FIRE!! Pro 2025 | Mostra FIRE!!

The FIRE!! PRO is intended for professionals in the film sector (directors, producers, exhibitors, distributors, actors, journalists, teachers and students of film schools, etc.), and also for any other person in our audience interested in knowing more about the world of the cinema.

FIRE!! PRO was born from the need to...

… create spaces for reflection and creation given the low production of LGBTI-themed films in our country, compared to other countries such as France, Germany, the United States and others in Latin America.

In Spain, the cinema dedicated to affective and sexual diversity is – paradoxically – very absent. Here, the distribution relies heavily on foreign films to address the LGTBI issue. Although the LGBTI community is here particularly active, relatively well integrated into the social environment and quite visible on the media and television level, all of this is not very often reflected in local film production.

For all this, FIRE!! FIRE!! PRO has 3 main objectives:

To encourage discussion and training on the production and commercialization of national LGBTI-themed films.

To implement a support space for the creation and development of LGBTI-themed audio-visual works.

To support the scriptwriters, directors and audio-visual producers in the realization of their works on this subject in the initial stage of the cinematographic proces

The FIRE!! PRO section is intended for professionals in the film sector ...

…(directors, producers, exhibitors, distributors, actors, journalists, teachers and students of film schools, etc.), and also to anyone else in our audience interested in knowing how to understand more about the audiovisual industry..

FIRE!! PRO was born from the need to create spaces for reflection and creation given the low production of LGBTI-themed films in our country, compared to other countries such as France, Germany, the United States and others in Latin America.

For all this, FIRE!! FIRE!! PRO has 3 main objectives:

To encourage discussion and training on the production and commercialization of national LGBTI-themed films.

To implement a support space for the creation and development of LGBTI-themed audio-visual works.

To support the scriptwriters, directors and audio-visual producers in the realization of their works on this subject in the initial stage of the cinematographic proces

FIRE!! PRO consists of 4 activities or services:

FIRE!! Lab

FIRE!! LAB, a laboratory for developing films and writing series with LGTBI themes.

FIRE!! LAB 2025

FIRE!! LAB TALENTS

Round Tables

Round tables on LGBTI-themed audiovisual content.

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Interviews

Meetings with the directors and artistic teams of the films that make up this year’s selection.

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Source list

A source list with the contacts of the distributors of all the programmed films in Mostra FIRE!!: feature films, documentaries and short films.

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FIRE!! LAB 2025

9th to 11th of June

5th Laboratory for film development and writing of LGBTI-themed series

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The FIRE!! LAB is a laboratory for the development of films and the writing of LGTBI themed series, which seeks to encourage their production and commercialization in Spain. The initiative, which will take place within the framework of the Mostra FIRE!! 2025, will last 3 days, from 9 to 11 June.

The scriptwriters, directors and producers of the selected projects and films will receive advice / tutorials in artistic areas such as script, direction, as well as production, by prominent professionals of the national and international audio-visual industry.

At the end of the classes and individual tutorials, the projects will be presented to different producers during a pitching session and the following 3 awards will be announced:

● FIRE!! LAB award to support the development of a feature film: €2000
● FIRE!! LAB award to support the development of a series: €2000
● San Sebastián Festival Industry award: travel to the festival, stay and accreditation

To request more information: industria@mostrafire.com

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At the end of the classes and individual tutorials, the projects will be presented to different producers during a pitching session and the following 3 awards will be announced:

To request more information: industria@mostrafire.com

FIRE!! Lab TALENTS

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Until 15 March 30

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SELECTED PROJECTS

TUTORS

ADVISOR(S)

Selected projects 2024

FEATURE FILMS

TETIO

DIRECTION
Sergio Avellaneda Belmonte

PRODUCTION
Paula Amat (Debut Films)

PROTUBERANTIA

DIRECTION
Mires Ibars

SCRIPT
Pau Vidal Bosch

PRODUCTIÓN
Cristina Sánchez

LAS MANOS QUIETAS

DIRECTION
Víctor Diago

PRODUCTION
Andrés Mellinas (Boogaloo films)

