Festival start: 05 October 2022
Festival end: 08 October 2022
The 7th Ajayu International Animation Festival is a cultural activity organized by Sapa Inti Estudios and the Ajayu Cinematographic Association, with the situation that crosses our country and the world, this year in its new edition it will be held hybrid way (face-toface and virtual), taking into account all the measures of biosafety proposed by the
Peruvian state.
This event, which in turn hosts different cultural activities, which have been positioned through its trajectory in these years in an uninterrupted way becoming a transcendental activity for the Animation industry in our country.
Likewise, with our face-to-face activities we seek to promote tourism in our region, creating a tourist route, with a cultural and historical focus.
This year it will be held from October 5 to October 8, 2022, renewing the commitment to show the artistic expression of animation, guiding its axis theme in the preservation of flora and fauna, embodied in the animated productions and ancestral cultural manifestations.
The participants will be artists from the animated audiovisual field and from other disciplines, from the Puno region, Peru and several countries of the world, who through their expression will make this hybrid edition a contemporary Andean experience.
The prizes will be divided as follows:
• • Ajayu Grand Prix
• Ajayu Jury Grand Prize (Trophy and digital certificate)
• Best International Animated Short Film (Trophy and digital certificate)
• Best animated short film in Peru (Economic Award with a sum in cash of three thousand soles (S/. 3000,000), Trophy and digital certificate)
• Best Latin American animated short film (Certified Trophy)
• Best animated short film for Thesis or Graduation (digital certificate)
• Best Animated Feature Film (Trophy and digital certificate)
• Best animated series (Trophy and digital certificate)
• Audience Award (digital certificate)
• Best animated short film Audience Award (digital certificate)
• Special Mentions of the Jury (digital certificate)
I. PARTICIPANTS
• People over 18 years of any nationality may participate, either individually or collectively, except in the case of the category "Short Films Made by Children" where minors will be considered 18 years.
• Productions in languages other than Spanish must attach subtitles in .SRT or .pdf format in Spanish and/or english.
• Up to three works per director will be accepted.
• Registration for the categories: Peruvian Short Films, Latin American and Feature Films from any country are free during the entire call.
• The registered animated productions that have been part of the selection
• Official in competition or Exhibition of previous editions of the Festival
• AJAYU will be automatically disqualified.
• Participate animated projects that have been completed after 27
• of May of the year 2019.
II. RECEPTION deadlineS
The reception period will be from May 28 to August 27, 2022 until 11:59 p.m. (Peru time). Projects submitted after the date will not be considered unless the organization has decided to extend the announcement.
The following deadlines will be taken into account:
• Early registration until June 26, 2022.
• Regular registration from June 27 to July 24, 2022.
• Late Registration July 24 to August 27, 2022.
III. CATEGORIES IN COMPETITION
The Festival has the following categories:
• International Animation Short Films.
• Peruvian Animation Short Films.
• Latin American Animation Short Films.
• Animated Thesis or Graduation short films.
• Animated short films made by children (Ajayito).
• Animated feature films.
• Cartoons.
Considerations:
• Productions may compete in only one category.
• Short films must not exceed 20 (twenty) minutes.
• In the case of feature films, they must be longer than 60 (sixty) minutes.
• In the case of series, only one chapter can be selected that should not be
• exceed 30 (thirty) minutes.
• In the case of the International Animation Short Films category, only
• they accept works that do not belong to Latin America and Peru.
• The decision to project works out of competition will depend on the
• organization.
• The best productions will be able to compete in the Ajayu Grand Prize, being the
• most important recognition of the festival.
• The productions that were selected for exhibition can compete for
• the audience award (face-to-face screening).
IV. REGISTRATION
Works can only be submitted online through application platforms and the links can be found by entering our website: https://bit.ly/33fDwCb
V. COMPETITION CONDITIONS
• The animated productions received may be used for the promotion of the Festival (using part of the video, not its entirety, you can also use teaser or trailer).
• Those responsible for the application as directors, producers and/or Distributors must have the rights of the work in application and undertake not to present audiovisual materials and/or photographs on those who do not have rights of use.
