The Residència de Guions is a development lab for feature film scripts (including animation) and documentaries in Catalan or Spanish, with a strong cultural connection to Catalonia. It is open to screenwriters of any nationality. The 2025 call was open from January 30 to March 3. Selected projects receive a €12,600 grant to focus on script development between September 2025 and May 2026. Participants work with expert mentors, receive training, foster collaboration among authors, and connect with the Catalan and international film industry. Application is free. The aim is to enhance the quality and international reach of Catalan cinema by supporting emerging talent.
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THE RESIDENCE
The Malaga Festival is calling for aid for audiovisual creation for the eleventh consecutive year with the aim of encouraging and energizing audiovisual creation in Malaga. These grants are aimed at projects for the making of action, animation or documentary short films with a maximum duration of 30 minutes and free themes.
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Audiovisual Creation Grants - Málaga
The SGAE Foundation and the Sitges Festival are launching the first Josefina Molina Award for the best fantastic feature-length script written by women members of SGAE, to promote female visibility in the fantasy genre. The winner will receive €10,000. Eligible entries are original feature-length scripts in Spanish by female SGAE members of any nationality. The submission deadline is July 14, 2025, with materials to be emailed to iarmanda@fundacionsgae.org, including the script, registration form, synopsis, motivation, and proof of membership. The award will be announced during the 58th Sitges Festival, October 9–19, 2025, under the WomanInFan program. The prize honors Josefina Molina, a pioneer of Spanish fantastic cinema.
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Josefina Molina Award
Created by the Locarno Festival in 2014, Industry Academy is an intensive training program whose objective is to foster innovation in young professionals in the film industry, working specifically in the area of independent film circulation: online and traditional distribution , sales, film marketing, exhibition, festival programming, among others. The workshop acts as a shortcut for a new generation of professionals entering the independent film industry, encouraging their development and helping them better understand the challenges of the industry, as well as expand their networks. The objective of Locarno Industry Academy is also to build bridges of collaboration across different markets in Europe, North America, Latin America, the Middle East, South Africa and South Asia.
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Australab - Industry Academy
Impulso Morelia 12 is an industry platform of the Morelia International Film Festival focused on Mexican fiction and documentary feature films in post-production. The program operates as a Work in Progress initiative where selected teams present their projects to an international panel of experts and industry professionals to receive feedback on completion, promotion, and distribution strategies.
The call is open exclusively to Mexican projects, either directed by Mexican filmmakers or by permanent residents of Mexico. Productions created exclusively for television are not eligible. Submitted projects must be feature-length films with a working cut between 70 and 120 minutes and be in an advanced stage of post-production.
The application deadline is July 22, 2026, at 8:00 PM (CST). Selected projects will be announced on August 25, 2026. Impulso Morelia 12 will take place from October 18–20, 2026, as part of the 24th edition of the Morelia International Film Festival.
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Morelia Impulse - FICM
