5th edition between Bid Lab and Presentation of Editing Projects this year, he broke all records by taking nearly 200 movies and TV series projects. In total they were 182 The works bought for this event organized by Alicante Film Festival Next to you Local Development Agency With the support of Alicante City Council ImpulsAlicante SGAE Foundation.
Selected from among the presented works 18 projects Part of the parallel events of the 20th edition of the festival, these Lab days are (17 Spaniards and one Italian) whose creators must defend before top professionals and companies.
In particular, the jury of the projects will consist of: ivan escobarscreenwriter, executive producer at The Mediapro Studio; Castanar Gómz-Rodulfosales analyst and Commercial Manager at Universal Pictures Sp; Rodrigo EspinelProducer of Morena Films; Cesar SeagullÀ Punt Media’s director of content and programming; and by the laboratory coordinator, Luis Maria Ferrandez.
The laboratory announced this Thursday Mª Carmen, Member of Parliament for Employment and Local Development from Spain; Vicente Seva, director of the Alicante Film Festival, and Luis María Ferrández, laboratory coordinator. Seva said, “With this program, we want promoting the meeting between all of us who are part of the industry to promote its growth and consolidation: screenwriters, producers, distributors, audiovisual platforms and for a long time will spend these days at the event where all kinds of workshops, master classes, round tables and other events are presented”.
Among the events, the festival director highlighted the events with the title of round table. Fiction content production and trading, Javier LerenaRTVE movie purchasing manager; Michael Garcia, international sales director of Atresmedia TV; mercedes, CEO of Beta Fiction Spain; and moderated by gerardo sanchezmanager movie days from RTVE. It will be held next Monday. June 5th At 12 noon in Puerta Ferrisa.
The Councilor for Employment and Local Development reiterated the importance of this Lab, which is structured as “a job fair where leading film and television series producers attend annually to learn about the proposals of Alicante creators.” and bids have been exceeded, which means more productions are brought to life and hit the screens.” from Spain He also reminded that this support will increase with the adaptation of the Secadero venue. centre It is one of the creative industries of Alicante that will give a new impetus to the sector in the city of Alicante, whose project has been approved and is at the tender stage.”
Luis Maria FernandezThe laboratory’s coordinator fifth edition dStating that this initiative and the number of works presented have increased exponentially, 66 proposals were received in the first edition, which exceeded 180 this year, Fernández also underlined that the projects did not come only from the city and Valencia. The community is also From different parts of Spain and other countries. Praised the manager quality and heterogeneity proposals, including serials, short films, films or documentaries.
selected projects
Specifically, the selected projects are: Sock by Sergio Checa; almost heroes by Jelen Morales; Duel by Jorge Sanchez; Echo by Meritxell Aguilar Valls; open institute by Juanjo Durán Campillejo; Penthouse by Tomás Rojo; tame it Pedro Soares Gusmao; no death From Belen Puime Bao; Shepherd by Silvia Pradas; Mesinfoth, Meninfoth by Ivan R. Varo; Monte Carlo 67 by Ruben Guindo Nova; Christmas at a gas station by Sergio Yorka; novices by Irene Benlloch Cabiedas; Inside Álvaro G. Company and Mario Hernández López; seventies From Marga Dorao; siglufjordur by Mikel Aguirresarobe and A dream by Aicha Camara The project came from Italy Burning Appearances By Sara Balasonne
more rewards
As a novelty in this new edition of the lab increase in the number of awards. Impulsa awards given for the innovation project, Punt Award, best national fiction project and SGAE Award, to the original and creative project; is added Music Library Awarda flat rate award limited to a production that has access to the production music catalogs it sub-arranges and distributes, Welab Professional Equipment Awarddirect discount award on rentals of camera equipment, lenses and accessories, and Movibeta Award, One year free flat rate distribution award to film festivals in Movibeta.
Finally, the director of the Alicante Film Festival, reminding that this initiative is reinforced, said, “Every year more projects come, people want to join this lab because it’s a great opportunity, a meeting point for the industry outside the big capitals. show talent, learn and share. There are projects that have already seen the light of day from past editions, which makes us proud”.