The Two Week International Residency is a program by Etxe Betea in Bilbao, aimed at international women filmmakers looking to develop a feature film project. The residency provides a creative, professional, and feminist environment, including accommodation, workspace, and personalized mentorship for two weeks.
The program has a history of international exchanges with Greece and Pakistan, fostering collaboration among filmmakers from diverse cultural backgrounds. In its pilot edition, Greek and Basque filmmakers participated in cross-residencies, maintaining this international focus.
The call is open to women filmmakers of any age and experience level who do not reside in Spain. Projects can be fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, or hybrid, with no restrictions on the stage of development. Only one participant will be selected per edition.
The residency is offered in February or May, with exceptional flexibility in justified cases. Participation requires full commitment to the two-week program and signing an attendance agreement.
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A Shelter of One’s Own – Etxe Betea
The call is exclusively for Chilean women filmmakers. Projects in post-production stage can participate, including short films, mid-length, and feature films. Projects must be produced in Chile and be in editing, color correction, sound post-production or similar stages. Submission requires synopsis, teaser or work-in-progress footage, motivation letter, and post-production plan. Selected projects receive technical post-production services such as color correction, DCP mastering, and sound post-production. The call closes in August 2025 and the festival takes place in November 2025.
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FECILS Female directors - WIP
DOK Industry es la plataforma profesional del festival DOK Leipzig, creada para impulsar proyectos documentales en desarrollo con proyección internacional. Cada año reúne a productores, directores, financiadores y distribuidores en un espacio de encuentro y coproducción.
La convocatoria está abierta a proyectos documentales creativos, autorales e innovadores que se encuentren en etapa de desarrollo o postproducción temprana. Se aceptan propuestas internacionales, excepto en el programa Preview Germany, que está reservado para proyectos con sede en Alemania.
Existen distintas secciones de participación: el Co-Pro Market, dirigido a documentales en busca de socios internacionales; Short n’ Sweet, para cortometrajes; Archive Market, enfocado en proyectos que trabajan con material de archivo; y Neuland, que explora narrativas XR, VR y AR. Además, productores pueden participar sin proyecto para ampliar su red de contactos.
El idioma de trabajo es el inglés y el objetivo central es conectar proyectos con potencial artístico y de circulación global con la red europea e internacional de la industria audiovisual.
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DOK Industry
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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Izaña - LAB
A Development Support grant can be used for the further development of a script (e.g. research, writing, translation or hiring a coach or script consultant), but can also be used to present a project to financiers or other potential partners at (international) co-production meetings or film festivals.
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Rotterdam - Soporte de desarrollo
