St Petersburg
15th - 22nd June 2008
Accepts international documentaries, shorts and animations for the International Competition. There is also a National Competition for films from the Russian Federation.
The organizers say: "Those works that merely state problems or retell some events in the way of TV-news are rejected, no matter how interesting they could be. The most important criteria for us is how the authors can express themselves, what methods they use, how they correlate with their characters. These are our main demands for the documentaries."
Submission Criteria
The festival is looking for international documentaries and debuts, whether features (max duration 120 min), or short and animated films (max duration 40 min) on 16 or 35 mm film print with a single soundtrack system. For the National Competition there's the "Documentary Films of Russia" programme; max duration 120 min, produced in the Russian Federation. All films must have been completed before the January preceeding the festival. The festival awards the Golden Centaur for the best feature and short.
Link:
http://www.message-to-man.spb.ru
Contact:
Mikhail Litviakov - Director
Email:
info (at) message-to-man (dot) spb (dot) ru
Telephone:
+7 812 235 2660
Fax:
+7 812 230 2200
Address:
12, Karavannaya, 191011 St Petersburg, Russia