International Animation Festival Chilemonos

Call for applications CHILEMONOS 2025
Official Terms and Conditions

The fourteenth International Animation Festival CHILEMONOS 2025, opens its call and invites you to be part of its new version. It will be held in a hybrid way: online for all of Latin America and in person in Santiago de Chile, between May 2 and 31, 2025.
CHILEMONOS Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes, fosters and develops Chilean and Latin American animation for the world. Working in 5 lines of action: cultural, industry, training, research and promotion from which action units are implemented for the creation and formation of new audiences. Since 2012 we have developed and organized the International Animation Festival CHILEMONOS, a space for exchanging knowledge and interaction between animation professionals such as directors, producers, animators and Latin American animation students, who have made this a place for feedback.
Since 2019, the CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival has been a qualifying festival for the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. This means that Winning Works from the Latin American Animated Short Film Competition and the International Animated Short Film Competition may be eligible to enter the Oscar® Short Film Competition, as long as the film meets the requirements established by the Academy's official rules.

1 GENERAL TERMS
The fourteenth International Animation Festival CHILEMONOS 2025 (the “Festival”), opens its call for animation Works in six official competition categories.
Participation is open to individuals and legal entities, individually or collectively, over 18 years of age, of any nationality, by submitting animation works (hereinafter collectively the “Works” and individually the “Work”) that meet the requirements established in these rules (the “Rules”) and the technical standards that allow their future exhibition.
Participation in the competitions is free of charge.
Works that have already been part of the Official Selection in previous versions of the Festival are not eligible to participate.
The call is open to Works in all types of animation techniques that have been completed by March 1, 2024.

2 APPLICATION PERIOD
Entries for all official competition categories will be accepted from 00:00 hours on Friday, November 15, 2024, until 23:59 hours on Friday, February 28, 2025, considering continental Chile time (GMT-3).

