IFFR Pro Talent Development

Each year, IFFR Pro’s international partners nominate and select outstanding emerging film producers to attend the festival for the Rotterdam Lab. Now in its 24th edition, the five-day programme of plenary sessions, roundtables and networking events offers participants an opportunity to hone their producing skills and expand their international network.

15 participants form a hive-mind of producers who are either in the process of developing, or want to collaborate on, an African film project – in order to develop their entrepreneurial and leadership expertise, foster their creative skills, and create long-lasting and significant networks. The cohort met in November at the Atlas Workshops of the Marrakech International Film Festival, and conclude their programme in Rotterdam. Creative Producer Indaba is presented by Realness Institute, in partnership with EAVE, IFFR Pro, and the Marrakech International Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops; with the support of IEFTA, Projeto Paradiso and The StoryBoard Collective.

Eight projects come to Rotterdam as part of their bespoke development programme. BoostNL brings Dutch projects together with international ones – those supported by our Hubert Bals Fund – to create a unique international platform for co-development. IFFR collaborates with the Holland Film Meeting (HFM), the industry event at the Netherlands Film Festival which takes place in September 2023, to run the five-month programme. The projects will be doing their tailor made trajectories of workshops, expert sessions and follow up meetings during CineMart.