The festival's mission is to promote the importance of film music and its composers, as well as film sound. The festival's goals are to originate and encourage discussions, connecting people, advising, educating young composers, but also other people, through discussion panels, seminars, film market and media publishing; we tend to start and maintain creative and constructive discussions about that indelible link between film and music.
The Crystal Pine Award for best film/video game/trailer scores and sound will be awarded in the following categories:
1. Best Original Score | Feature Film – up to 15 nominations
2. Best Original Score | Documentary Feature – up to 10 nominations
3. Best Original Score | Short film (live-action, documentary and animated) – up to 20 nominations
4. Best Original Score | Series - up to 5 nominations
5. Best Original Song | Feature Film - up to 5 nominations
6. Best Original Score | Video Game - up to 10 nominations
7. Best Trailer Music - up to 10 nominations
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8. Best Sound Mixing/Editing – up to 10 nominations
Special Crystal Pine Award will be awarded besides these categories for the authors who have composed the best music for the world’s best-known movies in the past year – up to 12 nominations.
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Crystal Pine for Best Picture (overall, a feature-length production) - up to 10 nominations
Crystal Pine for Best Short (Live-Action, Animated or Documentary) - up to 10 nominations
2023 Jury Members:
DOREEN RINGER-ROSS, film music specialist; former V-President of Broadcast Music Inc.
RANDY THOM, Oscar-winning sound designer
JAVIER NAVARRETE, Oscar-nominated composer
MATTHIJS WOUTER KNOLL, CEO of European Film Academy
DALIBOR GRUBACEVIC, composer
OZREN K. GLASER, composer, filmmaker, ISFMF Artistic Director