Submissions deadline
15 Jul 25
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Gritos en el Planetario
24 Feb 2025
Call for entries
25 Apr 2025
Early deadline
05 May 2025
Standard deadline
02 Jun 2025
Late deadline
15 Jul 2025
Final deadline
01 Oct 2025
Notification date
30 Oct 2025
02 Nov 2025
Festival start: 30 October 2025 Festival end: 02 November 2025
The only film festival in the world held in the impressive setting of the dome of the UNLP Planetarium.
The Gritos en el Planetario festival was born in 2022 with the conviction of promoting and disseminating Latin American production of genre films, while also bringing teenagers and young people closer to the world of scientific outreach, such as the university planetarium.
In its 2024 edition, the festival will take place from October 30 to November 2 at the UNLP Planetarium.
For more information, please visit https://gritosenelplanetario.com.ar/.
"C.Z. Soprani" Award for Best Short Film.
"Narciso Ibañez Menta" Award for Best Feature Film.
"Carlos Hugo Christensen" Award for Best Feature Film Director.
"Chico Serrador" Award for Best Feature Film Script.
"Nathán Pinzón" Award for Best Feature Film Actor.
"Olga Zubarry" Award for Best Feature Film Actress.
Terms and Conditions
Only audiovisual works in short film or feature film format (fiction or documentary) of the horror genre (in any of its subgenres), suspense, thriller, action, adventure, western, noir, fantasy, and science fiction will be admitted.
The production date of the audiovisual work must not be earlier than January of the year 2023.
The duration of short films must be a maximum of 15 minutes (excluding credits), while for feature films it must be from 60 to 120 minutes (excluding credits).
If the audiovisual work is not spoken in Spanish, the corresponding Spanish subtitle must be provided.
The audiovisual work must not have been presented in the previous version of the "Gritos en el Planetario" festival.
The application is made exclusively through the form provided by the festival organization. Registration and participation in the call are free.
The application deadline is July 15, 2025. The festival reserves the right to unforeseen changes in the date.
The screening of selected works will be in-person and in digital format.
Participants of those audiovisual works that are selected certify that their audiovisual piece is an original work and that they are the legal owners of it.
Participants retain the rights to their audiovisual works but grant a non-exclusive license to "Gritos en el Planetario" and its representatives, allowing the festival to use the audiovisual pieces in perpetuity without any compensation for the use of their images in promos, mashups, summaries, and advertising of the festival, both in traditional media (print, radio, etc.) and on websites, YouTube, and social networks.
The exhibition rights of the selected audiovisual work are provided to the "Gritos en el Planetario" festival in an unlimited and non-exclusive manner.
The "Gritos en el Planetario" festival reserves the right to select participating works, determine in which category each one will go, and establish the order and date of exhibition, as well as the possibility of organizing new categories not included in these terms and conditions.
The audiovisual works selected through the call will compete with others that will be directly invited and that together will form the official selections of the "Gritos en el Planetario" festival.
The categories and awards for which the selected works will compete are:
"C.Z. Soprani" Award for Best Short Film.
"Narciso Ibañez Menta" Award for Best Feature Film.
"Carlos Hugo Christensen" Award for Best Feature Film Director.
"Chico Serrador" Award for Best Feature Film Script.
"Nathán Pinzón" Award for Best Feature Film Actor.
"Olga Zubarry" Award for Best Feature Film Actress.
The determination of the juries will be final.
Participation in the call implies acceptance of these terms and conditions. Any matter that arises during the festival not covered in this document will be decided by the festival organization.
Submissions deadline
15 Jul 25
Submissions deadline
15 Jul 25
Submissions deadline
15 Jul 25
Submissions deadline
15 Jul 25
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