Cinema Pendent Prizes

Cinema Pendent awards a €6,000 cash prize to the boldest project with the best production design to help boost its development and help it on its way. This prize is awarded by the Cinema Pendent Jury. It also includes an annual subscription to MyAirBridge’s Pro plan.

The professional camera film lighting hire company Kinolux and the professional film equipment hire company Welab Professional Equipment award a prize in l’Alternativa Professionals to the shortlisted Cinema Pendent project with best photography. The prize consists of €3,000 for hiring digital camera lighting  equipment and €3,000 for hiring camera  gear for shooting the film within a year of winning the prize.

The winning feature film project will receive advice and assistance on sound design and final mix from award-winning sound and dubbing mixer Alejandro Castillo at Figtree Studios, a Dolby Premier mixing studio in Barcelona. The Non Finito Prize is worth €4,000.

The professional film trailer company Río Bravo Cinema Studio awards a prize to the most provocative shortlisted Cinema Pendent project. The prize consists of €4,000 to go towards creating and editing a trailer.

The postproduction and digital effects company Antaviana Films awards a prize in l’Alternativa PRO to the most original and viable shortlisted Cinema Pendent project. It consists of a Digital Cinema Package of the winning film worth €2,500.

The Music Library & SFX Prize, worth €1,500, is awarded to the shortlisted project with the best sound and music. The winning project will have access to the entire Music Library & SFX catalogue of music and sound effects, as well as to the 360° music supervision service offered by its Acorde division.

L’Alternativa PRO, in collaboration with REC, Tarragona International Film Festival, will choose one of the shortlisted projects at the postproduction stage to take part in Primer Test.

The AI-powered preproduction platform Filmustage awards a prize to the most creative Cinema Pendent project. The prize consists of a one-year Filmustage Professional subscription (valued at $1,596), helping filmmakers automatically break down scripts, organise shooting schedules and generate preliminary budgets from day one.

As a means of offering ongoing support to projects that have taken part in Cinema Pendent, the chic&basic jury presents the creators of one of the projects with a two-night stay in a hotel in Barcelona to enable them to attend the 2026 edition of l’Alternativa PRO.