Fics (Fiction Feature Film Development)

Presentation

DiALAB Fics has established itself as a fundamental pillar for the strengthening of contemporary Black cinema, empowering filmmakers who reshape the global imagination through fiction narratives. Embracing each artist's singular vision, the program promotes a rigorous creative process focused on original narratives that echo the complexity and power of the Afro-diasporic experience. Over the years, we have offered continuous support to a new generation of screenwriters and producers, working from logline development to project structuring for the market. DiALAB Fics is not just a training program, it is a global model of artist support, ensuring that Black stories occupy the center of the audiovisual market with viability, innovation, and lasting impact.

FULL RULES

Calendar

Registrations:

Until July 10, 2026.

Announcement of the Selected Candidates:

Until the second half of September 2026.

Online Module

October 26-30, 2026
Meetings focused on the structural aspects of the project.

In-Person Immersion:

November 29 to December 05, 2026
A 9-day intensive consulting program in Salvador, Bahia.

The Consulting team

Xenia Rivery

Screenwriter, professor, and project consultant

Cuba

Xenia Rivery is a screenwriter, professor, and project consultant. For the past 13 years, she has been the head and coordinator of the Screenwriting Department and the International Consulting Service at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños, EICTV-Cuba. She holds degrees in Dramaturgy from the Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba (ISA) and in Screenwriting for Film and Television from EICTV. For five years, she coordinated and advised the Latin American Screenwriting Course at the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano and is part of the consulting team of renowned screenwriter Eliseo Altunaga. She has worked as a consultant in labs and taught workshops in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Brazil. Currently, she is a member of the Viceversa collective for creative writing and screenwriting consulting. Among her works, the award-winning feature film "Tres veces dos", by Esteban Insausti, Lester Hamlet and Pavel Giroud, and Zénith d'Argent for Best First Opera at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, stand out.

Tanya Valette

Executive producer and co-manager of the production company Monte & Culebra SRL

Dominican Republic

Tanya Valette is an executive producer and co-manager of the production company Monte & Culebra SRL. She serves as Project Director for Educational Television at the Ministry of Education and is responsible for development strategies at the National Directorate of Cinema of the Dominican Republic. She was the seventh director of the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños, EICTV-Cuba, becoming the first graduate of the school to assume the position. From 2013 to 2015, she served as Artistic Director and Co-Programmer of the IBAFF Festival in Murcia, Spain. She has worked as an analyst and jury member for film funds including Ibermedia, Colombia's FDC, the Puerto Rico Film Corporation, Venezuela's CNAC Film Promotion and Financing Fund, and the Fonprocine fund of DGCINE in the Dominican Republic. She co-produced "Todos somos marineros" by Miguel Angel Moulet (Peru / Dominican Republic), which premiered at the 2019 Rotterdam International Film Festival and won the Fipresci Prize at the Toulouse Latin American Film Festival. She is currently the Director of the Film Program at Chavón School of Design and Fine Arts.