Categorisation of participants
The competition is single-round and is open to any amateur filmmaker, citizen of the Slovak Republic, as well as authors from abroad. The competition is divided according to age criteria and thematic focus of the entries. Each competitor can enter his/her works in individual categories.
The competition is opened to authors not younger than 16 years
Each age group can compete in the following categories:
Competition categories
I. Culture and epoch-mark monuments – in this category, films depicting history, cultural and technical monuments in their entirety, especially folk culture, crafts, architecture, folk customs, folklore and medallions of creative people compete.
II. Creating and protecting the living environment – in this category, films depicting natural beauty, films about the creation and protection of nature (protected fauna, flora) and the environment (water, soil, air, ecotopes, waste treatment issues, etc.)
III. Contemporary way of life of people – films competing in this category mainly portray the contemporary way of life of people of different age and social groups in different agglomerations (solitudes, seclusion, settlements, villages, cities) in an ethnographic manner.
IV. Travel video-movies and video-movies about mountains (including mountain hiking and sports).
Feature films are not accepted!
Organisation and management of the competition
the competition has a two-year periodicity
non-professional filmmakers from all over the world can submit their films to the competition
as part of the competition show an evaluation and analysis seminar will be held
the participant will be reimbursed for accommodation (1 night of Fri/Sat) and partial cost of meals. If the participant wishes to book accommodation for an additional night at his/her own expense, the request must be indicated in the application form.
Terms and conditions of participation
authors submit their video-movies directly to the address of the event's organizing guarantor,
each author can submit a maximum of 2 video-movie for each competition category,
the competition is open to non-commercial films only.
The competition is opened to authors not younger that 16 years.
The competition is not open to non-professional filmmakers and students or graduates of secondary and higher education institutions who had/have in their study programme a specialisation or subject focused on filmmaking,
the competition video-movies will be judged by a pre-selection jury appointed by the competition organiser. Only those video-movies that correspond to the thematic focus of the competition and are of high artistic and technical quality will be included in the competition screening. Only video-movies that have not participated in any previous years of this competition will be accepted,
the author(s) of the film are responsible for the original music used,
the selection jury reserves the right to limit the number of films due to time constraints,
authors will be informed about the results of the selection procedure by e-mail. The results of the selection procedure will also be published on the filmdat.cz website,
the recommended duration of competition video-movies is up to 20 minutes,
the condition for accepting a video-movie into the competition is the payment of a participation fee of 5,- eur for each submitted video-movie to the bank-account of the competition organizer:
IBAN - bank-account number will be here soon!
in the message to the recipient, please enter the author's name and surname.
each video-movie in a language other than Slovak or Czech must have subtitles or a commentary sheet sent with the application and also a separate annotation max. 100 words, all in English (preferably in Slovak or Czech).
Technical terms and conditions
Only DVDs and flash drives will be accepted for the physical sending of films. When selecting a medium, please note that media will not be returned by post.
For DVD media, only the DVD-video format will be accepted.
All video-movies must have a frame rate of 25i, 25p, 50i or 50p
Video formats: MP4, MPG2, AVI – must have a minimum resolution of 720 × 576, maximum 1920 × 1080
Video-movies submitted in other formats may not be accepted into the competition.
Both the video-movie file and the carrier (DVD/CD) must contain at least: the title of the film, the name of the author, the place of residence.
The author sends the completed application form together with the video-movie file to the address of the competition organiser.
The video-movie together with the completed entry form can also be sent via the data service of the portal www.uschovna.cz or www.wetransfer.com to the e-mail address indicated in the final provisions of these Regulations.
Each video-movie must be delivered as a separate file and must have a minimum of 5 seconds of black at the beginning and end.
Films placed on YouTube, Stream, Vimeo and similar servers will not be downloaded and accepted.
Competition time schedule
Competition part:
20.10.2023 - application submission and video-movies delivery deadline
by 3.11.2023 - notification to authors of acceptance/non-acceptance of their video-movies
24. – 26.11.2023 - the date of the attendance competition
Non-competitive - educational part:
Analyses and evaluation of video-movies - the exact time to be specified during the event
Assessment/Evaluation method
The competition video-movies are evaluated by a five-member international jury appointed by the organizing sponsor. The jury proposes the winning and awarded video-movies from the competition to the organisers.
Application Form to download, fill-in and send to tatranskykamzik29@gmail.com - http://www.abc.lmn.sk/tatrakamzik/2023/application.html
