ShorTO Film Market 2025: Think Outside the Keyframe

Event Description:

ShorTO Film Market is the industry event dedicated to the short film ecosystem, organized by the Italian Short Film Center from 2016. ShorTO Film Market will take place for the ninth time at the end of November in Turin, Italy, as part of Torino Film Industry.

2025 Call for Entries

CALL: Think Outside the Keyframe
Think Outside the Keyframe is an international co-production pitching forum for upcoming animation short films. Selected participants will have five minutes to pitch their project to an audience of film professionals. Short film projects of any animation genre are eligible to participate. Following the pitch session, participants will attend a series of one-to-one meetings with industry professionals scheduled by the ShorTO team.

Think Outside the Keyframe is exclusively dedicated to two categories of applicants: single directors or creative teams composed by a producer and a director, from any country of the world, looking for development or production support in order to realise an animated project.

ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS

• Directors or Creative Teams of Director and Author who have already graduated from an animation school, holding an original project for an animated short film;
• Production Companies or Creative Producers holding an original animated short film project.

The selection involves taking part in an online pitching training in November, prior to the market.

SUBMISSIONS

Short film projects of any animation genre are eligible to participate. Short film projects in the following formats are accepted: fiction, documentary, hybrid, and one-offs, as well as series pilots.
Projects must be submitted in English. Selected projects will be pitched exclusively in English.

REQUIRED MATERIALS

For all submitters:
● Project synopsis/treatment (max. 3 pages)
● Intention note (max. 1 page)
● Moodboard, layout
● Previews of Concept Art (when available)
● Short bios/profiles of relevant team members (director, writer, producer/production company, animation and talents attached, when applicable)

For production companies:
● Estimated budget and financing plan
For Directors/Creative Teams:
● Motivation letter

• Regulations
• Submission link
• Late deadline: 15  September 2025 (Fee/Late: 35,00 €). The fee is payable at the end of the submission process via PayPal only.

NOTIFICATION & GRANTS
Applicants will receive a selection or rejection notice via email by mid-October 2025. All participants are required to travel to Torino to attend on-site Think Outside the Keyframe pitch.horTO will provide accommodation for 2 nights, a € 100,00 travel grant and a free accreditation to the market event to a single representative for each selected project. In case of selection, the participation in the online pitching training and the on-site market event in November is mandatory.