CHILEMONOS Festival is organized by CHILEMONOS Foundation, a non-profit organization that promote, encourage and develop the Chilean and Latin American animation to the world. Since 2012 we have developed CHILEMONOS Festival, a space created with the goal to be the principal cultural event of animation and a diffusion platform of this kind of contents in Chile and Latin American.

The first version of CHILEMONOS took place in 2012, as a pioneer activity in our country, today, 10 version later, CHILEMONOS Festival is part to list “Qualifying Festivals to Oscar Prize”, this means that since our eighth version, the winners to Best International Short Film and Best Latin American Short Film may be eligible to be part to official classification of Academy prize.

In our versions, CHILEMONOS has counted on the presences distinguished exponent of the industry, who has delight the public with master classes, conferences, Q&As and workshops; like: Jorge Gutiérrez (Maya and the Three and The Book of Life’s director), Brenda Chapman (Brave’s director), Carlos Saldanha (Ferdinand, Río y Ice Age), Peter Lord (Chicken Run’s director), Yoshihiro Shimizu (Tezuka Studio’s director), Mark Shapiro (from Laika studio), Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Boboop’s director), David Feiss (creator and director of Cow and Chicken), Anna Kluza (Loving Vincent’s paint director), Paul Harrod (Isle of Dogs’s production designer), etc.

• International Animated Short Film Competition.
• Latin American Animated Short Film Competition (including Chile).
• International School Short Film Competition.
• Latin American School Short Film Competition (Includes Chile).
• Latin American Animated Series Competition (Includes Chile).
• Latin American Animated Music Video Clips Competition (Includes Chile).
• Latin American Animated Feature Film Competition (Includes Chile / Biannual Category)

RULES INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL CHILEMONOS 2024
The thirteenth International Animation Festival CHILEMONOS 2024, opens its call and invites you to be part of the new version of the festival. It will be held in a hybrid way: online for all of Latin America and in person in Santiago of Chile, between May 3 and 31, 2024.
CHILEMONOS Foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes, fosters and develops Chilean and Latin American animation to the world. Working in 5 lines of action: cultural, industry, training, research and dissemination; 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 the exchange of knowledge, 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 is a qualifying festival for the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences of the United States). 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.
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The thirteenth International Animation Festival CHILEMONOS 2024 (the "Festival"), opens its call for animation works in six official competition categories included in the Festival.
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 for entries is open to works in all types of animation techniques that have been completed as of February 25, 2023.
DEADLINE FOR APPLYING
2.1 Entries are accepted for all official categories in competition from 00:00 hours on Friday, October 30, 2023 until 23:59 hours on Friday, March 1, 2024, considering continental Chile time (GMT-3).
CATEGORIES IN COMPETITION
The categories in competition during this version of the Festival are 6 (six) out of 7 (seven) and correspond to the following:
International Animated Short Film Competition.
Latin American Animated Short Film Competition (including Chile).
International School Short Film Competition.
Latin American School Short Film Competition (Includes Chile).
Latin American Animated Series Competition (Includes Chile).
Latin American Animated Music Video Clips Competition (Includes Chile).

Category out of competition for this edition:
Latin American Animated Feature Film Competition (Includes Chile).

The categories are segmented according to the type of works submitted and the nationality of the author, and the prizes are defined below:
3.1 International Animated Short Film Competition
Official selection oriented to the exhibition of international short films. Works with a duration between 1 and 30 minutes will be considered short films.
International call for entries, excluding Chile and Latin America.
This category awards the following prizes:
A Trophy as the Best International Short Film Award*.
A certificate in Digital format for the first, second, and third place in 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 Oscar® Animated Short Film Competition. Provided that the film meets the requirements established by the Academy's official rules.
For more information, please visit www.oscars.org/rules.

3.2 Latin American Animated Short Film Competition
Official selection oriented to the exhibition of Latin American short films. Works with a duration between 1 and 30 minutes will be considered short films.
Latin American call for entries includes Chile.
This category awards the following prizes:
A Trophy for Best Latin American Short Film*.
A Trophy for Second Place Latin American Short Film.
A Trophy as the Third Place Award for Latin American Short Film.
Certificate in Digital format for first, second and third place in competition.
A Trophy for 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 Oscar® Animated Short Film Competition. As long as the film meets the requirements established by the Academy's official rules.
For more information go to: 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.

