The call for the FICVIÑA Industry 2025 Business Table targets Latin American feature-length film projects in development, both fiction and nonfiction, with a minimum duration of 70 minutes. Projects must have a completed script and at least 20% secured financing. Films in Spanish or other languages with subtitles are accepted.
Filmmakers, producers, and creative teams from Ibero-America, especially Chile and Latin America, seeking international co-production are eligible. Selected projects will participate in business meetings with potential co-producers, distributors, and audiovisual market agents.
Applications are open until September 15, 2025, and the event will take place from November 24 to 29 in Viña del Mar, Chile. To apply, complete the form available on the festival’s official website.
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FICVIÑA - Business table
The Thinking Like a Producer: Creative Business Strategy Workshop is an in-person training program taking place in Madrid, Spain, as part of Iberseries & Platino Industria 2026. It is designed for producers, directors, screenwriters, and development executives seeking to strengthen the strategic, creative, and commercial foundations of their audiovisual projects.
The call is open to participants from the Ibero-American audiovisual industry and welcomes fiction projects in both series and feature film formats. The workshop will be held over two days during the event, which runs from September 29 to October 2, 2026, and will focus on business models, project positioning, and decision-making from a producer’s perspective.
The application deadline is June 11, 2026, at 4:00 PM (GMT+2). Up to 25 participants will be selected. Applicants must hold a valid professional accreditation for Iberseries & Platino Industria and submit a fiction project that can benefit from the workshop’s strategic and market-oriented approach.
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Thinking Like a Producer: Creative Business Strategy – Iberseries & Platino Industria
Euro CineLab 2025 is a training and production lab aimed at emerging and self-taught filmmakers from Central America, organized by Cineuropa in collaboration with the European Union Delegations in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama. The program focuses on short film production, with the central theme being "self-portrait." Participants will receive 40 hours of theoretical and practical online training over ten days in March 2025. Through this lab, filmmakers will learn how to develop a short film between three and ten minutes long. The five best works from the 25 selected, one from each country, will receive a 500 € prize and be screened at European film festivals held in each nation. Additionally, festival audiences will have the chance to vote for the Audience Award. This project provides a unique opportunity for emerging filmmakers to gain professional experience and showcase their work in an international setting.
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Euro CineLab
We promote national and international audiovisual creators in the realization of their projects. It is an experience that is developed with laboratories, meetings and dialogues, within the framework of our eight sections: Script Consulting, BioBioLab, SeriesLab, Documentary Internship, CorteFinalLab, Emerging Animation, Lab Distribution and Business Tables. Those selected will receive mentoring and advice from experts with recognized international experience in the industry.
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ENCUENTROS - BiobioCine
The Cartagena International Film Festival (FICCI) has opened registrations for its "Laboratorio de Imágenes" (Image Laboratory), organized by its FICCI Academy. This event will take place from April 2 to 5, 2025. Registrations are open from February 26 to March 11, 2025.
The Laboratorio de Imágenes is presented as a space dedicated to the exploration of ideas and narratives, with the goal of strengthening independent cinema and projecting the future of Ibero-American cinema. This laboratory aims to be a hub for innovation and creative exchange in the cinematic field.
For more information about the event and to access the registration form, you can visit the official FICCI website.
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Image Laboratories - FICCI