Creative Producer Indaba
CALL FOR ENTRIES
The highly successful Creative Producer Indaba (CPI), widely recognised for its impact in the film industry, is seeking 15 producers to join its 5th edition which begins in November 2025.
The CPI is a professional development programme designed for film producers that aims at sharpening their leadership and entrepreneurial skills while expanding their creative capacity.
Created and designed by Cape Town-based media house, Realness Institute, in partnership with EAVE, as well as the Brazilian Foundation Projeto Paradiso, Canada Media Fund, Telefilm, the Swiss Foundation for professional training in cinema and audiovisual media (FOCAL), the Austrian Film Institute, the French National Centre of Cinema (CNC), and Institut français, the programme will be run over three workshop periods.
With a focus on creative outputs within a professional business framework, the programme combines group seminar sessions as well as collaborative group workshops that will look at successful case studies, drawing on the learnings from these. One-on-one engagements with mentors and guest experts around participants’ projects are also offered, so that participants have tangible takeaways from their experience. The cohort will focus on key areas including project development and planning, financing, legal frameworks, marketing, publicity, advocacy and lobbying, organisational growth, network management, and leadership.
For the first time in the CPI’s history, all three workshops will take place in the African and Indian Ocean regions, and this year the programme collaborates with two new festival partners which will be announced in a few weeks.
Through the with Canada Media Fund and Telefilm Canada, one spot is specifically reserved for a producer from Canada wanting to co-produce an African project. This partnership guarantees that all programme expenses will be covered for the selected participants (except for per diems).
DATES
Workshop 1: 14 to 20 November 2025, Cairo, Egypt
Workshop 2: 8 to 12 February 2026, Johannesburg, South Africa
Workshop 3: 14 to 19 April 2026, Réunion Island
HOW TO APPLY
To apply go to: Creative Producer Indaba
For more information, contact submissions@realness.institute
Promotion and Communications
Telefilm Canada, Montreal
DL-festivals@telefilm.ca
1 800 567-0890