2025 Gotham Week Project Market Submissions Now Open
by The Gotham Staff on April 2, 2025
Regular Deadline: April 17 ($25) | Extended Deadline: May 1 ($45)
The 2025 Gotham Week Project Market, the nation’s oldest and largest curated marketplace for film and media creators, is now open for submissions!
We are now accepting submissions for the following sections:
— U.S. Features in Development: Selected filmmakers will have the opportunity to introduce their fiction feature film projects at the script stage to attending industry professionals, including producers, financiers, and distributors.
— U.S. Shorts to Features: The U.S. Shorts to Features section will provide filmmakers with proof-of-concept short films the opportunity to meet with key industry executives interested in creating feature-length versions of their projects.
— Documentaries: Designed to support both emerging and established documentarians, this section connects work-in-progress non-fiction features and series with financiers, distributors, broadcasters, sales companies, and festivals.
Set to take place in Brooklyn from September 29 through October 3, The Gotham Week Project Market is a meetings-driven forum that facilitates career-spanning relationships with distributors, financiers, production companies, festival programmers, sales and talent agents, collaborators, and more for all participating creators.
Past industry participants have included A24, American Documentary, Film Independent, Gold House, HBO, Hulu, IFC Films, IFFR, Kartemquin Films, Neon, Sony Pictures Classics, Magnolia, MUBI, Topic Studios, Sundance Institute, WME, SFFilm, SXSW, Tribeca, Hot Docs, and many more.
Recent Project Market alumni include Shuchi Talati’s Girls Will Be Girls (Juno Films), Trương Minh Quý’s Việt and Nam (Strand Releasing), Sean Wang’s Dìdi (弟弟) (Focus Features), Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (A24), Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades (Amazon), Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension (MTV Documentary Films), Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny (Amazon), Laurel Parmet’s The Starling Girl (Bleecker Street), Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw’s The Truffle Hunters (Sony Pictures Classics), and Rachel Lears’ Knock Down the House (Netflix).
You must be a Gotham Member at the Essentials or Insider levels to apply for the 2025 Gotham Week Project Market.
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