Boost IT Lab 2025

Call for applications closed!

8 teams take part in an exclusive plan of activities from 17th to 20th November 2025, as part of Boost IT Lab.

Main info

The Lab is addressed to two main targets:

- Italian projects with high potential for international co-production, presented by an Italian production company.

- International projects seeking Italian production partners, especially those looking for suitable Italian minority partners.

All the projects will benefit from dedicated training sessions with experts and mentors, which aims at putting them in contact with potential partners, expanding their industry network and, at the same time, enhancing their knowledge and experience in co-productions, markets and international financing.

The aim is to provide a new generation of international professionals with tools and guidance to work internationally, and to better understand the international potential of their project.

Both the director and the producer of each team will also have the unique opportunity to network with a wider audience of international decision makers by taking part together in the TFL Meeting Event (20^th – 22^nd November 2025): at the Meeting Event the team will pitch the project and will have the opportunity to attend for two additional days and organize several meetings with different professionals coming from different fields of the film industry and from all over the world.

Each project team will benefit from:

- Online script individual sessions;
- Online plenary sessions focused on Audience Design, Sales, Co-Productions, Legal aspects;
- Four days intensive workshop;
- A masterclass focused on green production;
- One final pitch presentation in front of international producers;
- One badge (for the directors and the producers) for the TFL Meeting Event.

DEADLINE: 5^th September 2025, 11.59PM CET.
Applicants will be notified by the end of September 2025.

Duration

The Lab will be held from 17^th to 20^thNovember 2025 in Turin (4 days) plus two optional days of attendance at the TFL Meeting Event (20^th – 22^nd November 2025) for the directors and the producers.

Who can apply

The call for projects is addressed to two main groups:

1. Emerging Italian producers in team with the directors who have already obtained national and/or international recognition and are taking their first steps into international co-production.

2. International (non-Italian) producers in team with the directors who have already obtained national and/or international recognition and are working on a project that could involve an Italian minority partner.

The producers must apply with a feature film project (fiction or creative documentary) in development stage, for which they aim at finding international partners.

WORKING LANGUAGE:
All activities, meetings and events will be held in English; thus, a good knowledge of English is essential in order to participate and all written material must be translated.

Participation fee & scholarships

2,500 € (plus VAT, if due) per project (max 2 participants per project). This includes a tailor-made plan of training activities, presentation and networking events.
Travel, accommodation and part of the meals costs during the workshop are at participant charge. The participation to the Meeting Event for both directors and producers (travel and accommodation) is at participants charge.

In case of selection, applicants must confirm their full availability for all the days of the workshop.

SCHOLARSHIPS
Thanks to the support of the TFL’s Partners, the following scholarships (full or partial) will be available upon selection to Boost IT Lab 2025:

TFL Italia – Boost IT Lab is realised with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Sub-programme, in partnership with ECAM, FCVDA - Fondazione Film Commission Vallée d'Aoste, Toscana Film Commission, Veneto Film Commission and with the collaboration of AGICI, ANICA, Bellaria Film Festival, CNA Cinema e Audiovisivo and Italian Film Commissions.

ECAM: Guarantees the selection of one feature film project in development chosen from La Incubadora 2025, and covers the entire participation fee for 1 project team (producer and writer/director);

FCVDA - Fondazione Film Commission Vallée d'Aoste: Partially covers the participation fee of one feature film project in development - if selected - coming from Valle d’Aosta region.

Toscana Film Commission: Partially covers the participation fee of one feature film project in development - if selected - coming from Toscana region.

Veneto Film Commission: Partially covers the participation fee of one feature film project in development - if selected - coming from Veneto region.

HOW TO APPLY

The requested materials – to be submitted all together in 1 single PDF (10 MB max.), and all in English – are:

1. Motivation letter explaining why you would like to take part in the programme – 1 page max
2. Synopsis – 1 page max.
3. Intention note about the project – 1 page max
4. Artistic concept & audio-visual reference
5. Web links to previous film(s) of the director
6. Biographies of producer, director & writer (if on board)
7. Production company profile – 1 page max
8. Detailed budget (Euro) and detailed financing plan – including structure of potential co-production (names and/or countries of potential companies, and percentages of financing from each country). Suggested form for the Financing Plan
9. Development and production timetable
10. Marketing & distribution strategy – 3 pages max.
11. Treatment - 10 pages max. – PLEASE NOTE that everyone is asked to mandatorily upload a treatment; in the case you’d already have a script draft you could also submit an extract of 20 pages It will be decided in a second moment - together with the mentors and the program curator - the document on which you will work during the workshop.

Please click on the "APPLY NOW!" button in the right-side column of this page to access the online application form and submit your project. Before starting the application process, you must create an account on the TFL Visitor Page.

For more information contact: carobbio@museocinema.it

The selection

THE 8 SELECTED PROJECTS

AT THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING – 2^nd feature film, fiction
Model David drifts through chaos and boredom at Milan Fashion Week, where happiness is sold by ads.
Director: Willy Hans
Producer: Julia Cöllen (Fünferfilm, Germany)

CARETTA CARETTA – 1^stfeature film, fiction
They dive to save the Caretta Caretta – and rise to defy the patriarchy.
Director: Miriam Gili
Producer: Ivan Casagrande Conti (Chiotto Film, Italy)

GRIZZLY – 2^nd feature film, fiction
An ex-alpinist runs off for one last climb, forcing his daughter back to the mountain she hates.
Director: Sophie Galibert
Producer: Arthur Cohen (Elementary, France)

INNER SEA – 1^st feature film, fiction
A scientist’s discovery of a non-human form of communication stirs memories of an impossible love.
Director: Mariangela Ciccarello
Producer: Yannis Karpouzis (Empty Square, Greece)

PRATOPIA – 3^rd feature film, doc
In Prato, stories of a Chinese, a Pakistani, and an Italian are woven into a cloth of human beings.
Director: Sean Ali Wang
Producer: Helen Tsang (Muyi Film, Netherlands)

THE BIG RIP – 3^rd feature film, fiction
What if the end of the world was the best thing that could happen to you?
Director: Rai María
Producer: Cristina Hergueta (Garde Films, Spain)

THE SALT OF THE SOUTH – 2^nd feature film, creative doc
In Gabès, a coastal oasis scarred by industrial pollution, a family of fishers fights for justice.
Director: Rami Jarboui
Producer: Julien Coquet (Backstory Media, France)

THE SECOND ADOLESCENCE – 1^st feature film, fiction
Back in Milan, Federico (30) must face adulthood when hidden truths shatter his circle.
Director: Tommaso Frangini
Producer: Vincenzo Filippo (Lupin Film, Italy)

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