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SAN DIEGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL POSTER CONTEST

Application Deadline: 27 October, 2023

LOCATION: San Diego, USA

Calling all photographers, artists, and graphic designers!

Media Arts Center San Diego’s 31st Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival (March 14-24, 2024) Poster Competition is now open for submissions. Submit an iconic design that captures the essence of our annual celebration of Latinx film, music, and art. The winning artwork will become the “face” of the festival, appearing in print, web, and on-screen materials.

ELIGIBILITY:

This is a worldwide competition open to all individuals and design firms.

A panel of distinguished judges (composed of artists, graphic designers, marketing professionals and art educators) will select the winning poster according to the following criteria:

Unique, positive, and non-stereotypical representation of Latinx Culture
Clarity and originality of message
Impact, memorability, and appeal to general audiences
Versatility for application on various mediums (web banners, postcards, etc)
Design (type, color, composition, craft)

BENEFIT:

Top Prize: $1,500.00 dollars and promotional exposure in ALL festival related marketing materials

10 Finalists – 2 tickets to the 31st San Diego Latino Film Festival & limited promotional exposure

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INTERNATIONAL ILLUSTRATED ALBUM COMPETITION INSULAR LIBRARY OF GRAN CANARIA

Application Deadline: 16 December 2023

LOCATION: Spain

The participation in the “Illustrated Album International Contest of the Insular Library of Gran Canaria” is open to all writers and il-lustrators,
with legal age, that regardless of their place of origin or residence, submit a production in Spanish.

ELIGIBILITY:

All persons, writers and illustrators of legal age who, without distinction of their place of origin or residence, present a work in the Spanish language, will be eligible for the International Contest for the “Illustrated Album of the Gran Canaria Island Library”. The staff of the publishing house “A Buen Paso” (hereinafter ABP) and the Department of Culture of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria (hereinafter CGC) are excluded. The winners of the previous edition will not be eligible for the prize of the next two editions.

BENEFIT:

A prize of 11,000 euros for the winner of the only prize, to which writers or illustrators who, without a place of origin or residence, wish to present themselves with an unpublished book album in Spanish, based on an original narrative and visual conception, composed of text and images or exclusively of images.

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