WHAT IS THE AUDIOVISUAL TALENT WEEK?

“#7” is a WebDoc where the user will have to reconstruct the memory of a person who died a long time ago using the memories that have remained from the people who knew him. It is an auteur web documentary that seeks to rediscover and reconstruct the image of the author’s cousin, who died suddenly, aged only sixteen on a football field in L’Hospitalet while he was training. A death that left the family very affected and that caused their world to fall apart overnight. From that moment on, the family created an association (Spanish Association for Sudden Death Syndrome) with which to fight this disease, save lives and ensure that no other family goes through the same thing.

According to several professionals in the field of psychology, a large number of victims of a terrorist attack will develop a mental disorder. However, with special treatment they can recover. But is this entirely true? Five years after the attack on August 17, 2017 in La Rambla, enough time has passed to assess whether the psychological approach to the victims has been effective.

Joan Parés, a motor enthusiast, adapts to a new life after losing an arm and a leg in a work accident. Currently, he continues to fight to be able to fulfil his dream of competing in Dakar.

When two girls are kidnapped and murdered in Caracal, Romania, the high-profile case sheds light on human trafficking and the police’s shortcomings. One man decides to take matters into his own hands and pretends to be a child online to catch paedophiles and fight the sex and human trafficking in Romania. The “Vigilante from Berceni” lures them to meeting under the pretence of sexual contact and then confronts, films, and publicly shames them online. With almost a dozen paedophiles exposed, is he looking for publicity or does he just have a strong civic spirit?

The Braves are a group of friends who spend summers in Sant Pol de Mar. At the last party the summer before, Cris has a motorcycle accident that costs her her life. After that, they are forced to quickly return to their normal lives, but the doubts and guilt about what happened that night haunt them. A year later, Mar decides to organize a reunion to honor Cris, but everything has changed. During the year, with the group dispersed, all the parts of the story still to be told remain hidden. But once the Braves are reunited, the truth will eventually come out.

An ex-couple participates in the program bringing, separately, the objects of the life they shared together. The aim of this program is to break with everything that needs to be left behind in order to move on, but in a relationship that is ending, should everything be forgotten? The ex-couple will be asked to save one of the objects. In the final part of the program, the ex-couple will come face to face to find out what memory their ex-partner wanted to save and why. They will understand that there are also memories worth saving from their past together.

The project’s aim is to showcase the car modifying community in Tallinn, Estonia, to uncover the culture surrounding car tuning and to bring it to the spotlight to car fans in Estonia and worldwide. Car modifying is a well-known activity that was mostly brought to fame in the early 2000s with movies such as “The Fast and The Furious”. If it sometimes has a bad reputation and is often considered as an “American” discipline, there is more to tuning than just “show off” culture and aesthetic purposes. Tuning is now a common passion world-wide and various sub-communities can be found in Europe. In Tallinn for example, hundreds of car lovers gather every week to discuss their passion and showcase their work. This so-called “car meets” occurs every Thursday evening at the parking lot of one Tallinn’s largest mall, Ülemiste Keskus.

“Componiéndome” is a documentary that covers the creation process of singer Irene Azuaga’s first album, while reflecting on emerging musical talents.

“Cuenta atrás” narrates the life of Kilian (18), a young man who, after the death of his mother, wants to end his own life and to do so decides to hire a hit man. After realizing that everything is not as bad as he thought and thanks to the support of his friends and a new family, he does his best to find the hit man and stop his death, but time is a constant countdown. Will Kilian manage to survive?

Adam Basma fled the conventional Muslim Lebanese family to Los Angeles at a young age to
become a successful belly dancer. Making similar life choices, the creator of this film wonders
what Adam has to share with her about family acceptance, belonging, and extravagant
dreams.

