Dalyvavimas

This year Tindirindis Festival will be held in 2024, from November 25 – December 15 in Lithuania.

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Atvykimas / Arrival

  • The 21th annual International Animation Film Festival “Tindirindis” will take place in 2024, November 25 – December 15 in Vilnius (capital of Lithuania), and later in Panevezys, Siauliai, Kaunas, Nida, Jurbarkas, Klaipeda, Druskininkai, Taurage, Ukmerge, Utena, Palanga, Kursenai, Saukenai.

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Entry Form

Information regarding competition categories, conditions of participation and other subjects are available in the Rules of regulations. For further information, please write to tindirindis_festival@yahoo.com

With the Entry Form and the downloadable link of film copy would you please include the dialogue list in either English and some colour photos from the film. 

Entry form, stills from film and director photos (in 300 dpi) you can send by e-mail: tindirindis_festival@yahoo.com 

 

ENTRY FORM

International Animation Film Festival  TINDIRINDIS 2024

 

  1. General Information

Film in competition (produced after 1 of January 2021)              

Film in the International Panorama Program (non-competitive)     

 

  1. Original film title:   
  2. English film title:
  3. Categories:

 Short film

 Full length film                

 Film for children

 Student film

 Debut film

 Film only for adults

 Experimental film

 Music-video clip

 TV serial

 Film made by children     Applied animation work   Animated Caricatures

 

  1. Production Company / or School:

Name:        

E-mail:                              

WWW:                  

Phone: 

 Address:         

  1. World Sales:

Name:        

E-mail:                   

WWW: 

Phone: 

 Address:         

 

  1. Production credits:
  2. Director:

E-mail:                                          

Phone:            

Address:         

  1. Animation:  
  2. Script:
  3. Music:
  4. Sound:
  5. Camera:
  6. Design (Artist):
  7. Editing:
  8. Producer:
  9. Country of Production:               
  10. Year of Production:  
  11. Length:
  12. Technique:
  13. First public screening (date and place):
  14. SCREENING COPY PROPERTIES (Regrettably we cannot screen SECAM, NTSC or DigiBeta):
    1. SOUND:  Surround      Silent           Stereo        
    2. PICTURE:  Black & White           Color
    3. DIALOGUES:  with dialogues          without dialogues
    4. SUBTITLES:  with English subtitles            without English subtitles
  15. Brief synopsis of the film (up to 400 signs):
  16. Biography and filmography of the director (up to 400 signs):
  17. Previous festivals and prizes (up to 200 signs):
  18. Do you grant us permission to use excerpts of max 10% (but no more one minute) of your film for festival reporting on television, on the festival’s web site?
  19. Do you give your permission by signing the particular contract that your film will be recorded into DVD as part of the best festival films collection, which will be available for noncommercial purposes only?
  20. Do you confirm that your film can be included in ‘Tindirindis‘‘ collection on VOD platform in „Kino Fondas“ (kinofondas.lt)? Yes/ No. If YES, „Kino Fondas“ will contact you due to the licensing agreement. For the distribution of the film for the post-festival period.
  21. (Only for films in competition): If my film is not selected for screening in the competition, I wish to screen the film in the non competition program:   

 

 Program screenings will be organized in the halls of real cinemas, open cinemas, and outdoor cinemas.

I assure that information above is correct and I agree to the regulations of the festival.

 

 

 

 

Signature:                                   Date:  

 

 

 

Please attach:

  1. Photos of the authors of the film (tiff or jpg, min. 600×600 pixels)
  2. 3 stills from the film (tiff or jpg)
  3. Biographies and filmography of the authors of the film
  4. Annotation about author rights to the film
  5. Dialogue lists.
ENTRY FORM

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Rules

21th  INTERNATIONAL   ANIMATION   FILM   FESTIVAL 

TINDIRINDIS 2024

 

 

  1. The status of the Festival

 

  • The 21th annual International Animation Film Festival “Tindirindis” will take place in 2024, November 25 – December 01 in Vilnius (capital of Lithuania), and later in Panevezys, Siauliai, Kaunas, Nida, Jurbarkas, Klaipeda, Druskininkai, Taurage, Ukmerge, Utena, Palanga, Kursenai, Saukenai.

 

  • Director of the Festival is Valentas Askinis (Producer and Director of animation films, Member of Lithuanian Filmmakers’ Society).

 

Mob. phone: +37061047151

E-mail: tindirindis_festival@yahoo.com

 

  • The official languages of the Festival: Lithuanian, English.

