Entry Form

1. The status of the Festival.

1.1. The  8th annual International Animation Arts Festival “Multivision”
will take place December 3-5, 2010 in St.Petersburg, Russia.
1.2. The president and Artistic Director of the festival is Svetlana Petrova.

1.3. The official languages of the Festival: Russian, English.

1.4. The Festival is supported by: Committee of Culture of the Administration of St.Petersburg.

2. Main activity areas and objectives. The concept.

2.1. The Festival is an annual screening of the best works in world animation and all new Russian animation films.

2.2. The festival has been created to give a new impetus to the development of Russian animation art, which is our national pride.

2.3. The festival aims to illuminate recent developments and trends in modern animation art from Russia and abroad; to promote a dialogue between artists of different countries; to acquaint the general public with the opportunities for expression that the achievements of modern science and new techniques offer; to the show the continuity between modern and classical art.

2.4. The festival aims to encourage experience-sharing initiatives between russian and foreign animation directors, developing of new ideas, styles and technologies.

2.5. To select and award the best animated films presented for the festival. Also, to award the best cartoons created in Russia, creating incentives for their authors.

2.6. To increase cartoon popularity by involving the public, to encourage the interest of children and young people in the art of animation and to stimulate their creative potential.

2.7. To provide extra-curricular education and training opportunities for schoolchildren and youth by familiarising them with the basics of animation, cinema, art, theatre and scenography, revealing children's talents and skills in this area (potentially preparing them for future career choices).

2.8. The Festival features the following film screenings: competition and non-competition film screenings as well as a retrospective program.

2.9 The organizers of the Festival designates a proficient jury consisting of prominent persons from the field of culture and animation arts.

2.10. The organizer of the Festival appoints the chairman of the international jury and ratifies the jury regulation.

2.11. The jury may not include people who have participated in the making or distribution of any film taking part in the competition screening.

3. Festival participants:

3.1. The festival will be open to all professional animation filmmakers from around the world who submit a programme in keeping with the regulations of the event as well as an entry form.

4. Nominations and prizes.

4.1. The films included in the Festival program are evaluated by the professionals as well as the spectators, in accordance with the following nominations:

• The Grand-prix of the festival;
• The First prize of the festival
• The Second prize of the festival;
• The Third prize of the festival;
• The Best animated film for children;
• The Best animation, made by children;
• The Best student animation;
• The Best experimental animated film;

4.2. The jury awards the following prizes:

• Main prize for each nomination;
• Special prizes and awards:
• Prizes awarded by nongovernmental organizations and sponsors.

One can get an idea of the Festival Cups here

5. Contest programme requirements:

Films must comply with all the requirements raised for cartoon film.

6. Film selection conditions.

6.1. The selection committee selects films for the Festival program. The decisions of the selection committee are indisputable.

6.2. The organizer of the Festival reserves the right to include films of high artistic value, that for outer reasons have not been submitted for selection in due time, into the Festival program.

6.3. Only films finished after January 1, 2008 are accepted for selection. Films finished before this date can take part in non-competition program.

6.4. Films that have received awards in other forums, may take part in the competition.

7. Noncontest programme requirements:

The noncontest programme will consist of several parts:

• Part 1: films sent by artists to the festival, but not selected for the contest categories, which still merit to be shown to the participants and audiences at the festival.
• Part 2: retrospectives of animation classics
• Part 3: the programmes of famous animation artists, which they are invited to present at the festival.

8. Film submitting.

8.1. For the selection committee the films must be submitted on a DVD or mini DV or Betacam SP videocassette or uploaded to any ftp-server with the link sent by by e-mail.

8.2. The films must be supplied with dialogue sheets.

8.3. Along with the film copy a filled entry form, the photograph of the authors of the film, 1 frame from the film ( jpg or vector graphic files), biographies an filmography of the authors of the film, an annotation and dialogue sheets must be submitted.

The photographs, film frames, annotation, biographies and filmography may be submitted via email: info@multivision.ru

8.4. All applications and DVD or mini DV or Betacam SP -copies of the films must be submitted to the Festival not later than November 1, 2010, by the address of the festival mailbox:

Multivision festival
(WP 1485)
PO Box 109
Lappeenranta
53101 Finland

tel. +7 812 5756880

Attention! This address is a mailbox and works only with the ordinary ‘snail” mail. It takes a week. If you are pressed in time and prefer to use delivery, please, send it to Svetlana Petrova, Rubinsteina str. 16 app. 5, 191025 St.Petersburg, Russia, tel. +7 812 9360373

8.5. The organizer of the Festival takes full responsibility for the submitted material from the moment it is received.

9. Arrival and departure of Festival guests

10.1. The organizer covers the part of expenses of residence in St.Petersburg (accommodation, catering) for the participants of the competition program and guests.

10.2. Participants and summoned guests have to specify the date and time of their arrival beforehand.

10.3. Travel expenses to and from the Festival are fully covered by participants.

10. General rules.

11.1. Fragments of films (not more than 10% of the full length of the film or 3 min.) may be used in the advertising campaign of the Festival.

11.2. Information on studios, directors and their films that have been chosen for the Festival screenings will be published in the official Festival catalogue which is distributed among the participants as well as sent to mass media, embassies, international organizations and other interested organizations and individuals.

11.3. Participation in the International Animation Arts Festival “Multivision”involves complete approval of the rules and conditions stated in this regulation.

Entry Form