Scriptwriter Alicante Ben Manzanera happened award-winning DigiFicc was awarded the Seriesland Lab award transmedia project Personal reduction (layoffs) inside IX Bilbao Seriesland FestivalRecently, an event was held where professionals from all over the world and companies such as Viacom, Paramount or FLIXXO Platform came together. The Manzanera award consists of two people development consultancies one expert and two sessions one on one with producers international attendees and the visibility that festivals like this provide to creators in the audiovisual industry.
Among the finalists of the face-to-face method were the screenwriter, director and producer of Santa Pola. David GuillenIn addition to participants from Brazil and Argentina. In the case of Apple-treeIn the online category, he was accompanied by talents such as: Lebanon, Colombia, Uruguay and Mexico.
his project Personal reduction One business satire and the desperate measures taken by a company to avoid paying severance or liquidation to its staff; instead of, is killing its workers Cold-blooded.
“This I was inspired by my experiences in the private sectorin my professional career and more specifically in the layoffs I experienced In different companies I worked for as part of workforce restructuring policies. I noticed, As employees we were just a number For the businessman, when it comes time to be without us, our personal situations, economic situation or feelings do not matter, as a work of fiction. “I brought my story to terror and black humor”, Manzanera himself explains.
“Deeply down, my script is trying to serve as: condemnation of the capitalist system In which we live and work, but the most acidic comedy and the monster that can be talked about without moving a muscle,” said the winner, adding that the award means “one more step” in his career after winning the Solinas Award at the Madrid Italian Film Festival in 2021; currently developing feature film project reflection of sirens at the Pedraforca International Center for Audiovisual Development and after filming first short film, HOMOpatriarchyAt the CCCC Film Laboratory in Valencia last September.