ANDkids World Film Festival (non competitive)

ANDkids World Film Festival , USA
http://performingarts.nd.edu/andkids
Festival Creation : 2008
Festival Dates : July
Public attendance : No information about visitors Festival
Type : Non competitive
Festival Description : World Film Festival is a four days festival, featuring an entertaining, educational and diverse line-up of films from around the world for children of all ages. Festival's programs for young audiences showcase also short films that played during Children's Film Festival Seattle. ANDkids World Film Festival is set to take place at the University of Notre Dame, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

BAMkids (non competitive)

BAMkids, USA
http://www.bam.org/kids
https://www.facebook.com/BAMstage
Festival Creation : 1998
Festival Dates : February
Public attendance : 10,000 visitors or less
Festival Type : Non competitive. Special mention : BAMmie
2014, 2015 on Award-Winning Animated Films of International Children's Film Festivals Database.

Description : BAMkids festival is apart of BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music),a multi-arts center located in Brooklyn, New York. For more than 150 years, BAM has been the home for adventurous artists, audiences, and ideas—engaging both global and local communities. With world-renowned programming in theater, dance, music, opera, film, and much more, BAM showcases the work of emerging artists and innovative modern masters.

Busan International Kids Film Festival (non competitive)

Busan International Kids Film Festival (BiKi), South Korea
http://www.biki.or.kr
https://www.facebook.com/biki.festival
Festival Creation : 2015
Festival Dates : July
Public attendance : 15,000 visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive

Festival Description : Busan International Kids' Film Festival is the non-competitive image-cultural festival for the children of all ages which they can join and empathize with others. BiKi aims to discover films by gifted children or young directors and develop new contents in the relevant fields. Every year, Biki invite some directors or producers of the selected films to join the festival. During the festival, there are programs such as 'Kids Film Workshop' where children can experience interesting visual arts during the 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.

KidsFilmFest (non competitive)

KidsFilmFest, USA
http://www.kidsfilmfest.org
Festival Creation : 2005
Festival Dates : May
Public attendance : No information about visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive

Festival Description : kidsfilmfest's mission is to discover, expose, and promote children's filmmakers while drawing worldwide attention to Brooklyn. kidsfilmfest is an exciting, new initiative of the Brooklyn Film Festival (BFF).

Little Big Shots (non competitive)

Little Big Shots, International Film Festival for Kids, Australia
http://www.littlebigshots.com.au
https://www.facebook.com/Little-Big-Shots-International-Film-Festival-for-Kids
Festival Creation : 2004
Festival Dates : June
Public attendance : 10,000 visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive. Special mention
2014 on Award-Winning Animated Films of International Children's Film Festivals Database.

Festival Description : An inspiring, meaningful and fun-filled festival, Little Big Shots features the best in local and international children's shorts, animations, documentaries and, amazingly, child-produced films. The films screening in Little Big Shots inspire discussion of world cultures, different languages, cultural diversity, emotional intelligence and human values. Better still, we guarantee they will make kids laugh, whoop, think and create. Each year in June, Little Big Shots returns to its Melbourne home town with a whole new crop of juicy screen adventures to amaze and delight.
As well as touring right around Australia, Little Big Shots loves to spread its wings and tour the festival’s program to venues overseas. In past years, Little Big Shots has held festival screenings in a number of different countries, including England, Singapore, Indonesia, Colombia and Uruguay.

Maryland International Kids FilmFest (non competitive)

Maryland International Kids FilmFest, USA
http://www.mikff.com/
Festival Creation : 2010
Festival Dates : January
Public attendance : No information about visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive

Festival Description : The Maryland International Kids FilmFest is an outgrowth of the children's programming at the annual Frederick Film Festival. The MIKFF is committed to providing quality, entertaining fim programming for young people. The mission of the festival is to highlight the work of quality filmmakers and promote the screening and exposure of great children's film.