EL PARTICIPIO DEL VERBO OÍR

DIRECTION
Miguel Machetti

PRODUCTION
Ángeles L. Guerrero

SIN PECADO CONCEBIDAS

DIRECTION
Raquel Colera, Claudia Barthelemy, Jenifer de la Rosa

PRODUCTION
Jenifer de la Rosa

SERIES

EL AÑO DE LA ENVIDIA

SCRIPT
Kevin Rodrigo Pérez, Lucía Pérez Oroz, María Moreno Novoa

A SOLAS EN TODAS PARTES

SCRIPT
Isabel Luque Garramiola and Camila Pineda Virgen

CERCANÍAS

SCRIPT
Manu Roma and Clàudia Manero

EL ÚLTIMO HETERO

SCRIPT
Marta Lario Ruiz

POR TU PROPIA CULPA

SCRIPT
Enrique Huelva Jiménez

Tutor/s

FEATURE FILMS

Júlia de Paz

Júlia de Paz Solvas (1995) began her professional career with her debut film, Ama, premiered at the Malaga Festival, where she received the Silver Biznaga for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Feroz Puerta Oscura Award for Best Film, as well as obtaining a nomination for the Goya Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay.

His next project, the short film Harta —winner of three Biznagues at the Malaga Festival and the Gaudí Award for Best Short Film, among other recognitions— served as the basis for his second feature film, currently in post-production and scheduled for release in 2025.

In 2024 she presented the series The Long Shadows (directed by Clara Roquet and produced by Disney+), in which she participated as a second director. In addition, in the last edition of the San Sebastian Festival, the series Estimar was screened, directed by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, in which Júlia de Paz Solvas appears as co-screenwriter.

Paola Botrán

Paola Botrán is an Executive Producer specialized in cinema and co-productions with 10 years of experience and background in international sales. Selected as Producer Under the Spotlight 2023 and one of the 10 Spanish production companies to follow by Variety, a member of the EAVE network after its selection in Ponts 2022 and EAVE Marketing 2023, she is currently an Associate Producer for film and series at Cattleya Producciones (a company of the British group ITV).

Since Sideral, he has co-produced Segundo Premio by Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez, winner of the Biznaga d’Or for best Spanish film at the Malaga Festival. Previously, he was Head of Marketing at Latido, where he collaborated in the international strategy of more than 30 titles, including El Hoyo by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (No. 1 on Netflix) and C Campeones by Javier Fesser, among others.

She completes her experience as Postproduction Coordinator in series such as El Ministerio del Tiempo (T4 for TVE), Antidisturbios by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (for Movistar+) or Patria (for HBO).

Rocío Mesa

Rocío Mesa combines cinematographic creation with production and programming. Her latest feature film as a director and screenwriter, Secaderos (2022), had its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival, winning the Dunia Ayaso Award, and was presented internationally at the prestigious SXSW festival in Austin (Texas) where it won the audience “Visions” award. His first feature film was the creative documentary Orensanz (2013), premiered at the Seville European Film Festival and selected at international festivals such as BAFICI. Mesa practices analogue experimental cinema and her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries and specialty festivals around the world. As a producer she has worked on numerous projects, such as the feature film Mbah Jhiwo / Alma Anciana (2021) by Álvaro Gurrea, premiered at the Berlinale Forum 2021. Rocio Mesa is the director of LA OLA, Independent Films from Spain, an entity that aims to make contemporary Spanish cinema visible in North America. In addition, she has worked as a programmer for festivals such as Los Angeles or international events such as Art House Theater Day in the United States.

SERIES

Javier ferreiro

Born in Lugo, Javier specialized in screenwriting before studying fiction direction at the International School of Film and Television (EICTV – Cuba). Back in Spain, he began to develop projects with his production company Amor y Lujo, and with the support of funds and institutions such as the ICAA, the ICEC and Ibermedia, among others. Recently, Javier has been a screenwriter for Vestidas de Azul (continuation of the successful “Veneno”) and has just premiered Mariliendre, his first series as a creator and director, produced by SUMA CONTENT, the production company of Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo. Mariliendre has the honour of being the first series in the Official Selection of the Malaga Film Festival to close it; and has also been selected by the French festival Series Mania. Beyond his work in the universe of series, Javier is developing his directorial debut, Fame e febre , which has the support of AGADIC and ICEC.

