Arché Porto, part of Porto/Post/Doc, is a development lab and residency for early‑stage projects. It targets emerging filmmakers working on creative documentaries, hybrid works, or film essays in feature‑length or medium‑length format.
The next edition will take place in Porto during the festival, 25 November – 1 December 2025 (Arché sessions usually happen on the Industry days, around 25–27 November).
The program offers tailored mentorships, feedback sessions, and networking activities, encouraging formal and narrative experimentation. Selected projects are developed and presented to international industry professionals during the festival.
Priority is given to projects linked to Portugal, Galicia, or the Iberian Peninsula. The call opens in summer and closes by late September 2025 (exact date to be confirmed). A dossier with synopsis, treatment, CV, and development status is required.
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Porto/Post/Doc - Arché Porto
The Bolivia Lab Collaborative Network invites you to participate in the International Coproduction Pitch Rally – Online, an event within the XVI Bolivia Lab 2024. Get ready to immerse yourself in a space dedicated to promoting collaboration between filmmakers and producers from around the world, with the objective of connecting projects in intermediate development with potential co-producing partners in fiction and documentary.
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Bolivia Lab - Rally de Pitch
CineLab 2026 is a training, strengthening, and feature film project development lab organized in Chile. The call is open to Chilean citizens and foreign nationals residing in Chile who are based outside the Province of Santiago, including other provinces of the Metropolitan Region. It accepts fiction, animation, documentary, and mixed-genre projects corresponding to the director’s first or second feature film, at an advanced stage of development and with a written screenplay or, in the case of documentaries, a documentary treatment.
Applications are open from August 13 to September 10, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. Santiago, Chile time. The exact start and end dates of the program are not specified. The available information indicates a first in-person section in November 2026, virtual advisory sessions between October 2026 and March 2027, and a second in-person section in January 2027.
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CineLab
Impact Days is the FIFDH’s professional programme for filmmakers and NGOs, now in its sixth edition. We select quality documentary projects, work with filmmakers to refine their impact goals, and facilitate partnerships within the vast ecosystem of organisations, policymakers and funders active around International Geneva.
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FIFDH - Impact Days
FERATUM Pitch Hub 2026 es una convocatoria internacional organizada en México como parte del FERATUM Film Festival, enfocada en impulsar proyectos de largometraje de ficción en desarrollo dentro del cine fantástico. Está dirigida a guionistas, directores y productores de México e Iberoamérica, así como a participantes internacionales, siempre que los proyectos cumplan con los requisitos de la convocatoria, incluyendo un guion escrito mayoritariamente en español.
La iniciativa está orientada a proyectos de los géneros de terror, fantasía, ciencia ficción, thriller, suspenso, gore, western, humor negro y otros subgéneros afines. Los participantes seleccionados recibirán capacitación especializada para perfeccionar su presentación antes de exponer sus proyectos ante profesionales de la industria, con oportunidades de vinculación, financiamiento y premios.
La convocatoria permanece abierta del 1 de julio al 13 de septiembre de 2026. Los proyectos seleccionados se anunciarán el 11 de octubre de 2026. Las actividades del Pitch Hub se desarrollarán del 5 al 7 de noviembre de 2026, dentro del FERATUM Film Festival, que se celebrará del 5 al 8 de noviembre de 2026 en Michoacán, México.
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Feratum Pitch Hub