Providence Children's Film Festival (non competitive)

Providence Children's Film Festival, USA
http://providencechildrensfilmfestival.org
https://www.facebook.com/ProvidenceChildrensFilmFestival
Festival Creation : 2010
Festival Dates : February
Public attendance : 6,000 visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive
Special mentions : Audience Choice : Best Feature and Best Short,  Special Jury : Best Feature and Best Short
2015 on Award-Winning Animated Films of International Children's Film Festivals Database.

Festival Description : The festival presents the best of independent and international children’s cinema to inspire, delight, educate, and connect a diverse community of children and families from Rhode Island and throughout New England.

Testimonial about the children's film festivals database :
"I am very impressed by the database. Nice job !"
Eric Bilodeau, Director of Programming of Providence Children's Film Festival.

Psaroloco (non competitive)

Psaroloco, Greece
http://www.psaroloco.gr
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Psaroloco
Festival Creation : 2010
Festival Dates : July
Public attendance : 10,000 visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive

Description : Psaroloco's aim is to familiarize the novice audience with the basic terms of the cinematic experience and to promote media literacy. The project promotes the enhancement of the critical thinking of children and the ability to deconstruct images. It prioritizes vulnerable groups of children and adolescents.
Since 2010 it is under the International Short Film Festival Psarokokalo as Psaroloco International Short Film Festival.

REDCAT (non competitive)

REDCAT, International Children's Film Festival , USA
http://www.redcat.org
https://www.facebook.com/CalArtsREDCAT
Festival Creation : 2005
Festival Dates : May
Public attendance : No information about visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive

Festival Description : REDCAT's programs for young audiences and families are designed to engage across a range of artistic disciplines and showcase short films that played during Children's Film Festival Seattle. The festival is set to take place at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater in downtown Los Angeles.

Seoul International Youth Film Festival

Seoul International Youth Film Festival, South Korea
http://www.siyff.com
https://www.facebook.com/siyff
Festival Creation : 1998
Festival Dates : August
Public attendance : 35,000 visitors
Festival Type : Non competive (competitive before 2015)
Animated Film Awards : Competition 9+, 13+,19+ : SIYFF Grand Prize, Artistic Experiment Award, Challenging Reality Award, Special Mention

Festival Description : The Seoul International Youth Film Festival (SIYFF) is the biggest youth film festival in Korea and has provided a venue for youths to share their culture via films and media education since 1999. It aims to promote broader international exchanges among talented cine kids and establish network to improve their competitiveness in the film industry.

TIFF Kids (non competitive)

TIFF Kids : Toronto International Film Festival, Canada
http://tiff.net/kids-family
https://www.facebook.com/TIFF
Festival Creation : 1998
Festival Dates : April
Public attendance : 25,000 visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive (Special prizes)
Animated Film Awards : Best Short Film, Young People's Jury Award

Festival Description : TIFF Kids is one of the largest children’s film festivals in the world. TIFF Kids offers a diverse slate of films from Canada and around the globe — films that take children and parents out of the everyday, and use the power of film to foster thought and encourage discussion about the complex and challenging issues facing young people today, and have lots of fun doing it.

Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth (non competitive)

Boston International Kids Film Festival, USA
http://www.utahfilmcenter.org
http://www.utahfilmcenter.org/tumbleweeds15
https://www.facebook.com/UtahFilmCenter
Festival Creation : 2010
Festival Dates : September
Public attendance : 10,000 visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive

Festival Description : Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth is a part of Utah Film Center. The Utah Film Center brings the world of film to local audiences through free community screenings and discussions, outreach programs, and visiting artists and professionals. Utah Film Center collaborates with various educational and community organizations to promote a diversity of ideas, to provide forums for underrepresented groups, and to develop new audiences for film.

Worldkids International Film Festival (non competitive)

Worldkids International Film Festival, India
http://www.worldkidsfoundation.com
Festival Creation : 2008
Festival Dates : May
Public attendance : 20,000 visitors
Festival Type : Non competitive

Festival Description : Worldkids International Film Festival (WKIFF) is a travelling children's film festival in India. The festival aims at introducing the present generation to the universality of human values and experiences though the medium of cinema. WKIFF boasts of a wide panorama of films including award-winning children's films.  WKIFF is a part of WorldKids Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that aims at promoting a holistic approach towards our society and planet.