Spanish Short lands at the virtual edition of Short Film Market in Clermont-Ferrand 2021 with more than a dozen market programmes, a new badge of fresh works, live talks and presentations

• The Spanish Institute of Cinematography and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA) will present five programmes for accredited international professionals including shorts selected by the festival itself in its International Competition, Lab Competition and Young Audience Programme, as well as three monographic collections of recent Spanish shorts in the field of animation, non-fiction and fantasy / horror / thriller.
• The New Spanish Shorts 2021 catalogue, a collaborative work with Spanish short film distributors and regional catalogues for the international promotion of short films, introduces more than 100 recent and fresh titles to the international circuit, as well as a new section with information about shorts in post-production.
• On March 3rd at 11.00h (Madrid local time), within the framework of the Short Film Market, the Spanish Delegation will host the presentation “Just Spainted. New Spanish Shorts 2021 (with sangria)”.

Clermont-Ferrand’s Short Film Market is one of the most relevant industry events in the international circuit. On this occasion, the Shorts from Spain stand comes to life online due to the change in the format of the market due to sanitary restrictions. However, the offer of market content increases considerably with the aim of making the most of the ShortFilmWire platform, which this time will be hosting an event that brings together more than 1,200 industry professionals from Europe and abroad.

In this sense, under the virtual Shorts from Spain umbrella, accredited professionals will find the representatives of the short film international promotion catalogues from various Spanish regions including: Madrid en corto, Kimuak (Basque Country), Curts (Valencia), Canarias en Corto, Shorts from Galicia, Cantabria en Corto, Cortometrajes Laboral Cinemateca (Asturias), Cortometrajes Andaluces (Andalusia), Jara (Extremadura), Film.Ar (Aragon), as well as Navarra, Castile-Leon and La Rioja, joined in parallel by Shortcat (Catalonia). Access the Shorts from Spain delegation here (only for accredited professionals).

Among the activities to be carried out within this edition of the Clermont-Ferrands industry event, market programmes take on special importance. In this sense, the ICAA has put together five collections consisting of:

Many of the shorts that are presented in these programmes are also part of the 2021 edition of the NEW SPANISH SHORTS catalogue aimed to present recent and new works in the context of festivals and international markets. The catalogue was launched in 2020 as a collaborative project with the participation of the regional short film promotion agencies (and catalogues), Spanish short film distributors, including more than one hundred titles, and this time it features as a novelty a new section for short films in post-production, as well as a directory of the short film sector in Spain with references to associations, festivals (that have international short film competitions), among other relevant information.

You can access the NEW SPANISH SHORTS 2021 catalogue here .

Additionally, on February 3th at 11.00h (Madrid local time) check out the live presentation “Just Spainted. New Spanish Shorts 2021 (with sangria)”, and find out more about the new edition of the NEW SPANISH SHORTS catalogue and our market programmes at the Short Film Market, featuring guests from the Spanish regional short film promotion agencies, and the talents behind the works selected by Clermont-Ferrand 2021 in its different competitions and sections. And of course, learn how to prepare “sangría” in five easy steps!

This presentation is aimed at international industry professionals and can be accessed at Clermont-Ferrand’s Short Film Market AGORA virtual room, or you can follow it live in our social media.

Access here to the event.