Collective residencies / Olot
Screenplay development lab 2025-2026 II
From Monday, 2 March 2026 to Friday, 6 March 2026
March 2026
The Academy of Catalan Cinema Residency is a screenplay development lab for fiction and documentary feature films, the first incubator of its type in Catalonia and the first to host projects in Catalan and guarantee their participation.
This is the fourth year it has been held. The chosen participants stay at Faberllull at the beginning of the process, in October 2025, and then return for the conclusion of the programme in March 2026. The stay will give them the chance to share opinions and projects, working to push them forward.
This fourth edition of the Academy of Catalan Cinema Residency will work with 10 projects over 9 months. It offers extended mentorship and guidance from renowned professionals, workshops and masterclasses to help young talent find inspiration and use different techniques. The support also includes meetings with industry professionals, the distribution and festival sectors, and talks on issues such as sustainability and inclusion.
The Academy of Catalan Cinema Residency offers a grant so creators can concentrate on writing, speeding up the creative process, while also promoting ongoing dialogue and sharing among the participating projects. It also stresses the importance of internationalising the projects through training and putting them in contact with the international industry.
This residency is an initiative of the Academy of Catalan Cinema and Guionistes Associats de Catalunya (GAC), with funding from the Catalan Ministry of Culture/Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC), the Barcelona City Council, DAMA, ECIB - Escola de Cine de Barcelona, Universitat de Vic - UVIC, ESCAC, Institut Ramon Llull and El Centre d’Art i Natura de Farrera-CAN.
Residents
GUILLEM MANZANARES
Assistant director in film and advertising
ANGEL GIOVANNI HOYOS
Director and editor
ARIANNA GIMÉNEZ BELTRÁN
Director, screenwriter and photographer
MARTA DURAN LOZANO
Director and screenwriter
ALEX SARDÀ
Director, screenwriter and photographer
FRANCISCO KOSTERLITZ
Screenwriter
CELIA GIRALDO
Director and screenwriter
PAU MIRA
Director of photography and a documentary filmmaker
MARIONA MARTÍNEZ PIJOAN
Director and screenwriter
NÚRIA BESTIT CULLELL
Screenwriter
GEMMA BLASCO
Director and screenwriter
DAVID MORAGAS
Screenwriter, director and writer
ISABELLE FAUVEL
Development consultant
MARIONA CLAVERIA
Audiovisual producer and manager
GERARD GIL OBRADORS
Filmmaker
ISA LUENGO
Screenwriter and director
MAR MEDIR
Producer
Opinions
What residents are saying about us
Screenwriter, director and writer
DAVID MORAGAS
During the Screenplay Residency of the Catalan Film Academy, I was able to enjoy two one-week retreats at Faberllull. Each day struck me as an exercise in calm and intensity at once. The place keeps its own pace: silent and poetic, with Olot unfolding ...
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Director of photography and a documentary filmmaker
PAU MIRA
During the Screenwriting Residency of the Catalan Film Academy, the time at Faberllull was, for me, a way of marking distance. It stemmed from a process very closely linked to my day-to-day family and creative life and I needed to take a step back to ...
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Director, screenwriter and photographer
ARIANNA GIMÉNEZ BELTRÁN
In a field as precarious as the creative one, often the first thing we sacrifice is time and space to continue to work on our projects. The days at Faberllull were therefore a unique opportunity to reconnect with writing. During my stay, I was able to ...
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