San Sebastian — Among the diverse projects emerging from the Madrid Film School Ecam incubator, “Flowers For An Absent Mother” (“Flores para una madre ausente”), the feature debut of writer-director Ana Puentes Margarito, is poised to stand out for its intimate yet universally resonant story of family conflict and emotional recovery. Workshopped and refined through labs like LabGuion, FinLab and Ecam’s prestigious Incubator, the project has undergone a transformative journey.
Puentes Margarito credits director Bélen Funes (“A Thief’s Daughter”) as a key mentor in shaping the film’s final script. “For me, it was like shifting our minds: someone from the outside comes and tells us things we haven’t seen,” Puentes Margarito told Variety. “The version we have now is much closer to the story I will tell.” The project is now nearing a key moment as it awaits news from the Icaa selective funding, a critical step toward production next year.
Puentes Margarito credits director Bélen Funes (“A Thief’s Daughter”) as a key mentor in shaping the film’s final script. “For me, it was like shifting our minds: someone from the outside comes and tells us things we haven’t seen,” Puentes Margarito told Variety. “The version we have now is much closer to the story I will tell.” The project is now nearing a key moment as it awaits news from the Icaa selective funding, a critical step toward production next year.
- 9/27/2024
- by Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
With co-production an ever-popular resource for independents and emerging talent, the Madrid Film School (Ecam), hailed as one of the leading film schools in the world, has launched Ecam Forum, a new co-production initiative to run June 10 – 13 in Madrid.
An Open Call ending April 9 has been announced March 18 for submissions from local Spanish feature film projects in development or in post-production, and series projects in development.
Said Ecam director Gonzalo Salazar Simpson at a press conference in late Feb.: “I believe that the key to the Forum’s success will have to do with the presence of decision makers and international professionals. Ecam’s ability to attract this kind of people has been growing for about 10 years or so. I have no doubt we will be able to attract them.”
The forum is aimed at producers, directors and screenwriters, and seeks to foster audiovisual production, promote emerging talent and...
An Open Call ending April 9 has been announced March 18 for submissions from local Spanish feature film projects in development or in post-production, and series projects in development.
Said Ecam director Gonzalo Salazar Simpson at a press conference in late Feb.: “I believe that the key to the Forum’s success will have to do with the presence of decision makers and international professionals. Ecam’s ability to attract this kind of people has been growing for about 10 years or so. I have no doubt we will be able to attract them.”
The forum is aimed at producers, directors and screenwriters, and seeks to foster audiovisual production, promote emerging talent and...
- 3/18/2024
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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