Best of Festival Award Winners will screen at the Rehoboth Beach Art Cinema and receive guaranteed distribution reviews.
Deadline 31 December 2025
This program is aimed at filmmakers who are seeking to achieve the final cut of their fiction or documentary work, defining the authorial vision and point of view, which will allow them to begin the post-production stage of the project. It is essential that the project includes the presence of the editor.
During the BioBioCine Meetings, the methodology is tailored to the specific needs of each project, with guidance from mentors with recognized international experience. The work will be conducted through daily individual sessions in a virtual editing room. Participants will also have the opportunity to present a 3-minute pitch to industry guests. Up to 4 projects will be selected.
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BIOBIOCINE - Corte Final Lab (ONLINE)
The contest is open to short film scripts in fiction, animation, or documentary, written in Spanish or Valencian/Catalan.
Scripts may have any theme, whether original or literary adaptations, with a maximum length of 25 pages (including the cover), in Courier font, size 12, and must not have begun filming before the start of the Skyline Benidorm Film Festival 2025.
By participating in this contest, authors acknowledge that they own 100% of the copyrights for the submitted works.
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Screenwriting Contest - SkylineFest
Since 2014, Cinéma du Réel has been working with industry professionals to promote the distribution of documentary films and strengthen connections between filmmakers and distributors. During the festival's 36th edition, ParisDOC was created, an event conceived by Maria Bonsanti, Anaïs Desrieux, and the association Les Amis de Cinéma du Réel.
Participants at this two-day event had the opportunity to watch films in post-production, with an additional day dedicated to discussing initiatives aimed at film distribution. The event's purpose, which later evolved into ParisDOC Works-in-Progress and the Public Forum, was clear from the start: rather than simply opening a market, the goal was to address the challenges and issues facing the documentary film industry, foster innovative ideas, and provide professionals with tailored support and guidance.
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PARIS DOC
The RTS Pitching, taking place during the VdR–Industry Days (April 6–9, 2025) in Nyon, Switzerland, was initiated by Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) to promote innovative documentary filmmaking in French-speaking Switzerland.
This unique forum will showcase eight new documentary projects in the early stages of development, providing participants with the opportunity to present their ideas to industry professionals. The best feature-length project will receive a prize of 10,000 CHF in development funding, supporting the creation of works with a strong creative vision.
This competition fosters a collaborative environment aimed at promoting original Swiss documentary projects intended to reach a wide audience.
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VdR - RTS Award
For the Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival – FICCI, the new talents of the film industry are a central focus of interest.
From this perspective, FICCI 64, with the support of Ibermedia, opens the call for La Residencia FICCI as a program of screenwriting aimed at directors and/or screenwriters from Ibero-America and Italy who have verified experience in short films and are developing their first or second feature-length fiction film.
The objective of La Residencia FICCI is to support participants in the initial phase of writing their feature-length screenplays in order to consolidate their artistic and conceptual proposals. In order to nourish the development stage of the projects, participants will also receive complementary inputs during LA RESIDENCIA FICCI on topics such as audience analysis, financing, marketing possibilities, distribution and circulation of the films, as well as other related topics.
FICCI invites the participation of emerging talents who are immersed in the deep exploration of cinema as an art, whose interest consists in reaching art to its contours, imagining new (or antique) ways and routes of relating to the world. Therefore, FICCI is interested in the multiplicity of ways of understanding and imagining filmmaking.
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The Residency - FICCI