MÁLAGA WORK IN PROGRESS (WIP) / About Us

The Malaga Film Festival will be holding the sixth edition of Malaga Work in Progress, highlighting its commitment to the diversity of identities and languages of Ibero-American and its audiovisual industry, and with the objective of continuing to work to enhance the projects of creators in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. 

The next edition of Malaga Work in Progress will be held on the 13th, 14th, 15th,  16th and 17th of March, 2023 in the framework of the 26th edition of the Malaga Film  Festival.

Projects can be registered until the 15th of January, 2023.
Malaga Work in Progress is organized by the Malaga City Council and the Malaga Film Festival, in collaboration with the ICAA (Institute of Cinematography and the Visual Arts of Spain), CAACI (Conference of Audiovisual and Cinematographic Authorities of Ibero-America), IBERMEDIA and FIPCA (Ibero-American Federation of Film and Audiovisual Producers).

The objectives of Malaga Work in Progress are to contribute to:

- Promoting the financing of films by presenting them to prominent professionals of the audiovisual industry.
- Favoring their dissemination and promotion.
- Supporting the completion of films in the post-production phase.
- The feasibility of their international distribution.

Malaga Work in Progress consists of two different actions, conceived to respond to the needs of the participating films and their creators:

Malaga WIP Spain is designed to promote the completion of fiction feature films and documentaries in the final cut phase, ready for the post production process and that are seeking to ensure their international distribution. Six Spanish films will participate in the event.

The audiovisual projects must be presented by Spanish production companies. In case an audiovisual project is an international coproduction, a contract or memo deal must be submitted to substantiate each country’s participation percentage.

Malaga WIP Ibero-America, conceived to promote the completion of fiction feature films and documentaries in the final cut phase, ready for the post production process and that are seeking to ensure their international distribution. Six Ibero-American films will participate in the event.

The audiovisual projects must be presented by Ibero-American production companies (Latin America and Portugal), registered as such. In case an audiovisual project is an international coproduction, a contract or memo deal must be submitted to substantiate each country’s participation percentage.
The audiovisual projects must be submitted by Ibero-American production companies (Latin American and Portugal), registered as such with the Institute of Cinematography or bodies with similar characteristics in their country of origin, whether trade entities or other entities recognized as such.

The participating projects will be selected by a prestigious committee of experts.

Screenings of the selected films will be available for the professionals participating in  Mafiz and in the Malaga Film Festival, sales agents, international distribution companies, festival programmers, international funds and producers.

Terms and conditions

For Registration:

- Applicants must fill out the  registration form that is available on the Mafiz website.
- Applicants must mark the box that corresponds to the WIP section in which they want to participate.
- A link with password must be available to view the film, and will be requested on the form mentioned above.
- The cut that is registered must last longer than 60 minutes, and ideally should not last more than 90 minutes, although this is not exclusive.

The entire form that is available on our website must be filled out for the registration to be considered completed.