Special prizes for participants in the International WOWMOSCOW Competition

The HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL is happy to announce special prizes to be awarded to the participants in the International Competition of Short Videos about Cities WOWMOSCOW.

As part of the regular competition HSE CREATIVE OPEN, special prizes are awarded to participants representing the HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL:

• Elizaveta Ilnitskaya (Moscow in Bloom) — 50,000 roubles;
   
• Alexandra Osipova (A walk along the Istra River) — 30,000 roubles;
   
• Ivan Mikuts (Friendship) — 20,000 roubles.

Among the works that didn’t make it to the finalists, the HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL would like to highlight the project by Lera Juffer (Your answer is Baikal) and award her with a certificate for an advanced training course in screen arts at our school. While Lera’s work is not directly related to cities, it is a personal video-story about places dear to the author that showcases their attractiveness.

Additionally, due to organizational changes, the list of competition finalists now looks like this:
 

• Li Jiaxin Li, China — Quietly hiding on the banks of Lijiang River
   
• Takha Audyarahma, Indonesia — distant memory of a city
   
• Feofan Uspensky (co-authors: Uliana Shchukina, Vladislav Protsenkov), Russia — City's Breath
   
• Laura Grazziotin, Brazil — The city that hurts
   
• José Ricardo Gonçalves Val, Brazil — Curitiba: Urban Maze
   
• Hadi Sheibani, Iran — Mashhad: A City of Unwavering Cultural Flourishment
   
• Umang Tyagi, India — Haridwar, "Gateway to gods" | Cinematic video
   
• Yiping Zhao (co-authors: Haoyang Liu, Wenxin Zhu, Peijie Wu), China — The Stone Statue of the Tang Imperial Mausoleum Series-1
   
• Pritam Patowary, India — Rongali (ৰঙালী) — Colors of Nature
   
• Nikolay Kukin (co-author: Evgeny Makarov), Russia — A City on Water

On August 10, the finalists arrived in Moscow to participate in a film workshop and enjoy a cultural and educational program, visiting the most important landmarks of our capital city. They presented visions of their future films to an international jury and explained the chosen genre, locations and the overall concept.

On August 15, the winner of the International Competition of Short Videos about Cities will be solemnly announced. The winner will have the opportunity to create a short film about Moscow together with a professional team. The film will be screened on August 24 as part of the Moscow International Film Week.