YOUKI
The international youth media festival YOUKI has been held annually in November in Wels in Upper Austria since 1999 . The central festival locations are the Medien Kultur Haus and the Alte Schlachthof Wels . It is the largest Austrian youth film festival with an international focus.
history
From the Austrian Film Festival in the 1980s and early 1990s, KINOVA was created in 1999, a feature film festival of European style in Wels. Under the direction of director Andreas Gruber (including director and screenplay: Hasenjagd - Out of sheer cowardice there is no mercy ) the festival missed its goals and was not repeated. In 1999, the school film festival YOUNG KINOVA (later YOUKI) also took place for the first time as a secondary line to KINOVA. Films by young up-and-coming directors were projected on three days of the festival.
From 1999 to 2007, YOUKI took place annually under the direction of Johann Schoiswohl and is now the largest Austrian youth film festival with an international focus. In addition to Johann Schoiswohl, Iris Brunnbauer-Kransteiner (commercial director) and the screenwriter Heide Kouba were jointly responsible for the program. Every year around 500 submissions reach Wels, including films from Ireland, Norway, Lithuania and Israel. A five-person preliminary jury, made up of members of the board of directors as well as schoolchildren and young people interested in the media, is responsible for the selection of the competition program. During the festival, an expert jury made up of representatives from the film industry will award the prizes. In 2008, 86 international young film productions were shown over five days of the festival (56 in the competition and 30 in the special program). Established directors discussed and presented their debut works as well as current works (e.g. Stefan Ruzowitzky , Arash T. Riahi , Alexis Dos Santos).
From spring 2009 the festival was directed by Rudolf Agner, Sebastian Höglinger and Peter Schernhuber. Since then, topics from the areas of pop and youth culture have increasingly found their way into the programming. A programmatic distancing from concepts of canonized media education can also be noted. Guests of the discursive media meeting program were among others. a. Diedrich Diederichsen , Christiane Rösinger , Manuel Rubey a . a. YOUKI has also been organizing evening concerts since the new artistic director. Performing bands were PeterLicht , 1000 Robota , Sex Jams, Egotronic , Clara Luzia , Bernhard Fleischmann , Paper Bird and others. a. After Agner resigned from his functions at the festival in 2013, Laura-Lee Röckendorfer, who has worked for many years, joined the board and Anna Spanlang took over as artistic director for the international film competition. Since then, the art house cinema in the Medien Kultur Haus Wels has been used as the central venue for the competition program.
Young talent festivals such as the Up-and-Coming Festival Hanover or the Machinima Europe Festival (UK) also showed selected works from their festival programs. Within the framework of such collaborations, YOUKI was a guest at the Nordic Youth Film Festival (NUFF) in Tromsø, the Swiss Youth Film Festival in Zurich, the Cinema Jove in Valencia and the Crossing Europe film festival in Linz.
In addition to the film competition, one of the main focuses of the festival is conveying new media in theory and practice.
Following the 2014 edition of the festival, Sebastian Höglinger and Peter Schernhuber retired from the festival management. A few days later, the duo was entrusted with the management of the Diagonale , festival of Austrian film. Laura Röckendorfer and Boris Schuld have been running YOUKI since then.
Competition and media meeting
The festival's competition is divided into three age categories (10-14 / 15-20 / 21-26 years). The maximum film length for all submissions is set at 20 minutes.
The respective jury, consisting of representatives from the film industry, criticism, production, etc., selects the best films from the projected works, which will ultimately be awarded the YOUKI trophies and prize money at the closing gala. A main prize will be awarded in all three age categories. All films also have the opportunity to be awarded the Audience Award and the Innovative Film Award . The latter recognizes outstanding, independent positions in the context of current media developments on a formal or content level.
From 2010, in addition to the film competition, a script or concept for an unrealized film will be awarded. In addition to production capital, the award winner receives dramaturgical advice from an expert.
In addition to the film competition, a second focus of YOUKI is the media meeting, which is devoted to changing topics in the media and the media environment of young people. In workshops and discussions, questions are drafted and discussed and new perspectives on the media reality of the 21st century are gained.
