. The date will be announced later. Follow the news!

It will feature Artist-animators from Russia as well as other countries both near and far!

We, the organizing committee of festival as well as one the most progressive and enthusiastic audiences anywhere, impatiently await your new works for inclusion in the competitive and hors-concours programs!

Here it is possible to familiarize yourself with the conditions of the competition as well as fill in the application form.

On the second year of its existence, the festival had considerably expanded its program including an all night marathon screening and a day time children's programme. And, for the first time, a competition was held for the best animation films in various categories.

Following are the Prize Winners:

The God Written, directed and illustrated by Elena Chernova Produced by Pilot Studios, Moscow, 2003

First Place:

2+1= Режиссе, сценарист, художник: Елена Чернова Московская анимационная студия "Пилот", 2003 г.

Second Place (Three-way tie):

	Second Place and Best Children's Film Smeshariki (collection of animated films for children) Directed by Denis Chernov Written by Alexey Lebedev Illustrated by Salavat Shaiginurov, Maria Susidko Produced by Petersburg Studios, 2004
	Second Place and Critics Choice Award Kunstbar Directed by Steve Whitehouse, Canada
	Autumn Rise Directed by Alexandra Uvarova Debut work by Aleksandra Uvarova, student at the St. Petersburg University of Cinema and TV

Third Place:

300 Stories About Petersburgers Concept by Alexander Druzhinin and Andrey Karpushin Directed and illustrated by Djangir Sulaymanov Screenplay by Andrey Karpushin, Djangir Sulaymanov, Gosha Shpektrov, Denis Eleonsky Produced by Show Reel Studios

Best Internet Animation:

Magazinchik BO Directed by Oleg Kuvayev and Katya Gorelova Produced by Mult.ru Studios

The Jury:

• Irina Evteeva is the jury’s chairman. she is a professor in the Faculty of Motion Picture Art at St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television. She is also a director for Lenfilm Studios
• Anastasy Kuryohina - Director of the International Center of Modern
  Art
• Andrey Zonin - Director of the State Institute for Cultural Programs
• Vasily Konovalov - Professor and Vice-Chancellor of Animation and Graphics at the St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and TV
• Ivan Savenkov - Artist and animator
• Olesya Turkina – Senior Curator, Contemporary Art Department of The State Rus-sian Museum
• Rosana Zelma - Artistic Director for MultTeleFilm Studio and Screen Studio
• Sergey Debizhev - Film director

The organizers wish to express their gratitude to everyone who participated in the festival. Your works have had a huge impact on the development of and interest in animation art in Russia. We look forward to further cooperation and invite you and your colleagues to take part in Multivision 2005 – the 3rd International Festival of Animation Art.

Yours faithfully,
Svetlana Petrova, Artistic Director
Alexander Druzhinin, Director of Programming
Alla Kladova, Managing Director