The Festival de Málaga announces the fourth edition of Hack MAFIZ, an event aimed at young Spanish and Latin American digital creators
The participants will face audiovisual challenges that will culminate in their participation in the 28th edition of the competition
The participants will face audiovisual challenges that will culminate in their participation in the 28th edition of the competition
The Festival de Málaga launches the fourth edition of Hack MAFIZ Málaga, an event in its MAFIZ Industry area aimed at new talents in the audiovisual industry. This section was born with great success in 2022 with the aim of turning the event into a meeting point between young digital content creators and distributors, brands, media, streaming services and producers from all over the world.
From today until the 21st of December, the Festival de Málaga launches, through a specific site on the MAFIZ website, the call for applications for this event, which can be applied for by sending a form with information about the applicant. The requirements are to be between 18 and 35 years old and to have the skills to be part of teams that create audiovisual content: scriptwriting, acting, storytelling, editing, sound, animation, art direction, direction and photography.
The goal is to select from all the applications a group of young Spanish and Latin Americans who will go on to the next stage, the challenges (to be held from December to February), in which they will have to solve online content creation challenges. Of these, 20 finalists will travel to the 28th Festival de Málaga, from the 14th to the 23rd of March 2025, within the MAFIZ Industry area, where they will have to face a new challenge to create audiovisual content about the event in the Festival's Laboratory. Here, they will have the opportunity to speak with international co-producers and funds, media and platforms and other Ibero-American industry leaders.
With Hack MAFIZ, the Festival de Málaga faces the industry’s challenge of reaching new audiences, who enjoy audiovisual content through very diverse channels and who have a community identity that requires a much more active dialogue for content creators and producers. The event thus seeks new spaces to regenerate audiences and dialogue with them and with the creators with whom they identify. Hack MAFIZ Malaga was born with this priority objective in mind: to offer the opportunity to make room for these creators, to meet them and see them in action, to make them coexist in a space of synergies with the different agents of the audiovisual industry.
