5th Short Script Workshop in Berlin
Instituto Cervantes launches UGBB in collaboration with the Mexican and Peruvian Embassies
July 24th, 2024
The Instituto Cervantes Berlin, together with screenwriter Maria Meira, has launched the 5th Berlin Short Script Workshop (Usina de guiones breves en Berlín - UGBB), the first international short film scriptwriting program to bring together and enhance the diversity of voices and perspectives of Spanish-speaking authors in the city. The Workshop is organised in collaboration with uruaFilms, the Mexican Embassy, the Mexican Cultural Institute, and the Peruvian Embassy in Germany.
It provides participants with a platform for creation and reflection to work intensively and personally on the development of their fiction script projects over six months (May-November, 2024), while also offering an exchange experience in Berlin.
The selected participants for the program are:
- 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 mentoring sessions and online group masterclasses from their embryonic phase. In September, an intensive in-person group workshop will be held at the Instituto Cervantes in Berlin, with the goal of maximizing the scripts' potential.
Olimpia Pont Schafer, a Spanish consultant specializing in film programming and distribution based in Berlin, Sophia Mocorrea, a German-Argentinian screenwriter and director awarded at Sundance, and German producer Maren Schmitt, make up the Jury for this new edition.
In November, upon the program's completion, the Jury will award one of the resulting scripts, which will receive guidance for the short film's production.
References:
- - https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=893010606199669&set=a.656022526565146
- - https://usinaguionesberlin.com/
