Labs, markets and script prizes from Mexico to Argentina and across the Caribbean. Many take scripts in Spanish or Portuguese, and the co-production markets often welcome projects from the whole region.
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IMCINE's yearly support for Indigenous and Afro-descendant filmmakers from Mexico and Central America starts at the writing stage: Stage 1 backs research and writing or rewriting a feature…
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Porto Alegre hosts a five-day festival given over entirely to screenwriting, held in Portuguese at the Casa de Cultura Mario Quintana in early November 2026.
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Cuba's international film school runs a three-week Spanish-language screenwriting course in November 2026 for up to 12 students, taught by Daniel Tubau.
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Brazilian screenwriters and story editors accepted into TorinoFilmLab's 2027 ScriptLab can get one of two grants from Projeto Paradiso toward taking part.
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Writers with a project in hand, even just a synopsis, spend two weeks in Cuba building the paperwork to finance it: a sales dossier, a pitch and a list of labs, festivals and markets to…
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South American screenwriters and other film professionals with some festival, feature or film school experience can apply for five days of closed sessions held alongside BAFICI in April…
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Writing and directing a long-form documentary is the subject of this two-week course at EICTV in Cuba, taught in Spanish by Carles Bosch in January 2027.
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In this first edition of a two-week course at Cuba's international film school, writers follow a fiction script as it is reshaped on set, behind the camera and in the cutting room.
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Held at Cidade das Artes, this six-day event covers screen, music, games and publishing through a summit, a three-day conference, business markets and a student strand called Festivalia.
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