What is a music video? We raise this question every year, and every year we discover something we never thought of before. However, the essence of the answer does not change: a music video is an audiovisual event that must be experienced together. Sometimes it can be a space for bold experiments, at other times the format can reach new technical peaks and redefine the possibilities of the genre. And then there are those videos that, although they use a familiar audiovisual language, manage to say something completely unexpected. In this festival section, we want to explore and get to know this ever-changing field and the unique interaction of image and music.<\/p>\n
The BALTIC MUSIC VIDEO Competition screening invites viewers, festival guests, filmmakers, and musicians to come together and experience music videos in all their glory and uniqueness. A screening you are sure to remember!<\/p>\n","enabled":true,"competition_content":"
The BALTIC MUSIC VIDEO Competition (BMVC) endeavours to uphold the belief that the music video is an independent and powerful short format in its own right. The RIGA IFF curators look for videos that challenge the audience and push the boundaries of format, contents, and artistic expression.<\/p>\n
The screening of this programme is designed as a special event in itself \u2013 it is a lively meeting between music video creators, musicians and composers, curators, the members of the international jury, and the audience.<\/p>\n
BMV seeks out videos that are daring, innovative, and experimental. Submissions must have been produced in Estonia, Latvia, and\/or Lithuania (the origins of the music is not a criterion to the selection). Only official music videos are accepted. There are no restrictions on length. Videos must have been completed after 1 June 2022. Both the creative team and the musicians featured in the selected videos will be invited to attend the festival. RIGA IFF especially welcomes submissions that have not yet had their world premiere.<\/p>\n
A specially designed award\u00a0 and a monetary prize of EUR 1,000 will be presented to the winner of the competition during the RIGA IFF Award Ceremony, which takes place on the second Saturday of the festival. The international jury is made up of music video creators, music video curators from international film festivals, musicians, music journalists and professional music event managers. All participants are invited to attend the jury\u2019s official screening giving them an additional opportunity to receive feedback.<\/p>\n
The call for submissions opens on 15 March 2023 and closes on 30 June. The results will be announced by 10 September 2023.<\/p>\n","custom_button_text":"","custom_button_url":"","submit_your_film":"https:\/\/filmfreeway.com\/rigaiff","submit_your_film_disabled":true,"terms_&_conditions_pdf":"http:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/RIGA-IFF-2023-Baltic-Music-Video-Competition-Regulations-English.pdf","terms_&_conditions_pdf_disabled":false,"supporter":false,"supporter_for_children":null,"supporter_for_children_title":null,"jury_title":"Jury","jury":[{"image":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/20220713-Day14-Melnais-samts-005-pp-1.jpg","name,_surname":"Liene Linde","position":"","description":"
Liene Linde is a Latvian publicist, screenwriter and film director, whose filmography includes both feature and documentary films. She is one of the most visible and artistically open filmmakers of her generation. Seven Awkward Sex Scenes (2016), which won Best Student Film at the 2017 national film awards Lielais Kristaps and was screened at several international festivals, is Linde's internationally best-known film. Together with Armands Za\u010ds, she directed the documentary Mothers and Others (2020), and is currently in the final stages of completing her debut feature Black Velvet, a conceptual continuation of her interest in women's experience, identity, and depression.<\/p>\n","links":false},{"image":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DB_Martynas-Plepys-1-e1694560583716.jpg","name,_surname":"Dovil\u0117 Butnori\u016bt\u0117","position":"","description":"