Father Marcus (57) is an exorcist working for the Catholic Church in current-Day London along with his simple and young apprentice Pete (23). In desperate need of money to support his senile, former mentor Father Albert, as well as his 5 Adult, spoiled children that he has inherited from a past life of debauchery, Marcus agrees to let a documentary crew capture his life as an exorcist. At the quarterly Exorcists’ Union (EU) council meeting made up of representatives from a variety of global religious institutions, a council member mentions he heard word of the Devil abandoning his post in hell and roaming Earth. After a game of hot potato, where priests attempt to take on the job but resign consecutively, Marcus takes up the task himself to banish the Devil back to Hell. Marcus and Pete embark on this hellish mission, putting their friendship to the test as the two face demon battles, exorcist manhunts, and university parties.

“Dar mucho pedir poco” is a documentary that aims to raise awareness about the importance of caring for the elderly and how they also care for the two generations below them with all their love.

Cristina, Francesc, Josep and Frederic are at the Pals cemetery for their father’s burial. Josep and Frederic return to Barcelona while the other two siblings stay in the family farm in Pals, which they will now have to carry off alone. While Francesc does the farm work, Cristina does what her polyneuropathy allows her: cook and pass the time reading or hanging out with her friend Isabel. One day Isabel introduces Antoni, a painter friend of hers from Barcelona, ​​to the siblings. He ends up setting up his studio and living in the attic of the farmhouse in exchange for paying maintenance and thus helping the siblings financially. Cristina, sorting through her parents’ boxes, finds her mother’s diary with notes about the farm and her life. With this and with the help of the camera Antoni lends her, she begins to make a photographic diary about her life and illness.

Tar, a clumsy alien, and A.R.I., a meticulous robot, land on our planet Earth, but there is no trace of human civilization left. They embark on a mission to find the terrestrial weapon that wiped out humanity before their evil alien leader does. If they don’t destroy it in time, the universe is in danger.

“Detrás del frente” is a series that rather than revolve around the events or situations that the protagonists have lived through, uses those to investigate and contextualize the person each journalist has become throughout their career. We seek to get to know and empathize with little-known characters that, after living through countless life and death situations, have a different way of understanding life, love, loneliness, pain and death.

“Efímero” is a documentary series that enters the lives of people who have suffered from some kind of mental health problem or illness. It focuses on exploring the causes and consequences of different types of addictions (alcoholism, compulsive gambling, drugs, etc.), which can develop as a result of an untreated mental health disorder, and how addiction can be the trigger for the disorder. The testimonies describe their involvement and point of view of the events to complement the story that the protagonist tells. They are either close to the protagonists or mental health professionals, such as psychologists or psychiatrists.

José, Rafael and Pedro are just three of the thousands of children born with malformations as a result of thalidomide, a drug developed by the German pharmaceutical company Grünenthal, which continued to be marketed in Spain even after it was banned in 1961. While in the rest of the world thalidomide is a thing of the past, the present of Spanish victims is still marked by the sale of the drug. Since the creation of AVITE, those affected in the country have been trying to obtain official recognition that would allow them to receive fair compensation to repair the physical and moral damage caused by thalidomide.

A kid is brought back to an old Colombian town to live with his grandparents. While learning this new life, he will slowly start searching for the memories of the mother he didn’t get to know, and discover little by little the painful truth kept secret by the town.

In the 1960s in the town of New Salem, a methodical and upright teenage girl must confront her newfound magical powers if she is to save her missing family and prevent an evil politician from destroying the world’s source of magic: the Eternal Tree.

In “Expediente Fake” we will declassify state secrets such as Franco’s secret fondness for Frank Sinatra, known in some circles of the Falange as Franco Sinatra, or the true lyrics of “La lala” by Joan Manuel Serrat, which was censored. Each program will be a critique of universal themes such as censorship or the freak phenomenon on television, serving as a review of Spanish history and a commentary on how the reportage and documentary formats can contribute to disinformation.

Documentary series that gives voice to Catalan startups to make local talent visible and the obstacles that hinder their growth and development.

