Mister Vorky (11)

Festival start: 20 June 2024      Festival end: 23 June 2024

Mister Vorky is an International Festival of One-Minute and Short films, which promotes the best one-minute and short films from all continents. The organizers of the festival is the Independent Film Center Vorky Team, which in this way pays tribute to the great Serbian-American film artist Slavko Vorkapich-Vorky.

Official Festival awards are:

Grand Prix for the Best One-Minute Film – plaque “MISTER VORKY”
Award for the Best One-Minute Serbian Film – plaque “MISTER VORKY”
Award for the Best One-Minute Foreign Film – plaque “MISTER VORKY”
Audience jury award for the Best One-Minute Film - diploma “MISTER VORKY

MISTER VORKY
11th International Festival of Cinema Art
20th till 23rd June 2024 Ruma, Serbia

1. Mister Vorky is an International Festival of of Cinema Art, which promotes one-minute films from all continents. Organizer of the Festival is Independent Film Center Vorky Team which in this way pays tribute to the great Serbian-American film artists Slavko Vorkapich.

2. Eleventh edition of the Festival will be held in Ruma, Serbia from 20th till 23rd June 2024.

3. Goal of the Festival is a presentation of one-minute films which are innovative, different, experimental and brave in exploring film language. We are receiving all forms and all genres of the seventh art (fiction, animation, documentary, experimental…).

4. Submitted films for competition program must have following length:

- for competition program of one-minute films: maximum 60 seconds (one minute), together with opening and closing titles (in exceptional cases it may be tolerated that film has closing titles which prolongs complete film longer than one minute to maximum 70 seconds).

Films produced in the period from 2022 to 2024 are eligible to participate. Festival selectors can select up to 5 one-minute films that were created before 2022, if they deserve to be screened at the festival

5. Beside competition program of one-minute and short films, festival will screen special programs of short films upon invitations only.

6. Submitted films stay in the Festival Archive and they might be used exclusively in non-commercial screenings at educational and cultural facilities and related festivals in Serbia and abroad in order of Festival promotion.

7. Deadline for submitting films is April 21st, 2024. All authors which films are selected will be informed by e-mail till May 19th, 2024.

8. Films which are selected for Festival programs (competition and accompanying) must be delivered via link for download in .mp4 (H264) or .mov format, latest till May 31st, 2024.

9. Films from non-English speaking countries must have English subtitles.

10. Festival has competition and accompanying (non-competition) program – Panorama.

11. Selectors of the Festival selects films for competition and accompanying program.

12. International juries composed of professionals from the field of cinema and visual arts decides on Festival awards.