Wiz-Art  LISFF Wiz-Art is an annual International Short Film Festival, which takes place in Lviv, Ukraine at the end of July. The festival was started by art formation Wiz-Art, which was founded in 2008. The festival shows more than 100 brand new short movies every year. Wiz-Art is a powerful cultural and educational platform that unites Ukrainian and foreign filmmakers and introduces them to the Ukrainian audience experienced professionals. Short films from all over the world participate in the festival. Participants from any country can send an application form. The festival shows more than 100 brand new short movies every year. Selected films in each category are eligible for several awards. Also, viewers are able to watch films from the non-competition program.  international competition: national competition:  The festival jury is elected by the administration of the festival. Usually there are several foreign guests in the jury and necessarily representative of Ukrainian cinema. The participants of the jury are professional directors, movie creators and producers. For eight years of the festival existence representatives of the jury were: Ruth Paxton (Scotland), David Lindner (Germany), Vincent Moon (France), Igor Podolchak (Ukraine), Achiktan Ozan (Turkey), Anna Klara Ellen Aahrén (Sweden), Katarzyna Gondek (Poland), Christoph Schwarz (Austria), Gunhild Enger (Norway), Szymon Stemplewski (Poland), Philip Ilson (UK) and others.  20-22 of November 2008 — I International Festival of Visual Art Wiz-Art. There were screenings of Sean Conway (UK), Boris Kazakov (Russia), Milos Tomich (Serbia), Volker Schreiner (Germany) films and retrospective show of the works of the famous avant-gardist Maya Deren (USA). 50 films were shown, 10 of which were short films of young Ukrainian filmmakers.  23-25 of May 2009 — II International Festival of Visual Art Art Wiz-Art. Special guests were British movie maker and poet Julian Gende, German director Martin Sulzer (Landjugend) and Kevin Kirhenbaver, Russian producer and teacher Vladimir Smorodin. There were performances of VJs Shifted Vision and band Надто Сонна (2sleepy). There were retrospective shows of Scott Pagano and David Orayli works and the best movies of the Film School in Zlín (Czech Republic), Stockholm (Sweden), and Hamburg (Germany).