2025 UNESCO/Tamayouz Cinema Foundation Residency for young women African filmmakers (Fully Funded to Morocco) – Opportunities For Africans

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Application Deadline: 31 July 2025 (midnight Paris time) 

Applications are actually open for the 2025 UNESCO/Tamayouz Cinema Foundation Residency. With funding from the People’s Republic of China and in partnership with the Tamayouz Cinema Foundation, UNESCO presents a 6-week filmmaking residency in Morocco for 10 rising African women filmmakers, aged 21–35. Within the framework of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, this distinctive programme gives a platform to improve expertise, amplify voices, and join with key gamers within the movie trade throughout the continent.

Location of the residency: Rabat & Marrakech, Morocco

Dates of the residency: 15 September – 27 October 2025

Under the mentorship of acclaimed administrators Abderrahmane Sissako and Hicham Lasri, individuals will obtain skilled coaching, produce their very own quick movie, and collaborate with friends from throughout Africa.

Requirements

Applicants should:

1. Identify as a lady
2. Be a citizen of an African state
3. Be between 21 and 35 years outdated earlier than the beginning of the residency
4. Have no less than 2 years {of professional} expertise in movie or audio-visual manufacturing
5. Have written and directed no less than one fiction movie (quick, medium, or function), ideally screened at a pageant or broadcast
6. Speak and perceive English and/or French fluently

Two individuals might be chosen from every African sub-region.

Benefits

Selected individuals will obtain:

• Travel bills from their home nation to Morocco
• Visa and administrative assist
• Accommodation, meals, and native transportation
• Training and equal manufacturing funding for quick movie tasks
• Per diems for extra private bills

Programme
Format: Hybrid (on-line and in-person)

• August – September: Preparatory actions (on-line)
• 15 September – 27 October 2025: Six-week residency (in presential in Morocco):
  o Session 1: Introduction and improvement of eventualities
  o Session 2: Pre-production
  o Session 3: Production
  o Session 4: Post-production and shutting of the residency
• October – December: Post-residency follow-up (on-line)
• The residency programme gives chosen filmmakers a number of networking Opportunities
  to forge lasting connections.

How to Apply:

Submit the next:

• A accomplished application type (in English or French)
• CV
• A replica of your passport 

by 31 July 2025 to: [email protected]

Application Timeline:

• 7 July 2025: Launch of the open name for functions
• 31 July 2025: Deadline for functions submissions
• 15 August 2025: Announcement of the chosen candidates
• 28 August 2025: Online session / Preparatory actions
• 15 September – 27October 2025: 6-week residency in Morocco

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNESCO/Tamayouz Cinema Foundation Residency