SITGES FANPITCH 2026
For the twelfth consecutive year, the Sitges – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia is organizing Sitges FanPitch, its feature film and series production project pitch competition.
Sitges FanPitch is our international pitch competition event focusing on feature films and series productions currently under development with horror, science fiction, and/or fantastic genre themes.
This initiative continues on its mission to discover the very best genre projects and facilitating connections with leading industry companies. The event will be take place using a hybrid format on October 12 and 13, 2026, at the Sitges Film Festival.
Altogether, a maximum of five series and seven feature films from all around the world will be selected. These will be joined by the projects selected by the Festival at the collaborating Sitges FanPitch film markets and the project selected at Sitges FanPitch Catalunya Imaginària.
The people responsible for each of the selected projects will have the opportunity to make a sales pitch and meet with each of the participating companies.
In addition, the five winning feature film projects will be eligible for travel grants for their international circulation and will be able to take part, without travel expenses included, in the upcoming Feratum Residency and FantasoLab Residency.
Once again this year, we will be supporting local talent with the Catalunya Imaginària label, guaranteeing a place in the final selection for a project made in the Catalan language.
In the series category, one winning project will be selected, which will be awarded a cash prize for its ongoing development.
For the sixth consecutive year, this edition will be complemented by the Showrunners LAB, an introductory and mentoring seminar on the role of the showrunner. The selected series projects will be able to benefit from individual mentoring sessions with the showrunners participating in this year's edition.
What's New for This Year's Edition
This year, Sitges FanPitch is introducing several notable new features with the aim of expanding networking and collaboration opportunities for the selected projects.
First of all, we are changing the date:
Sitges FanPitch will be held on Monday the 12th, thereby becoming part of a new configuration for the Festival's Industry calendar.
In addition, the duration of the event has been extended with the addition of a session of meetings on the morning of October 13th. This new slot will allow companies and professionals who are not direct collaborators in the program to request meetings with selected projects.
Meetings can be requested through the Festival's Industry Department, via a link that will be provided once the selected projects are announced in September.
Through this initiative, Sitges FanPitch opens doors for new industry professionals, expands the radius of influence for projects, and encourages the creation of new collaborations and professional opportunities.
Finally, this year, the call for entries has been expanded to include, for the first time, documentaries specializing in fantastic and genre cinema. With this opening, we reaffirm our commitment to diversity of views and languages, acknowledging documentary filmmaking as an essential form of exploration, reflection, and expansion of the fantastic imaginary.
This expansion enriches the call for entries and encompasses new forms of expression that engage with genre through research, memory, and creation.