Ana Joven

With a solid career in the audiovisual sector, she has worked in television, film and theater. He is currently head of development at the production company Minoria Absoluta, where he promotes fiction and entertainment projects.
She has been executive producer of Love Cost (3Cat) and Epic Nails Volume 2, and director of formats such as Mónica y el sexo (Amazon) and Acoustic Home (HBO). He has also worked as a scriptwriter in programmes such as Batalla Monumental, Persona Infiltrada and Tricicle: 40 años, and has participated in programmes with a massive audience such as Tu cara me suena, ¡Ahora caigo! and ¡Mira quién baila!.
He combines his professional work with teaching in master’s and postgraduate courses specialising in screenwriting and executive production. His commitment to the sector and his experience endorse him as a key figure in the industry.

Victor Sala

Co-founder of the online magazine Serielitzats and Serielitzats Fest, the Barcelona International Series Festival that has invited screenwriters such as Jesse Armstrong (Succession), David Simon (The Wire), Sally Wainwright (Happy Valley) or Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad). He is a series critic for ‘Els Experts’ and ‘SerieSelektor’ on iCat FM.

Since 2022 she has directed the series laboratory Serielizados Kick, teaches television formats at Pompeu Fabra University and coordinates MINIPUT, a quality television show that has been held in Barcelona since 1992. He has written the short film Robota and the television pilot Psycho Palms for the production company Open the Portal, and is an advisor to several production companies.

Advisors

Bob Pop

AUTOFICTION. “LOST MARICÓN”. The process of believing and creating. To believe in oneself and to create oneself.

Bop Pop, is divided, as they say, between literature and the desire to eat. In 2010 he published his first novel, Mansos, republished by Alfaguara in 2021. He also has other publications such as the humorous essay Cuando haces Bop ya no hay stop (Ediciones Martínez Roca, 2013), Días ajenos (Somos Libros, 2017), the first installment of his literary and intimate diaries; or the essay Un miércoles de enero, where he displays his facet as a critic of the media. He became known to the general public as a collaborator of Andreu Buenafuente’s program Late Motiv (Movistar +), of which he was the deputy director. He has taught literary creation workshops in Barcelona and regularly collaborates with media such as La Marea, La Sexta and Cadena SER. In 2021 he made his debut as a fiction creator with Maricón perdido (TNT, Presented at FIRE!!), winner of the Ondas award for Best Comedy Series.

Mani Martínez

AI RESISTANCE MANUAL. How to design projects with AI and still be a person.

Production Designer and Art Director with a background in Fine Arts in the United Kingdom, she has more than 25 years of experience in film and television. She has worked in all departments related to production design, participating in national and international projects of all kinds, from independent films to large productions. In parallel to her professional career, she has taught classes and workshops at schools such as ESCAC, CECC and AFilm, specializing in production design and new tools applied to visual creation. She is currently leading the development of Keynema, an app focused on improving workflows for film crews using artificial intelligence, and combines this project with teaching, including the “AI Film Design” course at ESCAC, funded by the European EU Next Generation program.

Csaba Szabo

Founder and CEO of Terrea, Csaba Szabo is an expert in sustainability who provides concrete and measurable solutions to the audiovisual sector. After accompanying several production companies to reduce the footprint of their productions, he collaborates with teams to integrate simple improvements that protect the planet, maintaining quality and optimizing resources.

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Joan Montesinos

Presentation of projects. Diversity as a value

Joan Montesinos Aznar is part of the development department of Suma Content, a production company created by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo. Previously, he has worked at Amor i Luxe, Zeta Studios and Lluís Miñarro. The projects she has been part of have been selected at the Rotterdam IFF, Malaga Festival, Seville European Film Festival, Seminci, Mostra FIRE, Lesgaicinemad… among others. She is a member of the Valencian Audiovisual Academy, has taught at ESCAC and organizes the LGTBIQ+ Representation Days at the Jaume I University.

