Filofest

The International Student Film and Video Festival is the first international festival in Slovenia, the focal point of which is student film and video production. It takes place annually at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, since 2006. The festival is organized by the students of the faculty in cooperation with the Educational Centre of Radio-Television Slovenia.

Along with its primary role as a film festival, the International Student Film and Video Festival Filofest is accompanied by additional programme in the form of lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions, social gatherings and other events.

The competition part of the programme is open exclusively to independent student films, whose authors are amateurs without formal film education. Films directed by students of film academies or film schools are screened within the non-competition part of the programme. The festival accepts fiction, documentary, animated and experimental films.

Awards

The best film, which receives the main award of the festival, is chosen by the audience and receives a cash prize. The festival jury also presents awards to films entered in the competition part of the programme: the award for best film, best directing, best screenplay, best performance, best fiction film, best documentary film, best animated film, and best experimental film.

Filofest 2006

Members of the jury gave special recognition to: "?orque", "Hallucii", "What Do We Need This For" and "Behind Closed Minds". The winning video of the video workshop was shot and edited by Agata Rosochacka, the director of the film "Reflections".

Filofest 2007

Filofest 2007 was again hosted at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana and took place between December 10 and December 14.

The winning video of the 'Video Workshop', THE LIPSTICK AND THE RAZOR, was directed by Simon Chang (shot by Valentin Perko and edited by Arnold Marko).

External links

* [http://www.filofest.com/ Official Festival Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/filofest Filofest at MySpace.com]
* [http://www.ff.uni-lj.si/ Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana]