El Grito: Festival Internacional De Cine Fantástico (7)

Festival start: 31 October 2025      Festival end: 02 November 2025

El Grito is the first and only fantasy and horror film festival in Venezuela.

We are a space that promotes reflection, meeting and training through fantasy and horror films, serving as a platform for their dissemination and promotion as genres that go beyond entertainment, highlighting its poetic value and its own tools to move from different narratives, techniques and themes. Under the initiative of the El Grito Casa Audiovisual (www.elgritoproduce.com), this meeting was born in December 2019 in the city of San Cristobal, Tachira State.

We look for works that transcend narrative, aesthetic and technical languages ​​within the genre, using history as the main element in his audiovisual proposal, demonstrating as an author, a search for new ways of showing situations, conflicts and twists of the screw hand in hand with references from different disciplines that feed its concept.

EL GRITO seeks to raise its voice until it becomes a thunderous noise that shakes our city and summons for years all kinds of nightmares and monsters that can strengthen our worn out humanity sensibility.

More information in elgritoproduce.com

CATEGORIES:

1) International Feature Film
2) Regional Shortfilm (San Cristóbal, Venezuela)
3) International Short Film
4) Venezuelan Short Film
5) Music Video
6) Animation Shortfilm

RULES - EL GRITO FESTIVAL 2025

• The call for film registration for El Grito Festival has a deadline of July 27, 2025 until 11:59 p.m. (Venezuela time).

• Films in the following categories may participate:

Feature Film
International Short Film
Venezuelan Short Film
Regional Shortfilm (San Cristóbal, Venezuela)
Animation Shortfilm
Music videos

• Six (6) prizes will be awarded to the winners of the aforementioned categories, in addition to a statuette and certificate.

• The event will take place from October 31 to November 2, 2025 in person in San Cristóbal, Venezuela.

• Feature films with a minimum duration of 60 minutes, short films with a maximum duration of 25 minutes and music videos with a maximum duration of 10 minutes are accepted.

• The works can be of any nationality.

• Feature films and short films can be in fiction, documentary, animation or experimental format and must fit into the genres: fantasy, horror/terror, science fiction, thriller, suspense and related subgenres.

• The works must have a completion date from January 2023, except for the category of Venezuelan feature films that may have a completion date from January 2020.
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• Filmmakers selected in previous editions can apply.

• Film reception is via the web through our associated platform: FestHome.

• The registration fee for international feature films is USD $18, while for international short films it is USD $8. Venezuelan participants do not pay a registration fee.

• Feature films and short films that are not spoken in Spanish must include subtitles in this language in SRT format or embedded in the file. If the film does not have subtitles it will not be considered to participate in the event.

• More than one work per director is accepted. However, registration does not guarantee screening/selection within the Festival.

• The Organizing Committee will curate the material received, where the works that participate in the official competition will be selected. The screening schedule will be established according to well-founded criteria.

• After the exhibition within the framework of the event, the filmmakers will be given the opportunity to further disseminate their works through screenings in regional and national distribution circuits.

• Registration for the event implies acceptance of all the bases of participation. Please read carefully and send concerns to elgritofestival@gmail.com