YCN

About the Network

What is YCN?

YCN is  a network of youth film festivals, organizations and film/media teachers that  promotes and improves  filmmaking by  young people.

YCN works  to empower young filmmakers to tell their stories by giving them tools and perspectives.

YCN’s vision is - through international collaboration - to bring the young filmmakers and their stories to an international audience.

The ultimate goal of this network is to enrich European film culture.

To make the long story short...

In September 2013 representatives of youth film festivals and mediacenters from 15 European countries met at the international festival of high school film ”Four River Film Festival” in Karlovac, Croatia. There they jointly founded the “Youth Cinema Network”. It is a network for European youth film festivals and mediacenters whose aim is to improve the exchange among member institutions and support youth film and media pedagogy.

The Network consists of partner festivals, organizations and associations which actively work in the area of youth filmmaking. It is imagined as a unique platform with a joint web page. The main goal is to empower European youth filmmaking, to encourage young filmmakers in making films professionally and to provide them with tools and knowledge to tell their film stories on film festivals across Europe. Not only is there a web page which will transparently show activities of all organizations included in the Network, but there is also a Facebook page which will match the needs of young people who spend most of the time on social networks. This is how everybody will be able to regularly get information about new activities in the Network, communicate with all the Seminar participants, etc.

How does this help you as filmmakers?

Practically: when you enter a film, we will try to spread it in the network. The network will also make it easier to apply for funding for international workshops and advanced training. We are planning on awarding an international prize for young film, designed to support outstanding talents.

And, very importantly: we want to enrich European film culture by supporting especially authentic films, unusual and daring, which are in contrast to the mainstream in cinema and on TV.

YCN festivals in 2016

NAME

DATE

DEADLINE

CATEGORY

AGE GROUP

FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL,
England

February, 17th – 21st 2016

-

animation, documentary, experimental, fiction, music video, trailer, micro short (under 90sec)

15 – 18
19 – 25

FRESH FILM FESTIVAL,
Ireland

March, 7th – 12th 2016

-

animation, documentary, drama

7 – 12
13 – 18

TIMELINE FILM FEST,
Italy

April, 7th – 9th 2016

February, 22th 2016

animation, documentary, fiction, spot, video clip

11 – 13
14 – 18

VAFI,
Croatia

April, 19th – 26th 2016

-

animation

<10
11 – 14
15 – 18

KID'S EYE FILM FESTIVAL,
Hungary

Beginning of May 2016

-

animation, documentary, fiction

6 – 12
13 – 19

NORDIC YOUTH FILM FESTIVAL,
Norway

June, 17th – 26th 2016

March, 1st 2016

animation, documentary, fiction, music video

<26

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH MEDIA SUMMIT,
Nepal

July, 27th – August 9th 2016

February, 29th 2016

Workshop program

14 – 24

TheNextFilmFestival International,
Dennmark

August 30th – September 4th, 2016

-

animation, documentary, experimental, fiction, music video

13 – 16
17 – 21

FOUR RIVER FILM FESTIVAL,
Croatia

September, 6th – 10th 2016

June, 1st 2016

animation, documentary, fiction, free style

14 – 20

SHORT FORM FILM FESTIVAL,
Serbia

End of September 2017 (biannual)

-

animation, documentary, experimental, fiction, music video

<14
15 – 19

REC-Film festival,
Germany

September, 14th – 18th 2016

June, 19th 2016

animation, documentary, fiction

6 – 15
16 – 27

WICKED,
Wales

September, 20th – 24th 2016

June, 16th 2016

documentary, fiction, animation, experimental

6 – 12
13 – 18,
19 – 25

DUBROVNIK FILM FESTIVAL,
Croatia

October, 27th – 30th 2016

August, 1st 2016

animation, documentary, fiction, other (only Mediterrenian countries)

<15
16 – 20

MEDIA LITERACY AWARD,
Austria

End of October / beginning of November 2016

-

animation, documentary, fiction

primary school; high school

ENIMATION LITTLE ELEPHANT,
Slovenia

October, 11th – 16th 2016

May, 31st 2016

animation

<10
11 – 14
15 – 19

YOUKI,
Austria

November, 22nd – 26th 2016

May, 1st 2016

animation, documentary, fiction

10 – 14
15 – 20
21 – 26

UP-AND-COMING,
Germany

November 22th - 26th 2017 (biannual)

September, 1st 2017!

animation, documentary, fiction

6 – 12
13 – 18
19 – 27

FESTIVAL DE CINE DE ZARAGOZA,
Spain

November 2016

-

documentary, fiction, animation, experimental

primary school; high school

CAMERA ZIZANIO,
Greece

End of November / beginning of December 2016

October 2016

animation, documentary, fiction

<12
13 – 16
17 – 20

LUKSUZ FILM FESTIVAL,
Slovenia

Beginning of December 2016

-

animation, documentary, fiction

<30