The D'A - Barcelona Film Festival has announced the projects selected for the fourth edition of its programme to promote emerging talent D'A Film Lab Barcelona, which will take place from 5 to 8 April within the festival (4-14 April). A total of 106 projects were submitted to the lab, from which a final selection of 23 participants was made. They will receive intensive support, film screenings and pitching in Final Cut, personalised advice sessions for each project, networking meetings and specialised workshops.

The Final Cut section, aimed at films in post-production, has selected: La mitad de Ana (read more), the feature directorial debut (she already directed the short Son) of actress Marta Nieto; La furia, the second film by Gemma Blasco (read more); Ejercicios para ver a Dios, the new film from Miguel Ángel Blanca, who demonstrated his ingenuity in Magaluf Ghost Town [+leggi anche:
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A jury made up of Rebecca de Paso (IFFR), Nadine Rothschild (Materia Cinema) and Carlos Madrid (director of the Valencian film festival CinemaJove) will decide on the best Final Cut film, which will receive a prize of 20,000 euros.

And the Producció Emergent section will focus on Spanish projects in the development phase. This section will feature, among others, Adiós, amor, the new work by Zaida Carmona (Girlfriends and Girlfriends [+leggi anche:
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Within this same section, this year D'A Film Lab Barcelona is creating a new collaboration space between laboratories, inviting three projects from other industry spaces: Adeus, Berta, directed by Fernando Tato and invited by the Producers Meet Producers of Audiovisual Producers of Catalonia – PAC; Ezagutzen Ditugun Bekain Guztiak, directed by Marta Codesido and Núria Ubach, invited by NOKA Mentoring of the Basque Government and organised by Tabakalera; and Solo los muertos se quedan, directed by Alejandro Renedo, invited by Jornadas DCP of the Cantabria Film Commission.

The projects:

Final Cut Section

La mitad de Ana - Marta Nieto (Spain/France)
Production: María Zamora (Elástica Films)

La furia - Gemma Blasco (Spain)
Production: Mireia Graell (Ringo Media)

Ejercicios para ver a Dios - Miguel Ángel Blanca (Spain/France)
Production: Boogaloo Films

Por donde pasa el silencio - Sandra Romero (Spain)
Production: Icónica, Playa Chica, Mammut

Bailar la muerte - Luis E. Parés (Spain/Francia)
Production: LaCima Producciones

Fósiles del mar blanco - Lina Gorbaneva (Spain)
Production: Lluís Miñarro (Eddie Saeta)

Papamama - Lorena Ros (Spain)
Production: Patricia Sánchez (Novena Nube)

Dream of Another Summer - Irene Bartolomé (Spain/Lebanon)
Production: Colibrí Studio, The Attic

Final Cut Section - Panorama Catalunya

L’hora de les tortugues - Mariona Guiu
Production: Suricata Stories, Un Capricho de Producciones

El vol de la cigonya - Soumaya Hidalgo Djahdou, Berta Vicente Salas
Production: Migranta

Mares - Adriana Seuba
Production: Polar Star Films, Intactes

Dies d’estiu i pluja - Colectivo Espurnes
Production: The New Flesh

Producció Emergent Section

Adiós, amor - Zaida Carmona
Production: Gema Arquero (Debut Films)

Catorce de marzo - Alberto Gross Molo
Production: Laura Egidos (Contraria Media)

Fame e febre - Javier Ferreiro
Production: Setima Cinema, Amor y Lujo

Dreams for a Better Past - Alberto Kuhn
Production: 15-L Films

Cases de ningún - Pau Ortiz García
Production: The South Project

Un reflejo - Alberto Gastesi
Production: Vidania

La Carn - Joan Porcel
Production: Mansalva Films

Tus ojos de fuego - Héctor Herce
Production: Kabiria Films

Adeus, Berta - Fernando Tato (invited project)
Production: Kraken Films

Ezagutzen Ditugun Bekain Guztiak - Marta Codesido, Núria Ubach (invited project)
Production: Marta Codesido, Núria Ubach

Solo los muertos se quedan - Alejandro Renedo (invited project)
Production: Sincio de pelis