The San Sebastian Festival Co-Production Forum, now in its fourteenth edition, opens its call for entries for audiovisual projects from Europe and Latin America with a minimum runtime of 60 minutes and at least 20% of their financing secured. European projects must have a link to Latin America.

The Forum, which takes place from September 22 to September 24, will consist of pre-recorded pitchings of the selected projects, and one-to-one meetings between the projects producers and directors and potential partners.

The Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum coincides with the two Festival's works in progress sections for European productions (WIP Europa) and Latin American productions (WIP Latam) and is a meeting point to foster business contacts between the audiovisual industry professionals.

The selected projects compete for four awards: Best Project Award, DALE! Award (Development Latin America-Europe), ArteKino International Award and Casa Wabi-Escine Award. Furthermore, the main producers of the European projects selected at the Forum will be able to participate in Ventana Sur's Proyecta and the Latinamerican projects' producers, if requirements are met, will have the opportunity to participate in the Producers Network of Marché du Film-Festival de Cannes.

The Festival will select a maximum of 20 projects based on the reports of three experts: producer Agustina Chiarino and programmers and members of the San Sebastian Festival Selection committee Esperanza Luffiego and Javier Martín, who is also the delegate for Latin America.

Since its creation in 2012, the Forum has selected 215 projects, 105 of which have been completed and released theatrically and at international festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Sundance, Locarno and San Sebastian: El Mensaje / The Message by Iván Fund won the Silver Bear Jury Prize at Berlinale 2025, La virgen de la Tosquera / The Virgin of the Quarry Lake by Laura Casabé competed this year in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance, Zafari by Mariana Rondón and El aroma del pasto recién cortado / The Freshly Cut Grass by Celina Murga participated in Horizontes Latinos 2024. The last one after winning the award for best screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival. 

For more information on the success stories of participants in this initiative, please follow this link.

• Best Project Award: 10,000 euros gross for the majority producer of the winning project.
• DALE! Award (Development Latin America-Europe) given by the European Film Agencies Association (EFAD) and the Conference of Ibero-American Audiovisual and Cinematographic Authorities (CAACI), comes with 10,000 euros gross for the majority producer of the winning project.
• ArteKino International Award, consisting of 6,000 euros gross for the majority producer of the winning project.
• Casa Wabi-Escine Award consisting of a five-week artistic residency at Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido (Mexico), focused on the development of a first or second feature film by a director selected in Ikusmira Berriak or the Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.

To access the Terms & Conditions and submit a project, click here.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 16

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This initiative is possible thanks to the support of the Basque Government Department of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability, Creative Europe MEDIA, and the collaboration of CAACI (Conference of Ibero-American Cinematographic and Audiovisual Authorities), EFAD (European Film Agencies), ArteKino, Fundación Casa Wabi, Producers Network (Marché du Film-Festival de Cannes), Ventana Sur and LatAm cinema.

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