• The organization of the Festival is not responsible for the works or the use misuse of intellectual property rights by the authors.
VI. PRESELECTION
This selection will be made as follows: After the closing of applications, the material received will be pre-selected by the Programming Team, designated by the organizing committee of the Festival.
The official selection is divided as follows:
Official Selection in Competition:
• Official Selection of International Short Film
• Official Selection of national short film (Peruvian)
• Official Selection of Latin American short film
• Official Selection of thesis or graduation short film
• Official Selection of Short Films made by children (Ajayito)
• Official Selection of short film Ajayu Grand Prize of the Jury
• Official Selection of Feature film
• Official Selection of animated series.
Official Selection on Display:
• Productions selected by the Festival Organization
Then there will be a list of shortlisted before the publication of results, who will be notified by mail on September 7, 2022.
For this, it is important to emphasize that only the PRESELECTED that send the AUTHORIZATION format (it will be sent to your email about your pre-selection), which must be filled out and signed by the director or person in charge of the work, with it confirm their participation and authorize the screening of their work on the days of the festival on all our authorized platforms, both face-to-face and virtual, and also in later itinerant face-to-face exhibitions.
In the case of virtual platforms for the exhibition of works, there will be the option of that the director choose the geolocation option.
Sending this authorization form will be an essential requirement to be part of of the Official Selection 2022.
VII. OF THE SELECTED
The animated production that has been chosen as part of the Official Selection of the Festival, you must present:
• One or two graphics of the short with a minimum quality of 300 dpi.
• A photograph of the director/s. (not required)
• An image of the short film poster or still (not mandatory).
• Trailer or teaser (not mandatory).
The director and/or producer of the animated production AUTHORIZES that it be included in the AJAYU video library and in itinerant face-to-face exhibitions, virtual projections, for reproduction, communication to the public and exhibition of your work in exclusive free exhibitions of the festival oriented to the formation of hearings, which will be held on the website www.ajayufest.com , through CINE AJAYU, with prior registration and password during the days of the Festival. In the case of virtual platforms for the exhibition of the works, there will be the option that the director choose the geolocation option.
VIII. awards
prizes will be divided as follows:
• Ajayu Grand Prix
• Ajayu Jury Grand Prize (Trophy and digital certificate)
• Best International Animated Short Film (Trophy and digital certificate)
• Best animated short film in Peru (Economic Award with a sum in cash of three thousand soles (S/. 3000,000), Trophy and digital certificate)
• Best Latin American animated short film (Certified Trophy)
• Best animated short film for Thesis or Graduation (digital certificate)
• Best Animated Feature Film (Trophy and digital certificate)
• Best animated series (Trophy and digital certificate)
• Audience Award (digital certificate)
• Best animated short film Audience Award (digital certificate)
• Special Mentions of the Jury (digital certificate)
IX. QUALIFICATION
The categories in Competition (See section VI), will be qualified by juries prominent film and animation specialists.
The Audience Award will apply to productions in general that are in competition and will be chosen by votes in the face-to-face screenings during the festival days.
The Special Mentions are considered by the qualifying jury and the optional organization. If there are Special Mentions, these will be projected in future traveling exhibitions.
X. JURY
The Jury will be established by the organization, among outstanding personalities of the cinema and animation, who will decide the prizes in the competitive categories.
The Jury's decision will be final and the prizes may be declared void in case that do not meet the quality established by the jury or do not reach a consensus.
XI. PUBLICATION OF FINAL RESULTS
The Official Selection in Competition and in Exhibition will be published on September 12 2022 on the website www.ajayufest.com and Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ajayufest and the corresponding laurels will be sent by email.
XII. awards
The award ceremony will be held during the closing day of the Festival, on October 8 of 2022. The winners can incorporate the prize in their starting credits obtained accompanied by the laurel of the Festival.
XIII. ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES
Participation in this Festival implies acceptance of these rules. The absence of any important data in the registration, as well as the attached material to it and non-compliance with the established deadlines, may lead to the non-compliance participation in the Festival of the corresponding work.
Sincerely
THE ORGANIZING COMMISSION
ajayufest@gmail.com
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