Euro Connection is a co-production forum designed for European producers, broadcasters, distributors and financial backers looking to partner on quality short projects from a diversity of European country. Producers and authors of selected projects are offered online script sessions and pitch training prior to pitching their project and meet potential co-producers in Clermont-Ferrand.
The 19th edition of Euro Connection will take place on Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 February 2027 during the Short Film Market in Clermont-Ferrand, with support from the Creative Europe and the PROCIREP. A selection of XR projects will complete the coproduction forum.
The 2027 call for projects is now open. Any production company based in Malta may submit a project to [email protected] by October 20, 2026.
How to apply with a project?
Projects must match the following basic criteria to be eligible:
- The project is a short film (animation, fiction, creative documentary).
- Application is made by a producer whose company is based in the associated country where project applies.
- The duration does not exceed 30 minutes.
- The project must have partial funding* secured from an external source.
- Project is intended as an international coproduction.
- Shooting or production shall start no earlier than June 2027.
*Partial funding here means actual development or production funding secured. Support must come from a third-party organisation (i.e.: script development grant, production fund, state or local government support, co-financing from a broadcaster, prize money from a foundation or script contest, etc.).
In-kind contributions, services, or own investment share from the original production company or affiliated partners are NOT considered valid for eligibility in the respect of this selection process.
No minimum amount or percentage is required. Projects can be either at an early or a more advanced stage of funding.
The following conditions apply for applications to be valid:
- Commitment to attend: any producer applying with a project formally commits to attend Euro Connection in person in Clermont-Ferrand in case of selection.
- One project per company: 1 same company may apply with no more than 1 project in its respective country.
- No re-entry: projects received in previous years cannot re-apply unless they were invited to do so (previous application was then deemed qualitative but too early). Exceptions may be granted at the discretion of the correspondent and organisational team (provided significant changes intervened at script development and /or funding levels).
- Funding recipient: to make project eligible, secured funding must be clearly attributed to one of the active production partners or to the author/project. Cases where funding was granted to a partner no longer involved in the project are to be excluded.
- Funding date: the producer’s note shall include a specific comment in cases when funding dates back from over 2 years at time of application.
- Coproduction partners: existing coproduction partners must be clearly mentioned in the producer’s note when project already has a coproduction partner on board, with details of the motivation towards looking for a third international partner.
- Prevention of conflicts of interest: projects whose author(s) or producer(s) are in any way connected to, or involved with, the correspondent organisation’s activities in their country may not be submitted in that country. However, they remain eligible for application in another country through the project’s international partners where applicable.
- Conformity: correspondents and the organisation of Euro Connection reserve the right to refuse any application whose script or supporting documentation would not align with accepted industry standards and practices ensuring a good legibility of the artistic qualities of the project.
Applications must be sent by email to [email protected] no later than October 20, 2026. Incomplete applications or ineligible projects will not be considered. Applications shall be sent as 1 single pdf file containing
- the entry form carefully filled out. Click here to download it.
- all additional documents required
Click here to download the Call for Projects guidelines.
Fore more information visit https://www.lecourt-clermont.org/en/industry-events/euro-connection/