Collective residencies / Screenplay development lab-I-a / Olot
MIKEL GURREA
From Sunday, 27 November 2022 to Thursday, 1 December 2022
Bio
Bachelor's Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the UPF. Winner of the Obra Social "la Caixa" scholarship to study a Master of Arts at the London Film School. His short films Foxes (2015 ) and Heltzear (2021), were nominated in festivals such as Venice, Zinemaldia, Málaga and Montreal. His plays have been premiered at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and the Fernando Fernán-Gómez Centre in Madrid. His first feature film, Suro (2022), competed in the official section of the San Sebastián International Film Festival where it won the Irizar award for Basque cinema and the FIPRESCI award from international critics. He has been part of the teaching staff at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola and collaborates in the 'Cinema en curs' project.
Project
I will work on my project titled Sants. While dealing with her mother's illness, Lali, a woman in her thirties, is thrown into a subculture of thieves who steal figures of saints.