US in Progress

Ten days left to submit your project to U.S. in Progress!

Familiar Touch, dir. Sarah Friedland

The submissions deadline for the upcoming 2024 edition of U.S. in Progress has been extended! You now have time until September 12 to submit your projects. American narrative feature projects in the rough cut stage, seeking finishing funds, are invited to apply for the program. The industry event will take place from November 7–9 during the 15th American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland.  

U.S. in Progress connects American projects in their final production stages with leading Polish image and sound post-production companies, offering a total of over $100,000 in post-production service awards. The Head of the Polish Film Institute will award another $50,000 to be spent on post-production in Poland. The program aims to ignite collaborations between U.S. producers and Poland, with the goal of encouraging co-productions and facilitating connections with post-production services. European buyers — sales agents, distributors and festival programmers will be present as well. 

Congratulations to Sarah Friedland, director of Familiar Touch and last year’s alum, on her film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival!

There is no entry fee, and films can be submitted by sending the following information in one email to usinprogress@nowehoryzonty.pl with the subject line: "USinP Submission – project title":

  1. Title (or working title)

  2. Synopsis (max 1000 words)

  3. Logline

  4. Production info:

    • Director (short bio)

    • Producer (short bio)

    • Production Company

    • Production Countries (if other than U.S.)

    • Talent

    • Production Budget

    • Secured Financing (%)

    • Project Status

  5. Screener link (only Features in post-production phase, minimum 20 minutes of footage!)

  6. Contact of a representative submitting: name, e-mail address and phone number.

For this edition, we are looking for narrative projects:

  • produced in the U.S.

  • to reach at least 60 minutes of running time by November

  • minimum 20 minutes of footage needs to be provided with the submission

  • no sales agent attached by November 9th. 

The final deadline is September 12 (Thursday, noon EST).

We look forward to seeing your projects!

 

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