The third edition of Spanish Screenings on Tour will be held in the U.S. at Las Vegas, within the framework of the American Film Market, which will take place from November 5 to 10. The deadline for the call for Market Screenings and Next from Spain is August 20, and the deadline for registration of projects and companies is August 30. Spanish Screenings on Tour is one of the lines of work of “Spanish Screenings XXL – An International Market for Spanish Audiovisual Productions,” which aims to enhance business opportunities and open up new ones for the audiovisual industry at the international level. With this objective in mind, it carries out itinerant actions to promote sales and the industry in strategic territories.
The initiative is part of the Plan for Recovery, Transformation and Resilience (PRTR) to reinforce the role of Spain as Audiovisual Hub of Europe, and is inspired by the Ministry of Culture through the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA), the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration through ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones, the Malaga Film Festival and the San Sebastian Film Festival. Its transversal concepts are equality, diversity, transparency and sustainability.
American Film Market (AFM) is one of the principal global events for film acquisition, development and networking at which more than 1 billion dollars in distribution and film financing deals are closed each year, for both completed films and those at every stage of development. Thousands of professionals from the audiovisual industry come together every year at AFM to develop, showcase, discover, finance and license thousands of independent films and projects destined for global audiences.
Hence, with the slogan “Spanish Audiovisual: Creativity, Diversity and Success,” Spanish Screenings on Tour 2024 will foster the prominent presence of the Spanish audiovisual industry in one of the world’s strategic markets before international buyers, sales agents, decision makers, investors, festival programmers, producers and the industry’s most outstanding key players. An opportunity which is geared at enhancing the internationalization of all the genres and formats of Spanish audiovisuals, in different stages of development and production.
The activities at the American Film Market will be grouped into six categories: The Spanish Animation Showcase, calling for Spanish animation projects (feature films or series) in the final financing stage; the Spanish Fantastic Showcase, for Spanish feature films or series in the fantastic, science fiction, and horror genres nearing final financing; and the Spanish Remakes Showcase, an event dedicated to the booming market for Spanish audiovisual remakes, open to accredited international professionals at AFM. Additionally, the Spanish Producers Showcase will present a selection of companies with proven market success and international experience. Market Screenings, created by AFM, will provide exclusive sessions for Spanish productions, offering sales agents a strategic opportunity to showcase new films to international buyers, with detailed submission and registration available through the ICEX website. Lastly, Next from Spain will allow Spanish sales agents to present screenings of trailers and teasers of films in production, planned for release in 2025, also with detailed submission and registration information available through the ICEX website.
Likewise, Spanish Screenings on Tour will provide the Spanish industry with an exclusive area in which to hold business meetings and foster networking activities. The platform will also have a space to give greater visibility to the films, series and projects selected in Spanish Screenings on Tour.
The calls for the selection of content of Spanish Screenings on Tour at AFM 2024 are organized through the MAFIZ industry area of the Malaga Film Festival and ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones.
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