The International Short Film Festival "Movie Mouse— is a short film competition with an official award ceremony for the winners.
The festival was created to identify talented filmmakers and promote short films.
Categories:
Feature films
Animated films
Documentary films
Debut feature films
Nominations:
1-Best Feature Film-drama (feature short film in the genre of drama/ melodrama/ psychological drama)
2-The best feature film-detective/horror/action (short film in the genre of detective/horror/action) - category 18+
3-Best Feature Film-Comedy (feature short film in the comedy genre)
4-Best Documentary (documentary short film of any genre)
5-The best animated film (animated short film of any genre)
6-The best feature debut and student film
7-Best Short film for children and teenagers (category 0+)
Additional nominations:
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Best Actor/Actress
Best Cinematography
Best technical solution (special award "Kinomuzh")
*Submitted projects are reviewed and evaluated by a professional jury consisting of at least three Russian and international experts in the field of cinematography.
Stages:
All films sent by cinematographers are reviewed by the jury members, after which some of them separately in each category gets into the official selection (LONGLIST).
Depending on the number of films that have passed the official selection, further stages of selection are formed in each category – SEMIFINAL, final (SHORTLIST), nominees (NOMINEE) for the award, winner (WINNER) - the Grand Prix of the festival.
The organizers of the festival reserve the right to conduct the selection both sequentially in all stages, and to skip some of them, depending on the number of participants in each category.
All finalists and nominees in each category are invited to the award ceremony by email. All authors who have sent a film to participate in the competition program can apply to the organizers of the festival to attend the official award ceremony.
The winner of the Grand Prix in each category (the winner in the nomination) is announced at the award ceremony from among the nominees.
The winner in each additional nomination is announced at the award ceremony. Awarding in additional nominations remains at the discretion of the organizers. (The organizers can choose the winners in all or in some categories at their discretion).
