PLAY - Festival Internacional de Cinema Infantil e Juvenil de Lisboa (11)

Festival start: 24 February 2024      Festival end: 03 March 2024

PLAY is the first Portuguese film festival, exclusively dedicated to children and teenagers, determined to promote the access to culture for a younger audience through Cinema and screening films for audiences aged between 1 and 16 years old.

Prize Money for "PLAY's Best Short Film Award". This award will be selected by a panel of judges composed by Film professionals.

All the films will be eligible for the "Audience Award for Best Short Film". There will be three winners in this competition: Audience Award for Best Short Film 3-5 years old; Audience Award for Best Short Film 6-9 years old and Audience Award for Best Short Film 10-13 years old.

This will be a Non-Monetary award and the winners will receive a certificate.

Best SHort-movie: Some of the short-movies will be elected for the oficial competition with a 1000€ prize.

1. General

1.1 Objectives

PLAY - Lisbon’s International Kids Film Festival is a Portuguese film festival, exclusively dedicated to
children and youth, determined to promote the access to culture for a younger audience through Cinema,
and intends to be a national reference in the pedagogical and leisure field.

1.2 Dates
PLAY will take place from February 24th to 3th of march 2024, in the São Jorge Cinema in Lisbon, Portugal.

1.3 Eligibility
Submission to the Festival is open to feature films, creative documentaries, experimental films, student
films, short films and innovative visual productions for digital media completed after January 1, 2021.

1.4 Entries
Entries for the 2024 PLAY Lisbon’s International Kids Film Festival are open from 9th of may to October
1st of 2023, the latter being the deadline for filing the required online entry form (available in
www.festhome.com or in PLAY call for entries).

Films should be submitted for evaluation by the selection committee by providing an online screening or
link.

1.5 Programmes
The 2024 PLAY Lisbon International Kids Film Festival will include, but will not be limited to, the following
program sections:

1-2 years old – Learn to see; 3-5 years old – Learn to play; 6-9 years old – Learn to think; 10-13 years old
– Learn to deconstruct. The Festival Program Committee will place selected films in the appropriate
section.
+ 13 Learning to be

2. Competitions

2.1 PLAY Audience Award for Best Short Film
All short-movies are eligible for the audience competition. There will be three winners: Best Short Movie for the ages 3-5 , for the ages of 6-9 and for the ages 10 to 13 elected by the audience vote.

The Festival Program Committee will make the selection of competing films. This is a non-monetary
award, and the three winners will each receive a diploma.

2.2 PLAY Jury Junior Award
The Festival Program Committee will make the selection of competing films. A Jury composed of children from 6 to 13 years old designated by the Festival's organising committee, will award this prize. There will be three winners: Best Short Movie for the ages 3-5 , for the ages of 6-9 and for the ages 10 to 16

2.3 PLAY International Award for Best Short Film
The Festival Program Committee will make the selection of competing films. An International Jury composed of
professionals of the film industry and culture, designated by the Festival's organising committee, will award this prize.

The jury can decide not to award a prize if it feels that there are no worthy films. Decisions of the Jury are final. If any jury member is unable to perform their duties, the Festival reserves the right to nominate one or more additional jury members. The pecuniary prize is 1000 euros. The announcement of the prize-winners is made at the festival, on the
closing night. Any sums of money the Festival offers will be transferred to the bank account of the beneficiary at the latest by May 30, 2024.

3. Promotional materials
Participants are asked to make available all requested publicity materials for promotion.

4. Submission Guidelines and Materials

4.1 Entry Form
The film should be entered through the adherent Sites and online form ( see 1.4).

4.2 Preview Copy
In order to complete the submission, the applicant is requested to send a link for online screening.

4.3 Selection
Festival programmers select and invite all films presented at the festival. Films selected for the PLAY Lisbon International Kids Film Festival will be announced by January 30th, 2024 on our website. Filmmakers selected to participate will be notified prior to this date.

5. Selected films

5.1 Selected films must have their exhibition clearly authorized according to the model, which will be released. A pdf copy must be sent, with the signature of the detainer of the exhibition rights, to the mail contacto@playfest.pt

5.2 Catalogue materials
All contact persons of selected films will receive a request for catalogue materials upon confirming participation in the festival.

5.3 Publicity Materials
The publicity contacts of the films participating in the Festival will receive a request from the Press office to send publicity materials. These materials will be used in Festival publications and for distribution to the press.

5.3.1 Excerpts
After official selection of a film, the Festival is qualified to use excerpts from the film, with a maximum of 1 minute, in the case of films with 1 min last, a 10% maximum. In the event that excerpts are not available, and it’s being understood that under no circumstances the entire print might be lent out.

5.3.2 Promotion
For promotion of the entire selection and of each selected film, the Festival website is allowed to use any photo or digital film clip (less than 3' duration).

5.4 Programming
General scheduling and the timetabling of screenings are entirely at the discretion of the Festival Management.

5.5 Subtitling
When not in Portuguese, selected films, could be screened in their original version with subtitles or dubbed in Portuguese. It is imperative, before sending the print, to send the English dialogue list (including time codes) . Any cost made for translation, dubbing or producing time coded files or DVD’s needed will be covered by the PLAY Festival.

5.6 Formats
Film formats and video systems that can be presented during the Festival are: 35mm, DCP, Video Files (mov, h264 etc) preferably.Presentation of other formats and video systems or delivery through any other type of disk, formatting or licenses requires the authorization of the Festival. Without this authorization the Festival retains the right to exclude a
film from the program.

6. Shipping of Prints and Videos of Selected Films
6.1. The copies of the selected films must be at the Festival address no later than February 10, 2024.

6.2. Shipping instructions
Detailed print/video/DCP shipment information will follow upon acceptance of the film.

6.2.1 Availability of screening copy
Unless authorized by the Festival, prints/videos must be made available for the whole festival period. A DCP can be returned upon request right after ingesting and testing. In case you send a DCP take into account that the Festival needs time for testing and ingesting, and must therefore be available. In case an encrypted DCP will be delivered, the DKDM time-window should be valid from 30 January 2024 till the 15th of March 2024.

6.2.2 Shipment
The Festival will pay for the transportation charges, unless the shipment should be to another Film festival, in this case they should take care of the transport.

6.2.3 Pro forma
A pro forma invoice must accompany the print/video stating the name of the sender, the title of the film, format,length, number of reels (if applicable) and whether it is in color or in black and white.

6.3 Print return
All prints will be returned within two weeks after the Festival. DCP’s can be returned upon request right after ingesting and testing. It is the responsibility of each participant to inform the Festival in due time on (any change in) the details of the return address as well as the desired date of arrival at the return address. In case there is no confirmation of the
address within two weeks after the Festival, the screening copy will be returned to the print source of the film (as listed on the entry form). The Festival is not liable for any inconvenience this may cause.

6.4. Insurance
The insurance of the copies comes into effect the moment the film has arrived at the Festival office. The insurance remains in effect until the film is reshipped. In case of damage to or loss of a film during the Festival, the Festival is
only responsible for the costs involved in making a new print or replacing the damaged reel(s) based on the current laboratory rates for ordering a standard print.

7. Conclusion
Entry and participation of films implies unconditional acceptance of the regulations. In unspecified cases, the Festival Management will make a final decision.