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After last 12 months’s golden blueprint which set the roadmap for coming years, the second ECAM Dialogue board Co-Manufacturing Market, unspooling June 10-13 in Madrid, will drive deeper into its worldwide attain and commerce talks as part of its mandate to strengthen the ties between the Spanish abilities and its blooming commerce with the rest of the world.

Lured by upbeat commerce buzz from the first model and Spain’s sustained film-TV golden age, commerce avid gamers and initiatives are just about twice as many this 12 months to bid for a spot on the commerce platform spearheaded by Madrid’s prestigious ECAM film school.

Better than 700 accredited delegates ,as compared with 400+ in 2024, are anticipated to fill the halls of its Matadero and Cineteca Madrid venues; 70 worldwide buddies, vs. 50 in 2024, will sample 47 motion pictures in enchancment and post-production, along with shorts and sequence in enchancment.

Amongst 15 programming reps from Toronto, Locarno, Rotterdam, Thessaloniki, London to Marrakech fests are first-time attendees Christian Jeune from the Cannes Film Pageant and the Berlinale’s Michael Stuetz.

On the product sales entrance, the dozen registered companies differ from Le Pacte, Goodfellas, Co-Manufacturing Office, Film Boutique and Charades to Spain’s art-film specialist Bendita Film Product sales. At press time, all titles have been on the market for resolve up along with the following bets by scorching abilities Mihai Mincan (“To the North”) and Francisca Alegría (“The Cow Who Sang a Music into the Future”) and the anticipated debuts by Nadine Luque, Claudia Estrada Tarascó and Irati Gorostidi Agirretxe.

Highlights of this 12 months’s beefed-up program of talks and commerce events embrace a masterclass with French auteur Bertrand Bonello, a presentation of the Göteborg Film Pageant’s commerce reference Nostradamus report by Johanna Koljonen, conversations with prime Spanish writers, poets and philosophers over The State of Points and Finde, a main commerce meeting on financing, funding for indie producers co-organized by Madrid Audiovisual Cluster. To consolidate ECAM’s worldwide ties, new partnerships have been sealed this 12 months with Conecta Fiction & Leisure, which runs per week later in Cuenca, near Madrid, and with ACAU and Proimagenes Colombia, the film-TV state firms in Uruguay and Colombia.

ECAM Dialogue board closes Friday June 13 with an awards ceremony. 

On this interview, ECAM Dialogue board coordinator Alberto Valverde unpacks his 2025 program.

How does it actually really feel to stage ECAM Dialogue board a few weeks after a stellar 12 months for Spanish motion pictures and co-productions in Cannes?

It was an distinctive 12 months for Spanish cinema. Having two filmmakers [Oliver Laxe and Carla Simón] in important rivals, a spot usually taken by Pedro Almodovar, was historic. Their respective motion pictures “Sirât” and “Romería” are worldwide co-productions that illustrate the reason why we exist. Actually last 12 months the two producers of “Sirât”– Andrea Queralt and Xavi Font – obtained right here to ECAM to present a model new problem in the middle of capturing their film in Morocco. Xavi submitted Álvaro Pulpeiro’s “Petróleo” on the Films to Come and Andrea obtained right here with Silvina Schnicer’s “La Quinta” for The Remaining Push. Then Elástica’s María Zamora, producer of Romería, was proper right here as successfully. The worthwhile teams from Cannes are moreover proper right here.

Recently we’ve witnessed how the Spanish audiovisual commerce has morphed and internationalized, with established and new experience working at home and globally. Sooner than launching ECAM Dialogue board, we’ve been in fastened dialogue with all these Spanish avid gamers and experience, precisely to connect them to the world and foster new collaborations.

Remaining 12 months you had an just about clear sweep with seven out of eight works in progress occurring to premiere at A festivals. That was pretty a coup…

Positive, we’re over the moon. We have to consolidate our works in progress as a associated space to search out gems for the 12 months ahead, and other people outcomes help heaps. It was rewarding chatting with the teams behind the works in progress and realizing it was key for them to secure positive premieres and picks that really have been signed all through ECAM Dialogue board. Remaining 12 months’s Remaining Push titles included very completely totally different motion pictures, from the fragile ones similar to the worthwhile documentary “Gods of Stone” to the additional secure ones like “Los Tortuga”(“The Exiles”) that every ended having good premieres [respectively in Rotterdam and Toronto] and reached world audiences, really the first objective of our work.

Would possibly you reiterate what made your 2024 inaugural event a blueprint for the editions to return and outline the necessary factor novelties this 12 months?

Among the many best points last 12 months was to get the ideas from worldwide buddies who’ve been dazzled by the usual of the initiatives. Then on the Spanish facet, professionals have been equally impressed by the very best names inside the worldwide delegation. This 12 months the file of worldwide delegates may be even stronger, for instance with the presence of Christian Jeune from Cannes and Michael Stuetz from the Berlinale.

The issue for the first 5 editions might be to be coherent with the size of our event, the form of initiatives and professionals invited. We have to hold the equivalent high quality, consideration and care that goes into the selection and complete organisation. Then clearly as that’s the second 12 months, we’re rising a bit the scope of our actions, partnerships and ambitions. The event is rising nonetheless we nonetheless want it to be sustainable for the following editions.

What variety of delegates will attend this 12 months from what variety of territories?

The numbers replicate the elevated curiosity in our event. This 12 months we now have 730 accredited professionals, versus spherical 400 in 2024. It’s been an exponential growth from last 12 months. Then we had about 50 worldwide buddies in 2024 and this 12 months we’re web internet hosting 70 of us. From Spain, we’re inviting throughout the same amount, about 70 key decision-makers. So we now have about 140 invited buddies for the conferences. Worldwide areas represented (between 18-20) span from Spain to Canada, U.S., France, Romania, Estonia and Latin America. It was perhaps unintentional – primarily based totally on the initiatives chosen – nonetheless we might have a robust European and Latin American presence this 12 months.