3.3 International School Short Film Competition
Official selection oriented to the exhibition of 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.
Each Work must specify in the credits of the Work, the identification of the School, University or Professional Institute where the Work was produced, placing the name of the institution and/or its logo.
International call for entries, excluding Latin America and 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 will award the following prizes:
A Trophy for Best International School Short Film.
Certificate in Digital format to the first, second and third place in competition.

3.4 Latin American School Short Film Competition
Official selection oriented to the exhibition of short films produced under the institutional auspices of schools, universities or professional institutes throughout Latin America, made during the years of study of the applicants or as a degree exam.
Short films will be considered to be between 1 and 30 minutes long. The nationality of the work will be subject to the origin of the Schools, Universities, or Professional Institutes where the Work was made.
Each Work must specify in their credits the identification of the School, University, or Professional Institute where the Work was produced, placing the name of the institution and/or its logo.
Latin American Call for Entries, 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 the applicants, the work will be immediately disqualified from this category.
This category will award the following prizes:
A Trophy for the Best Latin American School Short Film*.
A Trophy as the Second Place Award for the Best Latin American School Short Film.
A Trophy as the Third Place Award for Latin American School Short Film.
Certificate in Digital format for first, second and third place in competition.
A Trophy for Best Chilean School Short Film**.
* The festival reserves the right to divide this category into subcategories based on the number of entries received in this call for entries, according to nationality or any other criteria deemed convenient.
** 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 granted.

3.5 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.
Latin American call for entries, including Chile.
One chapter of each series in competition is nominated. The choice of the chapter is at the discretion of the applicant(s).
Chapters of new seasons of series participating in previous versions of the Festival may be submitted.
Series premiered within the specified period (Article 1: General Conditions: as of February 25, 2023) or series with a confirmed premiere date within the corresponding competitive year (2024) may be nominated.
This category awards the following prizes with respect to the official Series:
A Trophy as the Best Latin American Series Award*.
A Trophy for Second Place in the Latin American Series.
A Trophy for the Third place of the Latin American Series.
Certificate in Digital format to the first, second and third place in competition.

* The festival reserves the right to divide this category into subcategories based on the reception of competing works in this call for entries, according to the age range** of audiences or the criteria deemed convenient.

** The age range to which each work will be assigned will be at the discretion of the author(s) of the work.

3.6 Latin American Animated Videoclip Competition
Official Selection oriented to the exhibition of Latin American animation works, corresponding to official music video clips of musical productions.
Latin American call for entries, including Chile
The nationality of the work will be considered as the nationality of the author in charge, independently of the nationality of the musical production.
This category, in particular, is open to works completed on or after May 7, 2022.
This category awards the following prizes
A Trophy as the Award for Best Latin American Animated Music Video.
A Trophy for Best Chilean Animated Videoclip*.
Certificate in Digital format to the winners in competition.
* This category will award the Best Chilean Animated Videoclip 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 within the first, second and/or third place, this Award will not be granted.

3.7 Latin American Animated Feature Film Competition
Category in competition on a biannual basis, with the next edition to be held in the year 2025.*
Official selection 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 in DCP file must be submitted with Spanish subtitles included in case the language spoken in the feature film is not Spanish.
Latin American call for entries, including Chile.
This category awards the winner with
A Trophy as the Best Latin American Animated Feature Film Award**.
* The category in competition will have a biannual character, to be held next 2025. The application date for the selection race will open in October 2024, and will remain open until the closing date scheduled for March 2025.
** The festival reserves the right to divide this category into subcategories based on the reception of competing works in this call, according to the criteria of age range of audiences or those deemed appropriate.
ENTRIES, SUBMISSION, AND SELECTION OF WORKS
4.1 Submission
Within the application period defined in section 2 of these Guidelines, 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.
Online registration form available at the official Festival website (Free) www.chilemonos.cl
FilmFreeway application platform (Free of charge) www.filmfreeway.com
4.2 Shipping methods for pre-selection material
To submit the work through the online submission form on the Festival's official website, you must check the box corresponding to the submission method:
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 through 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.
4.3 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.
4.4 The materials submitted for consideration for any of the Festival's competitions will become part of the Festival's historical archive.
4.5 The submission of a Work to be considered in any of the official categories in competition at the Festival in accordance with this call for entries implies full 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 authorize its reproduction, storage, exhibition and communication to the public, authorizing 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, 2024 in the Chilean territory, also authorizing 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 also declares that in the event that his/her 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 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.
4.6 The Festival is not responsible for any failure to comply with point 4.5 related to copyrights on the part of the applicant.
4.7 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.
JURY
5.1 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.
5.2 Persons directly related to any of the works in competition in that category shall be disqualified from being part of the jury of the corresponding category.
5.3 The decision of the jury is final.
OFFICIALLY SELECTED ENTRIES
6.1 The Official Selection will be published on the website www.chilemonos.cl and its corresponding social networks (Instagram, Facebook and Twitter). The results will be published by the end of March 2022 in the categories of short films, feature films, series and video clips.
6.2 Applicants authorize the use of trailers or excerpts 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 excerpts will be to promote the Official Competition of the Festival.
By submitting materials to the Festival and Fundación Chilemonos 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 (excerpts or official trailers) may be viewed by the public online or in person as part of the Festival's promotion and/or Festival ceremonies.
6.3 The works that are part of the Official Selection will receive a Certificate in Official Digital format and the CHILEMONOS Official Selection laurels.
6.4 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.
6.5 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 25 and 29, 2024, it means that your production was not selected. We appreciate your participation.
6.6 The delivery of the final material must be done within the deadlines informed in the email, otherwise the work will be disqualified.
6.7 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 text file or subtitle format (e.g. *.srt).
Non-Spanish speaking productions presented in their original language are required to have Spanish subtitles or dubbed dialogue:
If subtitles are used, they must be legible at all times and be delivered separately from the video, the only exception being feature films presented in DCP format, this must contemplate 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.
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, but other audio file formats (wma, flac, mp3, aac, etc.) are also acceptable.

