Primanima is an international festival and competition of first animations, which is dedicated to up-and-coming film directors. Its co-founders launched it in 2012 with a goal to provide a platform for young animation talents to present their very first artworks. Seven categories compete for the awards of Primanima: Student Films, Graduation Films, First films, Children's Films, PrimaTeen Films, Masters Competition and Silhouettes Competition .

🔷🔸The call for entries is opened from the 22th of March, 2024.🔸🔷

Primanima takes place in the buzzing little town of Budaörs, Hungary (in the suburb of the Hungarian capital, Budapest). In addition to the screenings visitors can enjoy international workshops, forums, design markets, exhibitions, concerts. The main host of the event is the Budaörs Animation Base and Creative Space (BABtér).

🔶🔸Grand Prix🔸🔶

🔸George Pal Award for the Most Promising Hungarian Talent

🔸Best Début Film

🔸Best Diploma Film

🔸Best Student Film

🔸The Children Jury’s Award for the Best Children’s Animation

🔸PrimaSound Award for the Best Sound Design

🔸Student Jury Award

🔸Macskássy Gyula Award for the Most Popular Hungarian Film

🔸Audience Award for Best Short Film

🔸Audience Award for the Best International Children’s Film

🔸Csermák Tibor Award for the Most Popular Hungarian Children’s Film

🔸The Award of the PrimAlter Jury

🔸Best PrimaTeen Film

🔸The Award of the PrimaKids Jury

🔸Masters Award

🔸My Beloved Animation Award

🔸Silhouettes Audience Award

🔸Backstage Award

The total amount of money prizes will be announced at the beginning of the festival.

🔸🔴SUBMISSION PERIOD🔴🔸

March 22 – July 6, 2024 (for Masters category)
March 22 – July 26, 2024 (for all the other categories)

Please read the Competiton Rules & Regulations, and the description of the categories carefully on our festival site!
https://primanimafestival.hu/upload/pdf/terms_and_regulations_2024_en_v2.pdf

You can also submit your animated short(s) here!
https://primanimafestival.hu/en/regisztracio

🔻🟨ELIGIBILITY 🟨🔻

_your submission should be an animated film, meaning that it is produced frame-by-frame using various techniques other than live-action or animation mixed with live-action

_it should be completed after January 1st, 2022

_it should be no longer than 30 minutes

_it should have English subtitles included if the film has dialogues

_your submission should be eligible for one of the following categories:

🔹STUDENT FILM
your first step in animated short film directing, produced at a high school, various workshops, university education, or any other training programme as a student including DIY productions (the director should be older than 15 years old)

🔹GRADUATION FILM
your BA, MA, or DLA school-leaving short film

🔹FIRST FILM
your first animated short film production made without an educational background

🔹CHILDREN’S FILM
any animated short film made for children (age 3-12) if it falls in any of the above categories (Student Film, Graduation film, First Film) or it is made by an up-and-coming director under the age of 40

🔹PRIMATEEN FILMS - FILMS FOR TEENAGERS
films suitable for teenagers (aged 13–18) submitted for any of the above short film categories (Student film, Graduation film, First film) or made by an up-and-coming director under the age of 40 will also be considered by the programmers for the PrimaTeen competition category

🔹MASTERS COMPETITION
category for established filmmakers, all films are eligible which do not fit in the categories above; directors who previously competed in our festival and they are not first-time filmmakers anymore are encouraged to submit their films to this category; if you are teaching animation in an institution, please note it in your bio

🔻🔺🔷SUBMISSION🔷🔺🔻

If your film matches all the above mentioned requirements, please do the following!

Fill out the online entry form on Primanima’s website or submit your film through FilmFreeway and send your film for pre-jurying by providing a video streaming link (Vimeo, Youtube, Google Drive or Dropbox).

Please also submit the following information to make sure we have an easier job when we are working with the catalogue information:

*the country of origin
*school/production company name
*short synopsis
*detailed credits

🔹🔸🔶TERMS OF CONDITIONS🔶🔹🔸

By submitting your film to Primanima you confirm that you own the rights of the film or you acquired full permission to submit, and you agree to the followings:

The public screening(s) of your film(s) during the festival.

The use of photographic material or other documents related to films entered to the festival solely within the framework of the festival and its promotion in the media.

You can optionally agree to the followings:

(1) the use of excerpts of maximum of 3 minutes or 10% of running time for publicity purposes of Primanima

(2) grant the festival the right, if the circumstances around the festival are changing and a physical event is not an option, to have an online screening of my film (on a password-protected platform with geoblocking.), right holders will be informed about the status of the festival in a timely manner

(3) additional screenings of your film(s) in the follow-up events of Primanima promoting and circulating the festival results (e.g. screening of award-winning films); for any additional use of your film(s) besides the above cases the festival organizers will request a written permission from the filmmaker or producer

◾️▪️🟡SELECTION🟡▪️◾️

The official selection will be announced in the last week of August 2024.

Films will be selected by the festival’s pre-selection jury.
The chosen films will make up Primanima’s official selection in the following categories:

Young Directors Comptetition🔹
with three main subcategories (Student Films, Graduation Films, First F ilms)

Children’s Film Competition🔹

PrimaTeen Film Competition🔹

Masters Competition🔹

Silhouettes Competiton🔹

There will be no verbal or written critique given on films submitted. Notifications will be sent to those competitors, whose films have been selected for the competition by August 13th. We will not notify those competitors whose film was not selected to participate in the competition.

◽️◼️◽️◼️SCREENING FILES◽️◼️◽️◼️

If your film is selected to Primanima (either competition or out-of-competition programme), you should send us the screening copy and additional materials of the film:

Only high-quality digital video files are accepted as a screening copy (format: Quicktime ProRes 422 or Quicktime H.264Dimensions: 1920 × 1080 or higher).

Subtitles: in the case of films with dialogue, please make sure that the film has English hardsubs and attach a preferably time-coded dialogue list in .srt or .txt format separately for translation purposes, HQ videos can be sent by Wetransfer / Dropbox / as downloadable Vimeo files

The screening copy must arrive by the 21th of August 2023.

🟨▫️JURIES▫️🟨

Primanima’s organizing staff will decide on the composition of the international juries made up of 3 members. No jury member must be in any way involved in the production or distribution of competition films.

🔺🔻ORGANIZERS & PATRONAGE🔻🔺

Primanima World Festival of First Animations is organized by Primanima Ltd and Manifeszt (Professional Association of Hungarian Artists of Animated Films).

For further information please get in contact with us!

primanimahungary@gmail.com

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  • Barbara Brunner

    I couldn't attend myself, but communication was great and the staff very friendly <3

    October 2023
  • Levente Sipos

    Very friendly and high quality festival!

    October 2023
  • Anne Isensee

    Hospitality, networking and education were especially nice! Loved it!

    October 2022
  • My favorite festival! I always felt welcome in Primanima, the screenings, the round-table talks, the workshops, the hospitality...everything is so nice.

    October 2022
  • A very cozy and familiar festival with a strong selection of student and first films and a lot of prizes. A definitely recommend to attend!

    November 2018