Screen Ireland Call for Applications — EFP Producers on the Move 2025
Posted: 28th February 2025
Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland is now seeking applications from producers who wish to be considered as the Irish selection for the 2025 EFP Producers on the Move programme, held each year at the Cannes Film Festival.
The hybrid PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE programme consists of preparatory online meetings on three consecutive days, 28 – 30 April, prior to the festival and subsequent networking events on site.
Producers are nominated by their respective national film promotion institutes, members of EFP, and selected via an intricate point system. Criteria include the requirement for the producers to have had experience with at least one international co-production, the selection of their films at major international film festivals or distribution outside the film’s (co-)production country(ies).
Once the producers have successfully passed the selection process, they embark on a series of activities, such as project pitchings, 1:1 meetings, special case studies as well as social events, accompanied by an extensive promotion campaign which includes online presentations and being featured in the international trades.
Over the past 25 years, 526 producers from across Europe have been given the opportunity to take part in PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE in Cannes. The well-established initiative strives to connect young enterprising European producers with potential co-production partners and to bolster essential industry networking. At the same time, it provides a visible platform for a coming generation of European filmmakers at one of the most important film festivals.
Previous Irish Producers on the Move include Evan Horan (Whitetail), Kathryn Kennedy (Atomic Hope), Jessie Fisk (Wolf), John Wallace (Rialto), Cormac Fox (Animals), Alan Maher (Song of Granite), Katie Holly (Vita & Virginia), John Keville and Conor Barry (The Hole in the Ground), Juliette Bonass (A Date for Mad Mary) and Rebecca O’Flanagan (Papi Chulo).
Producers interested in participating in Producers on the Move 2025 should fill out the attached application form, as well as a letter of motivation, a description and a financing plan of the project or slate of projects to be pitched at the festival, and email to marketing@screenireland.ie by Friday, 7th March 2025 at 1pm.