The Catalan Cinema Academy will open next November Script Residency, an incubator for audiovisual talent pioneer in Catalonia with which you want strengthen feature film writing and encourage the creation of fiction projects.
A Training program of nine months duration that is directed by Carla Simondirector of titles such as ‘Summer 1993’ (2017) and ‘Alcarràs’ (2022)for which she has recently been awarded the Berlinale Golden Bear.
The filmmaker is a good example of the success that can be achieved when supporting the potential of emerging profiles, since, in part, she has forged her knowledge thanks to similar initiatives that exist in other parts of Europe. “I have been in the place of the apprentice and that is why I am so excited to be able to accompany them nowbecause I have lived it and I know perfectly well what it is and all the good things that come out of it”, explains Simón.
She and other professionals like Clara Roquet, Neus Ballús, Jonás Trueba, Claudia Llosa, Celia Rico and Carlos Marques-Marcet; They will accompany the residents during the development of their creative proposals. That is, they will provide professional help to future filmmakers so that their ideas can become great films. All this through a didactic itinerary that includes personalized advice, training given by international screenwriters and filmmakers, meetings with television channels and platforms, contact with producers, opportunities to exhibit their work…
Additionally, it will be delivered to the members of a monthly scholarship of €1,400 with which to finance their proposals. Funds promoted by the European Union, the Generalitat and Barcelona City Council with which to generate direct writing aids, preventing them from being channeled through production companiesas has been the case up to now.
surge of talent
The project comes from the hand of GAC (Associated Screenwriters of Catalonia)Y It will be located in the Espai Joan Brossa and in the Research Center of the Museu Picasso, in Barcelona. In addition, two joint retreats to the Faberllull residence are included in the program, where residents can “exchange ideas, be inspired and nurture each other,” says Simón.
The members of this first edition have already been chosen, and they are Eight projects have been selected from among the 366 proposals who had submitted to the call, a figure that the organizers define as “much higher than expected”.
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“There were great ideas that due to the limitation of places have been left out, and we are very sorry. But we also like to see that there is so much talent yet to be discovered”, says the president of the Catalan Film Academy, Judith Colell.
The productions that have finally managed to win a place are: ‘Sants’, by Mikel Gurrea; ‘I saw the night that never ends’, by Helena Santín; ‘Blau gelat pitufo’, by Laia Soler; ‘Beba’, by Adriana Fuertes and Arántzazu Ruiz; ‘Between the stone and the martell’, by Àlex Lora and Yousra Touri; ‘Els homes i els dies’, by Arnau Vilaró; ‘Dasha’, by Nataliya Kolesova, and ‘Estrany riu’, by Jaume Claret.