1st Timers - a part of Cinalfama

The event will happen in Alfama as a part of the Lisbon indie reference Cinalfama Film Festival. Our selected films will be eligible and compete in the Cinalfama Film Festival in July 2025.

The 1st Timers Debut and Student Film Night is an international film showcase held every July in Lisbon.

Awards & Prizes

Lisbon Animation Film Festival will grant official selection status to one winning film and possible honorable mentions.

The selected and awarded films will receive a laurel and a certificate.

A trophy will be awarded to the selected films.

The winners and nominees will have the opportunity to publicly screen their films at the Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Festival, in July.

The selected and awarded movie's promotional material will be announced and viewable on our site and social media.

Rules & Terms

The entrant/submitter/moviemaker hereby certifies that he possesses the right(s) and all of the proper clearances to submit the movie, including, but not limited to image rights, talent releases, soundtrack, and/or source music releases; and assumes all responsibility for their material. Animalfama accepts no responsibility, financial or otherwise, for any movie submitted to the festival.

Every entry/submission will be judged based on its directing, acting, technical, and artistic merits, as related to the submission. All decisions made by the judge(s) are considered final and incontestable.

We reserve the right not to award all the designated prizes if we feel we have not
received entries that guarantee our quality standards.

1st Timers only accepts online screeners. Please submit your film via one of the
available online platforms or the form available on the festival website. We will
not accept discs or any other downloadable files.

Cinalfama favors the projection of files exported in Pro Res.

Submission fees are non-refundable.

Multiple entries are authorized. You can submit more than one film in the same
category.

All submitted films will be eligible for the next edition if they have not won awards in
previous editions.

Submissions in languages other than English must be subtitled in English. These
subtitles must be embedded in the film. We will not accept additional srt files.

Only films completed after 2021 will be accepted.
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  • Stephen Pierce

    Very pleased to pick up the 'Best Screenplay' award this year - an excellent festival, just sorry we can't enter again!

    September 2021
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