6.8 For the selected filmmakers, the Festival does not cover travel and accommodation costs to attend the event, notwithstanding the fact that the organization may provide letters of support for the respective institutions that favor the attendance of the selected filmmakers.
About the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Although we are well aware that AI is currently a tool for creating animation, Fundación Chilemonos 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 using AI-created content will not be eligible for the Festival's Official Selection in competition in its 2024 edition.
Registration and participation fees
The Festival, in all of its competitive categories, does not charge an inscription fee to the works that apply to the Official Selection.
Likewise, the Festival's policy is not to charge fees to the selected projects.
The exhibition expenses associated with the Festival's Official Selection will be paid by the participants.
What is Animation?
Since 2019, the CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival is a qualifying festival for the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences (Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences of the United States). So the Festival, will follow as a requirement established by the official rules of the Academy 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 between 1 and 30 minutes long. An animated feature film has a running time of more than 60 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. Documentary short films that are animated may be submitted in either the Animated Short Film category or the Documentary Short Film category, but not both.”
https://www.oscars.org/oscars/rules-eligibility
VOLUNTARY CONSENT OF TRANSMISSION ON ONDAMEDIA 2024
10.1 In its thirteenth version, the CHILEMONOS International Animation Festival will be 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 dissemination of audiovisual content ONDAMEDIA, under the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage of the Government of Chile. For further information, please consult the website: https://ondamedia.cl/terms.
10.2 In the registration form, the applicant will find the voluntary option to authorize (if desired) the reproduction, communication to the public and exhibition of his/her work through the ONDAMEDIA platform, content that will be available for seven days for viewing in an encrypted manner with password and only with Latin American geolocation.
10.3 This exhibition will be non-profit and with the objective of promoting the CHILEMONOS Festival and publicizing the works of the 2024 Official Selection.
VOLUNTARY CONSENT OF ITINERATION CHILEMONOS 2024
11.1 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 desired) the reproduction, communication to the public and exhibition of his/her work in free exhibitions aimed at the formation of audiences.
11.2 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 2024 Festival Exhibit, which will be held in Chilean territory in independent theaters, museums and libraries, in the period between the months following the Festival and those prior to the next version of the event.
CHILEMONOS WINNERS EXHIBITION 2024
12.1 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.
12.2 The Exhibit 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 8 is accepted and with the conditions stated therein), and in Chilean territory in independent theaters, museums and libraries, in the period between the months following the Festival and those prior to the next version of the event.

Participation in the Festival implies the acceptance of the Rules and Regulations sent to the selected applicants, which specify the subsequent screenings.
Doubts or comments about the 2024 selection period will be received at competition@chilemonos.cl.

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  • Zinc Liew

    Thank you for selecting my film!

    December 2023
  • Miguel Otálora

    Thank you Chile! As always, nicely done guys! What a great Festival this is. All the Love!

    June 2023
  • Gisela Chicolino

    This festival is really a necessary one. Please keep working on generating this exquisite and outstanding programming for the audiences.

    June 2023
  • Lucía Bayardo

    I was not there but itsound like it was great

    June 2023
  • UNa maravillosa experiencia.
    Felices de haber participado.

    June 2023