Call for the Venice Gap-Financing Market 2025

Call for the Venice Gap-Financing Market 2025

The call is open to European and International projects  (Fiction and documentary feature films, and immersive projects). Deadline: 1 May, 2025.

La Biennale di Venezia announces that the new call for the Venice Gap-Financing Market opens on Monday February 3rd, the deadline for submitting projects is May 1st 2025.
 

The twelfth edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market will be held from 29th to 31st of August 2025, as part of the Venice Production Bridge of the 82nd  Venice International Film Festival (27 August – 6 September 2025) directed by Alberto Barbera.

The Venice Gap-Financing Market is a platform for selected projects that aims to support European and international producers to secure financing for their projects (Fiction, Documentaries, Immersive Projects) through one-to-one meetings with potential and pertinent international professionals (producers, sales agents, distributors, financiers, broadcasters and funds). All the invited professionals are decision-makers.

This call is open to European and International projects for the following categories:

  • Fiction and Documentary Feature Films: up to 27/33 feature films and international narrative or creative feature documentaries, including 3 Biennale College Cinema Projects, from all over the world will be selected. There is no genre limitation and animation feature films are welcome;
  • Immersive Projects: up to 10/12 immersive projects from all over the world will be selected.

The 3-day event (29 - 31 August 2025) will present up to 45 selected European and International projects and Immersive Projects developed through the Biennale College Immersive.

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