 

  • The Festival is supported by: AVAKA, Lithuanian Film Center, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Lithuanian Council for Culture.

 

  • The Festival is organized by: UAB “Vilanima film studio”, VsI “Filmu Strichai”, Gildija of Animation filmmakers, ASIFA Lithuania, AVAKA.

 

  • FESTIVAL CONTACT:

 

International Animation Film Festival Tindirindis

Nugaletoju str. 11, Vilnius, LT- 10105, Lithuania    

                                                                                                                                         

Telephone: +37061047151 tindirindis_festival@yahoo.com

 

 

 

 

  1. Main activity areas and objectives. The concept.

 

  • The Festival is an annual screening of the best works in world animation and all new Lithuanian animated films.
  • The festival is aimed at strengthening the awareness of foreign and Lithuanian animation artists that they belong to the same community, encouraging the recognition of differences and inspiring dialogue and collaboration among all EU countries.
  • The Festival encourages exchange of creative experience, search of new ideas, styles and technologies as well as integration of Lithuanian animation into the global cinema process.
  • To select and award the best animated films presented for the festival. Also, to award the best cartoons created in Lithuania, creating incentives for their authors.
  • To increase cartoon popularity by involving the public, to encourage the interest of children and young people in the art of animation and to stimulate their creative potential.
  • To encourage experience-sharing initiatives between Lithuanian and foreign animation directors, animators and teachers in the workshop.
  • To provide extra-curricular education and training opportunities for schoolchildren and youth by familiarising them with the basics of animation, cinema, art, theatre and scenography, revealing children’s talents and skills in this area (potentially preparing them for future career choices). To organise extracurricular activities for children and youth.
  • The Festival features the following film screenings: competition and non-competition film screenings as well as a retrospective and an informative program.
  • The organizing committee appoints a professional selection committee consisting of five persons.
  • The organizer of the Festival designates a proficient jury consisting of persons representing different countries.
  • The organizer of the Festival designates a children’s jury to determine the prizewinner in the nomination “Best animated film for children”.
  • The organizer of the Festival appoints the chairman of the international jury and ratifies the jury regulation.

 

NB: the selection committee and the jury may not include people who have participated in the making or distribution of any film taking part in the competition screening. 

 

 

 

  1. Festival participants:

 

  • The festival will be open to all professional animation filmmakers from around the world who submit a programme in keeping with the regulations of the event as well as an entry form.
  • The main programme of the festival will consist of professional animation films. Animated caricatures, Animation films created by children and amateurs will be included in a separate programme.

 

 

  1. Nominations and prizes.

 

The films included in the Festival program are evaluated by the international and the children’s jury as well as the spectators, in accordance with the following nominations:

 

  • The Grand-Prix of Lithuanian Film;
  • The Grand-Prix of International Competition;
  • The Best Animated Film for Children;
  • The Best Debut;
  • The Best Student Film;
  • The Best Full-Length Film;
  • The Best Film for Adults:
  • The Best Abstract Experimental Animated Film;
  • The Best Music Clip;
  • The Best Applied Animation Work;
  • The Best Animadoc Film;
  • The Best Animated Caricature;
  • The Best-Animated Film Produced by Children (Amateur Film).

 

 

 

  1. Contest programme requirements:

 

Films must comply with all the requirements raised for animated film. Films will be divided into the following categories:

 

  • – Short film.
  • – And feature-length films (more than 52 min.).
  • – Debut films (a confirmation from the studio is required that this is the director’s first film).

D – Student film.

  • – Informational and feature films.
  • – Didactical and educational films.
  • – TV animation series.
  • – Films created in Lithuania (these films are included in the above-mentioned categories, but at the end of the competition the panel will select the best Lithuanian film).
  • – Films created and produced by children.
  • – Films created and produced by amateurs.
  • – Abstract Experimental Animated Films.
  • – Music Clips.
  • – Animadoc films.
  • – Applied animation works.
  • – Films for adults.

P – Animated Carikatures.

 

  1. Film selection conditions.

 

  • The selection committee selects films for the Festival program. The decisions of the selection committee are indisputable.

 

  • The organizer of the Festival reserves the right to include films of high artistic value, that for outer reasons have not been submitted for selection in due time, into the Festival program.

 

  • Only films finished after January 1, 2021 are accepted for selection to competition program.

 

  • Any animated film made in any animation technique, frame by frame or computer-made, may take part in the competition screening.

 

Films that have received awards in other forums, may take part in the competition.

