The InTONATION International Contest-Festival of Students Works of Rising Sound Designers is held every year aiming at demonstration and evaluation of the SPbGIKiT students’ and professors’ creative achievements as well as students from Russian and foreign schools of Cinematography and Television.
Objectives and tasks:
- professional training development of students majoring in the Sound Designing of Audiovisual Arts;
- aesthetic beauty development and guidance implementation in the sphere of training specialists for Cinematography and Television aiming at public interest benefits and creative self-actualization of a person;
- professional skills advancement facilitation for students and academic teaching staff in the State Federal-Funded Educational Institution of Higher Professional Training Saint-Petersburg State University of Film and Television under the specialist training course in the Sound Directing of Audiovisual Arts;
- international relationships strengthening, creative and professional contacts increase, experience and ideas exchange between creative workshops, film schools and students in Russia and other countries;
- public attention drawing to young generation’s creativity - rising professionals of Cinematography and Television;
- young cinema support and its social and cultural status formation. Discovery and promotion of the most talented and perspective students and academic teachers.
The InTONATION Festival programme:
- Competition programme includes short narrative films, documentaries and animated films performed by students during their education process.
- Debut student works competition (debut work – the first work filmed during the education process, usually on the 1st or 2nd year of study).
- Non-competition shows of student works from film schools.
- Grand Prix (is given to a Director of a film and Sound Designer);
- Prize for the best work of a Sound Designer in fiction film;
- Prize for the best work of a Sound Designer in non-fiction film;
- Prize for the best work of a Sound Designer in animated film;
- Prize for the best Sound Designer debut;
- Audience Award;
- Special Jury Prize for Identity named after Gregory Frank;
- Special Jury Prize for Expression of Sound Design named after Boris Andreyev;
- Special Jury Prizes.
If a prize-winner of the InTONATION Festival has no opportunity to get his/her prize during the closing ceremony, the prize can be given to the winner after the Festival completion in the Organizing Committee. The prize can be given to members of a creative group of the winning film.