IndieJúnior - International Children’s and Youth Film Festival of Porto 2024

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Category
ANIMATION & FILM FESTIVALS
Deadline | Event Dates (period)
22/01/2024 - 28/01/2024
City
Porto, Portugal
Telephone
Email
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Edition
8
Final submission deadline
2023-10-13
Submission/Registration Fee
Yes

Festival Description: IndieJúnior - International Children’s and Youth Film Festival of Porto is an annual event that shows the best Portuguese and international films made by, for, or about children and youth. Aiming at education as well as entertainment, the film festival promotes the culture of film watching, media literacy, and alternative learning among children and youth. Each year the festival organizes screenings for schools and families, workshops, talks, and debates around cinema, and special screenings such as film concerts or screenings for babies and their parents. The festival integrates an international competition for a feature and short films watched by three juries (official, schools, and audience). Several films competing for the awards are selected by students from preschool to high school, which are part of the educational activity “I program a film festival!”.

2024 Call for Entries

The 8th IndieJúnior – International Children’s and Youth Film Festival of Porto will be held from 22-28 January 2024 at Batalha Film Centre, among other venues in Porto.

Eligibility criteria

To apply to IndieJúnior´s International Competition, films must fulfill all the following criteria:

  • Fiction, animation, documentary, or experimental short (up to 45 minutes)
  • Completed in either 2022, 2023 or 2024; 

Juries and Awards

1. IndieJúnior official juries are:
a) jury composed of adults and young people who will attribute the Award for Impact Film (1000 Euros);
b) jury composed of professionals in the field, who will attribute IndieJúnior Grand Prize (1.250 Euros);
c) an audience jury that will give the Audience Award (500 Euros);
Juries will be able to assign honorable mentions when deemed necessary; 

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2020 Festival Coverage

Competition
The festival integrates an international competition for the feature and short films, with around 50 recent films (fiction, documentaries, animations), watched by three juries (official, schools, and audience)Several films competing for the awards are selected by students from pre-school to high school, which are part of the “I program a film festival!” initiative, organized in partnership with the Parallel Program of the Municipal Theater of Porto. Because at the festival there is also a place saved for classics, we present once again the section “My first film”, with three guests from Porto choosing an important film from their childhood.

 
 

Event Dates

  • From 22/01/2024 to 28/01/2024
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