BrLab Features is an international feature film development lab focused on Latin America, held annually in São Paulo, Brazil. It is aimed at directors, screenwriters, and producers with fiction projects in development.
Over an intensive week, selected participants receive one‑on‑one mentoring, market activities, script analysis, production consultancy, and networking with industry professionals. The goal is to enhance artistic quality and financial viability for international co‑production.
The 2025 edition remains competitive and selective. Applications will open in August 2025 (exact date to be announced), and the lab will take place in late 2025 in São Paulo. Participation is free, and projects from any country are welcome if they have international co‑production potential.
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BrLab Features
La convocatoria European Work in Progress 2025 busca largometrajes europeos o coproducciones en fase de rodaje, postproducción o finalización avanzada. Los proyectos deben contar con fragmentos de metraje real, subtitulados en inglés, para presentar a profesionales de la industria cinematográfica.
Se seleccionarán hasta 30 proyectos, que tendrán la oportunidad de presentar su trabajo mediante un pitch de 15 minutos y participar en sesiones de preguntas, reuniones one-to-one, talleres y eventos de networking. El objetivo es facilitar financiación adicional, distribución y visibilidad internacional.
El plazo de presentación finaliza el 14 de agosto de 2025. Los proyectos deben tener al menos 10 minutos de metraje disponible y cumplir criterios de producción europea. Este año, los premios ascienden a 120 000 €, ofrecidos por nuevos y antiguos patrocinadores. La convocatoria mantiene colaboración con TorinoFilmLab, incluyendo proyectos de sus programas de desarrollo. La participación es abierta a productores de cualquier país siempre que su proyecto cumpla con los criterios europeos.
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European Work in Progress Hamburg
The EAVE Producers Workshop 2026 is an international professional training program for experienced film, documentary, and television series producers. Its goal is to strengthen coproduction skills and expand participants’ professional networks across Europe and beyond.
The program consists of three week-long residential workshops: the first in Luxembourg, the second in Bolzano, and the third in autumn at a location to be confirmed. During these workshops, participants work in groups with experts in script development, financing, legal aspects, marketing, and project presentation, and present their projects to commissioners, funders, and sales agents from the European industry.
Projects in fiction, documentary, and television series at various development stages, from pre-production to post-production, are accepted. The call is international, open to producers worldwide, with scholarships available for European residents and candidates from other regions, promoting diversity and inclusion. The application deadline is August 18, 2025.
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EAVE Producers Workshop
The Fill the Gap Initiative targets animation producers who participated in the Cartoon Forum 2024 and have not yet completed the financing of their projects. Its goal is to provide visibility and networking opportunities to close the financial gap and move projects toward production.
Selected producers must have at least 70% of the budget secured, a committed television channel, and submit a 30 to 45-second trailer to present their project. Participants are also required to attend matchmaking sessions organized during the event.
The initiative includes trailer screenings at the Coffee Show, participation in matchmaking sessions with buyers, sales agents, and potential co-producers, and presence in the Cartoon Forum mobile app. Geographic diversity is encouraged, and preference is given to projects not submitting a new project to the next Cartoon Forum edition.
The trailer submission deadline is August 18, 2025, with presentations on September 18, 2025, in Toulouse, France, during the Cartoon Forum. The initiative aims to help producers finalize financing and connect with strategic partners.
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Fill the Gap Initiative
Izaña Lab is designed by a team that faces the challenge of filmmaking daily, who understands that a film is the result of continuous trial and error processes. The entire process is, in reality, a laboratory, where the experiment is tested, analyzed and repeated. Each film is a prototype, and although we dream of replicating success stories, reality shows us that the way to position a product as unique as a cinematographic creation in the market requires inventing new formulas that fit each case.
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