Children's, Nature & Wildlife Film Festival is an India’s independent film festival promoted by Miniboxoffice India. The Children's, Nature & Wildlife Film Festival aim is to showcase & promote professionally made entertaining, enlightening & encouraging feature films, short films, animation & documentaries among target audience. The festival accept all genres of children’s, Nature, Climate & Wildlife films be it a fantasy, motivational, drama, disability, educational, science fiction, adventurous, parenting etc.

The Children's, Nature & Wildlife Film Festival is a boutique of children’s, Nature, Climate & Wildlife films celebrating childhood & nature. The festival objective is to bring the world class cinema to the door step of children’s which provide alternate source of learning & help in understanding the culture of other nations and nature through the art of cinema. CNWFF also giving exposure of film education through various workshops & master classes. At the same time providing platform to the filmmakers in reaching out wide audience through CNWFF.


The festival helps in raising the standards of quality content for children’s & nature films and also helps to boost-up the film market. We hope that CNWFF will prove a milestone for filmmakers in their career & a rich experience for audience as well.

The organizing body Miniboxoffice is India’s based global independent films marketing, distribution & film festival organizing company. The company aims to promote independent cinema across the world and realizing independent cinema as commercial enterprise. The company has established film festivals across India mainly in Delhi, Noida, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai & Kolkata, along with esteemed ‘Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival’. All the festivals are running successfully either in 12th or 14th year. Within a short span of time Miniboxoffice has earned reputation among filmmakers fraternity as more than 26000 films from more than 110 countries has participated in its film festivals. Brand Miniboxoffice is well known in industry & it helps extensively young & experienced participant filmmakers in getting recognition.

Awards & Prizes

The following awards will be given in Children’s, Nature, Climate & Wildlife categories.

Best Feature Film
Best Feature Documentary
Best Feature Animation
Best Short Film
Best Documentary Short
Best Animation Short
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Screenplay
Best VFX
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Original Music
Best Background Music
Honorable Jury Mention
Special Festival Mention

Rules & Terms

1. Films must be subtitled in English if language is other than English.

2. Year of production & accepted movie duration:

Year of production: Jan-2022 onwards
Feature Film, Documentaries & Animation: up-to 150 min
Short Film, Documentaries & Animation: up-to 60 min

3. The decision of the Jury will be final and can’t be challenged.

4. CNWFF-25 stages/process:

• Entry submission as per rules & regulations.
• Notification of shortlisted films by the festival office on 19 Feb 2025 and late submission notification on 25 Feb 2025.
• Delegate registration to attend CNWFF-25. All filmmakers must have registered as delegate to attend the festival. Hospitality charges are applicable for filmmakers & attendees, which include lunch, tea/coffee with cookies & master classes.
• Festival movies screening & workshops followed by award ceremony on 09 March 2025 at Hyderabad, India.

5. Children's, Nature & Wildlife Film Festival does not take any type financial commitment for the expense incurred on the correspondence by the participant. All Travel, Lodging & Boarding and other miscellaneous expenses will have to be borne by the participant himself for attending the festival. No request for the same will be entertained.

6. The actual postal charges are applicable for award delivery via courier in case you are unable to attend the festival.

7. Once the film submitted can’t be withdrawn in any circumstances, however festival director reserve the rights to disqualify any film on certain grounds.

8. By submitting movie to Children's, Nature & Wildlife Film Festival , filmmaker/ producer takes the whole responsibility of copyright issues of music, script and other creative and technical aspects of film.