ALCINE Talks

[FROM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 TO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13. 5:30 PM. CORRAL DE COMEDIAS]

Meetings with professionals at Casa de la Entrevista and Corral de Comedias in Alcalá, exploring topics of general interest.

Free admission, subject to capacity. + info: alcine.org

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 5:00 PM AT CASA DE LA ENTREVISTA

ALCINE Talks x Film Madrid Region. 

Producing Animation in the Community of Madrid

What does it take to produce animation in Madrid and bring it to the world? Two Madrid-based studios will share their experience, standout projects and upcoming productions, exploring the challenges of making animated shorts and the opportunities offered by an industry with international reach.

• Ottom Ideas, represented by Carlos Ayerbe, focuses on original stories and animation for adult audiences. Its short film WAN, directed by Víctor Monigote, was nominated for the 2025 Goya Award and has inspired a feature-length project.
• The Cathedral Media, represented by Juan Carlos Mostaza, specialises in 3D animation, visual effects and post-production. Its original projects include Broken Wire and Down to the Wire, alongside work for film and advertising.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 6:00 PM AT CASA DE LA ENTREVISTA

ALCINE Talks x AMAE

Robot Dreams: From Page to Screen

Every film is written three times: in the screenplay, through direction, and in the edit. Each stage opens up new possibilities, transforms what came before, and helps shape the final film.

ALCINE and AMAE (the Spanish Association of Film Editors) invite you to explore this creative process through the animated feature Robot Dreams (2023). Joining us are four of the film’s creators:

• Sara Varon, author of the original graphic novel (joining remotely from New York).
• Pablo Berger, director.
• Macarena Gil, storyboard artist and Annie Award nominee.
• Fernando Franco, film editor.

Through their experiences, we’ll discover how the same story transforms from the page into images, and from images into a film.

From adaptation and visual development to direction and editing, each perspective brings new decisions, discoveries and narrative possibilities. It’s a process in which the writing continues beyond the screenplay, and editing—the third and final writing stage—brings together and transforms the material to give the film its definitive form.

A conversation about the decisions, transformations and collective work that turn a story into cinema.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 5:00 PM AT CASA DE LA ENTREVISTA

ALCINE talks x DAMA

Operation Tad: How to Write an Animation Feature
With Josep Gatell and Manuel Burque. Moderated by Raquel Hernández Luján

Josep Gatell and Manuel Burque were an established screenwriting duo with extensive experience in comedy, from stand-up and sketches to two box-office hits (Es por tu bien and Operación Camarón), when they received an offer they couldn’t refuse: joining the writing team behind Tadeo Jones, the highest-grossing animated film franchise in Spanish history. There was just one problem: they had never written for animation before.

Joined by journalist Raquel Hernández Luján, the duo will look back, with their trademark laid-back humour, on how they helped make the franchise’s third and fourth instalments a success, through conversations about Pixar and dozens of rewrites.

• Raquel Hernández Luján is a journalist and writer for HobbyConsolas, specialising in film and television.
• Manuel Burque is a screenwriter, actor, comedian and presenter. His career spans film, television, radio and theatre, combining fiction writing with performance and comedy. His credits include Vida perfecta and Operación Camarón.
• Josep Gatell is a screenwriter and writer whose work spans film, television and entertainment. He has worked with production companies such as El Terrat, 7yAcción, Pausoka and Zoopa, and served as head writer on En el aire, hosted by Andreu Buenafuente. He is also co-author of Objetivo Writers’ Room, a book about the writing process and how writers’ rooms work.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 5:00 PM AT CASA DE LA ENTREVISTA

ALCINE talks x ECAM

So Many Films, So Little Time.

With Pilar Toro

Every week, more films are released than anyone could possibly watch, and making a good film is no longer enough to ensure it reaches its audience. In this talk, Pilar Toro, Director of Marketing and Communications at Filmin, offers a practical approach to marketing independent projects, exploring objectives, audiences and storytelling, and how to apply these principles at every stage of a campaign, from the pitch to the release (and beyond).

• Pilar Toro, Director of Marketing and Communications at Filmin since 2022, has over fifteen years of experience in the audiovisual industry. She has worked at Canal+, NBCUniversal and Netflix, where she contributed to campaigns for titles such as Las chicas del cable, Élite, Nevenka and Paquita Salas, as well as La llamada, by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. At Filmin, she leads the platform’s brand and communications strategy in Spain and Portugal.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 6:00 PM AT CORRAL DE COMEDIAS

ALCINE talks x DIVERGENTE

Creating with Content: From Idea to Screen

How does an idea go from your mind to the screen? Four young professionals explore new ways of creating and telling audiovisual stories, from screenwriting and directing to music, editing and digital content creation.

Joining us are four creative voices who represent different ways of making and sharing audiovisual content today:

• Guillermo Escobedo, screenwriter and winner of the 2026 ALMA Award for Best Daily Series Script for Sueños de libertad.
• Pablo Lluch, composer, musical director and content creator. He was the musical director of Mariliendre and collaborated with Raül Refree on the musical reinterpretation of La bola negra.
• Igor Morales, director and screenwriter trained at ECAM. In projects such as BTS and Katya (2026), he takes on different roles throughout the creative process, from writing to directing and editing.
• Vega Halen, photographer, video editor and audiovisual content creator. She is the founder of @cortometraja, a project dedicated to bringing cinema, particularly short films, to new audiences.

A conversation about creativity, emerging voices and new ways of connecting with audiences, both on and off the screen.