As part of LALIFF Connect: Market & Creative Forum, LALIFF Market 2026 offers a unique platform for U.S.-Latino projects in development and post-production to connect with top industry professionals. Designed as a boutique market, it prioritizes meaningful exchange, visibility, and access, creating real opportunities for projects at critical stages of growth.

By convening a carefully curated group of industry decision-makers (including sales agents, distributors, financiers, film commissions, and festival programmers) the Market fosters an intimate, focused environment where filmmakers can present their work, receive targeted feedback, and explore concrete paths toward collaboration.

Minimum Requirements:

• Directed and/or produced by a filmmaker who identifies as Latino (18+)
• Projects must be independently produced, feature-length (minimum 70 minutes), fiction or documentary (TV or pilots not eligible)
• Projects in development must have a completed script or treatment, a producer attached to the project, and at least 30% of funding secured
• Projects in post-production are required to submit a rough cut (minimum 70 minutes)