Pilar Toro

Marketing concepts and audience definition

Director of Marketing and Communication at Filmin since January 2022, Pilar Toro’s career has always been linked to film and television. From her beginnings at Canal+ through her time at NBC Universal, where she specialized in Social Media while managing the social media campaign for the film La Llamada, by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi; until she arrived at Netflix Spain, where she worked on the campaigns of titles such as Élite, Las Chicas del Cable, Paquita Salas, Nevenka or Sky Rojo.

David Moragas

WHAT NO ONE TELLS YOU

David Moragas is a writer, screenwriter and film director. She graduated in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University, in Barcelona, and did a master’s degree in Film Direction at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, in New York, thanks to a scholarship from the Obra Social la Caixa.

His films have received numerous awards, including a nomination for the Gaudí Awards of the Catalan Film Academy for Tomorrow We Leave It – a short film that won the VOC Award from Òmnium Cultural – and another nomination for Best Editing for his film A Stormy Night. He currently lives in Barcelona and combines his work as a director and screenwriter with teaching at Pompeu Fabra University. “Fervor” is his first novel. His second feature film, Otro Hombre, will be released in theaters in the fall of 2025.

Joan Ruiz

Internationalization of audiovisual projects, from development.

Born in the Pyrenees (1990), Joan Ruiz graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona and obtained a Postgraduate Degree in Distribution and Marketing from the Open University of Catalonia. In 2013 he joined the Industry Department team of the San Sebastian International Film Festival as coordinator and curator of conferences and round tables and as head of professional publications. In 2015 he began the professional conferences of the D’A Film Festival Barcelona and was responsible for five editions. Communication coordinator of the Talking Galleries Barcelona 2017 symposium and collaborator of LOOP Fair. In 2018 she developed the communication project of the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola school in Tabakalera. In 2019 he conceived La Pedrera – D’A Film Lab and started working for the Business Development Service of the Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies. In January 2020 he joined the Catalan Films team.

ROUND TABLE

Thursday 12 June, 6pm

New Horizons and Challenges of Lesbian Cinema in Spain

...the emergence of a new generation of directors capable of realistically ...

The round table New Horizons and Challenges of Lesbian Cinema in Spain, will evoke the emergence of a new generation of directors capable of realistically conveying the real experiences of the younger lesbian community (from Alba Cros to Zaida Carmona, including Mònica Rovira, Ruth Caudeli, Sara Fantova, Irene Moray, Isa Luengo, Sofía Esteve, or Nora Haddad). This will serve as a reminder of how difficult it remains for women to make films, especially those with lesbian themes (recalling, for example, the years it took Arantxa Echevarría to do Carmen y Lola, or the difficulties of others trying to make a name for themselves in film, such as Marta Balletbó-Coll), despite the increasingly common presence of out lesbian actresses in our film scene (Susi Sánchez, Inma Cuesta, Anabel Alonso, Elena Anaya, Alba Flores or Anna Castillo, for example). New projects, such as the production companies Amor y Lujo, Vayolet Films, or Loba Loba, also seem to be changing things, towards a better representation of lesbian women in Spanish cinema. We will discuss this with the producers Carlotta Schiavon, film critic Violeta Kovacsics Grisolía, film director Sara Fantova, moderated by Mar Canet, director of La Casa del Cine.

LGTBI CENTRE Thursday 12 June 6pm Free entrance The round table will have interpretation in Catalan sign language Live broadcast from the YouTube channel of the LGBTI center of Barcelona.

Activity organized in collaboration with:

Speakers

Carlotta Schiavon

Producer and founder of Vayolet Films. She studied at ESCAC and UCLA. She has worked in the production department of numerous projects in Spain and the United States. After several years in Los Angeles, she founded the production company Vayolet Films in Barcelona. Her latest projects include Farrucas, winner of Best Short Film at the 14th Gaudí Awards, and Els Buits, winner of the Silver Biznaga for Best Documentary Short at the 27th Málaga Film Festival. She currently has several short films, feature films, and series projects in development. She serves on the board of directors of Dones Visuals and is co-coordinator of the Acció Producció program.

