Awards

- Audience Award
- Best Feature film
- Best Short film

Basis

GAZTEFILMFEST

The sixth edition of “GaztefilmFest - Gazte eta umeentzako zinema jaialdia” will be held in Vitroria-Gasteiz in november of 2022.

The particularity of the festival´s program is to bring contemporary non-commercialy distributed films and short-films for children and youngsters.
The criteria for selecting those, will be the cinematographic quality, technic and stylistic eclecticism (animation, documentary, fiction) and subject diversity, highlighting the ones such as solidarity, empathy among nations and the different human rights´ related troubles, violence and migration that affect the whole world, including us.

This festival is articulated by workshops for children and youngsters that keep developing in the different steps of the project: films pre-selection, selection and curating of the programs, communication and graphic design and even the presentation of the final programs to the audience. In order to achieve that, the festival works closely with the schools to involve the children in an active way.

*Participation proposal:
We receive all audiovisual fiction, animation, documentary and experimental works for children made in the last 2 years (including 2020). We welcome all languages as long as the subtitles and/or transcription of the dialogues in euskera, spanish or english are provided. We do not accept dubbed films.

This is the first festival in the world ever to have such particularities as the ones explained, where more than 130 children and youngsters will be responsible for the result of it.

*Different categories to sign up:
(IF THE PIECE IS REGISTERED IN THE WRONG CATEFORY, IT WILL BE DISMISSED. PLEASE REGISTER IT IN ONLY ONE CATEGORY)

Short films (animation, fiction, documentary or experimental) Up to 15 minutes.


-Short films “Infantil” Selection (Addressed to children between 3 and 12 years old)
-Short films “Juvenil” Selection (Addressed to youngsters of 12 years old and up)
-Short films made by children (Made by children up to 12 years old)
-Short films made by youngsters (Made by youngsters up to 19 years old)

*Information for the sending of films:

In order to participate, films must be sent before june 30th.


*Register and selected films:

The films must be sent through the FilmFreeway platform. You will allow the festival to download your film, if they require so, in order to arrange a pre-screener with the children programming.

The person responsible of sending the film once it is selected, (author, producer, distributor) compromises to provide a copy of the piece and other materials before the 30th of june.

The festival will consider the subtitling or dubbing of dialogues of the non-euskera or spanish films. In order to make it possible, it is necessary to provide the audio files, subtitles (in spanish or english in srt. or similar formats) and dialogues with their correspondent time-codes in english or spanish at the time of registering the films, through the platform or e-mail.

*Other requirements:

The person in charge of sending the film declares to be the author or to be in possession of the rights of the piece.

Once the film is sent, the consent is given to Gaztefilmfest to use the name, pictures and/or clips of itself in order to promote the festival and its itinerant program.