IX Open St.Petersburg Student Film Festival Beginning will be held at the Cinema House, Karavannaya Str., 12, on October, 1-6, 2010.
For your attention! The list of films selected for the competition program is announced.
For your attention! The list of films selected for the special non-competition program "Cine-Parallel" is announced.
Film submissions for 2010 are now closed.
Dear Friends!
Please, let me give you a detailed report about the work of our Selection Committee. Since this April several times a week we’d been meeting in the director’s room in the Cinema house to watch never-ending films. This year we faced the problem of the terrible work of the post office which made us waiting for a lot of films sometimes even more than two months. That’s why our submission deadline was suspended. Last year someone asked me to tell how many films had been sent to the festival. I was able to answer approximately — more than 500 films. This year we counted thoroughly and here are the results — 668 films in the beginning of August. Finally we selected 60 best films.
The whole situation appeared to be very controversial. Till the end of our work it was impossible to predict the number of the countries in the festival program. On the one hand, several countries and film schools sent us their films for the first time but we thought that it would be wrong to select the entire newcomer’s works only because this is a new school or country. On the other hand, a lot of film schools didn’t send us the selection of the best films but all the films made during two last years. And pretty often we were forced to ignore all such films. This year we received a vast number of the films which have already been awarded at numerous festivals. However, this fact didn’t include these films to the festival program automatically. Upon a closer view sometimes we saw that these kinds of works are not as interesting as the films which are just about to start their journey. Of course we were not disappointed by all the festival winners. On the contrary. You will see a lot of such works in the program; we just think that having an award (even more than five prizes) doesn’t mean that you will always be selected.
Anyway — we achieved several records in 2010. Last year we got acquainted with student works from 80 schools and 39 countries, now it’s 100 and 50.
But — there will be less films in the competition program compared to the last festival. Last year there were 82 films from 69 countries; this year you will see 60 films from 66 film schools.
Again before the beginning of the festival let us draw your attention to several counties. We were amazed by the works of young directors from Finland, Poland, Germany and Great Britain. But again it doesn’t matter that our traditional festival favorites will be stronger than “one-film-countries”.
So, dear viewers, be careful and before the end of the competition program don’t think that a film, you’ve just seen is going to be a prize-winner, take a look at the whole program and believe me, you’ll see that all the participants deserve our festival awards. My congratulations - Beginning 2010 is going to bring you the unforgettable experience.
Aleksey Dunaevsky
Chairman of the Selection Committee
Vice-President of St. Petersburg Cinema Press Federation
Dear Friends!
I’m very glad to welcome all the festival participants.
You are standing in the beginning of your way. Your professional experiment is a platform for your interesting and creative life. Your success is our hope for the future of cinematography.
I trust that it will be very hard for the Jury to choose the best films. I wish the festival an interesting work and bright impressions!
Dmitry Meskhiev
Chairman of St.Petersburg Filmmaker’s Union
Festival President
Honorable Art Worker of the Russian Federation
Film director
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