The Youth and Heritage Film Festival

1. The festival includes two thematic sections: cultural heritage and free theme.
The purpose of the festival is to encourage young people to take a creative, cinematic view of cultural heritage, especially technical heritage. Submitted films should actively include elements of heritage, which can be tangible or intangible, preferably from the creators' home environment. Heritage items should be an integral part of the narrative or they should motivate the story itself (heritage should not only serve as a scenography or place of action). Genres of submitted films can be: animated, feature or documentary.
The goal of the festival is to attract as many young creators as possible, so the festival also accepts films with other themes. Films must be suitable for young viewers in the age categories up to 14 years or 15-19 years.
The festival also accepts high-quality films by authors who are over 19 years old. These films must be suitable for young audiences and will be shown in a companion (non-competition) programme.
2. Young film and video creators from the Republic of Slovenia and abroad can participate. Individuals and groups can participate.
3. The competition program announcement includes two categories:
- Children's films: the authors are or were up to 14 years old in the year of the film's production.
- Youth films: the authors are or were between 15 and 19 years old when the film was produced.
The presentation of the film must contain the age of the authors.
Films must be submitted via FilmFreeway.
4. The number of registered video products of an individual or group is limited to three.
5. The length of the film works is limited to 15 minutes (including the opening and closing credits).
6. The format of the movie should be MP4.
7. The film must be produced after January 1, 2020.
8. Films that are not in Slovenian must have English subtitles in a separate file - srt format. If the film is selected, the applicant must send the film without embedded subtitles and a separate file with English subtitles in srt format to the organizer.
9. The applicant guarantees that the registered audiovisual work is entirely his author's work, that he has obtained the consent of parents or legal representatives and that the works only use copyright-authorized music and film or photographic images. The organizer is not responsible for possible violations of copyright, performance rights or any other rights of third parties in connection with the registered audiovisual works.
10. The festival organizer undertakes to protect the collected personal data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act. Entrants of works agree to the organizer using the provided personal data for the purposes of performing and promoting the festival: stating the authorship of the works, specifying the names of award recipients (individuals and groups).
11. Awards will be given for both age categories and thematic areas (cultural heritage and free theme) separately, namely for: best film, best story, best inclusion of cultural heritage. A special award is given to a film with the theme of industrial heritage or cultures. The jury is appointed by the festival organizer. The jury can also award special mentions or decides not to award any of the prizes.
12. The organizer may change the conditions of participation for various reasons. The changes will be announced on the website of the festival and on the Facebook page of the Birštat Cultural and Artistic Association.
13. Copies of all registered films remain in the archive of the organizer. Festival participants allow the use of their original works for the promotion of future performances of the festival.
14. The selection of films will be announced on November 10, 2024. Awards will be presented on the day of the festival on November 28, 2024. Award-winning and selected films will also be available for viewing on the organizer's website from December 1, 2024.

1. Festival obsega dva tematska sklopa: kulturna dediščina in prosta tema.
Namen festivala je spodbuditi mlade k ustvarjalnemu filmskemu pogledu na kulturno dediščino, posebej še tehnično dediščino. Prijavljeni filmi naj dejavno vključujejo prvine dediščine, ki je lahko snovna ali nesnovna, zaželeno pa je, da je iz domačega okolja ustvarjalcev. Prvine dediščine naj bodo sestavni del pripovedi oz. naj motivirajo samo zgodbo (dediščina naj ne služi le kot scenografija oz. prostor dogajanja). Zvrsti poslanih filmov so lahko: animirani, igrani ali dokumentarni film.
Cilj festivala je pritegniti čim več mladih ustvarjalcev, zato festival sprejema tudi filme z drugimi temami. Filmi morajo biti primerni za mlade gledalce v starostnih kategorijah do 14 leti ali 15-19 let.
Festival sprejema tudi kakovostne filme avtorjev, ki so starejši od 19 let. Ti filmi morajo biti primerni za mlade gledalce, prikazani pa bodo v spremljevalnem (netekmovalnem) programu.
2. Sodelujejo lahko mladi filmski in video ustvarjalci iz Republike Slovenije ter tujine. Sodelujejo lahko posamezniki in skupine.
3. Razpis tekmovalnega programa obsega dve kategoriji:
- Otroški filmi: avtorji so oz. so bili v letu produkcije filma stari do 14 let.
- Mladinski filmi: avtorji so oz. so bili ob produkciji filma stari od 15 do 19 let.
Predstavitev filma mora mora vsebovati starost avtorjev.
Filme je treba prijaviti prek FilmFreeway.
4. Število prijavljenih video izdelkov posameznika ali skupine je omejeno na tri.
5. Dolžina filmskih del je omejena na 15 minut (vključno z začetno in odjavno špico).
6. Format filma naj bo MP4.
7. Film mora biti izdelan po 1. januarju 2020.
8. Filmi, ki niso v slovenščini, morajo imeti angleške podnapise v ločeni datoteki – format srt. Če je film izbran, mora prijavitelj organizatorju poslati film brez vdelanih podnapisov in ločeno datoteko s podnapisi v angleščini v formatu srt.
9. Prijavitelj jamči, da je prijavljeno avdiovizualno delo v celoti njegovo avtorsko delo, da je za objavo dela mladoletnih avtorjev in mladoletnih oseb, ki nastopajo v delu, pridobil soglasje staršev oz. zakonitih zastopnikov ter da je v delih uporabljena zgolj avtorsko dovoljena glasba in filmski oz. fotografski posnetki. Organizator ne odgovarja za morebitne kršitve avtorskih, izvajalskih pravic ali katerihkoli drugih pravic tretjih oseb v povezavi s prijavljenimi avdiovizualnimi deli.
10. Organizator festivala se zavezuje, da bo zbrane osebne podatke varoval v skladu z Zakonom o varstvu osebnih podatkov. Prijavitelji del soglašajo, da organizator uporabi posredovane osebne podatke za namene izvedbe in promocije festivala: navedbe avtorstva del, navedbe imen prejemnikov nagrad (posamezniki in skupine).
11. Priznanja bodo podeljena za obe starostni kategoriji in obe tematski področji (kulturna dediščina ter prosta tema) posebej, in sicer za: najboljši film, najboljšo zgodbo, najboljšo vključenost kulturne dediščine. Posebno priznanje se podeli filmu s temo industrijske dediščine oz. kulture. Žirijo imenuje organizator festivala. Žirija lahko podeli tudi posebne omembe oz. odloči, da katere izmed nagrad ne podeli.
12. Organizator lahko zaradi različnih vzrokov spremeni pogoje sodelovanja. Spremembe bodo objavljene na spletni strani festivala in Facebook strani Kulturno-umetniškega društva Birštat.
13. Kopije vseh prijavljenih filmov ostanejo v arhivu organizatorja. Udeleženci festivala dovoljujejo uporabo svojih avtorskih del za promocijo prihodnjih izvedb festivala.
14. Izbor filmov bo objavljen 10. novembra 2024. Priznanja bodo podeljena na dan festivala 28. novembra 2024. Nagrajene in izbrane filme si bo moč od 1. decembra ogledati tudi prek spletne strani organizatorja.