Green Cross Belarus
with support of
the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus
the Union of Teachers-Artists
within the "In my homeland" project 

announces

the 10th International Cartoon and Film-Strip Contest

New time brings new opportunities. Digital photos and computers facilitated greatly the hard work on filming cartoons and film-strips and opened a page of animated cartoons made at school and home. Currently, there is a unique niche for little and young artists and their teachers to express their creative ideas in a form of a cartoon and a strip-film.

In 2025 we will be glad to see the art works at the FREE topic.

Terms for participation in the Cartoon Contest:

1/ A work has to be made following the technology of stop-motion with the use of any materials. Works made using computer graphics are not to be considered.

2/ Technical requirements for a work: a resolution of at least 720x576 for the frame size of 4:3 or 720x480 for the frame size of 16:9; a recommended codec is H.264.

Terms for participation in the Strip-film Contest:

1/ A work has to contain 15-64 frames and can be made using any technique (a picture, a collage, an applique work, dolls, etc.) and materials. Works made using computer graphics are not to be considered.

2/ The text is placed in a separate area under each picture.

3/ The works have to be saved in a digital form; a resolution of at least 1600х1200 for the frame size of 4:3 or 1920х1080 for the frame size of 16:9.

4/ The works have to be provided as a single file in PDF format (preferred).

General conditions:

1/ Who can participate:

• Creative teams of art schools, schools of arts, colleges of arts, art studios;
• Family creative groups;
• Separate participants made the whole work by themselves.

Young people, aged 5-18, have to be creators of the works.

2/ The work has to be completed in the year of holding the Contest or in the year before.

3/ The work has to contain credits which indicate the name, author (-s), used materials indicating the author and the name (music, film fragments, pictures, drawings, etc.), place and year of the production.

4/ The works in foreign languages have to have subtitles in Russian, Belarusian or English.

5/ The work has to be submitted via special free file-sharing services (e.g. drive.google.com, cloud.mail.ru, www.dropbox.com, disk.yandex.ru ). The link is to be indicated in the registration form.

Fill in the registration form

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING THE WORKS – JANUARY 15, 2025.

RESULTS OF THE CONTEST:

The jury board will include artists, artists-teachers, animation artists and other animation experts.

The jury will consider the works submitted for the Contest in February 2025 and name winners / diploma recipients. Works of winners will be shown during the work of the International Conference of Artists-Teachers in Minsk and at the opening ceremony of the exhibition “In My Homeland” which is to be held in April 2025. Moreover, they will be available in the electronic gallery of art and animation works on the official website of the Contest “In My Homeland” (www.children-art.org).

The Organizers retain the right to reproduce the submitted works in order to promote and develop the Contest and to use in methodical activities without the author's consent.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

(+375 1776) 4 77 04, (+375 17) 392 88 02                                E-mail: info@children-art.org

(+375 29) 667 57 80                                                                 Internet: www.children-art.org