Open Saint Petersburg Student Film Festival
FFL's Festival Validation
FFL feels responsible for only allowing legitimate and relevant festivals to accept submissions through our platform. Thus we verify the festival's legitimacy and relevance before pushing the call for submissions live. Some festivals are not being allowed to accept submissions at all. For festivals allowed to accept submissions FFL separates among:
VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy. There is no doubt that they are established and/or legitimate events.
NOT VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals don't fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy but appear to be legitimate events. We will leave you to decide whether you should submit to this event or not. We also welcome any feedback about these events. You can report your experience at verification@filmfestivallife.com
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13th edition
Oct 10 - Oct 17, 2021
Estimated
St. Petersburg, Russia
Open Call Open to Public Competitive Market Special Fees
Festival type Real Venue Festival
Types of films Animation, Documentary, Narrative fiction, Student
Film length Short
Mission / description
Open St.Petersburg Student Film Festival is held annually in the centre of St.Petersburg, Russia.
The festival is committed to helping students gain experience, develop their contac…ts and promote their films as well as to encourage audience interest in the works of young filmmakers.
Festival program includes Main Competition (no more than 30-minute-lengh fiction, documentary and animation films), Special Competition of 5-minute fiction films and Social Commercial Competition.
Traditionally in addition to the competition programs the festival also offers special thematic screenings, non-competition programs, presentation programs of film schools and international student film festivals.
As well, master-classes in filmmaking are open to the public, as are round tables, seminars and student art exhibitions. full text
Festival website www.festival-nachalo.ru/eng
FFL feels responsible for only allowing legitimate and relevant festivals to accept submissions through our platform. Thus we verify the festival's legitimacy and relevance before pushing the call for submissions live. Some festivals are not being allowed to accept submissions at all. For festivals allowed to accept submissions FFL separates among:
VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy. There is no doubt that they are established and/or legitimate events.
NOT VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals don't fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy but appear to be legitimate events. We will leave you to decide whether you should submit to this event or not. We also welcome any feedback about these events. You can report your experience at verification@filmfestivallife.com
Click to reed more about FFl's validation policy.

13th edition
Oct 10 - Oct 17, 2021
Estimated
St. Petersburg, Russia
Festival type Real Venue Festival
Types of films Animation, Documentary, Narrative fiction, Student
Film length Short
Mission / description
Open St.Petersburg Student Film Festival is held annually in the centre of St.Petersburg, Russia.
The festival is committed to helping students gain experience, develop their contac…ts and promote their films as well as to encourage audience interest in the works of young filmmakers.
Festival program includes Main Competition (no more than 30-minute-lengh fiction, documentary and animation films), Special Competition of 5-minute fiction films and Social Commercial Competition.
Traditionally in addition to the competition programs the festival also offers special thematic screenings, non-competition programs, presentation programs of film schools and international student film festivals.
As well, master-classes in filmmaking are open to the public, as are round tables, seminars and student art exhibitions. full text
Festival website www.festival-nachalo.ru/eng