DYTIATKO International Children’s Media Festival

The Festival is held among children’s/youth television, animation, cinema- and radio studios, clubs, groups and individual authors, television and radio broadcasters and creative production entities, directors and producers’ centres, which produce programmes and films for children and youth. The following nominations are provided by the competitive program of the Festival: І. International competition programme: – The Best Fiction Film by a Children’s Studio; – The Best Documentary by a Children’s Studio – The Best Television Programme by a Children’s Studio; – The Best Animation Film by a Children’s Studio; – The Best Social Advertisement by a Children’s Studio; – The Best Radio Programme by a Children’s Studio; – The Best Television Programme for Children; – The Best Series for Children; – The Best Feature Film for Children; – The Best Short Film for Children; – The Best Animation Film for Children; – CIFEJ Prize (the prize of the International Centre of Films for Children and Youth); – The Prize for creative approach and originality of creative task performance (competition works are created during the Festival, the task is given out at the Festival). ІІ. National competition programme: – «We are Local Self-Government!» (special nomination, under support of the Council of Europe); – « Ecology of Wildlife: conservation and preservation»; – «Our peaceful sky» (jointly with Kharkiv aerospace club named after Hryzodubova of Defence Strengthening Society of Ukraine); – contest of video bloggers «DYTIATKO.Like». The Festival is conducted annually in two stages. The first stage is called selective. During this stage the Organizing Committee of the Festival reviews works beforehand, which were sent to the Festival and selects those of them which will participate in the second stage. The second stage is called final, in terms of which program events of the festival are conducted. They include demonstration show, presentations, master classes, trainings, creative meetings, conferences and panel discussions. The Festival mission is to find and support children’s/youth studios and clubs, which are engaged in cinema and television creativity, talented children; development of the children’s/youth cinema and television in Ukraine. The Festival objectives are: – the establishment and development of contacts between children’s/youth studios, experience exchange and further professional development of the participants; – communication to the general public of interesting, outstanding works and projects from different countries, presentation of the best global practices in the development of children’s/youth cinema and television industry; – the setup of creative and communication platforms to exchange experience and present new projects during the Festival and between the Festival times; – creative personal development, education of moral values and social activism; – drawing attention of governmental, non-governmental organizations and commercial entities to the issues of the development of screen children’s/youth creativity, to the processes of personality forming via receiving information broadcast by electronic mass media, to the needs of children’s/youth creative clubs, the development of talented children and their future.