Euro Connection 2027
Short film producers looking for a European co-producer can pitch here during the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market in February 2027.
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Pitch event or market Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF)
Run by Hong Kong International Film Festival Society (HKIFF Industry Office)
Held each March alongside FILMART, this Hong Kong forum brings 25 to 30 feature projects to three days of meetings with investors and film companies, with cash and in-kind awards at stake. It suits director and producer teams with a treatment, a budget and partial funding. Separate calls take projects in development and films already in production or post.
Regular deadline Oct 30, 2026 (closes in 10 days)
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Dates
| Deadline | Date | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| In-Development, early bird | Sep 30, 2026 passed | HKD 650 (new directors HKD 500) |
| In-Development, official | Oct 30, 2026 | HKD 800 (new directors HKD 650) |
| Work-in-Progress | Dec 16, 2026 | HKD 800 |
It runs Mar 15 to 17, 2027 in Hong Kong.
Deadlines are as the organizer states them. Check the time zone on the official page.
At a glance
- Entry fee
- From HK$800In-Development official period, standard rate paid online; new directors pay HKD 650; Work-in-Progress is HKD 800; a bank transfer adds HKD 300
- Formats
- Feature
- Language
- English, Chinese
- Where
- Hong Kong (in person)
- Who can apply
- Live-action or animated projects of 60 minutes or more (animation must fill at least 75 percent of the running time) with a director, a producer and a production company attached, a proposed budget, and financing still incomplete. The In-Development call takes projects at script or pre-production stage; the Work-in-Progress call takes films in production or post. No nationality rule is stated, and projects not yet shown at other markets get priority.
- Prizes
- Cash and in-kind awards, each with its own rules. At the 2026 forum the IDP Award and the WIP Award each paid HKD 100,000 to two projects, and partners added further cash, post-production services, and invitations to NAFF, Udine's Focus Asia and HAF Goes to Cannes.
What to send
- Length
- No page limit stated; In-Development asks for a treatment of 1,000 English words or 2,000 Chinese
- Also asked for
- Online form with a one-sentence synopsis of 30 words, a 100-word synopsis, director's statement, bios, company profile, the treatment and a budget on HAF's template; a full script is optional for In-Development. Work-in-Progress entries add up to three links to scene clips of about 10 minutes and the full script. Chinese-language projects send every document in both English and Chinese.
Need your pages in standard screenplay format first? The free screenplay formatter lays them out and saves a PDF.
What it gives besides money
Selected teams travel to Hong Kong for three days of financing meetings at the HKIFF Industry Project Market during FILMART. Five Work-in-Progress projects are shortlisted for HAF Goes to Cannes, run with the Marche du Film in May 2027.
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