Application & selection criteria

• Producer with several years’ practice on the local market (i.e. not a student or recent graduate) with a capacity for future professional growth and with ambitions to be active on the European market
• At least one realized feature or mid-length documentary film which has entered theatrical distribution and has been screened at festivals. We are looking not only for documentary film producers, but also for those with experience in fiction, hybrid films, video games (educational or with documentary aspects) or VR.
• Previous experience in other workshops is considered an advantage
• The programme is not project-oriented, i.e. the applicants do not apply with their concrete film, but as individuals seeking professional growth
• Eligible countries:
  • EU Member states (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden)
  • Switzerland, Iceland, UK, Liechtenstein, Norway
  • countries of Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia)
  • Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine) and Russia
• Guest Region of Emerging Producers 2026 in cooperation with IEFTA: Sub-Saharan Africa
• The selected participant from this region will have their participation fee and travel expenses to the workshop in Europe fully covered by IEFTA.

• Each year, eighteen Emerging Producers are selected. The participants will be notified in July 2025 and officially announced at Sarajevo FF in August 2025.