Pochatok Film Festival

The main aim of Pochatok Children Film Festival is to help younger generation to form a creative world outlook and involve children and the youth into film production. We aspire to develop cooperation between children and youth festivals.

Submission

The submissions are open from July 31, 2018 to May 1, 2019. The official competition, chosen by the selection committee, will be announced on June 1th.

During the festival we will organize workshops for children on acting, directing, script writing skills, basic cinematography. In 2018 edition we organized 35 different workshops during 5 festival days.

The festival will take place on June 10-14th 2019.
Festival venue - Secondary School Cinema (Sadova 8).

The head of the festival jury will be one of the most famous Ukrainian writers, Marianna Malina – author of a series of books and scripts, constant winner of the International Contest “Coronation of the Word”. Marianne Malina’s novels “Violet Children” and “Burned Way” are recommended by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine for extracurricular reading for students of the 9th grade.

All films submitted to the festival’s competition program are evaluated in a differentiated way, within one of the categories:

Category A (Amateurs)

Films made at school or at home. Directors of this category are not professionals. Films produced at school or children's studios with team leaders who are not film professionals also belong to this category.

Category B (Children studios)

Films made by the directors at specialized cinema and video clubs or studios. This category includes films made by non-professional young directors under the guidance or with the help of film professionals.

Category C (Professionals)

Films of adult directors - professionals, film school students and graduates, television workers. Directors of this category are film professionals.

Category D (Debut)

Films produced as a part of Pochatok Film Festival workshop.