57th Croatian Children's Film Festival

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

Supported by

Organizers

Croatian Film Association
Kino klub Sisak, Sisak
OŠ Katarina Zrinska Mečenčani, Donji Kukuruzari