Rob, Sancho and Emma, three inexperienced youngsters, set up a production company with the dream of making a film, but they must face a reality check: they need to start from the bottom. What is certain is that they will excel, for better or worse.

Merce, Edu, Raquel and Anna, five young people from the Faculty of Education, begin their second semester at university. During this period they will have to face some adversity inside the university toilets. With everyone’s help, they will manage to overcome their problems and get through the year.

Today, technology advances at an unstoppable pace. More and more means and devices are available to us to help us carry out certain day-to-day tasks. This has many advantages but also disadvantages. Do we really know what it means for the environment, to create a mobile device? And publish a post on social networks? The planet’s climate situation is in crisis and technology plays a very important role in sustainable development.

“IMPACTO” is an exhibition with a narrative tour of about 15 minutes through several interactive and immersive audiovisual installations, which aims to generate a dialogue, debate and reflection on the use that people make of technology and the impact it has towards the environment.

Kamila, a general practitioner on the verge of retirement, takes care of her parents – her 90-year-old dad and Alzheimer‘s-stricken mum. She accompanies them in their final stages of their lives. In doing so, she is aware of her own mortality and the fact that there is no one who would support her in the future to the same extent.

After years of being made to feel different for being Jewish, Rodney Katz decides to hatch a plan that could finally earn him some respect. The plan: convince his classmates that conspiracy theories of Jewish world domination are true.

In modernist Barcelona at the beginning of the 20th century, a young aristocrat and a pregnant slave are in love with the same man, but their love is a social cage from which they can only escape together.

A group of reports and interviews that revolve around sustainability. Thanks to the latest tools developed by Google, each of the reports features different 2D and 3D tours around planet Earth, an interactive journey where the user can choose which places to see. Seed banks, clean energy, and digitisation of procedures, sustainable buildings, fashion, education, technologies and circular economic models are the focus of this project, which is closely linked to the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.

The game is a 2D Metroidvania with souls-like mechanics and RPG in which you will play as renegade prisoners robbed of all their powers and banished to an underground city used as a prison. The goal is to get out of the underground to claim revenge, so you will have to beat the prisoners, get your powers back and defeat the guard guarding the exit.

Anastasio, an old man in the early stages of dementia, is admitted to the Nueva Esperanza nursing home. Monotony, boredom and old age are the perfect business opportunity for him after he discovers a stash of Viagra pills under his late roommate’s bed. Manola is a series that transcends the routine of a nursing home to bring to life the stories of people’s lives after retirement. The main theme is love, which creates relationships between the characters, showing their feelings and stirring their innermost desires, as well as their frustrations and problems.

Alch, a young alchemy student wants to prove to his master that he is ready to be a proper alchemist. His last test consists of finding two very rare materials and combining them to create something never seen before. MergeIt! is an adventure game with puzzles, with an approximate game duration of 20 minutes. The player combines different elements and objects to create new ones and thus help the villagers and advance through their world.

Have you ever had to disguise yourself and use a name that is not yours to keep a job, or prostitute yourself to survive? According to a 2021 study by the General Union of Workers of Catalonia, 80% of trans people are unemployed and 44% of the group hides their gender identity at work. Antra, the National Association of Transvestites and Transsexuals, states that in 2020 in Latin America, 90% of trans people relied on prostitution.

“Nosotres.” shows without filters the effects of structural violence on the members of the migrant transsexual collective, survivors of double discrimination.

“PixelSound” is a tool made from code that translates the pixels of an image into sound, with equivalences established between the HSB color system and the different sound parameters under an auditory-visual synesthetic conception.

This project arises from a creative concern in order to develop an application that is accessible and suitable for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in the creation and experimentation of sound through images, offering a wide range of possibilities for use and development. Among them, generating complete sound pieces, or sound libraries with which to work later in musical productions for the creation of new sound environments.

