Pan African Youths Film & Arts Festival

The feature film is a film that has a duration of sixty minutes or longer than this number.

short film is an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all credits.

Reserved for Creative works that some would consider odd, strange, artistic, weird, innovative, fresh, enlightening, inspirational, confusing, mysterious, futuristic, retro, or difficult to classify. Experimental films must have some element that has something truly unique about it. The maximum length for all experimental short film submissions is between six minutes and thirty minutes in length including all credits.

This category is reserved for creative and scary Horror Films that have adrenaline pumping moments. Do you have a film that was intentionally created to scare people? Does your film depict any horrifying action sequences, blood, gore, monsters, psychotic people, slashing, stalking, zombies, vampires, disease outbreaks, demonic possession, haunted buildings, or any other elements that would classify your film as a true horror film? Great sound design, musical score, cinematography, visual effects or special effects are appreciated by the judges. The maximum length for all horror short film submissions is between six minutes and thirty minutes in length including all credits.

This category is reserved for films that make people laugh. The judges are looking for films that have funny moments, comedic situations, fun dialogue, humorous acting, and great characters.

This category is reserved for films with real-life stories, people and situations of a more serious nature. Films that have strong acting and great writing. Films that bring out emotions in the audience are what the judges are looking for.

This category is reserved for music videos of all musical genres.

Films that have been shot, directed and produced by foreign filmmakers. This category does not require a person of African descent to be a part of the crew.

This category is reserved for documentary films with thought provoking short stories about real life, interesting people, great stories, historical research, medical issues, sports stories, coming of age stories, political issues, war stories, racism, gender issues, LGBTQ stories, social justice issues, artists, musicians, actors, professionals, technologies, or some kind of non-fiction story. All flavors of well documented films and stories are eligible from anywhere in the world, and in any language (with English subtitles or voice-over).

There are many different types of photography, such as landscape, macro, wildlife, portrait, documentary, fashion, travel and event photography.

A screenplay, or script, is a written work for a film, television program, or video game.

Animation is the art of bringing life to an otherwise inanimate objects, or illustrated / 3D