The Industry programs are projects of the Festival Internacional de Cine en (FICG) that have the objective of serving different sectors of the Ibero-American film industry. They are platforms for niche audiences that are differentiated by their stage of development or their thematic.
We offer a range of opportunities and collaborations between producers, buyers, sellers and other people responsible for the different stages of the filmmaking process.
Our objective has always been to function as a platform that catapults the development, production and distribution of new cinema in Latin America.
The Co-Production Meetings take place over three days of intensive encounters between representatives of selected feature films in development and international film professionals working within Ibero-America.
In collaboration with the Berlinale Talents of the Berlin International Film Festival, Talents Guadalajara has been part of the activities of the Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara since March 2009.
Talents Guadalajara is an intensive meeting between actors, film critics, directors, cinematographers, sound designers, editors, scriptwriters and producers from Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. It is also a place for interaction and networks between promising filmmakers in the region with experts from the global film industry. Talents Guadalajara has established itself as a point of creative convergence where the next generation of actors, filmmakers and film critics meet, connect, obtain inspiration and work on their own projects.
Talents Guadalajara offers a range of international opportunities and collaborations, reinforced by the connection that exists with other Talents in the world: Berlinale Talents, Talents Beirut, Talents Buenos Aires, Talents Durban, Talents Sarajevo and Talents Tokyo.
In this edition, Talents Guadalajara combines the Acting and Directing Studios into a single workshop to foster creative dialogue between actors and filmmakers. Through practical sessions and mentoring, participants will explore together the challenges of building authentic characters and telling stories that emotionally connect with the audience, strengthening their expressive and acting direction skills in an event that celebrates collaboration as the essence of the art of filmmaking.
Camera Studio, a long-standing tradition at Talents Guadalajara, invites cinematographers to a workshop that combines theory, practice, and specialized mentorship from a renowned Director of Photography. Through project analysis and technical experimentation, participants will delve deeper into visual storytelling, reflecting on the aesthetics, technology, and personal vision that shape light as a cinematic language.
Script Studio invites screenwriters and creators to participate in an ideas lab designed to develop original stories. Through analysis, creative exercises, and consultations with experts, participants will delve deeper into the structure, characters, and narrative worlds of their scripts, strengthening their authorial voice and fostering collaboration among emerging talents from Ibero-America.
The Sound Studio invites sound designers to explore the narrative power of sound in film. Through workshops, analysis, and mentorship, participants will experiment with sound design—from music to ambient sounds and effects—to reflect on how sound shapes the emotion, atmosphere, and identity of each audiovisual project.
Dedicated to animation and its creators, Talent Motion Studio offers selected directors a program of personalized mentoring, master classes, and roundtable discussions with leading international animators. This initiative fosters creativity, experimentation, and the development of animated projects, cementing Guadalajara’s position as a leading center for animated film in Latin America.
This study invites producers and distributors to reflect on the current challenges facing the film industry, explore financing models, and analyze new trends in film distribution. Through workshops and consultations with international experts, participants will strengthen their production and distribution strategies, helping to bring Ibero-American cinema to new audiences.
In collaboration with the FICG Co-Production Forum, Talents Guadalajara is launching the Talent Project Market, a professional pitching platform for feature film projects in development. Selected participants will receive intensive training and present their proposals to representatives from the international film industry, with the aim of forging partnerships, expanding financing opportunities, and bringing their films to new audiences.
DocuLab: Documentary Laboratory is an Industry program of the Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara (FICG), whose objective is to promote the development of Ibero-American filmmakers and their documentary films in post-production stage, from in-depth analysis to discussion with experts.
Episode 0: Series in Development is a program that consists of intensive meetings between a selection of TV series projects and film and television professionals who are in the position to consolidate these projects towards their realization stage.
We offer a range of opportunities and collaborations based on face-to-face meetings with professionals from the audiovisual industry, producers, television stations, OTT platforms, sales agents and international distributors.
The fifth edition of Pitch Guadalajara offers a strategic platform to promote the development of audiovisual and narrative projects. Over the course of four intensive days, the selected participants connect directly with industry professionals to pave the way toward the final production of their projects.
On the first day, narrative video games take center stage at the FICGames Pitch, in collaboration with UNIAT. The second day is dedicated to the Fantasy Genre Pitch, where seven science fiction, horror, and fantasy projects will present their proposals to industry experts.
On the third day, publishers seek to negotiate the adaptation rights to their best literary works in order to turn them into audiovisual productions. Finally, the event concludes with Pitch Escuelas, where eight film schools present their projects to attract potential partners.
We focus on Ibero-American films that are about to be completed, to find a path to their audiences.
Guadalajara Construye: Works in Progress is an initiative since 2008 that has seen countless films grow and travel to various parts of the world. During three days, you will be able to see screenings of narrative feature films with a provisional cut in search of financing for their completion and subsequent distribution. These screenings are made before a closed audience of international distribution professionals, including producers, distributors, sales agents, service companies, aid funds and festival representatives, among others.
Additionally, from the Industry and Market area we manage important support for the post-production and distribution of our selection announced and updated in each edition. These supports are granted to the films that our collaborators consider worthy according to the profile of the partner and the film.
The world of audiovisual storytelling continues to expand into unexplored territories full of creative possibilities.
The universe of video games becomes an interactive cinematic experience, where the viewer takes the role of the protagonist and his actions with the controller or keyboard determine the course of the story that unfolds on the screen in front of his eyes and in real time.
That is why at Industria FICG we armed ourselves with headset and controller and immersed ourselves in this world of pixels and artificial lights to explore with the experts the world of audiovisual narrative in video games.
At FICGames we believe that the best way to understand this universe is to play it. That is why we open the doors of FICGames PlayTest.
It is a space designed to live first-hand the experience of video games. We meet with 10 video games, face to face, controller in hand, to discover and test titles that take interactive storytelling to another level.
