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The International Festival of Home-video Films «MEGAPOLIS» will be held December 25-26th 2009 at Sergey Kuryokhin’s Modern Art Center (Saint-Petersburg)

The Festival is organized by Sergey Kuryokhin Charity Foundation with the assistance of Committee for Culture of Saint-Petersburg and Saint-Petersburg Union of Non-professional cinematographers.

The main contest includes four nominations:

- Best fiction short film

- Best documentary short film

- Best animated short film

- Best music video

We received more than 200 films from 18 Russian cities and from Ukraine, Belorussia, Serbia, Finland and Germany.

 Out of competition will be shown archive home-video recordings, films from the programme of International Amateur Festival UNICA, films from International Home-Video Film Festival “White nights” (annual festival, held in Saint-Petersburg), programme of International festival of films directed by children  “Saint-Petersburg Screen”, as a matter of courtesy offered by  Saint-Petersburg Union of Non-professional cinematographers.

Jury: directors Jurij  Mamin, Sergej Debijev, Sergej Loban and Marina Potapova (directors of famous low budjet film “Dust”, Pavel Konovalcsik (“Navinki” studio), Dmitrij Vasiljev (AliBaster home video studio), Maria Solovceva, film critic and journalist Michael Trofimenkov, artists Sergej Bugajev-Africa and Anatolij Belkin, experienced amateur cinematographer Boris Sergejev.

 During th Festival will be organized lectures, workshops and retrospective screenings of famous amateur studios: NOM (SPb), AliBaster (SPb), Navinki Home Video (Minsk), Svoi-2000 (Moscow), Chiller Video Studio (SPb).

The opening ceremony will take place December 25^th, 2009 at 8 p.m. at Sergej Kuryokhin Modern art Center.

At the closing ceremony  December 26^th winners will be awarded and their films will be shown again. After the screening the band «Prepinaki» will perform a concert. The ceremony will start at 8 p.m.