18, 23 a/to 27 Julho | July 2025
CREATIVE FILM WORKSHOPS 2025
CREATIVE FILM WORKSHOPS 2025
OFICINAS DE CRIAÇÃO FILMICA 2025
OFICINAS DE CRIAÇÃO FILMICA 2025
A WORKSHOPS space where new projects are developed, where films are filmed, where ideas are exchanged and practiced. A space to finish movies, to make RESET and start new and great projects!
Filmmakers and future filmmakers in a clash of ideas and films in AVANCA 2025.
Filmmakers and future filmmakers in a clash of ideas and films in AVANCA 2025.
During five days,, FILMMAKERS from all over the world will shoot and produce a movie on the streets, in the fields and with the people of Avanca. A battle of creativity, filmic experimentation, explosive narrative, technical accuracy.
Fiction, animation, documentary, in movies without time limit and produced by teams of all nationalities.
ENTRY FORM
Please send the Entry Form to: avancafilmfestival@gmail.com
THE TUTORS
Award-winning filmmakers are the teams' tutors, supporting each of the films in production with their experience.
THE PROJECTS
Space to explore ideas, prepare and make a new movie.
A meeting point to integrate a team and / or develop a new film project of fiction, documentary, animation...
WORKSHOP 1 – "ONE - making ONE short film, ONE character, ONE location, ONE event"
One meeting, two days of filming and one day of editing. A workshop to approach cinema in its practice and prove that directing is a capacity for creative manipulation.
The One as a starting point for the plurality that the paths of cinema quickly take.
A proposal from one of Europe's most irreverent directors, whose surprising filmography has been screened and awarded at AVANCA.
Language: English.
TUTOR
Goran Radovanovic (Serbia)
One of today's most important filmmakers in the Balkans, whose filmography is distinguished by an attentive political intervention and a deeply critical look at the conflicts that marked the last great war in 20th century Europe.
In these 28 years of the AVANCA Festival, Radovanovic has been a prominent and recognized presence at the AVANCA festival, where he has previously won awards for works such as Chicken Elections (2005), The Ambulance (2009), The Enclave (2015) and The King of the Elves (2024). His work is in this year's AVANCA retrospective.
WORKSHOP 2 – "Writing Cinema from Literature: adapting a literary work to film"
A workshop to approach the literary story: analysis of the context, content and forms of the story. Space for an introduction to the characteristics and specificities of both languages (literary and cinematographic). Time to work on a film adaptation, even collectively.
TUTOR
Míguel Castelo (Spain)
Miguel Castelo studied Image and Sound at the Complutense University of Madrid and founded the production company ÁBRAGO FILMES. After several years dedicated to journalism and organizing the first phase of the Xunta de Galicia's General Directorate for Culture, he returned to film production and directing in 1990. He taught audiovisual narrative courses and collaborated with TVE in Madrid, Centro Territorial Galego and Televisión de Galicia, working on most of the Galician productions of the 70s.
His first film as a screenwriter and director, "El padre de Migueliño", was screened in San Sebastián, Valladolid, Bilbao, Gijón, Oberhausen, Moscow, Utrecht, London, among others, and won awards.
He is the author of the film adaptations of “El padre de Migueliño”, ‘Cantares’, “El partiquino Ramírez”, “El desexo” and “Cita non camposanto”.
WORKSHOP 3 – "Animating between 2D and 3D - experimenting with the challenges of today's animated cinema"
A workshop to test the great creative and practical challenges of technology between 2 and 3 dimensions. The animator's new work in the context of a transforming animated cinema. Experiencing the impact of technologies on the creative act of animating image by image. A space to give wings to the constant flights of animated cinema.
Language: Portuguese, English.
TUTOR
Charlie Blue (Portugal, China)
Charlie Blue (Carlos Cruz) is a legend among the technological advances of Portuguese animation cinema. An accomplished animator, he started out at Topefilme with Artur Correia but soon set up his own advertising animation production company. He produced, directed and animated a great deal, and was responsible for some of the biggest animations in Portuguese advertising. Responsible for introducing the first 3D animation software and 2D digital layer animation in Portugal, his work transformed Portuguese advertising at the end of the last century. He created and directed the first major animation studio in Portugal and later moved to China where he continues to work in the animation film industry. An award-winner at Cinanima, Cuba and Shanghai, he returns to Portugal for this intense workshop.
WORKSHOP 4 – "Filming in the “café”, a challenge between cinema and life"
Coffee in Portugal, as in many Mediterranean countries, is a very important part of everyday life. Many Portuguese towns have a long tradition where coffee is not just a drink, but a symbol of social gatherings. It is in “cafés” that people often spend time chatting, some reading newspapers, simply enjoying each other's company. In places like Avanca, the café can be a central part of daily dynamics and vibrant community life.
Filming these spaces is the challenge set before us by filmmaker Milana Majar
Language: English.
TUTOR
Milana Majar (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Journalist, screenwriter and film director, Milana Majar writes and directs documentaries for RTRS Public Television.
A laureate at multiple film festivals, at AVANCA 2024 she won the TV World Premiere Award for her film “Elusive mist” (2024).
Her film "From the edge of sanity" (2017) was shown worldwide at more than 70 international film festivals and received 20 prestigious awards. The film "Diadem" (2020), shot in Ukraine and Syria, had the Portuguese participation of the Cine Clube de Avanca.
His work deals with human rights and identity.
CREATIVE FILM WORKSHOPS
- A challenge
- An opportunity
- A debate of ideas
- A professional experience
AVANCA 2025, a meeting and a festival commemorating the 29th edition to showcase and support the creative act of filmmakers from around the world.
A closer world, because it meets every year in July, in AVANCA.
ENTRY FORM
Please send the Entry Form to: avancafilmfestival@gmail.com