The Italian call for the 14th Biennale College Cinema, the higher education workshop launched in 2012 by La Biennale and addressed to emerging filmmakers to develop and make microbudget feature films over the course of one year, is now open on the website www.labiennale.org, through April 14th 2025.
Registration for Biennale College Cinema – Italia is open to teams consisting of directors and producers, both of whom must be Italian nationals.
Eight projects for microbudget feature-length films will be selected and invited to participate in a development workshop to be held in English from July 3 to 7, at the end of which a further selection of 3 projects will be made. The latter will be invited to take part in a workshop from October 7 al 16, together with the teams of nine projects selected from the international call of Biennale College Cinema, which will be launched on May 6th (through July 7th). The workshops will be held in Venice, on the island of San Servolo.
The announcement of the projects selected for the training sessions in October will be held during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival 2025 directed by Alberto Barbera. From that moment on, the two programmes involved in the 14th Biennale College Cinema, BCC–Italy and BCC–International, will proceed along the same track, towards the selection and presentation of a maximum of four feature-length microbudget films at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival 2026, supported by La Biennale and to be produced with a grant of € 200,000.