Festival start: 16 February 2025
Festival end: 22 February 2025
SUBMISSIONS 2025
MI PRIMER FESTIVAL, 10TH EDITION
The call is open until November 30!
The international film festival for children and youth MI PRIMER FESTIVAL (MPF) that sows the love for cinema. It is in our hands to find ways to encourage and promote that girls, boys, adolescents and young people understand what is happening in the world and show them ways to initiate change.
MPF invites you to participate in its 10th edition, we will celebrate our first ten years, which will take place during 2025 in different regions of Peru, taking as a starting point our first event in Lima that will be from February 16 to 22, 2025 in person, thanks to different venues and cultural centers.
MI PRIMER FESTIVAL aims to create a space for the exhibition of national and international cinema and audiovisuals, framing our content around the Human Rights of NNAs established in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and in the General Law on the Rights of NNAs, which recognizes them as holders of their rights.
We are a festival focused on the care and agency of children's citizenship, from a decentralized vision that aims to ensure that our content reaches a diverse audience.
MY FIRST FESTIVAL, through audiovisual and new media, promotes reflection on the various rights of children and adolescents from the imagination and education, forming creative, flexible and safe future citizens.
Best short film award.
Best feature film award.
Best Peruvian audiovisual work in competition award.
Best TV/web series award.
Schools Award (for the different sections).
CATEGORIES
This edition of the festival will have the following categories:
Feature films: 45 minutes or more in length.
Feature films, animation, documentary or mixed media, are in competition. The festival is free to form blocks depending on the age (between 3 and 16 years) for which the films are directed.
Short films: Between 1 and 20 minutes in length.
Short films, animation, documentary or mixed media, are in competition. The festival is free to form blocks depending on the age (between 3 and 16 years) for which the films are directed.
Schools: Between 1 and 20 minutes in length.
Short films, animation, documentary or mixed media, made by children and adolescents in educational centres or educational spaces, are in competition.
Each centre may not send more than three projects; if more than three are sent, only the first three will be considered. They may participate in the following sections.
Primary
Secondary
Teaching
Series: Between 0 and 30 minutes long.
TV and/or Web series aimed at children and young people between 0 and 15 years old are competing.
3. SELECTION
3.1. The programming and management team of My First Festival is in charge of selecting the works to participate in the competitions according to the following selection criteria:
Story (H: 3 points): originality, theme, dramatic action, point of view from which the story is told, plausibility and empathy with children.
Audiovisual Treatment (TA: 3 points): photography direction, animation, sound proposal, innovative use of audiovisual media, technical quality.
Social Projection and Human Rights (PS: 4 points): Topics related to childhood and children's rights, gender, ecology, mental health, citizenship, etc.
8. By registering the film or series, the participant authorizes the free exhibition of the film/series within the framework of the 10th edition in person or virtually and with geolocation activated exclusively for the Peruvian region. He/she also waives any financial compensation for this concept.
9. Up to 15% of the film/series may be used to promote the 10th edition in any of its electronic or audiovisual publications.
10. The selected films and series that have been duly registered may not be withdrawn from the festival's programming.
11. The authors or owners of the selected films and series will be contacted by email and/or WhatsApp starting on January 6, 2025, so they are asked to be attentive to communications on those dates.
12. The audiovisual material required for the reproduction of the film/series during the festival may be submitted within the proposed period in the following formats: Full HD files, Formats (MP4, MOV), H.264 Codec.
13. The delivery of the audiovisual material for reproduction will have a maximum period from the date of your request until January 20, 2025. Mi Primer Festival reserves the right to not accept submissions after the indicated date.
WEB/TV SERIES FOR CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS
Short Films >1' 20'<
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Submissions deadline
30 Nov 24
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Those TV or Web series aimed at children and young people between 0 to 16 years old compete.
SCHOOLS
Short Films >1' 20'<
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Submissions deadline
30 Nov 24
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Between 1 and 20 minutes long.
Those fiction, animation, documentary or mixed media short films made by boys, girls and teens up to 16 years.
SHORTFILMS
Short Films 20'<
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Submissions deadline
30 Nov 24
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Between 1 and 20 minutes long.
Those fiction, animation, documentary or mixed media short films made outside the Latin American region. The short films must be aimed for a child audience between 0 and 16 years old.
FEATURE FILMS
Short and Feature Films >45' 140'<
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Submissions deadline
30 Nov 24
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Feature films: 45 minutes or more in length.
Feature films, animation, documentary or mixed media, are in competition. The festival is free to form blocks depending on the age (between 3 and 16 years) for which the films are directed.
