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Deadline 31 May 2026
Prize 2,250€
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
El Instituto Sundance tiene varias convocatorias abiertas o próximas para 2025‑2026 dirigidas a artistas y proyectos independientes. Entre las fechas más recientes: el 2026 Episodic Lab cierra postulaciones el 9 de noviembre de 2025, la Merata Mita Fellowship el 3 de noviembre de 2025, la Graton Fellowship el 8 de diciembre de 2025, y el Native Lab acepta hasta el 22 de diciembre de 2025. La Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship tiene como fecha límite de postulación el 12 de febrero de 2026 y el Feature Film Producers Track culmina el 11 o 12 de febrero de 2026. Además, el Ignite Challenge está abierto hasta el 1 de julio de 2026. Estas convocatorias corresponden a distintos programas de apoyo, desde laboratorios y becas para cineastas emergentes hasta competencias y mentores en narrativa audiovisual. Los programas son principalmente internacionales, aunque algunos, como el Native Lab y la Graton Fellowship, tienen criterios específicos de elegibilidad comunitaria o geográfica. También existen ventanas de envíos para proyectos de cine y episodios del propio Festival de Cine Sundance 2026, cuyas fechas de proyección serán entre 22 de enero y 1 de febrero de 2026.
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Instituto Sundance
The Industry Academy Colombia is an intensive training program created by the Locarno Film Festival in 2014, aimed at young professionals in the film industry working in areas such as distribution, sales, marketing, exhibition, and festival programming.
The second edition of the Industry Academy Colombia took place from July 14 to 18, 2024, in collaboration with the Bogotá Audiovisual Market (BAM).
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Industry Academy Colombia
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
Ib Platform is a space for training and creativity on the film-making process: the narrative idea, the strategy, or an impact campaign are part of a whole. The Platform Ib experience is an individual and collective networking process that catapults the international projection of the projects and the professionals who carry them out.
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