With a additional formidable program, what kind of funds do you may need and would possibly you contact upon the significance of your new institutional partnerships?

I acquired’t ingredient our specific funds nevertheless it certainly hasn’t modified drastically. Our important key companions are the equivalent: ECAM Foundation Comunidad de Madrid. Then Matadero, Film Madrid, Madrid Film Office, Cineteca, the rights assortment firm Dama and AC/E, the worldwide promotional physique of Spanish cinema, are totally different companions. We’re persevering with our collaboration with Filmin, Rotterdam, Sequence Mania and have new strategic partnerships with Conecta Fiction & Leisure and the necessary factor audiovisual firms ACAU in Uruguay and Proimagenes in Colombia. For the ECAM school and Foundation, facilitating these collaborations are merely pure to commerce experience and create a bridge between Europe and Latin America. We hope to announce new partnerships this fall.

This 12 months you’ve opened your Pitch lessons to worldwide initiatives. What additional challenges did you meet in your selection course of?

Our important function is to promote Spanish cinema internationally and enchantment to worldwide experience to work with Spain. We understand that presenting a variety, and making thrilling worldwide abilities coexist with promising Spanish initiatives is a better possibility to advertise their motion pictures. It’s good to have Spain’s Maria Herrera, Alba Esquinas and Elena Molina with Maryam Tafakory [from Iran], Francisca Alegría [from Chile] or Mihai Mincan [from Romania].

Opening to worldwide initiatives was an issue as we tried to attract distinctive voices and abilities nonetheless we did! We’re terribly happy with the selection and can merely have picked one different 15 initiatives that couldn’t make the scale back. We would have liked to make some powerful choices.

I’d like in order so as to add that inside the fast half, last 12 months we had solely six nationwide initiatives. This 12 months we now have 11 initiatives – six from our private teaching program and 5 worldwide shorts by way of new partnerships with Chile Shorts, Bogo Shorts in Colombia, La Femis in France, DISFF in Greece, and FAMU inside the Czech Republic. 

How would you define the 2025 attribute measurement slate by the use of themes, distinctive auteur-viewpoint and selection?

The selection covers a rich variety of narrative and aesthetic approaches, with a presence of comedies, type and science fiction approaches, documentaries, and primary fiction works. The initiatives reveal a passion for troublesome the boundaries of genres and storytelling, a robust dedication to ingenious menace and authorship. We wish to see a great deal of first and second motion pictures with large sturdy visions, which might be backed by producers with positive experience, every nationwide and worldwide. I genuinely assume it’s a superb thrilling slate with new voices to search out.

It’s additionally a additional quite a few selection in relation to illustration every inside the narrative and creators themselves, so, positive, it’s a step forward. One factor pretty distinctive as soon as we take a look on the Films to Come, is the reality that the 15 initiatives obtained right here out of three completely totally different selection processes, and as soon as we ended up with the final word file, we realised all have been directed by girls (with one co-direction).

Would possibly you comment in your commerce talks and high-brow cycle of conversations?

The commerce talks concentrating on the 700+ accredited professionals, consider the challenges inside the audiovisual commerce correct now, and loads of lessons provide smart devices and concepts, about financing, co-production promotion. Our function is to strengthen Spanish cinema and we’re fully happy to convey prime audio system from Spain and the rest of the world. We’re moreover glad to present the Nostradamus report again to our viewers, straight after Cannes. The report is important to check out the place we’re going, how each sector inside the commerce is integrating the challenges, every inside and outside the sector. 

Then the three Conversations about The State of Points [in Spanish language] is a really pretty strand that we’ve designed over quite a lot of months with my colleague Brais Romero and Luis E. Parés from Cineteca Matadero. We tried to map out crucial topics that contact us as individuals, not solely inside the commerce nonetheless as a society, by means of inspirational talks with filmmakers, writers, poets, musicians, philosophers. It’s a stupendous combination of sturdy voices in Spain. We look ahead to listening to their take our world proper this second, the price of constructing pictures. Then one angle to be tackled is nostalgia and its hazard. The comfort and inherent ingenious laziness that goes with sticking to formulation, successfully know concepts – be it in literature or film.
Will in all probability be attention-grabbing moreover to hearken to Bertrand Bonello who masterfully has been avoiding nostalgia, its comfort and safety in his work.

One different novelty this 12 months is the model new FINDE commerce meeting about Financing, Funding and Unbiased Filmmaking, co-organised with Madrid Audiovisual Cluster. Would possibly you summarise what it’s about?

That’s an extension of ECAM’s tutorial curriculum. We wished to produce smart devices to hone the skills of our rising experience in financing. We see producers surrounded by good experience and however struggling to finance their initiatives. So hopefully this may be an illuminating session. We’ve designed this initiative with French producer based in Madrid Sophie Erbs and Teresa Azcona, director of Madrid Audiovisual Cluster. We see this could be a pilot 12 months and we’ll think about afterwards this technique’s system.

On a personal diploma, how does it actually really feel to run the preferred new Spanish co-pro market?

It feels soooo good. Remaining 12 months, we had a clear canvas which wished to be painted. We didn’t know if it will likely be abstract, or not. This 12 months, we reaped the nice seeds from the first model, and our group is stronger. The whole is way more coherent on account of we had additional time to design our program. Nevertheless our focus continues to be to have time by way of a very nice, centered expert event, with a extreme commonplace of initiatives and buddies.