Common Baltic Short Film Contest – A Month by the Baltic Sea

Culture.pl, the Pomeranian Film Foundation in Gdynia and the Gdynia Film School are organizing a short-film competition about the Baltic Sea countries – their cultural identity, their history, their society, their transformation.

Participants are to submit a 1 to 5 minutes  film, and are encouraged to reflect on current facets of the Baltic Sea, and how to present best them in film. The competition is open to both professional and amateur filmmakers, provided they are citizens of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark , Germany, Iceland, Russia – inhabitants of Kaliningrad and the St-Petersburg area– and Poland.

Films can be sent until August 25 and should be sent through the form available on Culture.pl.

The award ceremony will be held at the 40th Film Festival in Gdynia. Common Baltic is  part of the cultural programme carried out by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Culture.pl. After projects in the countries of the Eastern Partnership and Asia, the Institute's cultural activity now turns to Poland, Russia , Lithuania, Latvia , Estonia, Finland , Norway, Sweden , Denmark, Germany, and Iceland.

Details and contest regulations available on Culture.pl

http://culture.pl/en/article/common-baltic-short-film-contest-a-month-by-the-baltic-sea