Dovil\u0117 Butnori\u016bt\u0117 is an international relations specialist and cultural events manager from Lithuania. She has extensive experience in the film industry, having worked at the Lithuanian Film Centre for six years where she was in charge of the distribution, promotion, programming, and exhibition of Lithuanian films abroad, as well as organising film-related events in various formats. In 2022, when Kaunas was the European Capital of Culture, she was the Head of International Relations and Music Project Producer. Butnori\u016bt\u0117 is known as one of Lithuania's most visible, active figures in the creative industries \u2013 she has organised more than 100 concerts, managed bands, led international projects, and performs as a DJ.<\/p>\n","links":false},{"image":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Martins-Mielavs.jpeg","name,_surname":"M\u0101rti\u0146\u0161 Mielavs","position":"","description":"
M\u0101rti\u0146\u0161 Mielavs is a versatile, passionate organiser of cultural events and festivals. He grew up in a family of musicians and music-lovers and founded the legendary bar Piens, out of which the Piens Fest festival and the popular online short film series developed, working as a producer together with director Oskars Ruppenheits. During the pandemic, he created a series of retro-styled gymnastics videos together with like-minded people and has also contributed to the development of the culture of art auctions in Latvia. He currently runs the K.K. fon Stricka Villa, a centre for culture and arts that has become home to various disciplines and avant-garde ideas over the years.<\/p>\n","links":false},{"image":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Janis-Zilde-1-e1694560494856.jpg","name,_surname":"J\u0101nis \u017dilde","position":"","description":"
J\u0101nis \u017dilde is a Latvian media expert, critic, journalist, and musician whose creative biography includes more than two thousand album reviews and hundreds of concert reviews. \u017dilde is also known as a member of several award-winning musical projects, to name but a few \u2014 Satellites LV, kuba, Raadio, and J\u0101\u0146a \u017dilde's apvienotie gaisa sp\u0113ki. He has composed music for both short and feature-length films, and is the author of two books \u2014 Piek\u016bns skrien debes\u012bs (2015), which describes the history and activities of the folk-rock band Jauns M\u0113ness, and Tr\u012bs no Sabiles (2020) about the Latvian rock band Pienved\u0113ja piedz\u012bvojumi.<\/p>\n","links":false},{"image":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Dir.Sander-e1694560563628.jpeg","name,_surname":"Sander Joon","position":"","description":"
Sander Joon is an Estonian animation director whose short films Velodrool (2015), Moulinet (2017), and Sounds Good (2018) have been screened in Annecy, Leipzig, Ottawa, Stuttgart, Fredrikstad, Go Short, GLAS, and many other festivals. Joon also makes music videos, for example for Tommy Cash, he DJs, and participated in a commercial for Rick and Morty. He also worked as a 2D artist on the award-winning film The Old Man Movie (2019) and teaches traditional animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His latest short film Sierra won a prize at the SHORT RIGA Test Screenings in 2021 and is currently touring festivals having qualified for the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n","links":false}],"participants_title":"","participants":false,"selection_committee_title":"","selection_committee":false,"screening_as_programme_child":false,"films_category_title":"In this screening","films_category":460,"films_category_2":false,"screening_select":false,"additional_films_title":"","show_films_seperately":null,"logo_on_image_text":"","logo_on_image_image":false,"logo_on_image_color":"default","tba":"","link":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/en\/programme-2023\/baltic-music-video-competition\/","parent":0,"parent_title":null,"parent_link":null,"screenings_merged":[{"month":"october","date":"19","end_date":"","time":"21:00","time_end":"","venue_url_languages":[{"type":"buy","sold_out":false,"closed":false,"free":false,"soon":false,"custom_button_text":"","invitation_only":false,"accreditations_only":false,"guest_accreditations_only":false,"guest_notice_with_icon":"","venue":"splz","custom_venue_text":"","url":"","bilesu_servisa_id":"404140","custom_tickets_url":"","apply_url":"","subtitle_language":[],"closed_captions_language":[],"audio_description_language":[],"audio_language":[]}],"tags":false,"event_post_title":"Baltic Music Video Competition","event_post_url":"https:\/\/rigaiff.lv\/en\/programme-2023\/baltic-music-video-competition\/","event_parent_details":[]}],"events_select":false,"enabled_after_content":true,"title_after_content":"","content_after_content":"","button_text_after_content":"","button_url_after_content":"","runtime":""}