TorinoFilmLab (TFL), the lab and hub of Italy’s National Museum of Cinema, backed by the Creative Europe – MEDIA sub-programme of the European Union, is gearing up for the 18th TFL Meeting Event, set to unspool from 20-22 November in Turin. Over three days, the co-production market for feature films and TV series will bring together some 350 international professionals and 48 projects that have been developed through TFL’s 2025 activities.

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The Meeting Event – which will unfold mainly at the Centro Congressi Unione Industriali and the Turin Palace Hotel – will assemble more than 100 participants from this year’s training pipelines and unite them with around 250 industry delegates, including producers, sales agents, fund representatives, distributors and festival programmers. A key novelty this year is the presence of 15 European broadcasters, invited to broaden the potential for financing and exposure of the selected projects.

On the feature-film side, four comedy projects, selected from among 112 applications from 44 countries, reach Turin after taking part in the second edition of ComedyLab, where their scripts were honed alongside TFL tutors and a team of comedy writers and performers. Ten projects in advanced development (six debuts and four sophomore features) form the FeatureLab line-up, developed by creative teams of directors and producers across three online and residential workshops that focused on writing, production, sound design, distribution and other key aspects of filmmaking. Sixteen projects (seven debuts and nine second features), chosen from a record-breaking 675 submissions from 91 countries, make up ScriptLab, which unfolded over nine months and also welcomed four aspiring story editors. In parallel, eight projects are concluding their journey in the first Boost IT Lab, dedicated to strengthening international co-production ties between the Italian and global industries. One project already ready to go before the cameras has secured the TFL Co-Production Fund, a grant of €50,000 accompanied by tailored consultancy.

The slate also features a number of high-profile talents. Among the ScriptLab projects is Hold Me (If You Want) by Mounia Akl, set to shoot within the next two years; the Lebanese filmmaker previously developed her debut feature, Costa Brava, Lebanon [+lee también:
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The 2025 TFL Co-Production Fund has been awarded to 9 Temples to Heaven by Thai filmmaker Sompot Chidgasornpongse, known for his debut, Railway Sleepers. The new feature is being produced by Thailand’s Kick the Machine Films (with Kissada Kamyoung and Apichatpong Weerasethakul on board), alongside Singapore’s E&W Films and France’s Petit Chaos (producer Thomas Hakim, whose roster includes work by Payal Kapadia).

In total, the Meeting Event will see €441,000 handed out in prizes to encourage development, production and sustainable practices. FeatureLab projects can count on four TFL Production Awards worth €50,000 each, and may also receive the Sub-Ti Access Award (up to €5,000), the Sub-Ti Award (up to €2,000) and up to three Green Filming Awards of €4,000 each. ScriptLab projects are in the running for the CNC Award (€8,000), the ArteKino International Award (€6,000) and the TFL White Mirror (€5,000), which rewards the project that best addresses sustainability and positive change. ScriptLab and ComedyLab titles are eligible for the Eurimages Co-production Development Award (€20,000), while ComedyLab will also hand out its own €5,000 prize. SeriesLab projects will vie for up to two SeriesLab Development Awards of €20,000. Across all programmes, one participant will be singled out for the IEFTA Award (€3,000), supporting directors from emerging territories.

The juries are composed of prominent industry figures such as Dorota Lech (programmer, Toronto International Film Festival), Ava Cahen (artistic director, Cannes Critics’ Week), Marie-Ange Luciani (producer, Les Films de Pierre) and Andrea Occhipinti (producer, Lucky Red). Joining them are talents who have come up through TFL itself, including Mo Harawe (director of The Village Next to Paradise [+lee también:
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The event also reinforces the ties with the TFL community through awards aimed at alumni. Long-time partner APostLab, in collaboration with Filmmore and Posta, will grant a Post-Production Award worth €20,000 in services to a project developed at previous TFL editions. In addition, to mark TFL’s 18th anniversary, the lab is launching a special one-year Alumni Grant, with €40,000 to be allocated to the production of one or more film projects directed by TFL alumni and scheduled to start shooting in 2026.

In the framework of Torino Film Industry, TFL will round off its programme with the “Venture Capital: Developing a European Model” panel, bringing together Blake Levin (a US producer focused on attracting private investment to European projects), Joe Plummer (an Emmy and Tony Award-winning producer, president and executive producer at Wavelength), Jennifer Westin (a producer and president of Artists Equity, the company co-founded by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) and Aleksandra Zakharchenko (head of industry programmes at the Marché du Film – Cannes Film Festival). Scheduled for Friday 21 November, the discussion will explore how to build models for private capital that are compatible with the particularities of the European audiovisual ecosystem.