The projects selected in this call enter a support system aimed at strengthening, training, inserting, connecting and promoting the audiovisual content of the professional teams that produce them. These benefits can be understood in:
LEARNING & TRAINING
The training will be developed in the creative and production area, on topics of interest to the projects, with the goal of providing tools, through individual tutorials, talks and master classes for the producers and directors of the participating projects.
MENTORING
Each selected project will meet with the professionals who make up the Expert Committee in order to solve queries and strengthen any aspect of the project that is considered relevant for the face-to-face meetings at the international market in Malaga.
BUSINESS MEETINGS
The selected projects will be presented at a market meeting to the decision makers invited by the organisation and will subsequently hold meetings or business meetings of up to 25 minutes with potential European producers and international agents.
CONFERENCES AND REFLECTIONS
The professionals of the selected audiovisual projects will participate in talks and master classes for debate and discussion on trends and technology development, which will be held during the day in the framework of the audiovisual market in Malaga.
CREATIVE CONNECTIONS TO INNOVATE
During the on-site sessions, MAFF offers the professional teams of the selected projects a space for connection with several agents of the global audiovisual industry, with whom they can interact both to seek new technological possibilities and to develop new initiatives in the various sections that make up the Malaga audiovisual market.
MAFF CATALOGUE
All the selected projects will become part of an international promotional catalogue that MAFF has created to promote the content and professional teams, in order to facilitate the search for funding and to make new content known to industry agents and audiences interested in Ibero-American filmmaking.
ALLIANCES AND AWARDS
• BOLIVIA LAB
Bolivia Lab Industry Award, to participate in the production laboratory to be held in July 2026 in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
• CÁNTICO PRODUCCIONES AWARDS
Two awards will be presented to two projects participating in MAFF:
First Prize: 10 minutes of original music for a fiction or documentary project preferably from Central America or the Caribbean participating in MAFF valued at €6,400.
Second Prize: Original music and audio post-production for a trailer or teaser of up to 2 minutes in length for a fiction or documentary project participating in the MAFF section.
• CHORD/MUSIC LIBRARY:
Three prizes will be awarded to three MAFF projects (one project from Latin America, one project from Ibero-America and one project from the Women Screen Industry section), consisting of a cash prize of €300, as well as a flat rate award for a production valued at €295.
• SANFIC, Santiago International Film Festival
SANFIC Industry Award to participate in the production laboratory to be held in August 2026 in Santiago de Chile
• SIDERAL
Selecting a winning project from among all the MAFF projects, which will be offered a prize consisting of €5,000 as a minimum guaranteed amount for the international distribution of the winning project
• TÉRREA
Prize for two projects participating in the MAFF, consisting of the development of a Sustainability Plan, valued at €2,000 each.
The Festival de Málaga will open a call for projects that meet the requirements described below.
