Stories x Women Program 2025 for Women Creatives (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: February 7, 2025

Applications are open for the Stories x Women Program 2025. Stories x Women launched in 2022 as a collaborative program between WIA and FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers’ Associations). The program’s purpose is to assist entry to worldwide alternatives for girls creatives from rising animation communities of Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America and, in the end, to extend the variety of voices in animation.

Each 12 months, delegates from eligible markets are chosen to learn from a sequence of mentoring and training periods led by internationally acclaimed animation consultants that can put together them to pitch their initiatives on the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market.

Benefits

• All participant bills are paid for by this system, together with journey, lodging, and accreditations.

Eligibility

• The name is open to as much as two group members, which should embrace at the least one lady or nonbinary one that is designated because the “Lead Project Holder”.
• The Lead Project Holder have to be the director and/or the screenwriter and/or the producer of the undertaking and, if making use of as a group of two (2), should have the ability to reveal a shared historical past of co-writing and co directing the undertaking.
• The Lead Project Holder have to be a citizen of one of many eligible nations/markets.
• Project holder(s) should have a prepared-to-pitch undertaking, whether or not for an animated function, for an animated documentary movie, or for an animated sequence undertaking. A prepared-to-pitch undertaking is outlined as a undertaking in superior growth – i.e. with vital inventive materials already in place – or at pre-manufacturing stage.
• Project holder(s) should have reached majority of age of their respective nation/market of citizenship and should have reached the age of 18 years.
• Project holder(s) should possess enough English abilities to totally take pleasure in the advantages of this system, together with its mentorship session and alternatives of pitches and networking in Annecy.
• Project holder(s) should have the ability to attend the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and Market from June 9 to fifteen, 2025 and should decide to attending all digital mentorship periods earlier than Annecy.
• Stories x Women strongly encourages purposes from communities which were traditionally much less seen. In specific, they encourage purposes from Indigenous folks, disabled folks, and those that establish as LGB+.
• This Program, its candidates, and all chosen to take part are topic to all relevant legal guidelines, guidelines, and rules within the relevant commensurate jurisdictions.

Application

The 2025 Stories x Women Program deadline is February 7, 2025 at 11:59 P.M. (23:59.) Central Europe Winter Time/GMT+1.

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For extra info, see guidelines and go to Stories x Women Program.