EVENTS: PRIX DANUBE, International TV Festival of Programmes for Children and Youth (SLOVAKIA)

PRIX DANUBE, International TV Festival of Programmes for Children and Youth

PRIX DANUBE Festival is a bi-annual international festival of programmes for children and youth. Its main organiser is Slovak Television and its 18th edition will be held from September 22 to 28, 2005.
The festival?s history was started in 1971, when its 1st edition was organised. In the meantime, it has become an important European and international event in TV production for children and young people. The festival offers a creative confrontation of the best production of TV companies the world over. It enjoys a prestigious position together with PRIX JEUNESSE, which is organised bi-annually in Munich. This competition festival is well known to the media world.
Television companies and producers compete for Prix Danube in several categories, namely, in animated production, fiction, documentary production, educational programmes, and music clips for young people.
In addition to the five main prizes in the individual categories, the mayor of the capital of the Slovak Republic and the young jury award their prizes. Prizes are also awarded by an international jury delegated by CIFEJ (Centre International du Film pour l?Enfance et la Jeunesse (International Centre of Film for Children and Young People), based in Canada. CIFEJ prize is awarded to the producers in two categories, in animated film and fiction categories.
Each PRIX DANUBE Festival has been attended by almost a hundred television companies with about 200 programmes. At the most recent festival held in 2003, the juries evaluated television programmes from thirty-nine countries, whereby most programmes were entered for the competition by Germany, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. French television companies were awarded the highest number of prizes.
Films produced outside Europe and especially programmes from the Near East proved to be particularly attractive ? productions from Israel, Palestine, Iran, and also Japan (which was awarded one of the main PRIX DANUBE prizes), along with South Korea, Hong Kong/China, and Australia. The American continent was represented by US, Mexican, and Brazilian productions.
Foreign experts and festival participants were pleased with the excellent selection of the programmes entered for the main competition and with the high standard of the programmes, which testifies to the festival?s stringent criteria, good taste, and sense of aesthetic values. The experts noted that especially European TV programmes follow the trend of a visual perception of the world and visual communication by the young generation.
PRIX DANUBE Festival undergoes gradual changes, just like the world and the society do. In addition to the basic categories, a new category has been introduced, namely, the music clip for young people, and the aim is twofold. The first is to raise the interest of the young generation in the festival (not just the producers and children) and the second is to accentuate the educational aspect of the visual media and to cultivate music productions for young people from the musical point of view and especially from the point of view of their visuality and contents, with particular emphasis on the artistic values of a music clip.

List of countries, which entered TV programmes for the main competition in 2003:

Australia, Belgium, Brasilia, China/Hong Kong, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, South Korea, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, USA.

HOMEPAGE: http://prixdanube.stv.sk

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