3 COMPETITION CATEGORIES
The categories in competition during this version of the Festival are 6 (six) out of 7 (seven) and correspond to the following:
1. Latin American Animated Feature Film Competition (Includes Chile).
2. International Animated Short Film Competition.
3. Latin American Animated Short Film Competition (Includes Chile).
4. Internation School Short Film Competition.
5. Latin American School Short Film Competition (Includes Chile).
6. Latin American Animated Series Competition (Includes Chile).
Category out of competition for this edition:
7. Latin American Animated Music Video Clips Competition (Includes Chile).
The categories are segmented according to the type of Work submitted and their nationality. The prizes are defined below:
3.1 Latin American Animated Feature Film Competition
This official selection is oriented to the exhibition of feature films from Latin America. Feature films will be those with a duration of 60 minutes or more.
Each Work must be submitted in a DCP file with Spanish subtitles included in case the language spoken in the feature film is not Spanish.
Entries calls are for Latin America including Chile.
This category, in particular, is open to Works completed on or after March 1, 2023, and/or feature films with a confirmed release date within the corresponding competitive year (2025).
This category awards the following prizes:
A Trophy for the Best Latin American Animated Feature Film Award*
* The Festival reserves the right to divide this category into subcategories based on the number of entries received, according to the criteria of age rating of audiences or those deemed appropriate.
3.2 International Animated Short Film Competition.
This official selection is oriented to the exhibition of international short films. Works with a duration between 1 and 30 minutes will be considered short films.
Entries calls are international, excluding Chile and Latin America.
This category awards:
A Trophy for the Best International Animated Short Film.*
Certificate in Digital format to the first, second and third place in the competition.
* The CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival is a qualifying festival for the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. This means that the winning short film from the International Animated Short Film Competition may be eligible to enter the Animated Short Film Competition for the Academy Awards®. Provided that the film meets the requirements established by the Academy's official rules.
For more information, visit: www.oscars.org/rules.
3.3 Latin American Animated Short Film Competition
This official selection is oriented to the exhibition of Latin American short films. Works with a duration between 1 and 30 minutes will be considered short films.
Entries calls are for Latin America including Chile.
This category awards:
A Trophy for the Best Latin American Animated Short Film.*
A Trophy as Second Place for Latin American Short Film.
A Trophy as Third Place for Latin American Short Film.
Certificate in Digital format to the first, second and third place in the competition.
A Trophy for the Best Chilean Short Film.**
* The CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival is a qualifying festival for the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. This means that the winning short film from the Latin American Animated Short Film Competition may be eligible to enter the Animated Short Film Competition for the Academy Awards®. Provided that the film meets the requirements established by the Academy's official rules.
For more information, visit: www.oscars.org/rules.
** This category will award the Best Chilean Short Film Award to a Work from Chile, as long as there is no Chilean Work among the first, second and third place winners. If there is a Chilean Work in first, second and/or third place, this award will not be given.
3.4 Internation School Short Film Competition
This official selection is oriented to the exhibition of International short films produced under the institutional wing of Schools, Universities or Professional Institutes, made during the years of study of the applicants or as a degree exam.
Short films will be considered Works with a duration between 1 and 30 minutes. The nationality of the Work will be subject to the origin of the Schools, Universities or Professional Institutes where the Work was made.
Projects conceived as a series or pilot for a series, video clip, trailer, teaser for a feature film or any other format other than Short Film will NOT be considered valid Works for competition.
Each Work must specify in the credits the identification of the School, University or Professional Institute where the Work was produced, indicating the name of the institution and/or logo.
Entries calls are international, excluding Chile and Latin America.
The Festival will verify the applicant's student status. In the case of a collective application, this condition will be verified for all applicants. If it is not possible to verify the student status of any of the applicants, the Work will be immediately disqualified from this category.
This category awards:
A Trophy for the Best International School Short Film.
Certificate in Digital format to the first, second and third place in the competition.
3.5 Latin American School Short Film Competition
This official selection is oriented to the exhibition of Latin American short films produced under the institutional wing of Schools, Universities or Professional Institutes, made during the years of study of the applicants or as a degree exam.
Short films will be considered Works with a duration between 1 and 30 minutes. The nationality of the Work will be subject to the origin of the Schools, Universities or Professional Institutes where the Work was made.
Projects conceived as a series or pilot for a series, video clip, trailer, teaser for a feature film or any other format other than Short Film will NOT be considered valid Works for competition.
Each Work must specify in the credits the identification of the School, University or Professional Institute where the Work was produced, indicating the name of the institution and/or logo.
Entries calls are for Latin America including Chile.
The Festival will verify the applicant's student status. In the case of a collective application, this condition will be verified for all applicants. If it is not possible to verify the student status of any of the applicants, the Work will be immediately disqualified from this category.
This category awards:
A Trophy for the Best Latin American School Short Film.*
A Trophy as Second Place for Latin American School Short Film.
A Trophy as Third Place for Latin American School Short Film.
Certificate in Digital format to the first, second and third place in the competition.
A Trophy for the Best Chilean School Short Film.**
* The Festival reserves the right to divide this category into subcategories based on the number of entries received, according to the criteria of nationality or those deemed appropriate.
** This category will award the Best Chilean School Short Film Award to a Work from Chile, as long as there is no Chilean Work among the first, second and third place winners. If there is a Chilean Work in first, second and/or third place, this award will not be given
3.6 Latin American Animated Series Competition
Official selection, oriented to the exhibition of animation series produced by independent producers, production companies or TV channels, with or without state funding, released or to be released. The winner of this category is determined by the evaluation of a specialized jury.
Entries calls are for Latin America including Chile.
One chapter from each competing series is nominated. The choice of the episode is at the discretion of the applicant(s).
New season episodes or special episodes (e.g. Christmas, Halloween, local festivities, etc.) of series participating in previous versions of the Festival may be submitted.
Series premiered within the specified period (1. General Terms: March 1, 2024) or series with a confirmed premiere date within the corresponding competitive year (2025) may apply.
This category awards:
A Trophy for the Best Latin American Animated Series.*
A Trophy as Second Place for Latin American Animated Serie.
A Trophy as Third Place for Latin American Animated Serie.
Certificate in Digital format to the first, second and third place in the competition.
* The Festival reserves the right to divide this category into subcategories based on the number of entries received, according to the criteria of age rating** of audiences or those deemed appropriate.
** The age range to which each Work will be assigned is at the discretion of the author(s) of the Work.
3.7 Latin American Animated Music Video Clip Competition
This is a biannual competition category, with the next edition to be held in 2026.*
Official Selection oriented to the exhibition of Latin American animation Works, corresponding to official music video clips of musical productions.
Entries calls are for Latin America including Chile.
The nationality of the Work shall be considered to be the nationality of the commissioned author, independent of the nationality of the musical production.
Esta categoría, en particular, está abierta para Obras que hayan sido terminadas a partir del año 2024.
This category awards:
A Trophy for Best Latin American Animated Music Video Clip.
A Trophy for Best Chilean Animated Music Video Clip**.
Certificate in Digital format to the winners of the competition.
* The category in the competition will be biannual, to be held the next year 2026. The application date for the selection race will be in October 2025, remaining open until the closing date scheduled for March 2026.
** This category will award the Best Animated Music Video Clip to a Work from Chile, as long as the winner is not a Chilean Work. If it is a Chilean Work, this award will not be given.

