Forthcoming Submission Deadlines:

• SERIES MANIA BEST MARKETING INITIATIVE AWARD 2024: Following last year's success of the inaugural launch of the Series Mania's Creative Campaign award, the competition gets even bigger and better with a new name and will now include BtoB and BtoC campaigns and initiatives. Creative agencies, producers, studios, international distributor and/or broadcasters and streamers, submit your intitiative by 23/01/2024.

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• Looking for a platform to promote your latest titles? Every year more than 200 films participate in the Agora Film Market in search of international sales, festival premieres and global outreach. Submit your film to the Agora Film Market (operating solely online via Cinando) free of charge. Submission deadline: 16/10/2023

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• EFP (European Film Promotion) public call: for film sales support to present traditional and digital promotional campaigns for recent European films to buyers and distributors in non-European countries at the Tokyo International Film Festival and the American Film Market (AFM) in Los Angeles. The call is open to majority-produced European films with a minimum running time of 60 minutes, whose original copyright was established in 2023, and whose country of origin is part of the Europe Creative MEDIA program and Film Sales Support. Deadline 10/10/2023.

• Represent Justice has launched its inaugural Impact Campaign Open Call, creating a transparent process to grant in-kind impact campaigns to films and series addressing mass incarceration, and helmed by people who are currently and formerly incarcerated. Film teams can apply today for a 2024 impact campaign funded by Represent Justice, and collaboratively designed and led by our impact team. The deadline to apply is September 30/09/2023.

All year long:

• AfroPoP: Black Public Media (BPM) is committed to bringing to the American public dynamic stories that celebrate the art, culture, history and creativity of people of African descent from the US and around the world. https://youtu.be/OAkEovmDxLQ We are looking for strong stories that will capture the breadth and scope of the diversity of the Black experiences. Programs can be about music, art, human rights, sports, politics, health, or anything in between.  Programs should be accessible to a broad audience, have the potential for a national broadcast, and can be used for effective outreach and engagement activities to reach audiences beyond the public television broadcast. Completed programs must be able to meet PBS technical and editorial standards. We seek primarily documentaries but will consider narrative shorts that are 30 minutes or less. Submissions  are accepted year-round. For programs selected for AfroPop, Black Public Media provides competitive licensing rates for broadcast and/or digital platform distribution.

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• POV film submission for mostly long-form, longitudinal, character-driven, contemporary stories bringing the most cinematic and creative approaches in non-fiction storytelling to the American public.

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• IMPACT DAYS CATALOGUE: This portal showcases previous and current Human Rights Impact Days documentaries.

Forthcoming Submission Deadlines:

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Closed deadlines:

• Movies that matter grant programme: for human rights films screenings & events in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, especially in countries with limited resouces and where freedom of press is at stake. The first round of our grant programme for 2023 is open for project proposals. Submit your project before 31/04/2023.​
• FIPADOC IMPACT campaigns 8000 EUR grant: to accompany the production of committed documentaries. This mechanism is intended for production companies that wish to develop an impact campaign in connection with a documentary project. It should enable them to develop a real strategy and build an IMPACT campaign adapted to the theme and ambition of the work. Application until 27/04/2023.
• AGORA FILM MARKET (online 4 - 31/12.2022): includes about 200 documentaries, powered by Cinando showcases, including the majority of the Festival's Official Selection, previous films from directors that participate at Crossroads Co-production Forum as well as international titles and all current Greek productions. ​​
• DOCs For Sale: open for new subscribers, sales market's catalogue and viewing services are available year-round to buyers, distributors, and festival programmers. Subscribers also get access to the next festival edition’s catalogue and the on-site Docs for Sale service in Amsterdam. 
• Film Sales Support (FSS): for European global sales companies listed in the European Commission's register of participants and approved by the relevant European film promotion institute. Mainly European feature film productions (fiction, animation, documentary) with a minimum length of 60 minutes, originating from a country participating in MEDIA and the FSS guidelines, with a copyright of 2021 or 2022, and which have been selected in eligible festivals.

• Agora Doc Market (Thessaloniki, Greece): professional documentary video library for int'l buyers. 

• MIPDOC International Buyer Screenings: 

• The call targets international co-productions in the post-production stage (feature, creative documentaries, animation, over 60 minutes). ✎ greta.fornari@torinofilmlab.it

• TFL Audience Design Fund: 3 grants of 45,000 € each to support the sale and distribution stage, plus a series of personalised Audience Design consultancies with the TFL experts.

• Movies that Matter supports film screenings in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe about urgent social issues and human rights. For this first selection round of 2022, organisations in South East Asia are especially invited to apply (Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam). 

• Film Sales Support (FSS) of the European Film Promotion: call for applications for the online version of the European Film Market (10-17/02/2022) for European global sales companies registered and validated by the European Commission's register of participants and approved by the European Film Promotion Institute. It concerns European fiction, animation and documentary films, with a minimum duration of 60 minutes and from a member country of the Europe Creative MEDIA program. The FSS covers costs/investments (for 1 film or for a set of up to 5 films) for digital promotion and marketing campaigns targeting buyers outside Europe with an investment of up to 50% of the total costs and up to 5,000 euros per campaign. Application closed.

• Movies that Matter supports film screenings in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Are you organising film screenings about urgent social issues and human rights? And are you still looking for funding? For this first selection round of 2022, organisations in South East Asia are especially invited to apply (Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam). Application for grant before 9/05/2022.​​

• ​FIFDH IMPACT DAYS 2022: for filmmakers with documentary projects from around the world about urgent social or environmental issues:

  • Impact Lab (online on 25-26/01/2022): get trained to craft a successful impact campaign for your film. 
  • Phase 2: connect to dozens of NGOs, international Institutions, philanthropists, in Geneva, Switzerland on 8-9/03/2022 to finance it and reach your impact goals.
  • Application closed.
• ​​​Distribution IDFA Bertha Fund for international coproductions documentaries from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe: submissions closed.
• ​European Film Promotion has launched a call for applications for Film Sales Support (FSS) for the Hong Kong FILMART, which will take place online from March 14 to 17. The call is open to European global sales companies registered and validated by the European Commission's register of participants and approved by the relevant European Film Promotion Institute. The FSS covers part of the costs for online promotion and marketing campaigns. Eligible films are European films, with a minimum duration of 60 minutes and originating from a member country of Europe Creative MEDIA and the FSS guidelines, recent films with original copyright established in 2021/2022 as well as feature-length fiction, animation and documentary films. Companies can submit up to 5 films finished or in post-production with high potential for the Asian market. Application closed.
• AGORA DOC MARKET (11-19/03/2022, Thessaloniki, Greece): Submission deadline: closed.