The mission of the competition
The main mission of the event is to present and support non-professional (amateur) filmmaking, to activate and inspire non-professional (amateur) filmmakers and to stimulate the creation of films from the following thematic areas: culture, art, ethnography, travel and films about mountains. Environmental problems and their solutions are also mapped and the current way of life of people is recorded for future generations. The event also makes it possible to bring the audience closer to cultural, historical and technical monuments at home and abroad, to preserve for future generations the testimony of disappearing crafts or customs, and to bring the audience closer to interesting places on our planet.
Organizing another year of the competition will contribute to preserving the continuity of such thematically oriented work in Slovakia and will allow comparison with similarly oriented works from abroad.
The course of the competition
The competition is single-round and is open to any non professional (amateur) filmmaker, citizen of the Slovak Republic, as well as non-professional (amateur) filmmakers 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.
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 (forests, 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 - travelogues (including mountain hiking and sports)
Feature films are not accepted!
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-professional (amateur) and non-commercial films only.
The competition is open to authors not younger than 16 years.
The competition is not open to professional filmmakers.
The competition is not open to non-professional filmmakers (or students or graduates of) coming from secondary and higher education institutions who had/have in their study programme a specialisation or subject focused on television- or film-making.
The condition for accepting a film into the competition is a properly completed and submitted online application https://www.tatranskykamzik.sk/en/registration/
By submitting a film to the competition, the author expressly consents to the recording of his personal data specified in the application for the needs of the Tatra Chamois film competition and assumes all responsibility in the area of copyright.
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.
The announcer and organizers reserve the right to exclude from the competition works that violate human dignity, incite violence, spread hoaxes and prejudices, or otherwise deny the values of humanity and humanism.
Only video-movies that have not participated in any previous years of this competition will be accepted.
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: SK77 8330 0000 0023 0250 6137
SWIFT/BIC: FIOZSKBAXXX
for CZK payments in the Czech Republic: 2302506137/2010 (no transfer/transaction fee – Fio banka)
In the message to the recipient, please enter the author's name and surname, and the film title.
Each submitted film must be accompanied by a dialogue list or subtitles in Slovak, Czech or English in .srt format with individual timecodes. If the Slovak or Czech film already has subtitles in English, an attached .srt file is not required.
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 video-movie file to the address of the competition organiser.
Films without a completed and submitted application form will not be accepted.
The video-movie can also be sent via the data transfer service, as e.g. www.uschovna.cz or www.wetransfer.com or other similar portals, to the e-mail address indicated in the final provisions of these Regulations/Statutes.
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
15.10.2025 - application submission and video-movies delivery deadline.
by 3.11.2025 - notification to authors of acceptance/non-acceptance of their video-movies.
21.–23.11.2025 - the date of the attendance competition.
Assessment/Evaluation method
The competition video-movies are evaluated by a five-member international jury appointed by the organizing sponsor.
Competition results
At the evaluation ceremony, the organisers will announce the results of the competition and hand over prizes to the winners. The organisers will publish the list of results on the following websites: www.lks.sk, next: www.tatranskykamzik.sk and: www.filmdat.cz
Final provisions
Your video-movie(s) you can send to us via the data transfer service, as e.g. www.uschovna.cz or www.wetransfer.com or other similar data transfer service portals, to our email address tatrakamzik@gmail.com
Information at tel. no.:
+421 940 354 408 or: +49 1525 7 303136 (Peter Rybín – English)
+421 905 477 005 (Ján Kuska – German, Slovak, Czech),
+421 908 696 288 (Andrej Guráň – Slovak, Czech)
The organizer will use the submitted film during the pre-selection and during the festival for the needs of film screenings, and after the festival it will be included in the Tatras Chamois film-festival archive for the purpose of documentation and possible use exclusively for non-commercial purposes (research, education, post-festival film screenings).