4 NATIONALITY OF THE COMPETING WORKS
In cases where the nationality of a work is not clearly determined, it will be defined by the Festival, considering the following criteria:
Nationality of the director - 30 points in general qualification.
Team of filmmakers (members of the pre-production, production and post-production of the Work), 75% of which must be from the territory to which the Work claims to belong - 20 points in general qualification.
The financing must come from the territory in which the Work is competing. In the case of co-financing, it must be a simple majority from the territory in which the work is competing - 20 points in general qualification.
The Work must be mostly produced in the territory in which it is competing - 20 points in general qualification.
The theme of the Work must allude in some way to the territory in which it is competing - 10 points in general qualification.
In order for a Work to be assigned to the category in which it competes (Latin American or International), it must have a score greater than 50 points according to the nationality criteria.
In the event that a short film has been entered in a category to which it does not correspond, the Festival may relocate it to the corresponding category. If the relocation is not accepted, the Work will be disqualified.
Exception: in school short film competitions, the nationality of the Work is defined by the educational institution where it is made.

5 REGISTRATION, SUBMISSION AND SELECTION OF WORKS
5.1 Registration of Works
Within the application period defined in section 2 of these Rules, applicants must register in order to be considered in any of the categories in competition. The process has two official channels for the registration of works to participate in the pre-selection.
a) Online registration form available at the Festival's official website (Free)
www.chilemonos.cl
b) FilmFreeway application platform (Free)
www.filmfreeway.com
5.2 Methods of sending material for pre-selection
To submit the Work through the online entry form on the Festival's official website, you must check the box corresponding to the submission method:
a) Sending the file via download link: through Vimeo (with password) Wetransfer, Dropbox, Google Drive, private FTP's or similar*.
*In case of having sent the Work by means of an expiring link, the Applicant is obliged to provide a new link in the event that the Festival organization has not downloaded the Work. Otherwise, the entry will not be considered.
5.3 The Works received to apply for the competitions will be submitted to a pre-selection process carried out by the Festival's Curatorial Committee. The decision of the Curatorial Committee is final.
5.4 The materials submitted for consideration for any of the Festival's competitions will become part of the Festival's historical archive.
5.5 The submission of a Work for consideration in any of the official categories in competition at the Festival in accordance with this call for entries implies the total and unrestricted acceptance of these Rules. Likewise, by submitting the application form, the applicant declares to be the owner of all copyrights on the Work and to have the power to authorise its reproduction, storage, exhibition and communication to the public, authorising the free reproduction, exhibition and public communication of the respective Work from the date of the application and until the end of the Festival on May 31, 2025 in Chilean territory, also authorising the storage, reproduction and communication to the public of the Work in the context of the Festival's historical archive. Without prejudice to the above authorization, the applicants undertake to execute additional authorization instruments that may be required by the organization in the event that the corresponding Works are selected.
The applicant further declares that in the event that the Work compromises, affects or includes the total or partial use of works protected by national or international legislation on intellectual property (including especially those necessary to exhibit the Work to the public and phonographic rights that may be applicable), and whose copyright holders are natural or legal persons other than the applicant, has the express authorization to use such Works given by the copyright holder, complying with the formalities indicated in these Terms and Conditions, has the express authorization for the use of such Works given by the copyright holder, complying with the formalities indicated in these Terms and Conditions, being responsible for any infringement of such rights and consequently obliged to defend and indemnify the Festival organization in the event of claims filed by third parties to that effect.
5.6 The Festival is not responsible for any failure to comply with point 4.5 related to copyrights on the part of the applicant.
5.7 The Festival organization reserves the right to make the decisions it deems appropriate in the event of situations not expressly provided for in these Rules.

