O festivale
Early Melons je medzinárodný festival študentských filmov v Bratislave, založený v roku 2007. Divákom prináša rôznorodý výber slovenského a európskeho študentského filmu. Festival organizuje nezisková organizácia Festival Skoré melóny, n. o. (Early Melons Festival, n. p. o.), prvý ročník podujatia sa uskutočnil v marci 2008. Poslaním festivalu je reflektovať a prezentovať aktuálny stav študentskej audiovizuálnej tvorby na Slovensku a vytvárať platformu na konfrontáciu s ostatnou európskou tvorbou. Zároveň má umožniť publiku vytvoriť si obraz o aktuálnej študentskej tvorbe doma aj za hranicami Slovenska a posilniť kultúrnu spoluprácu a partnerstvo medzi rôznymi krajinami a filmovými školami.
News
Awards Early Melons 2011
Midnight, dir. Klára Tasovská, Czech Rep.
Melon Route 2011
Mladost Cinema, Hviezdoslav Sq. Screenings: March 17th – 20th, 2011
HotDock art port, No 21 Grosslingova St. Photo exhibition, screenings, side events. March 16th – 20th, 2011
Corny Café, No 20 Grossling St – A complimentary piece of festival cake per coffee purchase (available for certified visitors only).
List of selected films in the international competition
4th edition of the Early Melons Festival will consist of two main competition sections: international competition and Slovak competition. In the international competition, 33 films from 19 countries will meet, the Slovak competition consists of 12 films from Slovak film schools with year of production 2009 and 2010. Here is the list of selected films:
International Competition:
CALL FOR ENTRIES - EARLY MELONS 2011 !
4th edition of the Early Melons International Student Film Festival is going to take place in Bratislava in March 2011. The quality film production created during the past year at audiovisual universities in Europe and abroad will be presented here. We would be pleased to welcome your film!
Do your pics have a bite?
• Freedom
• Continuity (series of photographs)
EARLY MELONS became an observer member of NISI MASA
http://www.nisimasa.com/
- to discover new film talents
Early Melons on WIZ-ART, Ukraine
International jury will choose winners in categories “best fiction”, “best animation” and “best experimental”. The jury members are Ozan Açıktan (Turkey), Anton Čierny (Slovakia), Anna Klara Åhrén (Sweden) and Oleksandr Debych (Ukraine).
Early Melons & Home Made Mutant + Toni Granko Tour_FM
All that Cats, dir. Mátyás Lanczinger, animation, Hungary, 04:44 min., 2009
Bird of Prey, dir. Peter Budinský, animation, 4 min., SR/Belgium, 2009
Rosarot, dir. Ines Christine Geisser, Kirsten Carina Geisser, animation, Germany, 1 min., 2009



