CINE JUNIOR FILM FESTIVAL

About

This festival wishes to promote films that develop the youth's artistic awareness as well as to make these films available and accessible to a larger audience through the distribution and cinema theaters networks and finally to help our prize-winning films in their distribution process in France. The Cine Junior festival also organizes meetings and conferences with all those interested in the cinematography for young people: directors, distributors, teachers and a larger audience of adults and children.

Ciné Junior is the biggest youth film festival in France: every year its audience overcome 25 000 children.

Awards

• THE CICAE PRIZE (The International Confederation of Art Cinemas) offers the support of the independant cinema theaters network. 
• Feature Films prize — The French distribution company that has bought the distribution rights commits itself to release the award- winning film in Paris and in the provinces within two years following the prize giving. 
• THE YOUNG AUDIENCE PRIZE will be awarded to a feature film in competition by classes of children from 10 to 15 years old.
• THE GRAIN A DEMOUDRE FESTIVAL PRIZE is an honorary prize awarded to a feature film in competition by the young representatives of this festival. The awarded film will also enter the selection of the next edition of their festival.

After the screenings of the short films competition programmes (3-6 years old, 7-10 years old, 11 years old and above), the audience votes and awards a short film from each category of age programme. This is a honorary prize. 

Rules

• Our audience is between 3 and 15 years old. 
• Films produced after January 1, 2020 
• All genres are accepted: fictions, animation films, documentaries and experimental films.
• Subtitles language: English and/or french

Documents and Other Requisite Items

• To submit a film in the international short films the registration form has to be completed and signed. The film must be sent by file or DVD (DVD has to be sent to the festival office, cf Article 2).

Depending on the educational goals of the art direction and the financial priorities, the festival may bear the cost of guests journey, accomodation and meals of the film director.

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

Director: Larère, Sébastien