6 JURY
6.1 The Jury shall be made up of professional animation filmmakers, workers, cultural managers, directors invited to the Festival and members of international entities associated with the event.
6.2 Persons directly related to any of the competing works in that category shall be disqualified from being part of the jury of the corresponding category.
6.3 The decision of the jury is final.

7 OFFICIAL SELECTION IN COMPETITION
7.1 The Official Selection will be published on the website www.chilemonos.cl and its corresponding social networks (Instagram, Facebook and X). The results will be published by the end of March 2025 in the categories of short films, feature films and series.
7.2 Applicants authorize the use of trailers or segments of their Work (provided by the representative of the selected Works) in the event of being selected. The purpose of the use of such trailers or segments will be to promote the Official Competition of the Festival. By submitting materials to the Festival and CHILEMONOS Foundation for consideration in the competition, the submitting party accepts that the materials submitted will be viewed by the curatorial committee. If nominated, the materials may be viewed by the Official Jury, and brief portions (segments or official trailers) may be viewed by the public online or in person as part of the Festival's promotion and/or Festival ceremonies.
7.3 The works that are part of the Official Selection will receive a Certificate in Official Digital format and the CHILEMONOS Official Selection laurels.
7.4 The selected works will be notified by e-mail, where instructions will be given regarding the formats, deadlines, place and way of sending the selected works to be exhibited to the public during the days of the Festival.
7.5 Due to the large number of animated works that annually apply for pre-selection in one of the different categories in competition, only those participants whose productions have been selected for the Official Competition of the CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival will be notified directly via email. So, if you are not notified between March 24 and 31, 2025, it means that your production was not selected. We appreciate your participation.
7.6 The delivery of the final material must be made within the deadlines informed in the e-mail, otherwise the work will be disqualified.
7.7 The final material containing the Work, if it is in a language other than Spanish, must be sent together with its respective subtitles in Spanish (or, failing that, English). The subtitles must be submitted separately from the video: in a text file or subtitle format (e.g. *.srt).
a) If subtitles are used, they must be legible at all times and must be delivered separately from the video, the only exception being feature films presented in DCP format, which must include subtitles. Subtitles must be submitted as srt files, or we will accept text files with time stamps (word, txt, PDF).
We will not accept scripts as subtitles.
b) If dubbed dialogues are used, the audio track must be synchronized with the video and can be embedded in the video file or as a separate audio track.
2-channel (stereo) audio files will be received, ideally in WAV format, other audio file formats (WMA, flac, mp3, aac, etc.) are also acceptable.
7.8 For the selected filmmakers, the Festival does not cover travel and accommodation costs to attend the event, although the organization can provide letters of support for the respective institutions that favour the attendance of the selected filmmakers.

8 ON THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (IA)
Although we are well aware that AI is currently a tool for animation, CHILEMONOS Foundation and the CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival have not yet decided on a specific policy on the use of AI in relation to submissions to the Festival's Official Selection. At this time, we are still studying the best way to incorporate AI into our project submission rules.
This year, considering the above, projects that are composed of animations made with AI that replace the work of the animator, will not be eligible for the official selection in competition of the Festival in its 2025 edition.

