GENERAL PROVISIONS

The 3^d International Film Festival “Victory Day” (“the Festival”) is held with the support of the President Fund of Cultural Initiatives. It is aimed at highlighting the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, at counteraction to falsification of history and results of the 2^nd World War, and also at promotion of cultural and creative achievements of Soviet, Russian and international filmmakers who previously completed and continue to create films addressing the Festival theme.
The Festival takes place before the Victory Day celebrations. Its events and screenings are held in Moscow, Odintsovo city district and in other cities of the Moscow region. After the end of the Festival, the best films will be shown as part of the Echo of the “Victory Day” Film Festival program in different regions of Russia.
Dates of the Festival: from April 15 to 19, 2024.

FESTIVAL ORGANISING COMMETTEE

Festival Organising Committee members:
-       Festival President
-       Festival General Producer
-       Chairman of Odintsovo City District Administration Cultural Committee
-       Festival Director
-       Director of the Festival's Programs
-       Project Pitching Manager
-       Head of the Festival Press Office
-       Head of Public Relations
-       Festival Business Program Coordinator
-       Festival Cultural Program Coordinator
-       Festival Venues Coordinator
-       Coordinator of work with participants, guests and volunteers
Festival Organising Committee distributes responsibilities among the Committee members, organises preparation activities and conducting of the Festival, makes decision on inviting members of the Jury, guests and other participants of the Festival, participates in the formation of the business and cultural program of the Festival, competitive and non-competitive programs of the Festival and approves the programs of the Festival. Festival Organising Committee decisions made in course of on-line and off-line sessions are documented in the meeting protocols. Festival Organising Committee is headed by the Festival General Producer.

FESTIVAL PROGRAMS

Competition and Out-of Competition Festival Programs are formed by Selection Committee, headed by the Director of the Festival's Programs and are approved by the Organising Committee of the Festival. When drawing up and approving the Festival programs, the Organising Committee and the Director of the Festival programs are guided by Russian legislation and The Festival Regulations.
There is a free entrance to all the Festival screenings.

Documentary Film Competition

The program of the International Documentary Film Competition consists of short and full-length films on the theme of the Festival, created by Russian and foreign authors no earlier than January 1, 2022. Films with the status of the Russian premiere have the right of preferential inclusion in the program.

Competition of short feature films

The program of the International Competition of Short Feature Films is formed from the best films on the theme of the Festival with a duration of less than 52 minutes, created by Russian and foreign authors no earlier than January 1, 2022. Films with the status of the Russian premiere have the right of preferential inclusion in the program.

Feature Film Competition

The program of the International Feature Film Competition is formed from the best films on the theme of the Festival with a duration of 52 minutes or more, created by Russian and foreign authors no earlier than January 1, 2022. Films with the status of the Russian premiere have the right of preferential inclusion in the program.

Competition of Soviet Feature Films Edited in 1941-1950

Program of Competition of Soviet Feature Films is formed out of 10 full-length Soviet feature films about the Great Patriotic War, created in period between 1941 and 1950. The Festival is setting a tradition to conduct a competition among the best films with awards of the previous years. This competition will help to preserve the viewer’s interest to old but not outdated films among the young people. The leader of this nomination will be selected by the viewers’ voting. All the films selected for this nomination will be awarded with the Laureate Diplomas of the Festival.

Special nomination.

Documentary film competition about the events in Donbas

The program of the Documentary Film Competition about the events in Donbas is formed from short and full-length films on the topic of Special Nominations created by Russian and foreign authors no earlier than January 1, 2022. Films with the status of the Russian premiere have the right of preferential inclusion in the program.

Special nomination.

Music video contest about the Great Patriotic War and the events in Donbas
The program of the Music video Contest about the Great Patriotic War and the events in Donbass is formed from music videos on the topic of Special Nominations created by Russian and foreign authors no earlier than January 1, 2022.

Out-of Competition Program of Soviet Documentary Films

Films edited in 1941-1950

The program of Out-of Competition Soviet Documentary Films about the Great Patriotic War includes the films edited in 1941-1950. The program is formed by the Russian State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents (RGAKFD) and is presented at the Festival by a representative of RGAKFD.

Special Screenings

The Festival Program can be supplemented by special screenings of the films not included into the Competition list, but possessing a high artistic quality and responding to the goals and theme of the Festival.

Pitching projects of short documentary military-patriotic films

During the days of the Festival, projects of documentary military-patriotic films are pitched (hereinafter referred to as "Pitching"). Pitching is carried out in the form of a public face-to-face defense of film projects before the Expert Council in order to identify and support the best projects and find individuals and/or organizations interested in the implementation of the submitted projects. The terms of participation in the Pitching are published on the Festival's website. The selection of applications begins from the moment of announcement on the official website of the Festival and is carried out by a Selection Committee under the leadership of the Head of pitching projects. According to the results of the work of the Selection Committee, a list of participants is formed.

