While awaiting the announcement of the projects and the full programme for the upcoming ShorTO 2025, let’s take a moment to shine a light on the partners who are enriching this year’s edition with their awards and grants.

ShorTO Film Market is proud to host a curated selection of leading Decision Makers representing the most productive and impactful initiatives within the European short film ecosystem. These key industry figures will be actively scouting for projects that perfectly align with their line-ups. Beyond potential partnerships, these Decision Makers will also be responsible for assigning prestigious awards and grants, offering crucial opportunities to ensure the successful development and realization of the short film projects selected by ShorTO.

The award provides strategic, creative, and operational support from Advista for the development of materials that form the film’s identity. It offers €5,000 to be used for communication and promotion services for the short film within two years of winning.

Radiator IP Sales offers a strategic consulting award for an effective festival journey to one of the projects presented during the Market pitching sessions. The award consists of one hour of film festival strategy consulting for the director/producer of the film.

Radiator Intellectual Property Sales is a Belgian festival distribution agency involved in all aspects of industry events, including social media, marketing, submissions, sales, distribution, and deliverable creation.

RAI Cinema is actively presiding over the virtual reality content market by strengthening the national virtual space by supporting production, audience development, literacy, research, and distribution. RAI Cinema will award one of the VR Content showcased projects with an exclusive acquisition for the Italian territory on RAI Cinema Channel VR App, available on App Store, Play Store and Meta Store.

 

Thanks to the partnership between the Italian Short Film Centre and the Brussels Short Film Festival, one project from the Short Film Market 2025 will be awarded the Brussels CoProMarket Award. This award offers the opportunity to participate in the 2026 edition of the Brussels CoProMarket: Short Film Sessions, which is held during the Brussels Short Film Festival, pitching to this professional audience and benefit from one-to-one meetings. In turn, one of the ShorTO Film Market representatives will attend the 2026 Brussels CoProMarket, selecting one project for the “You Only Pitch Twice” pitching session at ShorTO Film Market 2026.

The Brussels CoProMarket focuses on supporting international co-production for short films and brings together producers and other key industry professionals, such as TV buyers and distributors.