The Moscow City Tourism Committee and HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL holds an international youth competition aimed at fostering cultural contacts, ensuring academic mobility, and promoting tourism. The focus of the event is to spotlight participants’ home cities through the creation of brief video presentations.
About the competition
In preparation for the competition, we’re organizing a partnership program featuring experts from various countries. They’ll discuss best practices for city promotion and enhancing tourist appeal. Competition participants can engage in this program online and obtain a participation certificate.
The top creative universities are invited to participate in the competition. Representatives from these universities, upon partnering with the competition, join the event as members of the international jury and contribute to the execution of the online educational program.
The Moscow City Tourism Committee and HSE Art and Design School are inviting young authors — artists, directors and all those working with video content — to participate in an international competition of short videos about cities and locations.
The competition features a series of sessions with experts on urbanism and tourism, master classes from the leading film-making specialists, directors and educators. Participants will be able to complete the programme online and get a certificate.
Prizes
The top 10 finalists will be awarded a prize consisting of a fully funded trip to Moscow. This includes accommodation, guided tours of significant cultural and historical sites, visits to city museums, and tours of leading creative universities in Moscow. An international jury selects the winner, who will receive the opportunity to finance the production of a video about Moscow. Full compensation for filming and production expenses is provided as part of the prize.
Stages of the competition
The competition is held in two stages.
- 30 April 2024 — start date to upload projects on the Creative City platform - 30 April — 15 July 2024 — a series of master classes as part of the partnership educational programme - 15 July 2024 — project submission deadline - 19 July 2024— shortlisting the candidates - 22 July 2024 — voting deadline for the international jury (selecting 10 finalists) - 22 July 2024 — presenting voting results
Requirements
The competition welcomes video representations of urban environments or other specific locations that participants believe are the most effective in showcasing their city to the public. The video duration must not exceed 3 minutes. Participants have the freedom to select their preferred production technology, including the option to present animated and illustrated videos.
Schedule
The competition will take place from April 30, 2024, to June 30, 2024, on the creativecity.academy platform. After the project submission deadline, a shortlist will be compiled within two weeks for evaluation by an international jury. The visit of the finalists is scheduled to be arranged in August 2024.
Public Events Program
1 July 2024, 17:00 Lecture on contemporary independent filmmaking. How to film without a budget Darina Polikarpova, film expert
3 July 2024, 11:00 Lecture on video essays and why these are popular today Maxim Seleznev, film critic
8 July 2024, 17:00 Lecture on contemporary screen culture: films, video art and social networks Alexandra Persheeva, art expert
9 July 2024, 15:00 Master class: festival films and their promotion Ivan Tverdovskiy, film director, member of the European Film Academy
10 July 2024, 18:30 Master class: The film is ready, we only need to shoot and edit it. Director vs editing director? Daria Gladysheva, director, editing director
Guidlines & recommendations
Terms of reference for the creation of videos:
We invite you to participate in a contest of videos representing cities. You will have to shoot or find in your archives a short video about your city or favorite location in any of the known genres. It doesn’t matter if you have experience in creating video content or if you are just starting your entry into this world.
It can be an animated video, a feature film, an interview, a research film, a biography film, a monologue, a vlog or a mix of the above genres. The main thing to remember is that the timing can not exceed 3 minutes. The main purpose of the video is to attract the viewer’s attention and immerse them in your idea through visual and audiovisual perception, as well as to familiarize them with your city or chosen location and its history.
Our recommendations:
— Write an original script that will reflect your creativity and inspire others — Maintain a unified style so that your video is cohesive and memorable — Remember that your movie should not offend others
Technical guidelines, but not restrictions:
— Both horizontally and vertically oriented clips are accepted for the contest — It is possible to use photo, animated and infographic content — The recommended HD aspect ratio is 4K (1920×1080) to ensure high quality playback of your content — When using voice-overs or in-camera performances, it is recommended to use loop microphones, on-camera microphones for clear and high quality sound
The second stage of the competition
After expert evaluation and jury voting, 10 finalists will be selected and invited to come to Moscow, where the winner will be selected and will have the opportunity to prove themselves by making a short film (up to 10 minutes) dedicated to Moscow with the help of a professional team and modern technology.
Jury
- Alexandra Persheeva is the Academic Supervisor of the «Modern Art» program at HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL, head of the «Art History» department, candidate of art history, researcher, film director, video artist.
- Ivan Tverdovsky is the Creative Director of the «Screen Arts» department at HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL. He is a film director, screenwriter, laureate of Russian and international film festivals, and a member of the European Film Academy.
- Polina Campioni is an animation director, animator, participant of the international animation marathon Fete de l’anim in France (Lille), as well as various animation festivals: KROK, Window to Europe, Insomnia, and others. She received an award for the best film in the applied competition of the ORFAK Animation Festival in Suzdal, and she serves as the curator of the «Animation» profile at HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL.
- Alexey Ryumin is an artist, multimedia designer, participant in Russian and international exhibitions, author of a series of projects in the genre of «paper architecture,» music videos (SBPCH, Pyotr Nalich), objects, animation, documentary films, and video art. He is the curator of the Multimedia/Interactive Design specialization and the author of the Basic Course program for the Animation and Illustration profile. Alexey supervises the Animation and Illustration, CGI and Visual Effects, 3D Post-Production, and Game Design profiles.
- Tom Lisboa is a Brazilian photographer, PhD in Communications (Tuiuti University in Paraná), holding two Master’s degrees: one in Photography and Urban Cultures (Goldsmiths University, London) and another in Communications and Languages (Tuiuti University in Paraná).
- Zhang Hui — a leading scholar of the Design and Art discipline and deputy dean of the School of Art and Design, Xi’an University of Technology. He is member of China Society of Higher Education and deputy director of the photographic education committee, online judge of the art programs of the China National Social Science Fund, and appraisal expert of the China National Arts Fund.
- Vidhi Khandelwal — a distinguished expert in Animation and VFX education, the Head of the Department of Animation and Multimedia at Subharti University. In 2024, she received the National Excellent Researcher of the Year award for her research activities and teaching efforts.
About HSE ART & DESIGN SCHOOL
HSE ART & DESIGN SCHOOL is a division of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, which entered the world ranking of the top 150 Arts & Design institutions in 2022.
HSE ART & DESIGN SCHOOL offers art and design programs at all levels of education: undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and additional education programs. Our digital platform includes more than 200,000 student portfolio projects, it has grown into the complex instrument for creative industry development with its special services helping to hold international creative competitions and aiming to represent young specialists’ creative initiatives towards the industry, potential employers and clients.
Professional digital portfolio Digital platform for students and professors of HSE Art and Design School. A creative space for showcasing projects, sharing new ideas and out-of-the-box approaches to solving problems and researching problems. Meeting point for customers, contractors or partners.
Creative City digital platform
HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL and the Institute for the Development of Creative Industries of Higher School of Economics present the Creative City digital platform. By bringing together educational initiatives, creative projects and people on the platform of a modern media resource, the service helps to develop the creative potential of the territory and effectively present the results of the development of a creative cluster.
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CONTACTS
Ask a question about the contest or discuss partnership contestmoscow@hse.ru
View the platform: https://creativecity.academy
Detailed information about participation in the contest and the registration page
