International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR

Regulations for all 4 competition categories are available for download on ANIMATOR Festival's website: https://animator-festival.com/en/news/sign-ups-for-the-animator-2025-competitions-are-now-open/

COMPETITION CATEGORIES:
1. International Short Film Competition
- duration: up to 30 minutes;
- completion date: after 31 December 2022 (films with completion date / year of production: 2023, 2024 and 2025) ;
- animation technique: all techniques are welcome (min. 51% of the film duration has to be animated)
- who can apply: arts schools, film schools, production companies, film institutions, individuals or other parties holding the necessary rights;
- Main Prize: Golden Pegasus (45,000.00 PLN, approx. 10,300.00 EUR), 2nd Prize: Silver Pegasus (12,000.00 PLN, approx. 2,750.00 EUR), 3rd Prize: Bronze Pegasus (6,000.00 PLN, approx. 1,380.00 EUR), Best Music Film or Best Film Music Award (2,000.00 PLN, approx. 460.00 EUR), Best Student Film Award (2,000.00 PLN, approx. 460.00 EUR);
- The winner of the Golden Pegasus is on a fast track to being considered for an Oscar® nomination in the Best Animated Short Film category and can compete for this prestigious award;
- series, trailers, commercials and intros are not eligible for the Short Film Competition.

2. International Feature Film Competition
- duration: above 40 minutes;
- completion date: after 31 December 2022 (films with completion date / year of production: 2023, 2024 and 2025) ;
- animation technique: all techniques are welcome (min. 51% of the film duration has to be animated)
- who can apply: film distributors, production companies, film institutions, individuals or other parties holding the necessary rights;
- Best Feature Film Award (30,000.00 PLN, approx. 6,900.00 EUR);

3. International Animated Series Competition
- single episodes of TV and webseries (including TV specials, pilot episodes, mini-series episodes & TV films); Only TV and web series/TV and web films may be submitted to the Animated Series Competition. In the description of the entry/submission form, the Entrant should prove that the submitted episode is part of a larger project (it is not an 'ordinary' short film) – meaning: the submitted episode is part of an assumed (pilot / special episodes) or already existing series.
- completion date: after 31 December 2022 (series episodes with completion date / year of production: 2023, 2024 and 2025);
- animation technique: all techniques are welcome (min. 51% of the film duration has to be animated)
- who can apply: film distributors, production companies, film institutions, individuals or other parties holding the necessary rights;
- Best Animated Series Award (5,000.00 PLN, approx. 1,150.00 EUR);
- short films, trailers, commercials and intros are not eligible for the Series Competition.

4. Polish Animated Film Competition
- films made in Poland or made by Polish artists abroad, co-produced by Polish producers;
- films made in Poland or made by Polish artists abroad, co-produced by Polish producers;
- duration: up to 30 minutes;
- completion date: after 31 December 2023 (films with completion date / year of production: 2024 and 2025);
- animation technique: all techniques are welcome
- who can apply: arts schools, film schools, production companies, film institutions, individuals or other parties holding the necessary rights;
- Award for the Best Polish Short Film, the Golden Animusz - GRAND PRIX of the Polish Competition (12,000.00 PLN, approx. 2,750.00 EUR), 2nd Prize: Silver Animusz (4,000.00 PLN, approx. 920.00 EUR), 3rd Prize: Bronze Animusz (2,000.00 PLN, approx. 460.00 EUR);
- series, trailers, commercials and intros are not eligible for the Polish Competition.

5. ROTAMINA – THE CHEMISTRY IN US Open Call Thematic Competition
- duration: up to 30 minutes;
- completion date: films created over the last 20 years;
- animation technique: all techniques are welcome; you may submit audiovisual works (narrative films, experiments, video-collages, fragments of installations, larger works or entire works) using the medium of animation and animation techniques
- who can apply: film distributors, production companies, film institutions, individuals or other parties holding the necessary rights;
- ROTAMINA – THE CHEMISTRY IN US Open Call Thematic Competition prize of PLN 5 000 gross (approx. 1,150.00 EUR) for the audiovisual work / film director;

The Festival does not charge any fees for film submission. The Festival does not pay screening fees for the films selected for the Competition.
By entering the Festival, the Entrant grants a royalty-free, non-exclusive, territorially unrestricted license to the Organizer to use the film by public screening in the framework of the Competition. Competition films may be shown not more than four (4) times.

The films screened in the Short Film Competition will (along with the films screened in the Series Competition and the National / Polish Short Film Competition) take part in an audience vote to select the winner of the Audience Award for the best short film.

Producers of awarded films grant their non-exclusive, royalty-free, time and territory unlimited license to the Organizer to arrange 10 (ten) screenings of films (at the cinema venue and/or online) as part of domestic and international tour of "Animator 2025" presenting the Competition winners following the Festival. Additional screenings require a written consent of the producer.