Award winners
| Prize winner 2006: YOUKI 8 | |
| YOUKI main prize | Stefan Wipplinger: Revitimo GRG1 : Trick and Politics |
| YOUKI awards |
Reformed Churches Bern-Jura-Solothurn : Dawn Martin Pühringer: Something About the Future |
| Audience YOUKI | dairy farm (Mörtelmayr, Pochlatko): Running Sushi |
| Prize winner 2007: YOUKI 9 | |
| YOUKI main prize | Youth Media Festival Berlin: The Hole Bundesgymnasium Vöcklabruck: Hannah |
| YOUKI awards |
Alte Kantonsschule Aarau : A music video Modellschule Graz: A Dream of Reality - not everything is what it seems to be |
| Audience YOUKI | CPR for communication and media design: Soccer Boy |
| Award winner 2008: YOUKI 10 | |
| YOUKI main prize | David Segler: The Aulmann Revolution |
| YOUKI awards | Amira Ben Saoud: Scrabble 1-4 Elisabeth Mitterhuber: Wisper |
| YOUKI appreciation award under 14 years | Primary school reasons: Wolfi on a free paw |
| Audience YOUKI | Paul Baran: Habanero |
| Prize winner 2009: YOUKI 11 | |
| YOUKI main prize | Fabian Uitz: Railrunner |
| YOUKI awards | Peter Hübelbauer, Friday round : King_Harry Moritz Walker: Asmus |
| YOUKI appreciation award under 14 years | Lucas Drobek, Lutz Meissner: Soccer field |
| YOUKI Special Award | Augustin Rebetez: Carnaval / La fête du village de Courroux |
| Audience YOUKI | Sanja Zivkovic: How I almost became a Canadian |
| Prize winner 2010: YOUKI 12 | |
| International competition (10-14 years) | Grade 6a, Berlin Metropolitan School : In your skin Johannes Smolle: Meteor Impact |
| International competition (15-19 years) | Documentary film workshop Hidden Life: Danny Crash |
| International competition (20-26 years) | Joséphine Adams: Close to you |
| Innovative Film Award | Patrick Derieg: The supersession of reality in cinemas |
| Audience award | Philipp Westerfeld: Calvin Fragmenti |
| Scholarship perspective of young Austrian filmmakers | Clara Trischler: The first sea |
| Main prize for the best script | Anna Levinson: Still Awake |
| Winner 2011: YOUKI 13 | |
| International competition (10-14 years) | Fabian Rose, New School Hamburg : Children in power |
| International competition (15-19 years) | Mikhail Red: Inosensya |
| International competition (20-26 years) | Lisa Weber: That and that from here and there |
| Innovative Film Award | Liubou Zhuromskaya: Girls Named Masha |
| Audience award | Friedrich Tiedtke: Once upon a time in winter |
| Screenwriting grant | Philipp Keller: The Mangolds |
| Prize winner 2012: YOUKI 14 | |
| International competition (10-14 years) | Tobias Gartenlehner, Valentin Thier: No. 5 |
| International competition (15-20 years) | Dilan Alabogaz, Jenny Esser, Heather Scheuer, Zoe Schwarz: Petites Fleurs |
| International competition (21-26 years old) | Ling Hong: Duet Dance |
| Innovative Film Award | Johannes Bögle: Indian Alps |
| Audience award | Ling Hong: Duet Dance |
| Prize winner 2013: YOUKI 15 | |
| International competition (10-14 years) | Kidcam animation studio: Plastic Bertrand |
| International competition (15-20 years) | Christian Hödl: Graceland |
| International competition (21-26 years old) | Assaf Machnes: Auschwitz on my mind |
| Innovative Film Award | Cana Bilir-Meier: Semra Ertan |
| Audience award | Florian Bayer & Austrian Apparel: Infinite |
| Prize winner 2016: YOUKI 18 | |
| International competition (10-14 years) | Children's theater kidee Zurich: Robokid |
| International competition (15-20 years) | Kidscam: Baffi Spioventi |
| International competition (21-26 years old) | Moritz Stieber: Marville DC |
| Innovative Film Award | Sybille Bauer: The other girls |
| Audience award | IBMS + WRG / ORG Wels: Seyra |
See also
Web links
- International Youth Media Festival YOUKI
- YOUKI founder Hans Schoiswohl has passed away. Upper Austria news
- YOUKI is celebrating its 10th birthday with 56 films. Upper Austria news
- Where to throw pictures on the walls. The standard
- Space in the picture. FM4
- Are YOUKIdding? FM4
- Deck memories. The gap
- Young cinema from the world. The standard
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: www.oberoesterreich.at
- ↑ http://agso.uni-graz.at/marienthal/biografien/kouba_heide.htm
- ↑ End of the triumvirate: At the youth festival "Youki" two women move forward ( Memento from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Diagonale: Höglinger and Schernhuber new artistic duo . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on March 3, 2018]).
- ↑ Upper Austrian news: Youki - "A paradisiacal state" . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on March 3, 2018]).
- ↑ YOUKI Prize Winners 2016 - Youki . In: Youki . ( youki.at [accessed April 19, 2017]).