Hatching Ravens is the main international call of the BIF Market, the industry platform of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, dedicated to supporting genre film projects in development and post-production.
For the 2026 edition, the call opens on December 1, 2025, and closes on February 2, 2026. The market will take place onsite in Brussels from April 13 to April 17, 2026, with additional online activities.
The call is open to international submissions and targets feature-length fiction projects within genre cinema, including horror, fantasy, science fiction, thriller, dark comedy and genre animation. Projects may be at mid or advanced development stages or early post-production.
Hatching Ravens operates as a Work in Progress and market platform, offering pitch sessions, one-to-one meetings and networking opportunities with producers, funds, sales agents and festivals, positioning itself as a key gateway for international genre projects.
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Hatching Ravens - BIF Market
The Belgian Fantastic Pitchbox is a call organized by the BIF Market in Belgium, focused on the development of fiction feature-length genre film projects. The call is national only, open exclusively to creators based in Belgium, and does not accept international submissions.
Eligible projects must belong to the genre cinema field, including fantasy, horror, thriller, science fiction, surrealism, black comedy, and crime, and must be in the development stage. The initiative is structured as a pitch program, complemented by training sessions and professional mentoring prior to the final presentation.
The application period opens on December 22, 2025, and closes on February 2, 2026, which is the final deadline to apply. Pitch training sessions take place on March 2 and March 6, 2026, while the final pitch event is held on April 17, 2026, as part of BIF Market 2026, which runs from April 13 to April 17, 2026.
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Belgian Fantastic Pitchbox - BIF Market
Plataforma MX 2026 is a documentary project incubator run by DocsMX as part of DocsLab, focused on the development and strengthening of films in early stages. Its goal is to support filmmakers through regional workshops across Mexico, offering creative, narrative, and production guidance for documentary short and feature film projects in development. The program is mainly aimed at Mexican filmmakers or foreign residents in Mexico, while maintaining limited international openness.
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DocsMX - Plataforma Mx
Ib Platform is a space for training and creativity on the process of making films: the strategy, the narrative idea or impact campaign is part of a whole. The Ib Platform experience is an individual and collective networking process that catapults the international projection of projects and of the professionals who carry them out.
Since 2009 it has promoted emerging and senior talents who have projects in fiction, documentary, animation and audiovisual innovation (series, transmedia, virtual reality, augmented and immersive). Likewise, it promotes possibilities of co-production and strategic alliances between the various participants, strengthening the exchange for the productive and cultural development of the region.
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DocsMX - DocsLab
BrLab Audience Design 2026 es un laboratorio especializado en el desarrollo estratégico de audiencias para largometrajes de ficción y documental. La convocatoria está abierta a proyectos de América Latina y la Península Ibérica, aceptando postulaciones internacionales.
Las inscripciones estarán abiertas hasta el 12 de diciembre de 2025, y el taller principal se realizará de forma presencial en São Paulo, Brasil, del 7 al 14 de abril de 2026, con actividades preparatorias online en febrero y marzo. El laboratorio se centra en la planificación estratégica de audiencias para proyectos en desarrollo, no en pitches ni mercados tradicionales.
Se aceptan únicamente largometrajes, incluyendo live action, animación o proyectos híbridos. Este espacio brinda herramientas y asesoría especializada para fortalecer la conexión entre el proyecto y su público potencial, fomentando estrategias de difusión y promoción efectivas.
BrLab Audience Design ofrece una oportunidad única para cineastas interesados en optimizar la recepción de sus obras, ampliar su público y fortalecer la presencia de sus proyectos en el ámbito internacional.
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BrLab Audience Design
