Key dates
1
October 5, 2024
Regular Deadline
2
November 10, 2024
Notification Date
3
December 5 – 8, 2024
Event Date
MCGUFFIN FILM FESTIVAL IS
CONTEST PRESENTATOIN
discussions with the project's creators and the jury
MCGUFFIN TALENTS
educational platform and community for participants
FAMOUS FILMMAKERS
famous cinematographers as mentors and jury
Today all teenagers use video as the main communication tool and create ideas by means of camera and editing. That's why every year since 2016 we hold Moscow International McGuffin film festival for teens and youngsters.
McGuffin Fest mission
Community
make young videomakers in Russia and around the world meet each other as well as present them to world-wide professional community
Inspiration
to never stop creating and moving forward
Progress
level-up skills of young filmmakers and give them opportunity to grow both professionally and spiritually
Future
build up new generation of filmmakers and spectators
McGuffin Fest mission
Community
make young videomakers in Russia and around the world meet each other as well as present them to world-wide professional community
Inspiration
to never stop creating and moving forward
Progress
level-up skills of young filmmakers and give them opportunity to grow both professionally and spiritually
Future
build up new generation of filmmakers and spectators
MAIN CATEGORIES
FICTION
staged films with actors
DOCUMENTARY
films showing reality
ADVERTISEMENT
social or commercial
VIDEOART/EXPERIMENTAL VIDEOS
MUSIC VIDEOS
ANIMATION


Jury
  • Grigory Kalinin
    Actor, dubbing Actor, Director, Editor, Cameraman
  • Elizaveta Zhukatinskaya
    Agent for Directors and Cameramen
  • Nikita Kartsev
    Film Critic
  • Mikhail Alekseevsky
    Urbanist, Anthropologist,сo-curator of the production workshop
  • Marta Erkenova
    Production Designer
  • Kirill Alyokhin
    Producer, Director, Screenwriter

Organisation team of McGuffin Film Fest
  • Daria Gladysheva
    Founder of the McGuffin Film Fest
  • Vera Lazurenko
    PR Manager & Editor
  • Maksim Abramovich
    SMM Manager
  • Ekaterina Prokhorova
    Coordinator of the competition program
  • Oksana Aristova
    Coordinator
  • Ulyana Morozova
    Producer, event Coordinator, Manager for work with the Jury
  • Natalia Shamber
    International communications Manager
  • Sofia Pyatnitsa
    Guest relations Manager
  • Kristina Katenina
    Volonteer Manager
  • Aleksandr Gamov
    Designer
  • Ivan Fateev
    technical Manager
Our contacts
Our contacts
fest@mcguffin.ru