2nd Children's & Adolescents' Film Festival of Kalamata

The Kalamata Children's and Adolescents' Film Festival (#kalyff) invites children and teenagers to let their imaginations run free and participate in an educational and entertaining activity.

Young people over the age of 10 can take part in the competition "Make us laugh!" by creating their own cinematic narrative and winning cinematic prizes. All films will be shown at the Children's Film Festival on Saturday, March 30th 2024, in a public screening, where the audience will award the best one!

CONTEST TERMS

Create your own short film (up to 3 minutes) in which you are invited to do a good deed!

Build the team: Alone or with friends, whichever you prefer!

Write the script: draw inspiration from everything around you: friends, relatives, pets, objects, toys, and elements that characterise your everyday life and make your story.

Consider the condition that even wise screenwriters say: Who, where, when, how and why? How does the story begin? What is its title? What are the surprises and twists that bring the case to a climax? And finally, how does it end?

The purpose is to make a funny story and let your imagination beautify the ugliness of everyday life with an inspiration of madness and creativity: give life to something funny and happy!

Discover your equipment: choose a mobile phone, tablet, laptop, camera, or whatever suits you.

Discover your space: Explore every nook and cranny of our home, garden, school, neighbourhood, and city. The combinations are endless!

Make your shot: Open the lens and choose your preferred distance. Try to shoot in good resolution (H.D., 720p or 1080p) and landscape mode 16:9 (we don't want to squint!)

Hurry up! You only have four weeks!

The deadline is Thursday, March 7th!

Please send us your videos to [email protected]

If your video is long, you can use wetransfer.com

More information and the participation regulations will be available on the Festival website http://www.filmhouse.gr/kalyff

THE FESTIVAL

One year after the tremendous success of the First Kalamata Children's and Adolescents' Film Festival, international children's and adolescents' cinema returns to Messenia. Films of the first pan-Hellenic screening, short and feature-length, animated and live-action from all over the world challenge children and teenagers from 3 to 18 years old to discover them with free admission.

The Kalamata Children's and Adolescents' Film Festival (#kalyff) is an initiative of the multi-member organising team based on the Filmhouse/ New Kalamata Cinema Club, is under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Sports and Religion, with the support of the Municipality of Kalamata and K.E. FARIS and comes annually to promote global creative film production for children, teenagers and their families.

The purpose of the Festival is to entertain and develop our children and highlight the value of cinema as an essential element for strengthening their socialisation and empathy.