15 films in post-production phase from six countries will compete in Malaga Work in Progress of MAFIZ, the industry area of Festival de Málaga
The Spanish productions will be presented within the framework of Málaga WIP Spain which is part of the Spanish Screenings Content
Spanish Screenings is framed within the 'Spain Audiovisual Hub of Europe', of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, promoted by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry for Digital Transformation and of Civil Service
The 7th edition of Málaga Work in Progress, the MAFIZ section for Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American films to be held from the 4th to the 8th of March, has selected fifteen titles from six countries in the post-production phase. The films will be presented to an audience of accredited professionals at the Malaga Festival, such as sales agents, festival programmers, international funds or producers, to support their completion and encourage their international dissemination and promotion. For the third year, Spanish productions, under the Málaga WIP Spain label, are part of Spanish Screenings Content.
The filmmakers in charge of the films will have the opportunity to defend them in pitch format after their screening and to arrange meetings with potential partners. The aim of Málaga WIP is to seal the commitment to the diversity of identities and languages in Latin America and its audiovisual industry.
As an innovation, this year Festival de Málaga has created the label Malaga con…, a programme of exhibitions of works in progress, organised in collaboration with the industry area of Latin American festivals. The initiative starts with the collaboration with FICVIÑA (Viña del Mar International Film Festival) and will consist of a session in which four feature films in post-production will be presented by their crews.
Lastly, Paraguay, the guest country at Latinamerican Focus, will present two films.
Participants will also be able to take advantage of online mentoring in editing and programming tasks, which will be complemented with face-to-face meetings in Malaga. The Argentine director, screenwriter and editor Alejandra Almirón, the French filmmaker and editor Marine de Contes and the Argentine critic and programmer Roger Koza are the tutors of this edition.
Malaga WIP is organised by the Malaga City Council, Málaga Procultura and Festival de Málaga in collaboration with ICAA (Spanish Film and Audiovisual Arts Institute), CAACI (Conference of Ibero-American Cinematographic Authorities), IBERMEDIA and FIPCA (Ibero-American Federation of Film and Audiovisual Producers).
The selected films in the two sections that make up Málaga WIP, in the care of an expert committee, are:
Málaga WIP Spain
Bailar la muerte / Dancing With Dead, by Luis E. Parés. Producer: LaCima Producciones (Spain, France).
Bodegón con fantasmas / Still Life With Ghosts, by Enrique Buleo. Producer: Quatre Films, Cuidado con el Perro, Ikki Films. (Spain, France).
El aspirante / The Aspirant, by Juan Gautier Sansalvador. Producer: Smiz and Pixel.
Jone Batzuetan / Jone, Sometimes, by Sara Fantova. Producer: Escac Studio.
Per què no vas fer res? / Filthy, by Bàrbara Mestanza and Marc Pujolar. Producers: A Drone Visual Company, Indiana Films.
Surfing Einstein, by Meritxell Campos Olivé. Producer: Tiempo Ideal (Spain, Germany, Italy).
Málaga WIP Latin America
Cuerpo criminal / Criminal Body, by Martín Boulocq. Producer: CQ Films. (Bolivia).
La gran ilusión / The Grand Illusion, by Sebastián Pereira. Producer: LAWARRIOR Films (Chile, Cuba).
Los caminantes de la calle, by Juan Martín Hsu. Producer: Protón Cine (Peru, Argentina)
Kaye, by Juan Cáceres. Producer: Infractor (Chile).
No puedo tener sexo / I Can’t Have Sex, by Belén Gatti. Producer: Bel Gatti (Argentina).
Patio de chacales / A Yard of Jackals, by Diego Figueroa. Producer: Infractor (Chile).
Suçuarana, de Sérgio Borges and Clarissa Campolina. Producer: Anavilhana Filmes (Brazil).
Latinamerican Focus - Guest country, Paraguay
Bajo las banderas el sol / Under the Flags, the Sun, by Juanjo Pereira. Producer: Ivana Urizar - Cine mío (Paraguay).
