Its aim is to bring together the best of international rural auteur cinema, promoting the discovery and dissemination of its unique stories and scenarios.
Deadline 10 August 2025
Prize 9,000€
The DAMA Cortos 2025 call is aimed at DAMA members (Audiovisual Copyright Association) in Spain. It supports fiction short film production, excluding animation and documentary. Scripts must be original, unpublished, up to 10 minutes long, and feasible to shoot in one day with up to three locations within the same city. Each participant may submit up to two scripts.
Applications are open from May 16 to June 9, 2025 (2:00 PM CET). The winning script will be produced by the company El Gesto Cinematográfico, with a budget up to €25,000. The winner will be announced during the first week of September 2025.
Applicants must submit detailed project information, personal documentation, and a signed declaration by email to damacortos@damautor.es.
This is a valuable opportunity for Spanish screenwriters looking to advance their careers with a fiction short film script meeting the requirements.
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DAMA Cortos
The 4th edition of MIANIMA, organized by MIA (Women in the Animation Industry), is open until June 11, 2025. It is aimed at women from 22 Ibero-American countries with animation projects in the categories of feature film, series, or short film. Six projects (two per category) will be selected for an intensive 4-month program that includes mentoring, masterclasses, and pitch refinement. The program culminates in a closing ceremony in Madrid, where the best projects will be awarded professional services valued between €9,000 and €15,000.
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MIANIMA 4th edition
The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market is the most important market for short film professionals from all over the world. The Short Film Market integrates the physical and digital dimensions to meet the needs of all the actors in the sector's production, promotion and distribution chain, in an open, inclusive and responsible environment. It is the leading place for sales, acquisitions and distribution of short formats, offering specific points of sale on the French, European and international markets. Its complete program of professional meetings encourages the creation, co-production and circulation of works.
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Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market
Push Lab 2025-2026 is a development lab for film projects in scriptwriting stages, aimed at directors or director/writer teams born or residing in Catalonia. The program offers creative and industry support, including a creative residency at Mas Flaquer (Cantallops) from October 20 to 26, 2025, followed by monthly sessions in Girona from November 2025 to February 2026. Six projects are selected, with specific spots for women, Girona residents, and Catalan-language projects. Each project receives a €3,000 grant. The application is free and open until July 12, 2025. The program concludes on March 11, 2026. Push Lab supports the development of feature films by providing tools to improve scripts and plan industrial development.
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Push Lab
The BFM is the only market in Latin America dedicated to short films, which is developed within the framework of the Bogotá Short Film Festival / Festival de Cortos de Bogotá - BOGOSHORTS and seeks to strengthen the different actors in the audiovisual sector whose special interest is content in formats short, through creation, training and networking strategies; becoming a window for the positioning of this content in the Colombian and Ibero-American industry and promoting the construction of networks that encourage the production and distribution of short films and short formats in general.
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BOGOSHORTS Film Market
