The projects selected in this call for proposals enter a support system aimed at strengthening, training, inserting, connecting and promoting the audiovisual content of the professional teams that produce them.
LEARNING & TRAINING
The training will be developed in the creative and production area, on topics of interest to the projects, with the aim of providing tools, through individual tutorials, talks and master classes to the producers and directors of the participating projects.
MENTORING
Each selected project will meet with the professionals who constitute the Expert Committee in order to resolve 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.
LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS
The professionals of the selected audiovisual projects will participate in lectures and master classes for debate and discussion on trends and technology development, which will be given 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 various 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 become part of an international promotional catalogue that the MAFF has created to promote the contents and professional teams, in order to assist in the search for funding and make the new contents known to industry agents and audiences interested in Ibero-American cinema.
PARTNERSHIPS AND AWARDS
• BOLIVIA LAB
Bolivia Lab Industry Award, to participate in the production laboratory to be held in July 2025 in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
• CÁNTICO PRODUCCIONES AWARDS
Three awards will be presented to three projects participating in MAFF:
- 1st Prize Cántico Producciones: 10 minutes of original music for a fiction or documentary project preferably from Central America or the Caribbean participating in MAFF. Prize worth €6,400.
- 2nd Prize Cántico Producciones for a trailer or teaser up to 2 minutes long for a fiction or documentary project participating in the MAFF Women Industry section. Prize worth €3,400.
- 3rd Prize Cántico Producciones: production of a teaser, original music and post production for a project participating in the MAFF. Prize worth €3,400.
•ECAM FORUM
ECAM FORUM Award to participate in a development programme attached to The Incubator, which will take place in autumn 2025 at that school.
• CHORD/ MUSIC LIBRARY
Three prizes will be awarded to three MAFF projects (Prize for a project from Latin America, Prize for a project from Ibero-America, and Prize for a project from the Women Screen Industry section), consisting of a prize in kind with an estimated value of €1,500, which includes the transfer of the production music from all Music Library & SFX sub-published catalogues through a flat rate for unlimited synchronisation of all the content produced in relation to the project.
• TÉRREA
Prize for two projects participating in the MAFF, consisting of the development of a Sustainability Plan, valued at €2,000 each.
• SANFIC, Santiago International Film Festival SANFIC Industry Award to participate in the production laboratory to be held in August 2025 in the city of Santiago de Chile
• SIDERAL
Selecting a winning project from among all the MAFF projects, which will be offered a prize consisting of 5,000 euros as a minimum guaranteed amount for the international distribution of the winning project
• FIDBA - International Documentary Film Festival of Buenos Aires.
Direct selection of a Maff project to participate in FIDBA 2025.
