EUREKA Festival Universitario De Cine (10)

Festival start: 14 October 2025      Festival end: 18 October 2025

10th EUREKA UNIVERSITY FILM FESTIVAL 2025

The conditions described below correspond to the requirements proposed by EUREKA University Film Festival and its programming team. The registration and selection of audiovisual pieces sent by those students and filmmakers who would like to be part of the official programming depend on these requirements, bases and conditions.

EUREKA University Film Festival is an event initially organized by students from the University Jorge Tadeo Lozano of Bogota and students from different universities in Colombia. The festival will take place from October 14 to 18, 2025 in the city of Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

The call for entries will be open from April 10th until June 03rd, 2025. The only platform we will enable to receive the audiovisual material will be :

https://festhome.com/festival/eureka-festival-universitario-de-cine

We will not receive short films through other channels unless the platform may present an inconvenience around your application, in this case you can send us the materials of your short film to the following email:

programación.eureka@gmail.com

The materials to be sent in those cases are:

-Two (2) copies of the short film
· One (1) in códec ProRes 422, contained as .MOV o .MP4 with a minimum resolution of Full HD 1920x1080px.
· One (1) in códec H264, contained as .MOV o .MP4 with a minimum resolution of full HD 1920x1080px.

-Subtitles in Spanish and English in a .srt file.

-Synopsis.

-PDF file with the Technical Sheet.

-Signed Exhibit Rights (Link to rights: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VxkuXB9We-LX0yikxMDR0pnV7WKFz7j9?usp=sharing )

-Trailer (if available).

-Official Poster.

-3 Stills.

-Director and Producer’s picture.

-PDF file with Profiles for both Director and Producer.

-Instagram account of Director, Producer or Short Film Distributor.

-Video of the Director or Producer inviting the public to come to the EUREKA festival and see his/her film.

You can attach these materials through the platform of your preference, for example: WeTransfer, MyAirBridge, Filemail, etc.

Additionally, the programming team may request short films that they consider should be part of the call by means of the official mail and the festival reserves the power to make direct invitations to outstanding works.

AWARDS

1. The only short films who will be awarded are the ones part of the initial two (3) competitions: OFFICIAL NATIONAL COMPETITION, OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION and OFFICIAL TADEISTA COMPETITION.

2. Some short films may receive a Honorable Mention or other types of recognition taking into consideration the interests and decisions made by the jury.

REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION

1. The call for applications opens on April 10, 2024 and closes on June 03, 2025.

2. We receive audiovisual pieces produced between January 2023 until May 2025.

3. EUREKA University Film Festival is a festival that promotes and recognizes the aesthetic, narrative and technical achievements of a film. The festival will therefore award the winning short films chosen by the jury in the main competitions of the festival: TADEÍSTA COMPETITION, NATIONAL COMPETITION and INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION. In addition, once the short film has been selected, the director will not be able to retract the registration and must commit to the use of his / her audiovisual piece at the festival.

4. The selected short films will sign an exhibition and accommodation authorization with defined clauses that will be made available to the filmmakers. This will allow Eureka University Film Festival to exhibit and preserve the short films that are part of the festival each year. When doing their registration, the filmmaker must download the exhibition rights, sign and send them to the email programación.eureka@gmail.com, which are available in the following link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VxkuXB9We-LX0yikxMDR0pnV7WKFz7j9?usp=sharing

In case that your short film is selected, EUREKA University Film Festival will collect and use these rights, nonetheless if the film is not selected, the release contract will be deleted.

5. Given the case that different activities are carried out about the winning pieces, the directors of the shorts are likely to be invited to these meetings as Q & As and screenings.

6. Short films in National, International and Tadeista Competition must be by students of a university program and / or a national or international university institution. That said, filmmakers can apply as long as their student status is verifiable.

7. Registered short films DO NOT necessarily have to belong to Film and Television faculties or those related to visual art, they can belong to any academic program and at any level of study that is being studied (Undergraduate, graduate, specializations, diplomas, among others).

8. Registered short films may have been made outside of their academic schedules and activities.

9. All applicants are subject to be distributed according to the interests and internal decisions of the programming team in other sections of the official programming, that is, those short films that are not selected in any of the competitions (NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL), can be screened in our selection of Audiovisual Panoramas or Cinematographic Focus if applicable.

10. We receive short films with a maximum duration of thirty (30) minutes, including credits.

11. The formal and narrative diversity of the short films entered in the festival's competitions will be taken into account, the short films can belong to one of multiple of the following genres and formats: FICTION, DOCUMENTARY, EXPERIMENTAL, ANIMATION AND HYBRID.

12. We receive projects of video art, video essay, video installation and fashion films, as long as they are short films faithful to the genre. For this reason, we will not receive advertising works, web series or commercials.

13. Short films with dialogues in Spanish must have english subtitle files available. Likewise, short films with dialogues in english or any other language must have Spanish subtitle files available. The festival will not be responsible for the subtitling of any aspiring or selected short film within the festival's official programming, this is the responsibility of the filmmakers.

14. A maximum of two (2) short films will be received per director.

15. We are not responsible for the copyright and copyright of the short film, this is the responsibility of the filmmakers and their respective legal processes.

16. Applicants must bear in mind that being selected within the official programming means —if applicable— a premiere in the city of Bogotá D.C., Colombia.

17. Short films selected in previous editions of the festival will not be taken into account for the official selection, nor for discussion.

18. The selected short films will be arranged by Eureka University Film Festival for their different communication intentions. To use frames and clips of these to build audiovisual pieces that will function as a communication bridge between the audience and the festival.

19. The short films will be screened by the Eureka University Film Festival in different alternative activities carried out by the festival (the use of the short films for alternative screenings will be previously communicated).

20. The selected short films will be kept on an official archive of the festival, without public access. These materials will be reserved for the internal processes of exhibition and distribution of the festival.