Festival Data:

• Established: 1992
• Genre: Documentary (click to see)

• Competitive

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

The Annual Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival is an artistic and scientific event, an important link between documentary film makers and anthropologists of the East and West. The aim of the festival in general is to support cultural survival of peoples. Only documentary films and videos of high value and quality, recording human activities in social, historical or ecological context are accepted for competition screenings.

The Pärnu International  Film Festival prizes- There are 3 categories of competition.

International documentary competition:

*Grand Prize for the best film of the festival

*Prize for the best film on survival of indigenous people

*Prize for the best scientific documentary

*Prize for the best art documentary

*Prize for the best children documentary

Estonian national documentary competition:

* Prize for the best Estonian documentary

TV-competition:

* Estonian People's Award

The Pärnu International  Film Festival has one very special prize. This is the ESTONIAN PEOPLE'S AWARD.

During the festival a selected program of outstanding documentaries will be broadcast on Estonian TV and during the last night the TV-audience will be voting for the best film to be awarded with the ESTONIAN PEOPLE'S AWARD.

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Submission formats: Beta-SP, 16mm, DVD, MiniDV
• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.chaplin.ee/ filmfestival/ regulations.htm