9 REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION FEES
The Festival, in all of its competitive categories, does not charge an inscription fee for works submitted to the Official Selection.
Likewise, the Festival's policy is not to make any payments or fees for the exhibition of the selected projects.
The exhibition expenses associated with the Festival's Official Selection will be paid by the participants.

10 WHAT IS ANIMATION?
Since 2019, the CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival has been a qualifying festival for the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences. Therefore, the Festival will follow the requirements established by the official rules of the Academy for the definition of Animation as follows:
“An animated film is defined as a motion picture in which movement and characters’ performances are created using a frame-by-frame technique, and usually falls into one of the two general fields of animation: narrative or abstract. Some of the techniques of animating films include but are not limited to hand-drawn animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, pixilation, cutout animation, pinscreen, camera multiple pass imagery, kaleidoscopic effects created frame-by-frame, and drawing on the film frame itself. Motion capture and real-time puppetry are not by themselves animation techniques. An animated short film has a running time of 40 minutes or less. An animated feature film has a running time of more than 40 minutes. In an animated film, animation must figure in no less than 75 percent of the picture’s running time. In addition, a narrative animated film must have a significant number of the major characters animated. If the picture is created in a cinematic style that could be mistaken for live action, the filmmaker(s) must also submit information supporting how and why the picture is substantially a work of animation rather than live action.”
Fuente: https://www.oscars.org/oscars/rules-eligibility

11 VOLUNTARY AUTHORIZATION OF TRANSMISSION ON ONDAMEDIA 2025
11.1 In its fourteenth version, the CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival is being held in a mixed format, both on-site and online. For its online version, the Festival has a partnership with the free Chilean platform for the promotion of audiovisual content ONDAMEDIA, under the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage of the Government of Chile.
For further information, please consult the site: https://ondamedia.cl/terms.
11.2 In the registration form, the applicant will find the voluntary option to authorize (if desired) the reproduction, communication to the public and exhibition of the Work through the ONDAMEDIA platform, content that will be available for seven days for viewing in an encrypted manner with a password and only with Latin American geolocation.
11.3 This exhibition will be non-profit and with the objective of promoting the CHILEMONOS Festival and publicizing the works of the Official Selection of the year 2025.

12 VOLUNTARY AUTHORIZATION FOR CHILEMONOS ITINERANCY 2025
12.1 The CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival carries out free animation exhibition activities throughout the year. In the registration form, the applicant will find the voluntary option of authorizing (if he/she wishes) the reproduction, communication to the public and exhibition of his/her work in free exhibitions aimed at the formation of audiences.
12.2 If the reproduction, communication to the public and exhibition referred to in the preceding paragraph is authorized, the Works will be part of the CHILEMONOS 2025 Festival Exhibit that will be held in Chilean territory in independent theatres, museums and libraries, in the period between the months following the Festival and the months prior to the next version of the event.

13 SCREENING WINNERS CHILEMONOS 2025
13.1 The first, second and third place winners of the selections: International Animated Short Film Competition, Latin American Animated Short Film Competition (including Best Chilean Short Film), International School Short Film Competition and Latin American School Short Film Competition (including Best Chilean School Short Film); will be part of the CHILEMONOS 2024 Winners Showcase.
13.2 The Screening will be exhibited on a non-profit basis and with the objective of promoting the CHILEMONOS Festival and publicizing the Winning Works of the year 2024. The Exhibit will be exhibited in ONDAMEDIA (if point 11 is accepted and with the conditions stated therein), and in Chilean territory in independent theaters, museums and libraries, during the period between the months following the Festival and the months prior to the next version of the event.
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Participation in the Festival implies the acceptance of the Rules and Regulations sent to the selected applicants, which specify the subsequent screenings.
Questions or comments about the 2025 selection period will be received at competition@chilemonos.cl.