The Short Film Lab is a training program dedicated to short film distribution. Online and free, aimed at Spanish speakers independent producers.
About
The Short Film Lab combines a free training program, open to the public; and a series of tailormade mentorships for selected projects through an open call.
In order to spot the diverse paths for each type of short film, the open activities are lead by Spanish-speaking professionals and address issues related to planning festival strategies, niche circuits and regional calendars.
On the other hand, projects representatives selected from a call, receive tailor-made mentorships, in order to advise on the definition of their objectives and the strategies to follow to achieve them.
In a virtual format, suitable for cultural activity decentralization and for the democratization of training programs, it is a meeting and teamwork platform.
Objectives
The Short Film Lab aims to boost the professional growth of its participants. May their mentorships enrich people as well as short films, and guide them towards a distribution circuit designed according to each of them.
It is proposed to promote the visibility of the large number of short films produced in Argentina and in the rest of the Spanish-speaking countries. In this way, make known new and diverse voices, carriers of their identity and those of their communities, to the whole world.
We believe in short films as a production format, as an autonomous piece with its own purposes.
We believe in its artistic, technical and narrative value and quality.
This is why we created
The Short Film Lab.
Capacitaciones abiertas
TODAS LAS ACTIVIDADES ABIERTAS EN THE SHORT FILM LAB SON VIRTUALES, GRATUITAS Y HABLADAS EN ESPAÑOL.
SE DARÁN EN VIVO DE LUNES A VIERNES A LAS 18:30 AR | 17:30 CH | 16:30 COL | 15:30 CDM.
NO REQUIEREN INSCRIPCIÓN PREVIA.
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JUEVES 27
CASO DE ESTUDIO: ESTRELLAS DEL DESIERTO
Katherina Harder, directora del corto chileno Estrellas del desierto, cuenta cómo llevó adelante la distribución de su película de manera independiente. Desde su paso por The Short Film Lab 2022, con proyección en más de 100 festivales de todo el mundo, hasta un estreno comercial en salas un año más tarde.
Official Selection
5 formas de borrar un chupón
I already dressed up as a murdered star
Fiction 6' / Chile.
D: Tomás Maglione P: Juan Renau & Tomás Maglione.
Donde terminan las cosas
The Son That
Fiction 14' / Argentina.
D: Sal Lencina P: Sal Lencina.
El Cuero
Desert Lights
Fiction 19' / Chile.
D: Katherina Harder Sacre P: Elliot Morfi, Selva González & Katherina Harder Sacre.
La casa de arena
The Magic Stone
Fiction 8' / Chile.
D: Paula Herrera Vivas P: Paula Herrera Vivas.
La fuerza
The Strength
Fiction 16' / Argentina.
D: Renata Juncadella
P: Julieta Juncadella
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La reforma
The Reform
Fiction 10' / Perú.
D: Gustavo Robinson
P: Gustavo Robinson
Comité de selección
Lara Gonzalez Lobo
Uriel Kuzniecki
Facundo Lema
Maca Herrera Bravo
Los de abajo
Deserters
Fiction 18' / Argentina.
D: Bernabé Gallac & Guillermo del Pino
P: Duilio Gatti
Partners
The Short Film Lab is a non-profit program that promotes young independent production professionals, helping them to enter the market, an essential issue from the cultural economies point of view.
This space provides tools to obtain the best results from each distribution plan (whether to close a good deal with a potential distributor or sales agent or to absorb that work internally, as often happens in the independent circuit).
It connects people and institutions with the common goal of amplifying new, diverse, de-stereotyped and honest discourses.
We invite institutions and entities to collaborate with economic contributions and partnerships of all kinds.
Ideas, proposals, and many small forces coming together to make a big difference are welcome.
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The Short Film Lab is supported by
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Directors
We are Maca Herrera Bravo (1989) and Facundo Lema (1990), image and sound designers, graduated from the University of Buenos Aires.
Our short film “Monster God” directed by Agustina San Martín, has been awarded the special mention of the jury in the Official Competition at the 72º Festival de Cannes and declared of interest by the Senate of the Argentine Nation.
Since its premiere in 2019, it has participated in more than 40 festivals around the world, including four class A festivals according to the FIAPF.
Facundo Lema
Facundo has developed his professional career at film festivals such as Dubai International Film Festival, Mar del Plata International Film Festival and BAFICI.
In 2018 he was selected to be part of the Locarno Industry Academy for young professionals (Morelia, Mexico).
In 2019 he served as Coordinator of the BAL -Buenos Aires Lab, BAFICI's project development and co-production platform. And he has been part of IFFR PRO, the industry section of ​​Rotterdam International Film Festival, since the same year.
In 2020 he joined the selection committee of CineMart and also the preselection committee of Hubert Bals Fund.
He is a partner at Imprudencia ("Monster God", 2019), and co-founder of The Short Film Lab.
Maca Herrera Bravo
Maca is dedicated to production, curation, and communications in the cultural industry.
Through the years, she worked at many film festivals such as BAFICI and Mar del Plata International Film Festival (FIAPF). She was also Head of BAL-Buenos Aires Lab, BAFICI’s industry platform. And she has been Director of Communications at the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires.
She is Producer and Distributor of Monster God (72º Festival de Cannes), and she has been Assistant Director and Producer of Héctor (69º Berlinale), both independent short films.
She coordinates the training activities at the European Film Festival in Argentina, and she is co-director of The Short Film Lab.
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