Collective residencies / Screenplay development lab-I-b / Olot
MIKEL GURREA
From Monday, 22 May 2023 to Friday, 26 May 2023
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.
PERFECT FOR WRITING, DEVELOPING AND FINDING INSPIRATION
The two retreats I did in Faber, within the umbrella of the Script Residence of the Catalan Film Academy, helped me to continue searching for the film I am preparing. At Faber I was able to live and share with other filmmaker colleagues, I could enjoy group workshops and one-to-one sessions with professionals of film writing, I could decompress and get inspired by the landscapes of the Fageda d'en Jordà and Olot. Faber is an ideal place to focus on artistic creation and I am convinced it has been essential to the development of my project. I hope I get to go back very soon.