Factual Animation Film Festival 2025

Event Description: FAFF celebrates factual and documentary animation - the first festival of its kind anywhere. FAFF occurs online and offline, enabling filmmakers in this blossoming medium to connect and collaborate. Moreover, FAFF 2023 will host interviews with the filmmakers. There will be awards for the best film at the festival. All mediums and techniques of animation are welcome, on any topic as long as it is non-fictional in nature. Please see the category descriptions for more information.

2025 Call for Entries 

There are currently two categories to submit to:

1. Animated shorts of 1-20 minutes.
2. Animated shorts of under 1 minute.

Both categories will be subjected to the same selection process, so the main difference is that it costs less to submit a film that is shorter than 60 seconds.

Eligibility:
Example of a "factual animation" would share some of these qualities:
- They are about a factual subject, events that happened, real people or lived experiences.
- They follow the codes and conventions of documentary practice, science communication, journalism, educational films, explainer videos, or public service announcements.
- They are about the historical world that we all live in rather than an invented world of fiction.
- They feature representations of real people and their lives.
- If they do feature fictional characters, the emphasis in the film gives a strong impression that the characters are mere rhetorical tools that allow the film to draw focus on events that are grounded in fact, such as social or political issues.
- They tell biographic stories based in fact or autobiographical stories based in lived experience
- They visualise subjective experiences that are otherwise invisible, such as mental health difficulties, dreams, or hallucinations that felt real to those who experienced them.
- They address folklore, spirituality, or religion in a way that sheds light on a real world person, community, or culture, past or present, rather than presenting belief systems as truth.
- They visualise abstract concepts, or present authentic statistics/data. 

• Regulation and Submit via FilmFreeway
• Deadline: 25 April 2025 (super early-bird), 29 May 2025 (early-bird), 27 June 2025 (regular), 31 July 2025 (final)