Four TecnoCampus projects participate in the Talent Week of the Audiovisual Cluster of Catalonia

The eighth edition of the Audiovisual Talent Week, an initiative promoted by the Audiovisual Cluster of Catalonia, will be held from November 15 to 18 at CaixaFórum Barcelona.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
15 November 2022 Tuesday 06:48
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Four TecnoCampus projects participate in the Talent Week of the Audiovisual Cluster of Catalonia

The eighth edition of the Audiovisual Talent Week, an initiative promoted by the Audiovisual Cluster of Catalonia, will be held from November 15 to 18 at CaixaFórum Barcelona. The initiative aims to connect university centers in the audiovisual field with professionals from the entire sector.

The Audiovisual Pitching will be the main activity, but the event will also host other activities such as the market for new professionals, workshops, conferences and networking sessions. Within the pitching sessions, students must present their projects in fourteen-minute sessions in front of professional producers, institutional audiovisual representatives, and academics.

This year, four projects from the degree in Audiovisual Media and the degree in Video Game Design and Production from the Mataró TecnoCampus have been selected to participate. The selected projects are: Manola, by Pau Bonastre and Pau Artero; Ephemeral, by Carla Casimiro and Roger Galano; Merge It!, by Alex Pascua and Pau Ruano; and Look What I've Made, by Jan de Nobel and Gerard Coquard.

The selected audiovisual projects will compete in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, and video games.

In the fiction category, Manola, by Pau Bonastre and Pau Artero, will be presented. A series starring an old man named Anastasio who will devise a plan to escape from the nursing home where he lives and elope with the love of his life, through the illegal sale of Viagra pills.

"The series aims to change the stereotype of those elderly integrated into residences, to give life and personality to the characters as active members of society," explains Bonastre. "The idea of ​​residence is turned around as a place where people rejected by society end up, and these centers are shown with a new vision where there is room for a certain hope," he concludes.

In the non-fiction category, Efímero, by Carla Casimiro and Roger Galano, will be presented. A docuseries that is introduced into the lives of people who have suffered some type of mental health problem or illness related to addiction.

“The pilot is introduced into the life of a person who has been addicted to drugs due to a mental health problem that was not diagnosed and treated in time,” explains Casimiro. “The protagonist, Eva Rojano, is a 25-year-old girl who explains her experiences through an interview, which is combined with fictional scenes and interviews with her best friend and psychologist, in order to obtain another point of view of the story and draw better their environment”, he points out.

In the video game category, Merge It!, by Alex Pascua and Pau Ruano, will be presented. An adventure and exploration game with puzzles, where the player will have to complete missions in order to advance in the game and unlock new objects and areas.

"The main mechanic of the game is fusion, with this ability, new useful objects can be created from other materials," explains Pascua. "In this way, Alch, our protagonist, will be able to help the neighbors of his village with his tasks, and he will get new tools to be able to explore the world, looking for the ingredients that his mentor asks of him," she adds.

Finally, also in the video game category, Look What I've Made will compete, a game developed by students Gerard Coquard, Héctor Vergel, Cora Real, Jan De Nobel and Nil Muns. The game is a metroidvania (a type of video game genre) where the player has to advance through different areas of the world and unlock skills to level up and fulfill the protagonist's objective.

"Thanks to the effort and perseverance of our group, we ended up winning the prize for the best video game of the subject in a contest called TecnoGames", explains de Nobel. "Thanks to the award and to TecnoCampus, we obtained different opportunities, such as showing our game at IndieDevDay or presenting ourselves at the Catalan Audiovisual Cluster's Talent Week," he adds.

As a novelty in this eighth edition, the producers and companies in the sector will decide which project in each category will receive the Development Award, which will include a financial award of two thousand euros as well as professional mentoring with the aim of making the successful completion of the projects.

In addition, the international fiction category will be included for the first time, which will be added to the categories of fiction, non-fiction, TV formats, video games and new formats.