The Laboratori Òpera Prima announces the projects selected for its new edition

Five fiction feature films and three series will take part in the development programme

The Laboratori Òpera Prima, ESCAC’s programme focused on the development of audiovisual projects and the discovery of new talent, has announced the projects selected as part of the D’A Festival de Cine de Barcelona.

The programme, which has been running since 2006, is behind the first award-winning feature films by filmmakers such as Mar Coll, Kike Maíllo, Elena Trapé and Alejandro Marín. The Laboratori is open to emerging authors and producers in our film industry, giving them the opportunity to develop their first feature films, series or projects in new audiovisual formats, whether documentary or fiction, with the aim of commercial exploitation.

The programme is supported by ICEC, SGAE, the Scriptwriting Residency of the Catalan Film Academy, the Sitges Film Festival and the D’A Festival.

This year, new Laboratori partners will collaborate by awarding various prizes, which will be announced soon.

The projects selected for the Laboratori Òpera Prima 2025 are as follows:

Series

• The Dreamers
  • Producer: Olga Hernández
  • Writers: Olga Hernández and Jamie Southon

• Gloria Fuertes
  • Producer: Pedro Bentor Albelo Trujillo
  • Director / Writer: Javier Rojo

• Superchance
  • Producer: Micaela Tcherkassy
  • Director / Writer: Juan Gallo

Fiction Feature Films

• Por el Monte las Sardinas
  • Producer: Cecilia Rivas
  • Director / Writer: Katia Klein

• El novio de la muerte
  • Producer: Carmen Garrido
  • Director: Alejandro Fertero
  • Writer: Jaime Chávarri and Darío Facal

• Perlas
  • Producer: Camila Montaldo
  • Director: Leonor Abreu
  • Writer: Carmen Menchacatorre

• The Unsaid
  • Producer: Javier Amann Cánovas
  • Director / Writer: Juan Sebastián Vásquez
  • Writer / Producer: Nakarey

• La Casa de Enfrente
  • Producer: Berta Jiménez Roiget
  • Director: Anna Gil Gispert
  • Writer: Fernando de Felipe