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A single film can be nominated as a film, and its director and lead actor nominated separately - here's how that's tracked.

It's not a hierarchy - it's two different pathways with two different structures.

This section scores creativity and voice first. Technical polish is explicitly secondary.

It's not about which country has the biggest industry - it's about which history is worth an audience's time.

Festival week is the visible ten percent of a programmer's job.

Budgets, insurance, schedules - almost everything shifts when your audience and your cast are both young.

Attention is the whole game, and it's harder to hold with no picture at all.

The two aren't in competition - they're different distribution answering different questions.

A programming slot rarely closes a deal by itself - but it's almost always where the conversation starts.

Why some of the most respected children's festivals still charge nothing to enter.