Selection criteria

You can submit your project via the form at the bottom of this page. The DMFF Pitch is open to:

• creators from all regions and countries
• the project must be filmed and completed before October 1st, 2025. It will be shown during Dutch Mountain Film Festival 2025.
• the project must be a mountain film and have a connection to the landscape of the region of the Dutch Mountain Film Festival (Limburg in the Netherlands and/or the Euregio Meuse-Rhine)
• the contribution from the Pitching Forum can only be used for production-related costs. Show in your pitch dossier that you can complete the film with the €2,000 contribution and are not dependent on co-financing (it is allowed to co-finance, but in case this fails, the film still needs to be finished at latest October 1st, 2025).

3-5 participants will be selected from all submissions. They will then pitch their plan to a jury of industry professionals. The winner will receive a €2,000 production budget, provided by CineSud, and will receive guidance from the DMFF Academy.

How and what to apply?

• As a filmmaker you can send in one project. 
• No individual feedback on submissions is given. However, if you are a Club CineSud-member we will provide short feedback on your application. 

Apply via the button below and deliver all the requested materials in English in one single PDF of max. 8 pages (incl. cover page) and max. 5mb. If the materials are bigger than asked for, the project will not be taken into consideration. Some suggestions to write in your application file:

• Tagline, logline, synopsis, genre, format (fiction, documentary, tv, web, etc.), duration of the project (max. 1 page);
• Motivation (max. 1 page);
• Director's vision (max. 1 page);
• (Short) biographies of yourself and other crew/cast-members. If not available yet: who are you planning to work with? (max. 1 page);
• Moodboard and/or other relevant extra information (screeners of former work are recommended) (max. 2 page);
• (Indication of the) budget and financing plan (if you already have co-financing, let us know!) (max. 1 page).