Yrén / Yrén, by Tania Cattebeke Laconic. Producer: Pororó Films (Paraguay).
Málaga con… - Guest Festival, FICVIÑA Industria
300 cartas / 300 Letters, by Lucas Santa Ana. Producer: Mathbox Films / Locodelaltillo. (Argentina, United Kingdom).
Después de la niebla / After the Mist, by Miriam Heard. Producer: -1 cine, Echo art films (Chile, United Kingdom).
La verdadera historia de People in the Dragon / The True Story of People in The Dragon, by Pablo Green. Producer: Lanza Verde / Tercer mundo. (Chile).
Por fin tus huellas / Finally Your Footprints, by Pablo Stephens. Producer: Neurofilms. (Chile).
The Malaga WIP Spain and Malaga WIP Latin America juries will decide the winners of the Malaga Festival Award, endowed with €5,000 for an Ibero-American project and €5,000 for a Spanish project. Sandra Gugliotta, director and producer (Argentina), Liz Lobato, director and actress (Spain) and Gabriela Sandoval, director of SANFIC Industria (Chile) will choose the winning Spanish production. Meanwhile, Paula Astorga, director of DocsLisboa (Portugal), Javier Larena, Delegate for film and telefilm acquisitions at RTVE (Spain) and Ilda Santiago, director of the Rio Festival (Brazil) will select the Ibero-American production.
Moreover, the films will also opt for:
• Aracne Digital Cinema: image post-production services for one of the projects from Spain, valued at €20,000.
• Chemistry: image post-production services for a film from Latin America, valued at USD $15,000.
• Cine y Tele: an advertising page in the Cine y Tele magazine for one of the Spanish projects.
• E-28: the award is for the composition and musical production of a soundtrack for an award-winning feature film. This award is valued at USD $10,000.
• Latamcinema.com: an award consisting of an advertising page in LatAm Cinema magazine for a project from Ibero-America.
• Music Library: Music Library &SFX's ACORDE Music Supervision division will award a cash prize of €300, as well as a flat rate for a production valued at €300 for a project from Latin America and the same prize for a Spanish project.
• Río Bravo: production of a trailer, promo, or teaser worth €5,000. The prize includes creativity, editing, conformation and post-production for cinema distribution.
• Sideral: €10,000 as a guaranteed minimum on the international distribution of the winning project.
• Yagán Films: A sound post-production award for a Spanish project worth €13,000. A sound post-production prize for a project from Latin America worth €13,000.
The collaborating festivals that are committed to selecting a Malaga WIP project to participate in their industry labs are:
• ABYCINE - Albacete International Film Festival.
• FIDBA - International Documentary Film Festival of Buenos Aires.
• REC - Tarragona International Film Festival
• SANFIC INDUSTRIA - Santiago International Film Festival.
Malaga WIP Spain is part of Spanish Screenings Content 2024, an event designed as an international promotional platform whose main objective is to promote sales of Spanish film. Spanish Screenings, which reaches its 18th edition in 2024, is the only official market for the sale and promotion of Spanish film. For the third consecutive year it comes reinforced by funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, promoted by the Ministries of Culture and Digital Transformation, within the framework of the 'Spain Audiovisual Hub of Europe'.
Spanish Screenings Content is one of the four axes of Spanish Screenings XXL along with Spanish Screenings On Tour, Spanish Screenings: Financing & Tech (at the San Sebastian Festival) and Spanish Screenings 360, a programme of active actions throughout the year that also includes a monthly podcast available on all platforms, and the future creation of a virtual promotion and business platform.
‘Spanish Screenings XXL, an international market for Spanish audiovisual production' is a project involving the Ministry of Culture through the ICAA, the Ministry for Digital Transformation and of Civil Service, ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones, Festival de Málaga and the San Sebastian Festival.