“Poliglobooks” is a creative project specialized in the production of multilingual children’s audio books within the fiction genre. These are popular stories and fairy tales from different cultures and are available on various podcast platforms and on the company’s website in 5 different languages (Catalan, Spanish, English, German and Italian), providing an educational tool for language learning for children.

“Poliglobooks” seeks to promote the use of audio books in children’s education and in the learning of foreign languages, to popularize cultures that are not very internationalized, to improve children’s cognitive development and to promote and influence the learning of equality and multiculturalism values. That is why all the stories produced under the brand are adaptations of classic tales free of copyright and share common features, such as originating from cultures unknown to the general public, their educational nature, similar style and production values.

“Pong Fest” is a point-and-click graphic adventure that follows a historic moment in video game culture: the creation of Pong. The game puts us in the shoes of Allan Alcorn during his first day at Atari. Frustrated because he can’t find any ideas, Alcorn decides to take a walk around Atari’s facilities. In a room, he finds Billy, who is organizing one of the company’s legendary parties. Eager to have fun, Alcorn decides to help him, which leads him to find the inspiration to design the iconic video game through a series of serendipities.

It’s a video game that talks about the video game itself and that has the additional potential of becoming an informal cultural dissemination resource. This instalment recreates an important episode in the history of the medium, reflects on the design of video games and aims to highlight video game culture beyond entertainment.

It’s a physical board game that uses a complementary application, which includes AR (augmented reality) among other mechanics and promises an innovative experience. In this ambitious multiplayer virtual tabletop game, players have different goals depending on their role. One is the RAZ monster and the rest, the survivors. The goal of the survivors is to get all the objects necessary to escape from the circus, while the purpose of RAZ is to hunt down all the survivors to end up winning.

Entrepreneurs eager to start a business compete in a series of stringent challenges that test their resilience, entrepreneurial skills, and their business ideas to win cash injection into their business and support to get their business up and running.

“Remote” is an immersive digital experience, which uses virtual reality as a technology to transport us to a parallel universe, an unknown fictional reality. This reality is made up of a diversity of worlds created to be contemplated and explored, slowly losing ourselves in their infinity, without any path or right direction to take.

These worlds are inhabited by expressive typefaces, entities that seek to contemplate their beauty through forms, without the need to be intelligible, abstracting themselves from their meaning. Each of the worlds has its own typography that maintains a visual relationship with the environment in which it is located, generating a link between form and space. The formal aspect of the worlds combines hyperrealism, based on textures and detailed 3D models with dreamlike and imaginary features, as different parameters of the environment are altered in a way that has no place in the real world, thus recreating a surreal atmosphere.

How far can the power of artificial intelligence over workers be taken? “Riders: a la caída” is a documentary that seeks to answer this question by delving into the delivery sector. Through experts in Big Data, riders and other key players in this new business model, it uncovers a reality that, until now, was hidden in plain sight.

Sant Domènec Square is one of Manresa’s most emblematic central locations. But Sant Domènec has not always been a square. If we look for it in photographs from just a hundred years ago, we will not find it anywhere. Its space is occupied by a huge and imposing Gothic church: the church of Sant Pere Màrtir.

In “Runes” we take a trip back in time to investigate our cities. Among the well-known streets, we discover old monumental buildings, now gone, with stories worth recollecting. We appreciate and analyse their architectural style with the help of specialized architects, and reminisce about the events that determined their life and demolition, with the help of local historians. To do so, we delve into their history, creating soundscapes that help the viewer experience the events in the first person. Sound allows us to enter the constructions, see their interior and witness first-hand their key scenes and moments, through sound recreation and narration as essential elements.

In 1972, psychiatrist Dr. Yakob receives a letter from Rama, who informs him of the death of his mother, Asha. Rama thanks the doctor for the treatment Asha received from him during her last years. In addition, the letter says “Remember that life is a cycle. Everything you give, you will end up receiving…”, referencing the Buddhist concept of samsara. With this, Yakob decides to investigate more in-depth what would have been one of the worst murders he witnessed: the murder of little Mstislav, in 1902 in the same house.

