Film & Animation

Latino Art Beat offers a Film & Animation competition to currently enrolled high school and early college level students (under 21 years of age) in participating cities.  The theme should relate to Hispanic Heritage or the film’s creators should be Hispanic / Latino. Documentaries and PSA’s are acceptable.

In order to further encourage interest in the arts a joint documentary film exchange project was initiated with Platform One and Artswork of the UK in 2002 with four young high school and early college Latino Art Beat filmmakers and four like-minded young English filmmakers. This international film exchange project afforded young aspiring filmmakers hands on job training whilst experiencing travel to Europe. The film is titled "Mind the Gap".  Additionally, Latino Art Beat has formed a partnership with the Miami Short Film Festival and the Chicago Latino Film Festival where select Film & Animation competition winner’s films are screened.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING FILM COMPETITION ENTRIES

1. Use a new VHS tape, or DVD which has not been previously recorded on.
2. DO NOT start recording your film at the beginning of the VHS tape.
3. There must be 5 seconds of black edited at the beginning of the tape.
4. All VHS entries must be recorded on "SP", Standard Play only.
5. Please save your original format (i.e. mini- DV, etc.) as it may be required should your film entry be selected as one of the winners.
6. A still photograph from your film entry will be required from all winners.
7. All film entries must be labeled along the side of the actual video tape with the
title, student directors’ name, the name of the school and the exact RUNNING TIME (i.e. 3 minutes: 04 seconds) in addition to havingthe official art competition entry form completed and attached.
8. STRICTLY 5 minutes or less running-time (ONLY).
9. An appropriate “Art Competition Entry Form” must be completed and handed to the video or visual arts teacher at participating high schools. A “Teachers Inventory Form” will be completed by the video teacher then;
10. All video or DVD entries are to be sent directly by the visual arts teacher to Latino Art Beat in Chicago for national judging.

Don Rossi Nuccio and Jhovanni Linares,
2006 Latino Art Beat National Film & Animation Competition,
"Best of Show", Houston, TX.