International TV Festival (0)

Festival start: 20 October 2015      Festival end: 24 October 2015

The International TV Festival Bar is held in the last week of October in the town of Bar lying on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea in Montenegro, one of the six former Yugoslav republics.
The Festival was started in 1994. It has endeavoured to preserve the loosened ties among people and nations of what used to be their common homeland, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and indicate that their future cooperation in the media and openness to the world is inevitable.
The first festival took place in 1995. After one year's break in 1998, it continued gathering more and more television centres from renowned European and world centres, as well as from all the republics of former Yugoslavia.
The Festival is held in the last week of October. As of 2001, the Festival (MEDIACOM Sector) also organizes events of different content and purpose, such as Meetings of Television Stations of South East Europe, and other similar events.

1. Documentary programme

• Golden Olive – best documentary – research TV programme as a whole

• Best author’s approach ( directing/ screenplay/ production)

• Best visual identity (photography / editing )


2. Feature programme

• Golden Olive – best feature (TV film or TV series) programme as a whole

• Best directing

• Best screenplay

• Best photography

• Best editing

• Best actor ( lead or supporting)

• Best actress ( lead or supporting)


3. Documentary programme on ecology and tourism

• Golden Olive – best documentary programme on ecology and tourism as a whole

• Best author's approach ( directing / screenplay / production )

• Best visual identity (photography / editing)


4. Children’s TV programme

• Golden Olive – Dragan Radulovic Award - best programme as a whole


5. Short TV forms – commercials, music video

• Golden Olive – best short TV form as a whole

• Best visual identity (photography / editing)

Excerpts from the Festival’s Book of Regulations


The International TV Festival will be held in Bar in October, 20 – 24, 2015.

The Festival has the following competitive categories:

1. Documentary programme / research TV programme (up to 100 minutes)
2. Feature programme – TV film and TV series (up to 100 minutes)
3. Documentary programmes on ecology and tourism (up to 70 minutes)
4. Children’s TV programme (up to 35 minutes)
5. Short TV forms – commercials, music video, experimental / art video, short fiction (up to 15 minutes)


PROGRAMME SELECTION

Selection committee consisting of three members selects programmes for competitive category. There are two basic criteria for programme selection: quality and established duration of programmes in competitive category.


JURY

The Festival is a competitive event. Programmes in the official selection are presented in the Festival. Quality of the programmes in the official category is evaluated by one jury for all categories. The jury has five members. The jury is headed by its president, while the work is organized by its secretary.


AWARDS

At the International TV festival Bar 2015, the awards are as follows:

GRAND PRIX of the Festival is awarded to the best programme at the Festival. Grand Prix is awarded to the author of the programme. The winner of Grand prix of the Festival is obliged to make a short TV film on Bar or Montenegro, and the organizer provides him with the accommodation for the following Festival.


1. Documentary programme

• Golden Olive – best documentary – research TV programme as a whole
• Best author’s approach ( directing/ screenplay/ production)
• Best visual identity (photography / editing )

2. Feature programme

• Golden Olive – best feature (TV film or TV series) programme as a whole
• Best directing
• Best screenplay
• Best photography
• Best editing
• Best actor ( lead or supporting)
• Best actress ( lead or supporting)

3. Documentary programme on ecology and tourism

• Golden Olive – best documentary programme on ecology and tourism as a whole
• Best author's approach ( directing / screenplay / production )
• Best visual identity (photography / editing)

4. Children’s TV programme

• Golden Olive – Dragan Radulovic Award - best programme as a whole

5. Short TV forms – commercials, music video

• Golden Olive – best short TV form as a whole
• Best visual identity (photography / editing)

The Festival also gives an annual award to a renowned TV author for his/her life’s work.

There is Producer’s award for the best selection at the Festival.

Apart from the official awards, other awards may be given, approved by the Festival Council through separate Rulebook (audience award or award of other organizations).


PARTICIPANTS IN THE FESTIVAL AND APPLYING FOR THE FESTIVAL

TV festival is an international event in which all state /public/ and private television stations, as well as TV production companies, authorized for the professional production of television programmes, as well as authors with their programmes, have the right to participate.

The producers should submit their application for participation in the TV festival by June, 1st

INTERNACIONALNI TELEVIZIJSKI FESTIVAL BAR
Direkcija Festivala
Jovana Tomaševića br. 57
85 000 BAR,
Montenegro


The programmes should have subtitles or should be dubbed in the English language. The dialogue lists in English and original languages should be presented as well. Together with the main information about the programme, the main information on the producer and main authors should be provided as well.
In order to be included in the festival’s official category, a TV programme should satisfy the main ethic criteria of TV production, as well as the main professional and creative requirements, and it should also be of a high technical quality.

Programmes produced in the last two years have the right to participate.