What is the process of creating a short film like? How can I get top-notch actors to participate in my short film? And to find the locations? Film, communication and/or emerging professionals students will be able to resolve these and many other questions at ALCINE_lab. It is just one of the training sections of ALCINE 53, the film festival organized by the Alcalá de Henares City Council and the Community of Madrid, with funding from the Ministry of Culture, which is once again a place for meeting and learning with professionals. Registration is free and can be done through the online form.
In addition to being able to present their works in sections such as Off ALCINE (a clandestine session in which short films that have not been selected will be screened) or the Film Jam (the competition for express short films, recorded in 72 hours, from November 8 to 11, with registrations already open), students and new short filmmakers will be able to learn with professionals such as Fernando Franco, Elena Neira, Borja Cobeaga or María Herrera in five sessions at the Antiguo Hospital de Santa María la Rica:
Tuesday, November 12, 11:00 h.
‘How to seduce Coque Malla, Juan Diego Botto and Bunbury (it didn't work with this one)’
Workshop with Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo. DAMA collaborates.
Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo will review their careers with special emphasis on the construction of characters in comedy and the comic premise that they have applied with Bunbury, Coque Malla and Juan Diego Botto. And they will show how to discover the comic character within us using improvisation techniques as one of their writing tools.
Wednesday, November 13, 11:00 h.
‘Script, development and laboratories’
Case study with María Herrera. DAMA collaborates.
The young producer María Herrera, winner of the Goya for Emotional Architecture 1959 (viral moment during the gala included) and jury member at the last edition of ALCINE, will describe the process of creating her first short film, The Tale of a Summer Night, from the idea to its premiere at the latest edition of SEMINCI, with special emphasis on its passage through development laboratories.
Wednesday, November 13, 13:00 h.
‘5 keys for your short film dossier’
With Emergente! Cine Lab
From the other side, attendees will learn the counterpoint of view of Emergente! Cine Lab, a reference event in Madrid for first-time filmmakers in which María Herrera won the first prize in its 2022 edition.
Thursday, November 14, 11:00 h.
‘Locations and production’
Case study with Alcalá Film Office and María José Fernández Bozo. Alcalá Film Office / Department of Tourism of Alcalá de Henares collaborate.
Recently created, but with an unstoppable trajectory, the Alcalá de Henares filming office not only strives to attract cutting-edge productions to the city in series, advertising or the latest works by authors such as Víctor Erice or Pedro Almodóvar, but also puts its resources available to students. As an example, the case of the ECAM short film The Procedure will be analyzed, led by its producer, María José Fernández Bozo.
Thursday, November 14, 13:00 h.
‘5 keys to move your short’
With Feelsales
Reference distributor in the sector, which seeks to help emerging filmmakers lay the first stone on the path of making their short film known to the world. Led by Mónica Echevarría and Yeniffer Fascianis, responsible for the sale of short films and materials at the agency, attendees will learn the best strategies to achieve this.
With free access until capacity is reached, the afternoon sessions will be at the Corral de Comedias, with This has already been done, the podcast of the ALMA screenwriters' union, in which Borja Cobeaga and Teresa Bellón will tell us about their beginnings in the world of the short.
Nominated for an Oscar® (and Third Prize and Best Screenplay at ALCINE 35) for his short film We were few, Cobeaga is currently one of the most interesting voices in European comedy. He manages the balance of tones like no one else, from Eight Basque Surnames to Negotiator, passing through author series such as the brilliant I Don't Like to Drive.
For her part, Teresa Bellón, together with César F. Calvillo, came up with a cheeky and winning formula in the short film (I have fucked Bunbury, A night with Juan Diego Botto...) that they did not hesitate to repeat in their first full-length film, the funny and endearing comedy Looking for Coque.
On Wednesday, November 13, it is the turn of ALCINE Talks with master classes at the Corral de Comedias by Fernando Franco (4:00 p.m.) and Elena Neira (6:00 p.m.).
