Ikusmira Berriak is a programme of residencies and project development designed to support and promote emerging talent and audiovisual creation. The aim of the residency is to offer space, context, time and resources, articulating its programme around two areas: training and development.
The programme Ikusmira Berriak -organised jointly by the San Sebastian Festival, Tabakalera-International Centre for Contemporary Culture and the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE) - with the collaboration of the Filmoteca Vasca, offers five residencies to filmmakers in the following categories: International, Spanish, Basque Autonomous Community, EQZE and Nest section.
This is a natural partnership, given that all of the institutions share three strategic promotional areas: training and knowledge transfer on the subject of the cinema; the search for, accompaniment and development of new talent; and cinematic research and reflection based on a double theoretical-academic and professional approach.
The Ikusmira Berriak project is born and takes its inspiration from this shared strategic vision in the shape of an 8-week residency divided into two periods around a programme of support running for seven months from March to September. During the first phase, the residents develop their projects over a period of six weeks (between March and April), also receiving advice from members of the committee of experts, who tutor the projects and work on the different stages of the development process according to their needs. In September, coinciding with the San Sebastian Festival, they return to complete the last two weeks of the residency, a time when they work on and foster potential collaborations with professionals interested in participating in their projects. Between the two phases of the residency, both the tutors and the institutions provide the projects with advice and support and each project will have a development grant of 5,000 euros.
The institutions involved in the programme have articulated a system of providing backing to cinematic talent which is not limited to helping a project to see the light and become visible; its aim is to accompany and support talent over time.
Ikusmira Berriak is a programme of residencies and project development designed to support and promote emerging talent and audiovisual creation.
