The Talents Guadalajara 2025 program, organized by the Guadalajara International Film Festival (FICG), opens its application period from October 15 to December 19, 2025. The event will take place from April 19 to 22, 2026 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
The call is aimed at film and animation professionals, accepting both national and international applications, particularly from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Spanish-speaking residents of North America, and graduates from certain Spanish-speaking film schools. Candidates from various disciplines are welcome, including directing, acting, screenwriting, cinematography, sound, production, and distribution.
The program offers specialized areas such as Acting/Directing Studio, Camera Studio, Script Studio, Sound Studio, Talent Motion Studio, and Talent Project Market, the latter focused on feature-length projects in development. Accepted formats vary by discipline, including demo reels for creative professionals and feature film dossiers for the Project Market. Talents Guadalajara aims to promote training and project development in an international environment of collaboration and learning.
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Guadalajara Talent - FICG
ConectaLAB is an audiovisual laboratory organized by the CREA Association and sponsored by the Xunta de Galicia, aimed at screenwriters and directors based in Galicia who are developing feature film or series projects in fiction or documentary. The application period for the 2026 edition runs from October 27 to December 20, 2025. Selected projects will take part in a seven-day artistic residency from April 14 to April 20, 2026 on San Simón Island in Pontevedra. This call is only open to Galician authors, meaning international submissions are not accepted. ConectaLAB focuses on creative development and scriptwriting, offering professional script and directing mentorship during the residency. It accepts projects in the following formats and genres: feature fiction films, feature documentaries, TV fiction series, and TV documentary series. Eligible submissions must include at least a complete first draft for feature films or a pilot draft for series, along with a project dossier. Up to six projects will be selected to participate in this intensive development experience.
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ConectaLAB
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.
DIFERENTES FECHAS PARA ACTIVIDADES
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Instituto Sundance
Laboratories and short courses.
Online Latin American and face-to-face modality (ask for exhibitor country).
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The Film Incubator
-Development of short films.
-Film script.
-Directing actors in movies.
-Film script laboratory.
-The creation of a video clip.
-The art of film editing.
-Series writing.
-Documentary film laboratory
-In search of one's own voice in documentary film.
-The creative process of art direction.
-Sound Design and Editing.
DocuLab: Documentary Lab is an industry program of the Guadalajara International Film Festival, aimed at promoting the development of Ibero-American filmmakers and their documentary films in the editing stage, through in-depth analysis and discussions with experts in the genre.
For its fourteenth edition, DocuLab returns in person, continuing its role as a fundamental training space for the non-fiction genre in Ibero-America.
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DOCULAB: DOCUMENTARY LAB - FICG
