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The 8th Vladivostok International Film Festival of Asian Pacific countries – “PACIFIC MERIDIAN”
 

• To develop cultural exchange among the Asia Pacific countries
• To present the cinema of Asia Pacific Region in Russia
• To introduce the contemporary Russian cinema to the Asia Pacific cinema industry
• To contribute positive experience in the development of cinema art
• To discover and support the new names and perspectives in cinema art 

Competition screening includes:

• Features and shorts (up to 30 min).

Non-competition programs:

• Panorama
• Russian Cinema
• Special and Info screenings
• Retrospective screening of the World Cinema Masters
• Seminars and workshops

7 years of VIFF “Pacific Meridian” in figures:
Films - 832
Screenings - 676
Guests - 879
Film-goers - 184 400
Media - 500

The Staff

Chief Creative Officer Alexander Doluda   tel. + 7 4232 302 074 mob. +7 924 239 9452  e-mail: office@viff.vl.ru  Executive Director Natalia Shakhnazarova mob. +7 924 239 9451  e-mail: info@viff.vl.ru   Program Director Yury Goncharov mob. +7 924 235 0036  e-mail:goncharov@viff.vl.ru Programming coordinator Maria Antonova mob. +7 902 481 1731  e-mail: coordinator@viff.vl.ru   Programmer Natalia Timofeeva mob. +7 924 239 9453 e-mail: program@viff.vl.ru  Film consultant Sergey Miller   mob. +7 904 629 1212    Publicity Director Tatiana Novoselova (Ukhimenko) mob. +7 924 235 0169  mob. +7 914 706 9553  e-mail: utapress@viff.vl.ru  Video program curator Andrey Vasilenko mob. +7 924 233 1213  e-mail: vasilenko@viff.vl.ru             vasilenko36@gmail.com Festival representative  in Moscow Alexandra Shakhnazarova mob. +7 905 558 2248  e-mail: sollaire@front.ru  Festival coordinator in Moscow Eugeniy Ryabtchenko mob. + 7 916 632 2171

RULES OF PARTICIPATION

Festival participation:

• Eligible are any films presented by film companies, film studios, independent producers, distributors or any other copyright owners of the films
• Those who would like to participate in the 8th Vladivostok International Film Festival should fill out the entry-form and e-mail it at coordinator@viff.vl.ru prior to 20th of June, 2010.
• DVDs are to be shipped to the Festival Office for preliminary selection at the expense of the sender to the following address: 521 office "Hyundai" Hotel, 29, Semenovskaya st.,
  Vladivostok, 690091, Russia
  The Pacific Meridian Film Festival
  Prior to June 20th, 2010

Competition:

• Feature and short films on 35mm, with English subtitles, and finished by production after January 1st, 2009 are eligible for Competition  
• Competition can include films that were screened before at other film festivals
• Competition should include not less than 12 films

Non-competition programs

• All the professional media formats besides 16 mm are eligible for non-competition programs.
• The films for the 8th VIFF are selected by selection committee. The final decision whether to include film in one of the Festival programs is to be made by the Festival Management till July 1st, 2010.
• The Festival Management will inform the Festival participants about including their films in one of the Festival programs not later then July 5th, 2010.
• The film prints included in the Festival program should be received by the Festival Management in their original format and before September 10th, 2010.
• The screening schedule is defined by the Festival Management.
• Each film can be screened only during the Film Festival and not more than 5 times.
• All the deadlines are mandatory.

The international Jury gives over the following awards for the films IN Competition: 

• Best Feature Award
  (accompanied by a 625 000 RUB cash prize)
• Best Short Film Award
  (accompanied by a 375 000 RUB cash prize)
• The Special Jury Award
  (accompanied by a 250 000 RUB cash prize)
• Best Director Award
  (accompanied by a 375 000 RUB cash prize)
• Best Actor Award
  (accompanied by a 250 000 RUB cash prize)
• Best Actress Award
  (accompanied by a 250 000 RUB cash prize)
  
  

Special Awards:

• 9 288 km Award from the governor of Primorsky territory 
  (accompanied by a 375 000 RUB cash prize)
• The Audience Award for Best Russian Film
  (accompanied by a 125 000 RUB cash prize)
• Yul Brynner Award
• Award from the Vladivostok Mayor
• Awards from the Festival partners

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