Gotham Week will take place September 16—22.
Industry Registration will open in spring 2023.

Learn More About the Project Market

The Gotham Week Project Market is a large-scale, curated marketplace for fiction and documentary feature films, series, and audio projects ranging from early stages of development to near completion. The Project Market hosts these projects as well as hundreds of industry professionals from around the world seeking to make connections with artists and discover new work. At the Project Market, close to 2,500 meetings take place, based on the interest of the attending industry, between artists and industry members, breaking down barriers between artists and gatekeepers and boosting the profile of exciting work made by artists from around the world.

The Project Market typically invites around 150 projects. Learn more about the types of projects invited each year. The 2022 Project Market took place both in person, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, this September as well as online. The in-person meetings took place Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (September 19 – 21) while virtual Project Market meetings took place Thursday, September 22, and Friday, September 23.

Accreditation & Industry Criteria

Due to our limited space for scheduled meetings at the Project Market, The Gotham restricts the number of participating industry members to those that can meaningfully further the trajectory of selected projects. To vet new industry members wanting to take meetings during the Project Market, all new attendees must submit an Industry Accreditation form. The information allows The Gotham to better understand what you are looking for during the Project Market and whether your company fits into our program. The eligibility breaks down as follows:

COMPANIES

Select Industry accessing the Project Market meetings with talent are identified as only those companies that can actively produce, acquire, sell, distribute, or finance projects; established literary, TV, digital or talent agents or managers.

FREELANCE PRODUCERS

We will similarly limit “Freelance Producers” participating in the Project Market meetings to producers with a proven track record of shepherding at least one feature film through development, production, and distribution.

Benefits

As the oldest co-production market in the US, we curate around 2,500 customized meetings for industry professionals during the Project Market. Meetings are scheduled based on the availability and interest of registered industry members. Registered Industry members receive digital access to the Project Market catalogue as well as the Industry Directory, allowing them to see other attending industry members at this year’s event. 

Project Market Alumni

Over the last four decades, The Gotham Week Project Market has played a vital role in launching the careers of now-established filmmakers. Recently supported projects include Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension; Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee’s Aftershock; Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s American Factory; Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht’s Crip Camp; Brett Story’s The Hottest August; Fernando Frias de la Parra’s I’m No Longer Here; Rachel Lears’ Knock Down the House; Joe Talbot’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco; Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca; Kaouther ben Hania’s The Man Who Sold His Skin; Channing Godfrey Peoples’ Miss Juneteenth; Alejandro Landes’ Monos; Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny; Tayrisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades; and Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck’s The Truffle Hunters.

Filmmakers whose previous work has been supported at the Project Market include Garrett Bradley; Robert Eggers; Barry Jenkins; David Lowery; Laura Poitras; Dawn Porter; Dee Rees; Nanfu Wang; Roger Ross Williams; and Chloé Zhao.