Finalists of the WOWMOSCOW International Competition
The finalists of the WOWMOSCOW international competition, organized by the Moscow City Tourism Committee and the HSE Art and Design School as part of the forum and festival «Territory of the Future. Moscow 2030», have been announced.
The competition attracted 294 project submissions from participants across 12 countries.
On August 10, 2024, the finalists will arrive in Moscow to take part in a film workshop and a cultural and educational program.
During presentations to the international jury, they will showcase their short film concepts, explaining their chosen genres, list of locations, and overall visions.
The international jury will select the winner on August 15, 2024.
The winner will have the opportunity to create a short film about Moscow.
- Ankush Kumar, India Delhi. A City of motion
- Li Jiaxin Li, China Quietly hiding on the banks of Lijiang River
- Nicolai Kukin, Russia City on water (Co-author: Evgeny Makarov)
- Takha Audyarahma, Indonesia distant memory of a city
- Inna Kudryavtseva, Russia Moscow and Water
- Feofan Uspensky, Russia City’s Breath (Co-authors: Ulyana Shchukina, Vladislav Protsenkov)
- Laura Grazziotin, Brazil The city that hurts
- Ayushmaan Singh, India Visions of Meerut: Cinematic Impressions
- Yiping Zhao, China The Stone Statue of the Tang Imperial Mausoleum Series-1 (Co-authors: Haoyang Liu, Wenxin Zhu, Peijie Wu)
- Om Kaushik, India Pink city of INDIA: Jaipur
- José Ricardo Gonçalves Val, Brazil Curitiba: Urban Maze
- Hadi Sheibani, Iran Mashhad: A City of Unwavering Cultural Flourishment
Participation certificate
Dear participants of WOWMOSCOW 2024, we thank you for your interest in the contest and for your openness to the creative filmmaking process. If you want to receive a certificate of participation on behalf of the HSE Art and Design School and the Moscow city Tourism Committee, please send us to contestmoscow@hse.ru a email with your full name, the email you used to register on the contest website and a link to the video published on the platform. We will be happy to send you your certificate.
First round results
We are pleased to announce that a shortlist has been published for the WOWMOSCOW International Competition of Short Videos about Cities organized by the Moscow City Tourism Committee and the HSE Art and Design School as part of the forum and festival Territory of the Future. Moscow 2030. A total of 294 projects from participants in 12 countries were submitted to the competition. The international jury is now starting to evaluate the submissions. On July 20, 2024 the jury will announce the names of the finalists.
Please note that you can only be selected as a finalist if you can provide the organizers with the following information by July 18, 16:30 Moscow time: • confirmation of your ability to travel to Moscow and participate in the final stage of the competition to be held on August 10 to 25, 2024; • confirmation of a valid travel passport with expiry date no earlier than February 28, 2025; • a link to the original video.
If your project is selected among the ten finalists but you are unable to come to Moscow and/or are not ready to send a link to the original video for screening during the final awards ceremony, where the competition winner is to be announced, your place goes to the next shortlisted finalist in the evaluation system.
We find it very important that the participants’ efforts are not wasted and that those candidates who are able to create the best film about Moscow make it to the final. Therefore, we strongly advise all shortlisted participants to check the email specified at the registration stage. The organizers are currently contacting you with the above questions. If you do not respond by July 18, 16:30 Moscow time, this will be considered as a refusal to participate in the final.
We will be happy to answer any questions you may have: contestmoscow@hse.ru or in the telegram channel
About the competition
The Moscow City Tourism Committee and HSE Art and Design School are inviting young authors — artists, directors and all those working with video content — to participate in an international competition of short videos about cities and locations.
The competition features a series of sessions with experts on urbanism and tourism, master classes from the leading film-making specialists, directors and educators. Participants will be able to complete the programme online and get a certificate.
What types of works do we expect?
Since the invention of cameras, locations like points on the map, cities, and landscapes have become central characters in the works of creators worldwide. In 1927, Dziga Vertov filmed «Man with a Movie Camera, ” capturing an urban portrait of a new era. David Lynch crafted a dreamlike landscape of Los Angeles in „Mulholland Drive, ” while contemporary video artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler’s 2009 work „Grand Paris Texas“ immerses viewers in Paris as a meta-place constructed with celluloid and soundtracks.
