FICBUEU festival de cine

The FICBUEU Residency is a training program dedicated to the comprehensive development of short films in their development stage, in which various renowned professionals personally mentor and guide each project. The residency, held on the Island of Ons, aims to promote innovative projects that stand out for presenting a genuine authorial vision, focusing on scriptwriting and the initial conception of the projects from a directorial perspective.
Through different meetings and specialized training sessions, the residency adopts a multidisciplinary approach that fosters cross-learning and opens up new pathways to production.

PROGRAM
The project is oriented towards achieving two main objectives: improving the quality and feasibility of the works by strengthening a personal vision, language, and tone; and acquiring tools and resources that provide a transversal perspective of the production process.

Taking into account its purpose and objectives, the FICBUEU Residency bases its methodology on three main components: personalized mentoring, specialized training, and joint practical activities (script roundtables and one-to-one meetings) that encourage collaboration and the appreciation of diverse perspectives.

2025 CALL

3ND EDITION – 15th-21th october 2025

TUTOR

The person in charge of guiding the creative process as a tutor in this third edition will be the screenwriter and director Celia Rico Clavellino.

In 2018, she premiered her debut feature film Journey to a Mother’s Room (Viaje al cuarto de una madre) at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, for which she won a Gaudí Award for Best Screenplay. Her second and third feature films, The Little Loves (Los pequeños amores, 2024) and The Good Script (La buena letra, 2025), premiered at the Málaga Film Festival, where they received several recognitions. For children, she wrote the project Mironins (2022), which won the Gaudí Award for Best Animated Film.

Celia Rico Clavellino will accompany the participants throughout the week, offering personalized mentoring sessions and shared workspaces.

TRAINERS

Filmmaker Noemi Chantada will conduct the training session The Casting Process.

In collaboration with CREA, filmmaker and casting director Noemi Chantada will lead a workshop focused on different strategies for finding actresses and actors. Chantada will tailor the training design to the specific needs of the selected short films, proposing solutions and offering guidance in each individual case.

Throughout her career, Noemi Chantada has directed projects such as the documentary short films A muller invisible and Xoves de Comadres. In recent years, she has specialized in casting direction, taking part in films such as O Corno, by Jaione Camborda, and Romería, by Carla Simón.

Lucía Delgado will lead the training session The Importance of Intimacy Coordination on Set.

Through this session, she will advise the residents on how to mitigate potential risks associated with filming intimate scenes (understood as more than just sexual scenes). The goal is to emphasize the importance of creating a network of trust, safety, and protection for both the performers and the production team.

Lucía Delgado, an actress and pioneer in intimacy coordination in Spain through Intimact, a member organization of AESCI (Spanish Association of Intimacy Coordination Professionals), specializes in diversity consulting and psychological support during film shoots. In addition, she focuses her work on raising awareness and providing training on consent and the portrayal of intimacy on screen.

Eva Gancedo, a composer specialized in film music, will lead the training session The Process of Musical Creation.

In collaboration with Musimagen, the leading national association of composers for audiovisual media, this third training session will focus on the design and composition process. The session will be based on an introduction to the fundamental processes and concepts involved in creating a film score.

Eva Gancedo, a renowned film music composer, has an extensive and distinguished career and was awarded a Goya for her original score for La buena estrella.

SELECTED PARTICIPANT

Paula Costa

She studied Audiovisual Communication at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and completed her training in Screenwriting and Film Directing at the school Séptima Ars.

She began her career as a production assistant at Aquí y Allí Films, collaborating on projects such as Magical Girl o As Neves, under the guidance of producer Pedro Hernández. As a filmmaker, in addition to directing and screenwriting, she works in production, project development, and assistant directing for film, advertising, and television fiction.

Paula Costa will work on A tu manera, a film that combines realism and science fiction to explore the relationships between diverse female characters.

Sara Ferro

She studied Classical Philology at USC and Textual Acting at ESAD de Galicia.

In addition to her career as an actress, she has been writing for years, with several awarded and published short stories. In 2023, she transitioned into screenwriting, co-writing the web series Nómades with Noelia González. Together with Noelia González, she also wrote A outra escena, a short film recognized with the Luisa Villalta Award, which is currently in post-production.

Sara Ferro will work on Németo, a short film deeply rooted in Galician folklore.

Andrea Sánchez

She studied Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the Escuela Superior de Conservación y Restauración de Cataluña, specializing in graphic documents. She later completed a postgraduate program in Archiving and Conservation of Audiovisual Material at Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola.

She works as a conservator on the recovery and preservation project of the San Sebastián International Film Festival archive. At the same time, she develops her work as an audiovisual creator with personal projects such as Frialdad (2022) and RASTRES, co-directed with Laura Moreno Bueno.

Andrea Sánchez will carry out her project Vengo de la plaza, a proposal that places grief at the center of the narrative.

Aura Sala

She studied Directing at the Escuela Superior de Cine y Audiovisuales de Cataluña (ESCAC), where she received a talent scholarship, and trained with filmmakers such as Carla Simón, Celia Rico Clavellino, and Diana Toucedo.

She has worked in directing and production on feature films such as La sociedad de la nieve (J.A. Bayona, 2023), Te estoy amando locamente (Alejandro Marín, 2023), and El maestro que prometió el mar (Patricia Font, 2023). In addition, she balances these projects with the development of her personal literary and audiovisual work within the collective Injúries i Calúmnies.

Aura Sala will develop Un lloc segur, a fiction short film in the drama genre that focuses on transmasculinity as its central theme.

Sara Traba

She studied Art History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and later pursued film studies at Bande À Part in Barcelona.

As a filmmaker, in addition to directing and screenwriting, she works as a camera operator and editor on documentary, fiction, musical, and video art projects. She is also part of the coordination team for the Galician-Portuguese film cycle Mulleres, Patrimonios, Sociedade.

Sara Traba will participate with her project As cárcavas, a work that reflects on communication, memory, and the passage of time.

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