Official website festival.fi.muni.cz | First awarded 2001 | |
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Presented by Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University | ||
Film Festival of Faculty of Informatics is a student film festival held annually in May at the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Short films of various genres produced by students with an assistance of Laboratory of Electronic and Multimedia Application (LEMMA) are showcased during one festival evening. Each year, 800–1000 visitors come to see the new student projects. Initially, the festival was supervised by the dean of Faculty of Informatics and since 2011, by the mayor of Brno as well.
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Organization
A short film no longer than eight minutes can take part in the festival. The film also has to be produced by a student(s) of Masaryk University in the last three years. Most of the films are made in the current academic year, in the courses Základy filmové řeči (Basics of film discourse) and Produkce audiovizuálního díla (Production of audiovisual artefacts) lectured by Petr Sojka, Robert Král and Radovan Hakl. In these courses students learn basic filmmaking knowledge, starting with ideas and story for the film, creating screenplays, filming, production and postproduction. Students also handle acting, sounds, costumes and masking all by themselves.
Every year usually about twenty films are presented. The best of them are awarded in two categories: Professional jury's choice and Visitor's choice awards. The winners are awarded the Filmobolos trophy.
The festival is organized solely by students themselves. Every year - a new motto and visual style is presented in posters, pamphlets and DVDs. Students have to raise money from various sponsors, they handle public relations, create a trailer and propagation materials, and take care of web and social media.
History
Organization of the first film festival in 2001 was motivated by the faculty's new possibility of digital video processing and student's interest in making their own films.
The fourth year of festival (2004) was promoted and sponsored for the first time. The beginning of festival was connected with the release of 10th anniversary of Faculty of Informatics DVD.
The fifth year (2005) was attended by more than 500 visitors.
In 2006, the festival offered various film genres such as documentary films, sci-fi, thriller and comedy. The absolute winner was film Relace (Relations) by Stanislav Hrabí.
Year after, in 2007 a film named Krajina z duhou (The Land Over the Rainbow) by Lukáš Horáček was chosen as the winner in Visitor's choice awards. The Jury chose a romantic film Neznámý (Stranger) by Martina Mičovičová and Michal Oravec as the best.
In 2008, the festival took place during Dies Academicus, in the light of Masaryk University's anniversary. Actors from JAMU also took part this year and thus cooperation with other faculties had begun.
The winner of 9th year was Martin Kacvinský with his film Vir CRT-2116 a jeho přemožitel (CRT-2116 virus and his defeater). In the bonus section, lecturer Robert Král introduced his film Doprdelesvěta!
In the 10th year the festival was visited by over 700 people. The first prize was awarded to a comedy by Michaela Miovská and Martin Bakeš named Nebylo nebylo – Jak by asi vypadaly pohádky, kdyby zmizeli kladní hrdinové (Not once upon a time – How would it look like if there were no heroes). The jury chose stop-motion film (L)egoist by Miroslav Kolárik as their film of choice.
In 2011 films were presented with English subtitles for the first time. The winners were Mrkvička (A Carrot), an animation by Jiří Starý and a stop-motion film Don't stay outside by Tomáš Kněžek.
Motto of 12th festival was Film máme v krvi (Film Is In Our Blood). This year's winner was Radek Gomola with his 90's RPG-stylized stop motion film Epic Quest I. The jury chose fake Wikipedia documentary Lež.org (Lie.org) by Radim Urbášek and Tomáš Hůsek as the best one.
The 13th festival was stylized in the like of Hollywood blockbusters. Black (brown) comedy Shit Happened by Jan Kutil was awarded the Visitor's choice award. Jana, documentary drama based on real events which happened during Prague Spring, by Zdeňka Sitová was awarded Jury's choice award.
...a přece se točí! (...and yet, it's being shot!) was the motto of the 14th festival held on 15 May 2014, during the 95th anniversary of Masaryk University. This year, both awards went to Jan Pater and his comedy Vyjímka v překladu (Exception in the Translation), which made fun of the number of Slovak students in Czech colleges, mainly in Brno.
The 15th festival was held on 15 May 2015. This year's motto was Střih! (Cut!), as a homage to all film editors. Modern interpration of a classic Greek myth Pygmalion, a comedy of the same name directed by Tomáš Schmidl was awarded the Jury's choice award. The visitor's choice award went to Shitman: A New Hero Is Born - a parody of Hollywood blockbuster trailers, directed by Samuel Briškár.
The 16th festival was held on 20 May 2015. For the first time ever, the screenings took place at the Faculty of Informatics, and simultaneously at the university's cinema Scala in Brno. The motto was slightly provocational, asking people whether they want to experience the films themselves - Chceš to taky? (Do you want it too?). The visitor's choice award went to Vysněná Domácnost (Dreamed Household), a comedy by M. Humaj. The Jury's choice award was given to cute_cats.avi, an experimental piece by J. Szlauer and J. Špiřík.