Chicago International Children's Film Festival

Chicago International Children's Film Festival, Facets Children's Programs, USA
http://www.cicff.org
http://www.facets.org/children+youth/festival
Festival Creation : 1983
Festival Dates : October
Public attendance : 25,000 visitors
Festival Type : Competitive
Animated Film Awards : Best of the Fest, Special Prizes, Children's Jury Prizes, Youth Jury Prizes, Adult Jury Prizes
2013, 2014, 2015 on Award-Winning Animated Films of International Children's Film Festivals Database.

Festival Description : Actually one of the largest festival of films for children in the world, Facets was the first competitive festival of films for children in the U S and the first Academy Award qualifying festival for children in the world.
The impetus for the Festival came from a need to introduce new, culturally diverse films for children to American children's audiences, and to recognize excellence in children's filmmaking. In addition, the Festival sought to empower children by involving them directly in the jurying process. From its inception, the Festival has had independent juries of children and adult media professionals awarding prizes in multiple categories.
Films that win 1st prize from the Adult Jury in the category Animated Short may become eligible to enter the Academy Awards® competition.
For more information, http://www.cicff.org and http://www.facets.org/children+youth/festival

Cinekid (non competitive)

Cinekid, International Film, The Netherland
http://www.cinekid.nl
https://www.facebook.com/Cinekid
Festival Creation : 1986
Festival Dates : October
Public attendance : 60,000 visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive. Awards for Junior Co-production Market : Cinekid Power to the Pixel Prize, Eurimages Co-production Development Award, CfP Best Project Award
2014, 2015 on Award-Winning Animated Films of International Children's Film Festivals Database.

Festival Description : This ten days’ event in Amsterdam and throughout the country (30 cities in the Netherlands) covers all aspects of the media industry for young audiences and offers workshops and master classes as well as high-quality media. For more than 25 years, Cinekid has been striving to promote the production of high-quality media for children, to ensure that special media productions are accessible to them and to involve the young target audience actively and creatively in media. Cinekid is achieving this by successfully running the ten days’ yearly national Cinekid festival (60,000 visitors) and the Cinekid for Professionals’ conference, which serves as an operating base for more than 400 international media professionals. In addition, ongoing projects locally and abroad like workshops, film screenings, an online media creation platform and digital tools, are reaching a total of 50,000 children.
The festival is non competitive but there are some awards for the the Junior Co-production Market.
The Junior Co-production Market is an integrated 2-day co-production market that enables financiers, broadcasters and producers to assess new and innovative projects across the cross-media, film and television sectors.

Filem'On

Filem'On, Brussels International Children’s Film Festival,  BegiumFilemon Kinderfilmfestival
http://filemon.be
https://www.facebook.com/filemonfestival
Festival Creation : 2002
Festival Dates : October
Public attendance : No information about visitors
Festival Type : Competitive
Animated Film Awards : Best Short Film, Special Mention
2014, 2015 on Award-Winning Animated Films of International Children's Film Festivals Database.

Festival Description : The Mission of Filem’On is audiovisual formation by the programming of films that children see, little or not: short movies, documentaries, previews. Most of the time this program is set in a larger theme that covers social, educational, ecological, anthropological and of course artistic elements. The audiovisual formation is a crucial aspect for the development of children, because it enables them to expand their self image and their view on their surrounding world and it gives them the occasion to express their inner feelings. Filem’On aims at all children from 3 to 15 years and want to focus attention specifically on children who get less access to audiovisual formation. Filem’On brings filmmakers, musicians and visual artists together to stimulate and to produce interesting cross-overs.

Kolibri

Kolibri, Bolivia
http://www.festivalkolibri.org
Festival Creation : 2013
Festival Dates : October
Public attendance : 10,000 visitors
Festival Type : Competitive
Animated Film Awards : Best Animation
2014 on Award-Winning Animated Films of International Children's Film Festivals Database.

Festival Description : Kolibri is a new children's film festival in Bolivia.

Schlingel

Schlingel, International Film Festival for Children and Young Audience, Germany
http://www.ff-schlingel.de
Festival Creation : 1996
Festival Dates : October
Public attendance : 17.500 visitors
Festival Type : Competitive
Animated Film Awards : European Children’s Film Award, Animation Film Award, Short Film Award.

Festival Description : The festival gives an overview of the newest international productions in the area of children and youth films. The festival is organized by the Saxon Children and Youth Films Association in Chemnitz. In addition, since 2006, the Saxon Institution for Private Broadcasting and New Media has also helped to organize this event. The patrons of SCHLINGEL are the Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony, as well as the Mayor of Chemnitz. The festival is under the directorate of Michael Harbauer.