“Samsara” is a graphic adventure in the form of an escape room in which the player enters the Czarnecki home and must follow the clues scattered in the hall in order to find out the turbulent history hidden behind the walls.

The internal tensions of a group of college friends boil over while vacationing at a beach house. One of them decides to provoke even more and record it with hidden cameras, portraying the complex reality of young people’s relationships.

Èlia, a teenager from a small town in Catalonia, has to decide whether to stay in the village to continue with the family business that she loves, or follow the same path as her friends and go to study in the city. During the last day of summer, she will be full of doubts and fears and won’t have the courage to explain her decision to her friends, her father, and Martina, a very special person for her. Èlia will finally deal with her conflict and understand which path she must take, while her father’s words, a kiss, and a note will give her the push and strength she needs to face her final decision, to stay in the village.

“Sota les Estrelles” is a musical talent show looking for the best teenage group in Catalonia. Nine groups of teenagers aged between 13 and 17 will live together in a summer camp and once a week they will compete in a gala demonstrating their singing and dancing skills in front of a jury and the public. At each gala, the jury and the audience will be in charge of evaluating the performances, and the group with the lowest score will have to leave the camp. All the contestants will live in a camp together with instructors and professionals, where they will be trained to become great artists. It will be possible to see the teenagers’ day-to-day lives through the daily rehearsals, which will be broadcast in the form of a summary at the galas and on social networks.

In the various documentary categories, there is a trend based on recording events that revolve around the music world. Musical documentaries address issues that represent different societies and cultures, narrated from a series of features that interpret the discipline’s historical and social characteristics.

Through the making of “Soul Blackout”, a documentary starring the Barcelona-based artist Hadren, current electronic music concepts will be discussed as well as the situation of many young people who are self-producing and looking for a place in the industry. Through the experience of creating his first album, Hadren acts as a vehicle to show these issues that many other artists will be able to relate to in the new culture of musical consumption.

Who said that waiting for the train is boring? A glance at your good old local train station, amid absurd delays, commuters on the verge of a nervous breakdown, wannabe suicidals and a rude announcement voice that just won’t shut up. Pleas stand behind the yellow line.

“The Wondrous Adventures of Captain Kit” is about the crazy space adventures of the mischievous kitty Captain Kit and his friends Sam, Jam Jaws and Q3. What begins as a simple shopping trip in search of Kit’s favourite cereal quickly turns into a chaotic intergalactic adventure. The journey leads Kit and his crew of friends to the famous Dr. Jelly’s cereal factory. Once there, they discover that Kit’s favourite cereal is part of an evil plot orchestrated by Dr. Jelly himself to consume the universe… And amidst cat scratches, crocodile tears and robot noises, they will discover the true meaning of friendship.

On the forsaken southside of Milano where scooters vrooam around the neighborhood like rats in the basement, Karim (17) spends his last days in the Trenches following the wacky plans of his homies. He’s definitely not telling them he’s about to leave.

Ferran is a young aspiring nurse who begins his internship at the Esperança psychiatric centre reluctantly. There he is tutored by Emma, ​​the head nurse. Womanizer Ferran is attracted to Emma, ​​but she rejects him, because he is full of prejudices towards mental health disorders and because she has a stable relationship with the assistant director of the centre, Xavier Bosch. The aspiring nurse encounters difficult cases in a context where he realizes the importance of mental health and finding oneself.

The project deals with the recovery of the historical, cultural and collective memory of Sant Boi de Llobregat, through augmented reality.

It consists of a mobile app called “Vilaboi”, the name given to Sant Boi during the war years. The user can be guided through a map with different points which are the buildings that were most important in the old quarter during the war period and that are currently no longer there. In each building there is information about its history and how to access augmented reality. The next tab is the multimedia one, where you can find a 3D model of what the building looked like at the time, where the user can move freely, and also where there are multimedia files such as photographs.