“This year, 14 experts from 6 countries – Ukraine, Russia, Byelorussia, Germany, Greece, and Bulgaria, compose the professional jury of the television children’s festival ‘Dytiatko’. Children and teenagers from Kharkiv Region will compose the children’s jury,” said chairman of the festival’s organizing committee, Chairman of the Regional Council, Sergii Chernov.  

Sergii Chernov explained that for the first time in the festival’s history the children’s jury will be composed of children who do not take part in the competition: “For the first time, the children’s jury will be composed not of the festival’s participants. At the beginning of the summer, the festival’s organizing committee and ‘Slobidsky kray’ regional newspaper launched a contest for those who wished to become members of the children’s jury of the festival. The participants were proposed to express their vision of what the children’s TV of the future should be. After the summing up of results, members of the jury will decide the fate of the nomination ‘The Best TV Programme Created For Children’ and will also have the opportunity to select the best from all the nominations and hand the authors the Children’s Jury Award. So I hope that this jury will be very demanding and principled.”  

The composition of the Professional Jury of the 5th International Television Festival “Dytiatko”: 

Chairperson:

Marina Landa (Russia), presenter of “Karusel” TV Channel (1st Channel, World Network), author and presenter of “Radio Russia” programmes, art director of “Rainbow” Children’s Music Theater, composer of “Smeshariki” cartoon series. 

Members::

Sergii Bukovsky (Ukraine), film director, actor, author of documentary films;

Nataliya Galuzo (Byelorussia), film director;

Natalya Guzeyeva (Ukraine-Germany), children’s writer, script writer, member of Ukraine’s National Cinematographer Union;  

Andriy Huk (Ukraine), manager of the Council of Europe Programme, “Strengthening institutional capacity of local authorities in Ukraine”;

Sergii Gulevsky (Ukraine), Director General of the Kharkiv Regional Broadcasting Company;

Andriy Kulykov (Ukraine), mass media expert, journalist, radio and TV presenter; 

Alexandr Mikhailov (Bulgaria), Director of Art Amphora Festival, Member of the Eurasian TV and Radio Academy, CIFEJ member, composer; 

Larysa Mudrak (Ukraine), Deputy Chairman of the National Television and Radio Broadcasting   Council of Ukraine;

Athena Rikaki (Greece), President of the European Children’s Television Center, Member of CIFEJ;

Nikolai Syomin (Russia), prorector of Moscow State University named after M.V.Lomonosov, head of the international cooperation department; 

Leonid Storozhuk (Ukraine), docent of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Fine Arts, member of Ukraine’s Artists Union, Merited Art Worker of Ukraine;

David Shneiderov (Russia), film director, cinema journalist, TV and radio presenter, member of the Expert Council of the Guild of Cinema Experts and Cinema Critics of Russia, member of the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio;

Katerina Yaresko (Ukraine), Cand.Sc. (Ped.), Professor of the Chair of Social Pedagogics of Kharkiv National Pedagogical University named after H.Skovoroda.