The Fifth Tehran International Animation Festival will be held from February
25th -march 1st 2007 by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of
Children & Young Adults.
Aims and Objectives of the Festival
Providing an opportunity for artists to exchange ideas trough gathering
purposeful presentation of the animation works.
Discovering potential and encouraging young animators to innovate and create.
Developing abilities trough new techniques and perspectives.
The festival is categorized in four sections: Competition, non competitive
category, Special Screenings and Panorama.
Competition Section:
Films (16 & 35 mm), Beta cam Sp (Pal-NTSC), DVD or DV are accepted, on the
following basis:
1- At most three episodes per series should be submitted.
2- All commissioned film such as educational, industrial and advertising works
can enter in this category.
3- Selection of the films is made by a council whose members are appointed by
the festival committee.
4- None of those involved in the production of films who are also a member of
the jury can enter their work in this section of the festival.
5- The festival committee can have one representative in the sessions of the
jury. This representative has work no right to vote.
A. International Competition
The foreign films produced after January 2003 which have not participated at the
previous editions of this festival can take part in this section. An
international jury consisting of at least 5 members of artists and specialists
will judge the entries. The head of the jury and the members selected by
Festival committee will give the following awards to the winners:
Golden Prize for the best film
Silver Prize for the second best film
Bronze Prize for the third best film
Golden Prize for the best film dealing with the subject of children and young
adults
Golden Prize for the best TV production
Golden Prize for the best advertising film
Special Prize of the jury
Soecial Prize of the festival director
In addition to the awards listed above, the jury may offer at most three
honorary diplomas to the other films or people involved in the production.
B. National Competition
The films produced after January 2003 which have not participated at the
previous edition of this festival, can take part in this section. A five-member
jury consisting of artists and animation experts will judge the film in this
section and present the awards as follows:
Golden Prize for the best film
Silver Prize for the second best film
Bronze Prize for the third best film
Golden Prize for the best film dealing with the subject children and young
adults
Golden Prize for the best TV production
Golden Prize for the best advertising film
Silver Prize for the best experimental film
Prize for the best film script
Prize for the best animator
Prize for the best designer
Prize for the best sound
Special Prize of the jury
Special Prize of the festival director
In addition to the awards listed above, the jury may offer at most three
honorary diplomas to the other films or people involved in the production.
Non competitive category
All the films in this category are in the same level of those presented in
competition section however, they will be shown in this section for following
reasons.
1- Not complying with rules & regulation of the competition section.
2- Being a member of the jury.
3- Completion of number of film in competition section.
4- By the film-marker's request for showing the film in this section.
Special Screenings
This section on a non competitive bases is meant to pave the way for an
effective exchange of experience and viewpoints of the artists and to provide an
stand for comparing Iranians work with those produced in other countries. A
selection of the most outstanding animations from other international festival
and retrospective of the work of a special style are the main subjects of this
section.
Panorama
The Screening of films in this section will focus mainly on educational
informative aspects of domestic productions on a non-competitive bases. Topics
like introducing new artists with promising futures, rule of animation in
advertisement and retrospective for a film-maker will be given attention in this
section.
General Rules
1- VHS copies are accepted but not recommended.
2- There is no limitation of entries for individual, organization and
institutes.
3- There is no restriction of winning a prize from this festival for film
already awarded in other festival
4- No single award will be given to two or more entries together.
5- There is no entry fee for participation.
6- The festival office will announce the results of the selection in December.
7- All the films selected in the (Competition and Non competitive) sections will
be given a (Certificate for Participation)
8- It is the duty of the Festival Office to determine the screening schedule.
After the entrance of a film, no request for the entry will be accepted.
9- All the expenses in regard to the expedition of the work should be borne by
the participant. The festival office will assume to return the entries 2 months
at the latest after the festival is over to the sender address.
10- On all the packages, Entrants should be indicate "it's for cultural purpose
to enter in the festival only and has no commercial value".
11- Upon agreement of the participant the film will stay in the archive as a
record of the festival.
12- The governmental and private producers who wants their films to be entered
in the various parts of the festival should complete the application form and
send it along with a copy of the film, directors picture, poster, brochure, film
slides, directors biography and other necessary information to the Festival
Office no later then Dec., 11th, 2006.
13- The institutions or organizations willing to offer awards for the films in
the competition section should notify the festival office 30 days prior to the
beginning of the festival.
14- Decisions to resolve any ambiguity resulting from the content of the rules
and regulations or unexpected events would be made by the festival director.
15- The signature of the entry form is regarded as full acceptance of the
festival.