Violeta Kovacsics Grisolía

Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1981. Film critic, PhD in Communication, and teacher. She regularly writes for publications such as Caimán, Cuadernos de Cine, Cinemanía, and Diari de Tarragona. She teaches Film History at ESCAC and also teaches at Pompeu Fabra University and the Open University of Catalonia. She is responsible for publications for the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia and was the first woman to chair the Catalan Association of Film Critics and Writers. She coordinated the book Very Funny Things. Nueva comedia americana. Very Funny Things. Nueva comedia americana .

Sara Fantova

Bilbao, 1993. In 2013, she began her university studies at ESCAC, specializing in film directing two years later. She graduated in 2018 with No me despertéis, a short film shot in Bilbao and based on a personal experience. It participated in the official section of Seminci and in Voices Shorts in Rotterdam, among other competitions. She is also one of the eleven co-directors of La filla d’algú, a collective feature film supervised by Sergi Pérez, which premiered and won awards in Malaga. In 2023, she directed three episodes of the series Esto no es Suecia. Developed within ESCAC’s Ópera prima program, Jone, a veces is her first feature film.

Moderated by

Mar Canet

A film culture entrepreneur, Mar Canet is the Director and founder of La Casa del Cine in Barcelona, a school of cinematographic theory and direction. Co-founder of the Americana Film Fest in Barcelona, Coordinator of the international wine film festival or Most Festival of Vilafranca del Penedès, Programmer of the LGTBI film festival or FIRE!! Mostra in Barcelona and Coordinator of the morning screenings for secondary schools by the D’A Barcelona Film Festival. She’s also CEO of The New Flesh production company (GOYA 2023 nominee for the short documentary Dancing with Rosa, candidate for Mira niño, 2024).

Meetings with directors and artistic teams

Some directors will be present at the screening of their film; the public will have the opportunity to talk with them at the end of the screening, in the cinema or on the terrace of the French Institute.

Meeting with Adrià Guxens,
director of Kokuhaku
FRI 06/06 ● 10 p.m.

Meeting with Alexis Taillant,
director of If I Die, It’ll Be of Joy
SAT 07/06 ● 6 pm

Meeting with Hadi Moussally,
director of Shame
SAT 07/06 ● 8 pm
FRI 13/06 ● 4 pm

Meeting with Javi Oran,
Lead Actor
of Los amantes astronautas
SAT 07/06 ● 10 pm (with interpretation
in Catalan)

Meeting with Gustavo Pecoraro Brondino,
screenwriter of Luces Azules
SUN 08/06 ● 6 p.m.

Meeting with Loida García,
director of Ana Kann Alles
SUN 08/06 ● 8 p.m.
(with interpretation
in Catalan)

Meeting with Emilie Girardin Dobosiewicz,
director of One Dances, the Other Doesn’t
SUN 08/06 ● 8 p.m.
(with interpretation
in Catalan)

Meeting with Cristian Mariani,
actor of 300 cartas and with Lucas Galambos, director of the short film Desvíos
SUN 08/06 ● 22 h

Meeting with Irene Corts Curto,
Director of Instantànies
FRI 13/06 ● 8 pm

Meeting with Pol Rebaque,
director of El jardí del diable
FRI 13/06 ● 8 pm

Meeting with Carlos Giménez Pons,
Ruth’s director
FRI 13/06 ● 8 pm

Meeting with Javier Prieto de Paula,
director of Solo Kim,
and Kim Cabral, lead actor
FRI 13/06 ● 8 pm

Meeting with Simone Sojo,
director of Las pardas
FRI 13/06 ● 8 pm

Meeting with Sara Fantova,
director of Jone, a veces
FRI 13/06 ● 8 pm

Meeting with Alex de la Croix,
director of Domingo de gramos
SAT 14/06 ● 8 pm

Meeting with Osama Chami,
director of Una película barata
SAT 14/06 ● 8 pm

Meeting with Ferran Navarro-Beltrán,
director of Tomàs
SAT 14/06 ● 10 pm

Meeting with Pedro de Echave,
director of Estrella, cometa, satélite y planeta,
and Pablo Azorín, producer
SAT 14/06 ● 10 pm

Source list 2025

Distribution and programming professionals will find here our Source List, with the contacts of the distributors of all the programmed films: feature films, documentaries and short films.

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