Film a new video or submit an existing one where a city or any other place is the main character. You can choose any format or material: a documentary, feature film, animation, travel promo, video research, or vlog. There are no restrictions, and any level of experience in making videos is welcome.
Technical guidelines
- The video should be 30 seconds to 3 minutes long. - The video quality must be at least Full HD (1920×1080), and it can be vertical or horizontal. - Add English subtitles if the video is in another language. - Include two tags: «video» and the location your video is about, so it appears on the map.
You can submit multiple videos, but remember to tag each one with «video» and the location it features, ensuring they appear on the map.
IMPORTANT
Remember to submit your project to the competition by clicking the «Apply now» button on the competition page.
Adding the «video» tag alone will not submit it automatically.
The prizes
Ten finalists selected by an international jury will have the chance to travel to Moscow. The competition organizers will cover accommodation and provide guided visits to significant cultural and historical attractions, city museums, and excursions to the leading creative universities in the Russian capital.
In August 2024, one winner will be chosen from the ten finalists. This winner will have the opportunity to create a short film about Moscow with the support of a professional team, with all filming and production costs fully covered.
References
FABRIKA Media Guide. Perm Cultural Reference Book Night Dubnium
We have prepared a guide on how to work with the platform, which will help you easily and quickly create an account and upload a project.
Stages of the competition
- 30 April 2024 — start date to upload projects on the Creative City platform - 30 April — 15 July 2024 — a series of master classes as part of the partnership educational programme - 15 July 2024 — project submission deadline - 19 July 2024— shortlisting the candidates - 22 July 2024 — voting deadline for the international jury (selecting 10 finalists) - 22 July 2024 — presenting voting results - 10 August 2024 — the finalists come to Moscow - 11-15 August 2024 — a series of public events for the finalists - before 16 August 2024 — the awards ceremony announcing the competition winner
Public Events Program
1 July 2024, 17:00 Lecture on contemporary independent filmmaking. How to film without a budget Darina Polikarpova, film expert
3 July 2024, 11:00 Lecture on video essays and why these are popular today Maxim Seleznev, film critic
8 July 2024, 17:00 Lecture on contemporary screen culture: films, video art and social networks Alexandra Persheeva, art expert Link
9 July 2024, 15:00 Master class: festival films and their promotion Ivan Tverdovskiy, film director, member of the European Film Academy Link
10 July 2024, 18:30 Master class: The film is ready, we only need to shoot and edit it. Director vs editing director? Daria Gladysheva, director, editing director Link
Jury
- Ivan Tverdovsky is the Creative Director of the «Screen Arts» department at HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL. He is a film director, screenwriter, laureate of Russian and international film festivals, and a member of the European Film Academy.
- Tom Lisboa is a Brazilian photographer, PhD in Communications (Tuiuti University in Paraná), holding two Master’s degrees: one in Photography and Urban Cultures (Goldsmiths University, London) and another in Communications and Languages (Tuiuti University in Paraná).
- Zhang Hui — a leading scholar of the Design and Art discipline and deputy dean of the School of Art and Design, Xi’an University of Technology. He is member of China Society of Higher Education and deputy director of the photographic education committee, online judge of the art programs of the China National Social Science Fund, and appraisal expert of the China National Arts Fund.
- Vidhi Khandelwal — a distinguished expert in Animation and VFX education, the Head of the Department of Animation and Multimedia at Subharti University. In 2024, she received the National Excellent Researcher of the Year award for her research activities and teaching efforts.
- Saeid Nejati — a graduate of cinema from Sureh University, and has cooperated as a jury member at several festivals such as the 19th Izmir International Short Film Festival, Tehran short Film Festival and Iran Cinema Celebration.
Our partners
HSE ART & DESIGN SCHOOL
HSE ART & DESIGN SCHOOL is a division of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, which entered the world ranking of the top 150 Arts & Design institutions in 2022.
HSE ART & DESIGN SCHOOL offers art and design programs at all levels of education: undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and additional education programs. Our digital platform includes more than 200,000 student portfolio projects, it has grown into the complex instrument for creative industry development with its special services helping to hold international creative competitions and aiming to represent young specialists’ creative initiatives towards the industry, potential employers and clients.
Contacts
HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL creativeopen@hsedesign.ru Get in touch with the event coordinators Ask about the competition or discuss a partnership
Terms of International Competition of Short Videos about Cities