DYTIATKO International Children’s Media Festival was founded in 2009. The festival is nonprofit, participation is free of charge.

The Festival is held among children’s/youth television, animation, cinema- and radio studios, clubs, groups and individual authors, television and radio broadcasters and creative production entities, directors and producers’ centres, which produce programmes and films for children and youth.

DYTIATKO International Children’s Media Festival is a member of the ECFA and CIFEJ.

DYTIATKO is films and TV programs different in terms of both genre and topic from children and for children.

І. International competition programme:
– The Best Fiction Film by a Children’s Studio;
– The Best Documentary by a Children’s Studio
– The Best Television Programme by a Children’s Studio;
– The Best Animation Film by a Children’s Studio;
– The Best Social Advertisement by a Children’s Studio;
– The Best Radio Programme by a Children’s Studio;
– The Best Television Programme for Children;
– The Best Series for Children;
– The Best Feature Film for Children;
– The Best Short Film for Children;
– The Best Animation Film for Children;
– CIFEJ Prize (the prize of the International Centre of Films for Children and Youth);
– The Prize for creative approach and originality of creative task performance (competition works are created during the Festival, the task is given out at the Festival).

ІІ. National competition programme:
– «We are Local Self-Government!» (special nomination, under support of the Council of Europe);
– « Ecology of Wildlife: conservation and preservation»;
– «Our peaceful sky» (jointly with Kharkiv aerospace club named after Hryzodubova of Defence Strengthening Society of Ukraine);
– contest of video bloggers «DYTIATKO.Like».

The jury also awards prizes in the following nominations:
– Special Jury Prize;
– Best Director;
– Best Cameraman;
– Best TV host(ess);
– Best TV journalist;
– Best Actor(ess).

The President of the Festival is entitled during the awarding ceremony to give an encouraging award – President’s Cup.

The feature of the DYTIATKO Festival is the fact that children choose the winner in the category “The best television program for children”.

Deadline: May, 31

The Festival participants provide authors’ works of various genres and creative solutions.

The duration of works in nominations: “The Best Fiction Film by a Children’s Studio”; “The Best Documentary by a Children’s Studio”; “The Best Television Programme by a Children’s Studio”; “The Best Animation Film by a Children’s Studio”; “The Best Radio Programme by a Children’s Studio”; “The Best Television Programme for Children” and “The Best Short Film for Children” is up to 30 minutes.

The duration of works in the contest of video bloggers «DYTIATKO.Like» is up to 60 minutes.

The duration of works in nominations “We are Local Self-Government!”, “Ecology of Wildlife: conservation and preservation” and “Our peaceful sky” is up to 15 minutes.

The duration of works in nominations “The Best Social Advertisement by a Children’s Studio” is up to 2 minutes.

The duration of works in nominations “The Best Feature Film for children” and “The Best Animation Film for children” is up to 120 minutes.

The duration of works in nominations “The Best Series for children” is not limited.

The duration of works in nomination “The Creative Task” is up to 3 minutes.

The works, submitted to participate in the Festival International competition programme nominations, must provide subtitles kin English (except for the works in English and the works, which have voice-over or dubbing in English).