The 28th GIFF: Call For Projects

The 28th Geneva International Film Festival and its 10th Digital Market are fast approaching.

For more than 25 years, GIFF has been paying tribute to the creative power of TV series, a genre that has become unavoidable today. After Berlin and Helsinki, GIFF has been hosting the European Script Award (formerly the Prix Genève) since 2020, which rewards the best script for a European TV series.

Want to be part of the official series selection of GIFF 2022? Submit your series and series scripts on MyGIFF before August 18,2022! These will be eligible to join the convergent sections or compete in the following two competitions:

• International Series Competition (CHF 10,000 offered by the City and State of Geneva)
• European Script Award (EUR 10,000 offered by the European Alliance for Television and Culture [EATC])

Exclusive to Switzerland, the International Series Competition brings together the most inventive foreign series, which GIFF has been reporting on for over 25 years. The competition showcases, through ten series’ pilot episodes, the innovative potential of the most popular and dynamic format in the contemporary audiovisual industry. A new inclusive Jury consisting exclusively of five festivalgoers rewards the best series with the Reflet d’Or, worth CHF 10,000 (offered by the City and Canton of Geneva).

Consult the terms & conditions conditions and submit onMyGIFF, create an account and fill in the form.
Deadline for submission: August 18, 2022
RELIVE THE 2021 INTL SERIES COMPETITION

 Three works, selected from among the most original scripts written by up-and-coming authors, are screened at the Festival and submitted to a jury of experts. The best screenwriter of the year will receive an award of EUR 10,000 from the European Alliance for Television and Culture (EATC) at the GIFF Awards Ceremony on  November 12, 2022.  

The European Script Award is open to all European-based TV stations, broadcasters and production companies.

Consult the terms & conditions and submit on MyGIFF, create an account and fill in the form.
Deadline for submission: August 18, 2022

.A pioneer in the field of new writing and digital innovation, GIFF has been featuring a programme of virtual reality (VR) works since 2014. This section has been competitive since 2016 and brings together immersive XR works from around the world, presented in Swiss, international or world premieres. A Jury consisting of personalities from the audiovisual industry awards a prize of CHF 10,000 donated by the City and State of Geneva.

Are you a creator, producer or distributor interested in joining the 2022 selection of the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF)?
!!! Submit: Your digital works (interactive, performative, installation, web content) and/or Your immersive works (virtual, augmented and mixed reality)
The works will be eligible for the International Immersive Works Competition (CHF 10,000 offered by the City and State of Geneva), for the Future Is Sensible Award (CHF 10,000 offered by the City and State of Geneva) and for the convergent sections (out of competition).

Consult the terms & conditions and submit on MyGIFF, create an account and fill in the form.
Deadline for submission: August 18, 2022
RELIVE THE 2021 INTL IMMERSIVE WORKS COMPETITION

You are developing:
• A European XR project
and/or
• an interactive project made in Switzerland?
Funding and distribution opportunities await at Geneva Digital Market !

Presentation of Swiss digital projects / matchmaking sessions with institutions and distributors
Since 2019 this programme has enabled Swiss digital artists to meet representatives of international institutions and art centers in order to facilitate the distribution of their projects abroad.
Watch the 10 projects selected in 2021
Submit on MyGIFF, create an account and fill in the form.
Deadline for submission: September 8, 2022

. Presentations of XR projects and immersive technologies / co-production market

Organised since 2019, these sessions enable 20 of the most innovative European project leaders to present their work in progress to European producers. The day is divided into two parts, starting in the morning with pitching sessions and continuing in the afternoon with one-on-one meetings between participants. Watch the 15 projects selected in 2021

Submit on MyGIFF, create an account and fill in the form.
Deadline for submission: September 8, 2022

Founded in 1995, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) is Geneva’s oldest film festival and one of the first in the world to include television in its programs. A crossroads of genres and disciplines, a place of experimentation, encounters and celebration, it offers every year for ten days, films, series, interactive installations and virtual reality works to some 50,000 festival-goers. The largest space in Switzerland dedicated to immersive arts, the GIFF has become one of the major events in Europe.

At the heart of the event is the Geneva Digital Market, a unique event in Switzerland dedicated to audiovisual innovation. Professionals of the image, industrialists and theoreticians from all over the world meet, debate and exchange on what makes the audiovisual universe of today and what will cross it tomorrow.

GIFF is also active throughout the year through its mediation program and its GIFF UNLIMITED program, which brings together each year a series of events organized in partnership with other Swiss and foreign institutions, festivals and markets.

Recognized as a strategic player in the development of the audiovisual sector in Switzerland, GIFF is supported by the City and State of Geneva, the Federal Office of Culture, SRG SSR, MEDIA Desk Suisse, Focal, SWISSPERFORM, as well as numerous private actors.

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