First stage · October 2027

Virtual pre-production

A month before the workshop: four virtual sessions so you arrive in Mendoza with your team formed, your story underway and a production plan.

When: October 2027
Sessions: 4, online, one a week
Days and times: Confirmed with the selected participants
Who takes part: The 30 selected participants

Hands writing with a pen in a notebook, under warm light. — Still from “I Am an Island” (2026), a short film shot in the Azores. J. F. Montes archive.

I. Virtual pre-production

The four sessions

Session 1: Teams and roles. Introductions and forming the six teams, with each person's roles.
Session 2: Ideas. Each team's first ideas for its short.
Session 3: Stories and treatments. Developing the stories and their treatments.
Session 4: Production plan. Each team's production plan, looking ahead to scouting, casting and the shoot in Mendoza.

II. Then, in Mendoza

Fifteen days in Mendoza

From 1 to 15 November 2027: opening, scouting, casting, five shooting days, editing, delivery and the final screening.

See the full schedule

Mendoza · 1–15 November 2027

Applications open in January 2027

More information coming soon: the guidelines, deadlines and calendar will be published that month. Leave your details and we'll let you know. It isn't an application and it commits you to nothing.

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