1.) PARTICIPANTS
There is no registration fee for the festival competition however the participant must register before 14th June 2019 and complete the online registration form.
The Participant must be residing in an East African Country.
2.) ANIMATION CONTENT
All submitted animation content must be originally produced during the 60 days.
Participants are open to choose any local languages they prefer but animations recorded in a language other than English must provide English subtitles (not dubbed).
To comply with the government, the submitted content should not contain any elements of Politics, Insults/Abuse towards any person/ association/group/tribe or religion, Offensive language, LGBTQ or Advertising any brand/product/company or anything other than the name/brand provided for the competition
3.) COMPETITION BRIEF
All participants will receive a brief and theme for each competitive category on the first day of competition i.e 6:00AM 15th June 2019. The theme must be included in the content
To qualify for consideration, all submitted videos must include the title cards which shall be sent to participants at 6:00AM 15th June 2019.
4.) SUBMISSIONS AND JURY
All submissions entered into the competition must have been produced only during the 60 days i.e. 15th June to 13th August 2019.
The jury appointed by the Kenya Animation Festival shall nominate up to ten (10) finalist animations short for each of the four categories between 14th August to 20th August 2019. The list of finalists shall be made public on 21st August 2019. The winners will be announced on the 30th August 2019 at the awards ceremony to be held in Nairobi, Kenya.
5.) SCREENINGS
All nominated animations shorts shall exclusively be screened during the Annual Kenya Animation Festival Awards from the 26th August to 29th August 2019.
6.) AWARDS
A total of four prizes shall be awarded, There shall be one prize in each of the three categories:
Best Kids Animated Short - $5,000
Best Animation Short- $5,000
Best Animated Music Video- $2,500
7.) PERMISSIONS & RIGHTS
All participants must have the full rights and ownership of any character, audio,music or beats submitted in the content apart from the music provided for the competition.
By participating to Kenya Animation Festival, the participant grants Festival the rights to use his/ her animated short for the festival promotional marketing, broadcasting, screening or distribution. The participant also grants SeventyTwo Media Group (the organizer) to showcase his/her submission on SeventyTwo Media TV Non-commercially. The participant however, has free will to distribute his/ her animated content.
8.) WITHDRAWAL OF ENTRY
Festival organizers reserves the right to withdraw any of the submissions entered into competition in the case if the participant does not full all terms and conditions of the festival or does not meet minimum quality requirements.