Start of the 5th Usina de guiones breves en BerlinWe look forward to seeing you!
The Instituto Cervantes Berlin together with the screenwriter Maria Meira have launched the 5th Usina de guiones breves en Berlin, the first international short film writing program to bring together and enhance the plurality of voices and views of Spanish-speaking authors in the city.
In collaboration with uruaFilms, the Embassy of Mexico, the Mexican Institute of Culture and the Embassy of Peru in Germany, the Usina provides its participants with a platform for creation and reflection to work intensively and personalized in the development of their script projects. fiction for six months, also adding an exchange experience in Berlin.
They have been selected to participate in the program:
- Deja ir by Ana Monrás
- El miedo de los tontos by Andrés Hidalgo
- La cosa es clara by Camila Ampuero
- Todos lo hacen by Daniel del Casar
- Agar by Florencia Almirón
- Historia del cine paraguayo VOL 1 by Giuliano Ochipinti
- Infantecer by Jéssica Londoño Aristizábal
- Anarquía relacional by María Sanguinetti
- 4 niños en venta by Sol Giancaspro
- Te peinaba el alma by Tania Sosa Balderas
The projects are being developed through individual consultations and online group masterclasses from their embryonic phase. An intensive, in-person group workshop will be held in September at the Cervantes Institute in Berlin, with the aim of boosting the scripts to their maximum potential.
Olimpia Pont Schafer, a Spanish consultant specializing in film programming and distribution residing in Berlin, Sophia Mocorrea, a German-Argentine screenwriter and director awarded at Sundance, and the German producer Maren Schmitt, make up the Jury of this new edition.
In November, at the end of the program, the Jury will award one of the scripts resulting from the program, which will receive advice for the production of the short.
Learn more about the Usina in the German press:
WDR | Cosmo en español | Contar historias para ver