Business and Cultural Program

The festival is a platform for communication between specialists, meetings with the audience and training events. A business program (round tables and master classes) is held within the framework of the Festival and a cultural program (recitals, concerts and excursions).

TERMS OF PARTICIPATION

Announcement on the film selection process and the submission period is published on the Festival official webpage in January 2024. The applicants should submit the output information on the film, details about the production crew, annotation up to 500 characters including spaces, link to the viewable copy of the film working till the end of the Festival. Films selected into the Festival Program and to be shown during the Festival should be transmitted by the applicant in the full HD digital format for free demonstration at the festival. Foreign films must be subtitled in Russian. For the films in the program list, requested additional materials should be sent right to the Festival Organising Committee in personal mails.

FESTIVAL JURY

The Festival has a Professional Jury and a Viewers Jury.
The Professional Jury is formed by the Festival Organising Committee out of the leading Russian and foreign filmmakers and it is headed by the Chairman of the Main Competition Jury. The Professional Jury confers the Festival Gran Prix award, winners and laureates of the Documentary Film Competition, the Short Feature Film Competition, the Feature Film Competition, the Documentary Film Competition about the events in Donbass and the Music video Competition about the Great Patriotic War and the events in Donbass. The Professional Jury possesses a right to give no Gran Prix or winner awards in the nominations, if the Films presented don’t have high artistic or technical quality to the Jury’s mind. Also the Professional Jury can specially notice and additionally award with Diplomas the films, not noted by the main award but showing high artistic level.
Choice of the Festival Gran Prix award, winners, laureates and diploma owners is determined by the jury voting. In case of equality of votes, the vote of the Chairman of the Professional Jury should prevail.
The Viewers Jury is formed on proposal of the Odintsovo City District Administration Cultural Committee and is headed by the Chairman of Viewers Jury, who is nominated by the Festival Orginising Committee. The Viewers Jury select a winner in the Competition of Soviet Feature Films edited in 1941-1950. The rest of the films from this nomination are awarded with the Laureate Diploma of the Festival. The winner choice is determined by the jury voting. In case of equality of votes, the vote of the Chairman of the Viewers Jury should prevail.
Names of both Jury member (Professional Jury and Viewers Jury) are announced in the course of the Orginising Committee Press Conference and in Festival press releases.
Festival President, Festival General Producer, Festival Organising Committee members and any other persons are not liable to interfere with the work of any Jury, give any instructions on the choice of the film to be awarded and anyhow influence the jury work.
The Festival Orginising Committee creates all the needed conditional for the Professional Jury and the Viewers Jury to watch the Festival films and perform and complete their job. The Main Competition Jury and the Viewers Jury should present their results with winners and laureates lists to the Organising Committee not later that the day before the Closing day of the Festival. It is not allowed to announce the results before the Closing Ceremony of the Festival.

FESTIVAL AWARDS

- Grand Prix of the Festival
- The prize for winning the Documentary Film Competition
- Prize for winning a Short Feature Film Competition
- Prize for winning the Feature Film Competition
- Prize for winning the Competition of Soviet feature films of 1941-1950
- Prize for winning the Competition of documentaries about the events in Donbass
- A prize for winning a music video contest about the Great Patriotic War and the events in Donbas
- Prize for winning the Pitching of documentary military-patriotic films
- Diplomas of the laureates of the Festival
- Diplomas of the Organising Committee of the Festival

FESTIVAL PARTNERS AWARDS

- Special prize of the Hero of Russia, cosmonaut S.V.Avdeev "For taking off in art"
- Special prize of the Russian State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents "For a film worthy of state storage"
- Special prize of the Kazakh National Academy of Arts named after T.Zhurgenov "30th anniversary of the Faculty of Cinema and TV". For the original author's decision."
Prizes and awards are given to the winners in the course of the official Closing Ceremony of the Festival. Besides the above listed awards other awards could be given by the companies and creative unions on the agreement with the Festival Organising Committee.