 

  1. Noncontest programme requirements:

 

The noncontest programme will consist of several parts:

 

Part 1: films sent by artists to the festival, but not selected for the contest categories after the primary selection by the panel, which still merit to be shown to the participants and audiences at the festival.

Part 2: retrospectives of animation classics with accompanying narrations and other visual material. Part 3: the programmes of famous animation artists (e.g. a member of the panel), which they are invited to present at the festival.

Part 4: a programme of specific subject films compiled by the organisers on the basis of the festival slogan. Part 5: information clips and documentaries about the cartoon-making process, cartoonists and animation studios, presentations of new animation systems, software and latest technologies.

 

 

  1. Film submitting.

 

  • For the selection committee the films must be submitted on a on-line. It is possible to send a password-protected video link of your films (to download for selection), or by We Transfer (details agreed with festival organizer).

 

  • The films must be either dubbed or subtitled in English.

 

  • Along with film must be submitted:
  • A filled application form,
  • Photos of the authors of the film (tiff or jpg, min. 600×600 pixels),
  • 3 stills from the film (tiff or jpg),
  • Biographies and filmography of the authors of the film,

– An annotation about author rights to the film,  

– Dialogue lists. 

 

 

All that documents must be submitted by email: tindirindis_festival@yahoo.com

  

Please write in the title of email: TITLE OF THE FILM – submission

 

 

 

  • All applications and films (password-protected video link) must be submitted to the Festival not later than August 31, 2024, by the email: tindirindis_festival@yahoo.com

 or by post:

International Animation Film Festival TINDIRINDIS,

Nugaletoju str. 11, 

LT- 10105, Vilnius,

Lithuania 

 

 

  • The organizer of the Festival will inform on the results of the selection after September 15, 2024.

 

  • Films chosen for the Festival program must be submitted not later than September 30, 2024 on screening.

 

  • If you sendind DVD. The value of mail or avion luggage packages must not be specified neither on the package itself nor on the invoice, there must be a marking: „NO COMMERCIAL VALUE – FOR CULTURAL USE ONLY”.

 

In order to avoid any delays of mail and other kinds of shipment in the process of film submitting. 

 

  • The organizer of the Festival takes full responsibility for the submitted material from the moment it is received till it is returned to the owner or entrusted with a transport agency to return it. The organizer promises to return all films within one month after the Festival.

 

  • The expenses of submitting films and the insurance of the package are covered by the participant. The expenses of returning films and the insurance of the package are covered by the organizer of the Festival.

 

 

  1. Arrival and departure of Festival guests.

 

  • The organizer covers the part of expenses of residence in Lithuania (accreditation, catering, opening and closing party’s) for the participants and summoned guests during the above specified duration of the Festival.

 

  • Arrivals to the Festival start November 28 , 2024. Departure – December 02, 2024.

 

  • Participants and summoned guests have to specify the date and time of their arrival beforehand.

 

  • Travel expenses to and from the Festival are fully covered by participants.

 

 

  1. General rules.

 

  • The organizers of the Festival only resolve to screen the films on Festival programs.

 

  • Fragments of films (not more than 10% of the full length of the film or 3 min.) may be used in the advertising campaign of the Festival.

 

  • Information on studios, directors and their films that have been chosen for the Festival screenings will be published in the official Festival catalogue which is distributed among the participants as well as sent to mass media, embassies, international organizations and other interested organizations and individuals.

 

  • This regulation has been composed in Lithuanian and English. In case of any uncertainties concerning the interpretation of the text the Lithuanian version is determinant.

 

  • Participation in the International animation film festival Tindirindis in Vilnius involves complete approval of the rules and conditions stated in this regulation.

 

11.6 Issues that arise during the arrangement and the course of the Festival will be dealt with according to the laws of common sense.

11.7. If you confirm that your film can be included in ‘Tindirindis‘‘ collection on VOD platform in „Kino Fondas“ (www.kinofondas.lt). „Kino Fondas“ will contact you due to the licensing agreement. For the distribution of the film for the post-festival period.

11.8. Due to quarantine requirements, screenings of Festival programs will be organized through legal cinema platforms and online cinemas. If possible, program screenings will be organized in the halls of real cinemas, open cinemas, and outdoor cinemas.

 

 

Festival information:

www.tindirindis.lt

 +37061047151 tindirindis_festival@yahoo.com

International Animation Film Festival Tindirindis

Nugaletoju str. 11, Vilnius, LT- 10105, Lithuania