Fernando Franco, editor, director and screenwriter who in his three facets, has accumulated almost a dozen Goya nominations with titles ranging from auteur cinema (La Herida, Best New Director, 2013) to thriller (May God Forgive Us), passing through contemporary classics like the animated Robot Dreams. It is said that a film is written three times: during the script, during filming and in the editing room. And no one knows it better than him.
Elena Neira is a reference voice in Spain when it comes to talking about the industry, audiences and platforms, always at the forefront. In a conference he will offer his vision of the present and future of the latest technologies applied to audiovisuals.
ALCINE does not forget all those who are on the other side of the desk, and on Thursday the 7th and Saturday the 9th the III Meeting of Education, Cultural Mediation and Cinema The Class will take place, for all those teachers, artists and people interested in the connections between these three fundamental disciplines.
On Thursday, November 7, starting at 5:00 p.m., at the Antiguo Hospital of Santa María la Rica, teachers enrolled in ALCINE Joven will be able to learn methodologies and tools for the cinematographic appreciation of films and receive guidance on the possibilities of educational exploitation of ALCINE short films, prior free online registration.
On Saturday, November 9, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., also in Santa María la Rica and with prior free registration through the online form or by email cero@alcine.org, teachers, mediators and people interested in cinema and education will be able to participate in La Class, the III Meeting of cultural mediation, education and cinema, organized with the collaboration of PLANEA Red de Arte y Escuela and the special participation of Aulafilm and ECAM, which will have the following program:
ALCINE does not forget all those who are on the other side of the desk, and on Thursday the 7th and Saturday the 9th the III Meeting of Education, Cultural Mediation and Cinema La Class will take place, for all those teachers, artists and people interested in the connections between these three fundamental disciplines.
On Thursday, November 7, starting at 5:00 p.m., at the Antiguo Hospital of Santa María la Rica, teachers enrolled in ALCINE Joven will be able to learn methodologies and tools for the cinematographic appreciation of films and receive guidance on the possibilities of educational exploitation of ALCINE short films, prior free online registration.
On Saturday, November 9, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., also in Santa María la Rica and with prior free registration through the online form or by email cero@alcine.org, teachers, mediators and people interested in cinema and education will be able to participate in La Class, the III Meeting of cultural mediation, education and cinema, organized with the collaboration of PLANEA Red de Arte y Escuela and the special participation of Aulafilm and ECAM, which will have the following program:
11:00 h: Wellcome ALCINE + PLANEA
Pedro Toro and Eva Morales
BLOCK I: ALCINE 53 Projects
11:10 h: ALCINE Young (25')
Aulafilm and participating teachers
Presentation of the results of the workshop on day 7 and development of the pedagogical guide and the resulting exercises.
11:35 h: Stories about cinema, the voice of adolescence (25')
Cine-Craft Participants [ECAM's extracurricular film program]
Reflection on the value of cinema as a form of learning from the perspective of the group of adolescents from Cine-Craft, the ECAM film extracurricular school. Seeking to reverse the roles of the transmission, it will be the adolescents who present, from their subjective, unique and own perspective, the keys that cinema has opened for them. We hope to know what their interests and uncertainties are as a generation, composing a common story about how cinema has transformed them in their growth processes and in their bonds.
BLOCK II: PLANEA 2024 Projects
12:00 h.: Memes and tiktoks in the classroom: the PROXYMO experience (25')
A brief tour of the PROXYMO experience: Internet Culture and Media Education. A program for adolescents and teachers from centers in Andalusia that has been operating there, thanks to the PLANEA network, since 2020.
12:25 h.: Express workshop: How to work on Internet culture and media education in the classroom
In this workshop we will briefly explore the practical possibilities of working with Internet languages ??and narratives from a critical and social point of view. The person in charge of teaching the workshop will be Felipe G. Gil, head of Proxymo, a media education and internet culture program for the art and school network PLANEA.
He works at ZEMOS98, a 26-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to cultural mediation, and is a mediator for Concomitentes-ICU Pediátrica, a project awarded by the Foundation for the Development of Nursing and included in EU-funded research. - Culture for Health.
13:15 h.: Project discussion
Exchanges of experiences between guests and public. Moderator: Invisible Pedagogies.
13:55 h.: Conclusions and farewell
