Towards 35 years
The One Minute Festival is the first video festival in the world dedicated to films of up to 60 seconds! Created in Brazil in 1991, it pioneered the ultra-short format and inspired similar initiatives in over 50 countries. Today, it is a permanent, free, online festival open to participants of all ages and backgrounds.
The One Minute Festival accepts GIFs or videos of up to 60 seconds, on open or themed topics. Participants register on the website, upload their videos, and may have their work featured, highlighted, and/or awarded.
All content submitted to the One Minute Festival is evaluated by the Festival’s curatorial committee. Well-rated videos are highlighted in the system. From these highlights, the curators select the videos that will receive awards in each contest. Award-winning videos are announced on our social media and later receive the One Minute Trophy.
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Every month, the One Minute Festival holds four contests: Free Theme, Animation, Nano Minute, and Vertical. Each month, the best videos from each contest are awarded, featured on the website, and promoted on our social media.
Videos up to 60 seconds on any topic, in any format or language.
Animated videos up to 60 seconds, using any technique: digital, frame-by-frame, 2D, 3D, stop motion, etc.
Videos up to 10 seconds long, exploring any theme or format.
Videos up to 60 seconds in vertical format (9:16).
Every year, the One Minute Festival runs thematic contests lasting about seven months. The themes are selected by the curatorial team based on criteria such as educational relevance, audiovisual language experimentation, urgent social issues, sustainability, cultural diversity, and accessibility. Suggestions sent by the public are also welcome. At the end of each submission period, the best videos are selected and awarded by the Festival's curators, featured on the website and shared on our social media.
The Best Minutes Exhibition is an annual event linked to the Permanent One Minute Festival. Each year, the exhibition showcases a selection of the best awarded videos from all contests held in the previous year, produced by amateur and professional creators from various regions of Brazil and the world.
The exhibition is presented free of charge at dozens of cultural and educational venues across the country, through the One Minute Festival’s Screening Network. Want to screen the exhibition at your cultural or educational venue? Join the screening network!
Created in 1991, the One Minute Festival focuses on selecting moving images that exercise synthesis, videos up to 60 seconds long, made by amateurs and audiovisual professionals. It was the first of its kind in the world, inspiring the creation of similar festivals in more than 50 countries.
Celebrating 35 years in 2026, the One Minute Festival has kept up with video evolution, encouraging the use of new technologies (such as mobile phones and portable cameras) as well as narrative, editing, sound and image concepts.
Between 1991 and 2007, around 1,000 videos were received each year, from more than 40 countries. The curators showcased about 5% of the collected material in exhibitions across Brazil.
In 2005, the One Minute Festival began transitioning into a permanent event. By 2007, it became fully online: creators could now submit and watch videos through our platform. Since then, the Festival’s collection has expanded by more than 500%. Every month, new contest themes are launched to inspire content creation.
Additionally, each year the Best Minutes Exhibition presents the previous year's top videos at hundreds of cultural and educational venues across Brazil, including film clubs, libraries, schools, universities, and museums of image and sound.
Today, our archive holds more than 40,000 videos, featured in multiple thematic exhibitions. Directors such as Anna Muylaert, Carlos Nader, Sara Não Tem Nome, Tata Amaral, and Beto Brant have participated in the Festival.
In 2016, the Festival entered a new phase with a refreshed visual identity, a more modern website, and new language challenges. It also adopted the Creative Commons license as the standard for its archive and system.
The Festival has always had a strong connection with education, since its content can be easily incorporated into classroom activities. To expand this connection, we created our own educational initiative in 2017: the One Minute School is an online audiovisual training course focused on editing and post-production, designed for public school teachers.
Since then, we've trained more than 4,000 education professionals from 13 Brazilian states, certified in cooperation with state and municipal education departments, as well as Federal Institutes. Our goal is to empower educators as mediators of knowledge through video creation within school communities, transforming classrooms into spaces of expression and diversity.
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