TERMS OF STAY

The participation of films in the competition programs of the Festival and participation in Pitching provides for the presence of one representative (director, producer, author or other representative of the creative team - in agreement with the Organising Committee of the Festival).
Representatives of films and projects included in the Festival program must inform about the dates of their stay no later than March 31, 2024. The Organising Committee of the Festival undertakes to accredit and accommodate the participants of the Festival, travel and accommodation of the jury members and specially invited guests of the Festival.
The Organising Committee of the Festival reserves the right to use fragments of films and projects included in the Festival programs free of charge for publication on the Festival's website and publications in the media. The films submitted for participation can be shown during subsequent non-commercial screenings organized by the Festival and held within the framework of the Echo of the Festival program. Screenings on TV channels and on the Internet are conducted in consultation with the copyright holders of the films. The Organising Committee of the Festival does not pay the copyright holders for the right to show films in the Festival programs, as well as the use of copies of films for subsequent non-commercial screenings for cultural, educational and educational purposes.
Submitting an application for participation in the Festival and/or participation in Pitching means that the copyright holder agrees to all the conditions contained in the Rules of the Festival.
The terms and conditions that are not reflected in the Rules of the Festival, but published on the official website of the Festival, are valid on an equal basis with the terms and conditions of these Rules.
Clauses and terms not covered in the Festival Regulations but published on the official Festival webpage, have the same authority with the terms in these Regulations.

1. Питчинг проектов короткометражных документальных военно-патриотических фильмов (далее «Питчинг») проводится в рамках Третьего международного кинофестиваля «День Победы». Питчинг представляет собой публичную презентацию в форме очной защиты авторами кинопроектов (сценариев) документальных фильмов хронометражем до 52 минут.

2. Целью питчинга является привлечение к проектам внимания продюсеров, партнеров и инвесторов, заинтересованных в реализации кинопроектов.

3. Основные задачи Питчинга – открытие новых кинематографических имен, презентация новых кинопроектов для дальнейшей их реализации, знакомство авторов проектов с ведущими представителями киноиндустрии для сотрудничества.

4. Оценку фильмов производит Экспертный совет, который формируется Оргкомитетом Третьего международного кинофестиваля «День Победы» и состоит из мастеров документального кино, киноэкспертов, продюсеров документального кино.

5. К участию принимаются заявки от российских организаций и граждан Российской Федерации в возрасте старше 18 лет на момент проведения Питчинга.

6. Для участия в Питчинге необходимо подать заявку - заполнить анкету, а также приложить синопсис, режиссерскую экспликацию и презентацию проекта. Полный перечень необходимых документов публикуется на сайте Третьего международного кинофестиваля «День Победы» до начала приёма заявок. Документы принимаются только на русском языке.

7. Предварительный отбор проектов на Питчинг осуществляет Отборочная комиссия Оргкомитета Третьего международного кинофестиваля «День Победы». В ее функции входит:
− рассмотрение и предварительная оценка поданных заявок;
− формирование лонг-листа;
− формирование шорт-листа.

8. Отобранные в шорт-лист заявки оценивает Экспертный совет. В его функции входит:
− рассмотрение и оценка вошедших в шорт-лист заявок;
− присутствие на публичной защите кинопроектов и определение победителей Питчинга из числа участников шорт-листа путем голосования;
− вручение дипломов и призов победителю и участникам Питчинга.

9. Отбор заявок на Питчинг проводится в два этапа: формирование лонг-листа (не более 20 кинопроектов) и шорт-листа (не менее 5 и не более 7 кинопроектов).

10. Подавая заявку, участник Питчинга гарантирует, что обладает всеми полномочиями для предоставления проекта для участия в Питчинге. Ответственность по возможным претензиям и искам третьих лиц, связанная с авторскими и смежными правами, лежит на участнике Питчинга, отправившем заявку. В случае возникновения претензий третьих лиц относительно принадлежности прав на предоставленные на Питчинг проекты
Оргкомитет Третьего международного кинофестиваля «День Победы» оставляет за собой право снять проект участника Питчинга с рассмотрения до выяснения всех обстоятельств.

11. Представители организаций и авторы кинопроектов, вошедших в шорт-лист, обязуются участвовать в публичной очной защите кинопроектов в день проведения Питчинга. В случае отказа от очного участия Оргкомитет вправе предложить участие в защите своего кинопроекта другому участнику.

12. Участие в Питчинге бесплатное. Оргкомитет Третьего международного кинофестиваля «День Победы» несет расходы, связанные с проживанием и питанием участников Питчинга.

13. Регламент выступления участника Питчинга – не более 7 минут, включая презентацию и демонстрацию видеоматериалов (при наличии), еще 5 минут отводится на ответы на вопросы членов Экспертного совета.

14. Победителя Питчинга определяет Экспертный совет на основании протокола голосования после публичной защиты. Победитель награждается призом и дипломам победителя, остальным участникам вручаются дипломы финалистов. По результатам Питчинга победитель и финалисты также могут получить от Оргкомитета и партнеров призы для дальнейшей реализации кинопроекта: техническую поддержку кинопроектов, информационную, юридическую, организационную помощь и т.п.