Last week, the call for entries opened for the European co-production forum Euro Connection 2019, which is organized by the Clermont-Ferrand Market and for which we have been the Spanish coordinators through Madrid en corto. It takes place on February 5 and 6, and the national submission deadline is October 20. It … Read more
It has been 11 years attending the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market. In 2006, we presented the first edition of Madrid en corto, and since then I have only missed one year. After so long focusing on short film specialization, Clermont-Ferrand has become an essential event for the industry worldwide. It has managed … Read more
I have just returned from the Cannes Film Festival. I spent four very intense days with screenings, meetings, and walks along the Croisette that help provide a very broad view of what is happening in the film industry worldwide. For two weeks, numerous events take place simultaneously: on one hand, the Festival … Read more
Film festivals are increasingly becoming spaces dedicated to project development and not just to film exhibition. The organization of pitching forums is a clear example of this. It must be acknowledged that it makes perfect sense for festivals to foster film creation and become spaces for the training of young filmmakers. In … Read more
Next Monday, March 20, short film registration closes at the Cannes Market: the Short Film Corner. So, it is a good time to review the post I published last year about this market and the comments that were made. If you have already registered or are considering doing so, it would be … Read more
The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market is the most important in the world, and it is where distributors, programmers, producers, and short film directors meet. The market, which takes place from February 6 to 10, schedules many of its own activities and maintains the stand model. Other short film markets have opted for … Read more
This January, the projects selected for Euro Connection, the co-production forum of the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market, which I already mentioned in August, have been published on the market’s website. This selection concludes the coordination work we have carried out from Spain, which began in September. Among the selected projects is the … Read more
Update 2016-09-01 The call for entries is now open and updated on the Clermont-Ferrand Market website, where you can download the registration form: http://www.clermont-filmfest.com/index.php?m=46 and send it with all documentation to the email ismael@madridencorto.es Last week, we confirmed our country’s participation for another year in the international co-production forum of the Clermont-Ferrand … Read more
Last week I came across two very interesting posts by directors discussing their experience at the Cannes Short Film Corner, one of them by Tesín Marquez, a Spanish director who published in Revista Sala 1: Cannes, Texas or the survival guide for first-timers at the Cannes Short Film Corner (part 1) http://revistasala1.com/?p=7960 … Read more