Off Road Film Festival 2013
International “Off Road Film festival” is a non-traditional event introducing the impressions of an ever-growing circle of road aficionados which they have experienced in sport-utility vehicles (SUV), or on motorcycles or ATVs in off-road tracks. This event is dedicated not only to professionals who have treated off-road driving as their favourite kind of sports or tourism for many years. It will also be an interesting show to all those who find an off-road driving a good leisure activity even if they are only watching the action from the roadside.
“It is a unique event as it is the only contest of off road-themed films and videos in the whole Europe or even in the world. The organizers of the festival are only familiar with cases when one or two authors’ footages were demonstrated immediately after the race. Meanwhile, time was not generally available for the high-quality film review,” said Audrius Sutkus, the concept author of “Off Road Film Festival” and the President of Panevėžys Off Road Club.
“Off Road Film Festival” has already taken place in Panevėžys (2004, 2005) and in Vilnius (2007). 7 authors from Lithuania, Latvia and Russia presented their works at the first festival. The second festival already welcomed 17 participants, including representatives from Poland and Estonia. In 2007 festival moved to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where participants not only showed class at increased artistic level, but also demonstrated original theme revealing abilities.
The jury of the previously held three festivals consisted of journalists and artists from Lithuania and abroad, as well as the world’s largest off-road race organizers. The jury was annually chaired by late film critic Skirmantas Valiulis.
This year’s off-road film festival jury consist of: the chief organizer of the world famous off-road race “Ladoga Trophy”, Russian photographer Yuri Ovchinnikov; artist, television presenter Nomeda Marčėnaitė; traveler, journalist Vytaras Radzevičius; the President of Lithunian Autoclub of Journalists Valdas Valiukevičius.
THE WINNERS OF 4th INTERNATIONAL “OFF ROAD FILM FESTIVAL”
Category „Off road tourism”:
„Africa in One‘s One Eyes“, Sergey Belostotskiy (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Category „Free off road theme”:
„Formula Off-Road”, Sergey Belostotskiy (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Category “Off road sports”:
„After 10 Years ”, Television channel „Arctic TV“ (Murmansk, Russia)
Viewrer’s choice award:
„Africa in One‘s One Eyes“, Sergey Belostotskiy (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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We invite you to take a look back at winners podium of the year 2007:
Tourism category: „Polius choloda“ (Russia, Yekaterinburg), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNr0IYXOlbE
Sports category: „Ladoga Trophy 2007“ (Russia, Saint Petersburg), http://video.sibnet.ru/video69905-Ladoga_trofi_2007
Free off road theme: „Mud Binds“ (Russia, Tver)
Audience sympathy award: „Grin Tverskaja triasina“ (Russia, Tver), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stYKC1mNP6w