Don't miss out on the opportunity to present your project to potential co-producers, investors, funders, distributors and other carefully selected and specially invited professionals attending the ninth edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market, which will take place from September 2nd to 4th, 2022, during the 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31st - September 10th, 2022).
The Venice Gap-Financing Market is a platform for selected projects that aims to support the european and international producers to secure financing for their projects (Fiction Films, Documentaries and 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:
This 3-day event will present up to 45 selected European and International projects and Immersive Projects developed through the Biennale College Cinema VR.
The Catalogue detailing each film project will be emailed to the registered professionals by the beginning of July 2022 to entitle them to request 30-minute one-to-one meetings with the producers of the selected projects. The Venice Gap-Financing Market will set up these meetings in accordance with the availability of the participants and meetings slots. Each participant will receive a personalised meeting schedule a few days before the event.
For the full details, conditions and regulations, please scroll down in this email.
If you have any questions at all, don't hesitate to contact our team at
gapfinancingmarket@labiennale.org
All the very best from Venice,
Pascal Diot and the VPB team
SUBMISSIONS AND REGULATIONS
The Venice Gap-Financing Market terms and conditions are:
GENERAL ELIGIBILITY
For Fiction feature and Documentary film projects
The Project Team
For Immersive Projects
The Project Team
The directors of first or second feature Films, Documentaries or Immersive Projects are invited to provide information on their curriculum vitae as requested in the online submission form, for the purposes of research and documentation.
PROJECT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Saturday, May 7, 2022 (23:59 CEST)
Submission is carried out in two steps:
• Fill in the Venice Production Bridge Online Entry Form at the following link:
https://www.labiennale.org/en/venice-gap-financing-market-2022r
• Upload the materials listed below to complete your submission. All documents must be in English or have an English translation.
Please combine the requested documents into a single PROJECT DOSSIER pdf. This has to include the following:
If you are not able to attach the Project Dossier with the full application to your submission, please send this in an email stating the title of your project in the subject of the mail to gapfinancingmarket@labiennale.org.
For Immersive ProjectsCONDITIONS OF ATTENDING THE VENICE GAP - FINANCING MARKET
Once the selection has been made, the selected producers are contacted to confirm their participation and asked to provide updated material for inclusion in the Book of Projects, which is going to circulate to professionals and financiers before and during the festival.
Participation in the event entitles the selected project teams (the delegate producer and the director) to the following services and facilities:
In return all the selected project teams are required to:
By accepting the invitation to participate to the Venice Gap-Financing Market, you are also agreeing to follow and satisfy the above conditions.
Closing note:
For the second consecutive year, La Biennale di Venezia, on the occasion of the Venice International Film Festival, aims to carbon neutrality. This involves reducing and offsetting the emission of carbon dioxide through targeted actions that require the involvement and attention of all Festival participants. We would like to thank you in advance for your collaboration in achieving this ambitious goal, which will be reached through the individual behaviour of each of us and, for those who wish to do so, through a voluntary contribution to offset emissions.