Mediapro Screenwriting Master's students will participate in Nest (San Sebastián Festival)

The Nest section of the San Sebastian Festival, a competition for short films presented by film schools around the world, opens its doors to students of the Master of Screenwriting at The Mediapro Studio.

He Master of Screenwriting from The Mediapro Studio has closed an agreement with San Sebastian International Film Festival As a Nest collaborator, the international short film competition for film students which, for more than two decades, has brought together during the San Sebastian contest students from film schools around the world.

Ten students from different editions of the Master of Screenwriting will participate in the activities organized by Nest during the Festival, including screenings of selected short films, colloquiums or master classes by industry professionals and prestigious international filmmakers who present their film in one of the competition sections of the contest. Through this collaboration, Nest and The Mediapro Studio's Master of Screenwriting promote a common objective: to identify new creative talent and offer direct access to the audiovisual industry to launch their projects. As a result of the agreement, the Nest Award for best short film will be renamed “The Mediapro Studio Nest Award.”

Organized by the Festival itself and the Tabakalera International Center for Contemporary Culture of San Sebastián, Nest, que este año celebrará su XXII edición, muestra los trabajos finalistas de estos estudiantes, elegidos tras una selección previa, y otorga cada año un premio al cortometraje ganador, una distinción dotada con 10.000 euros que será entregado en la gala de clausura del Festival.

De cara a esta vigésima segunda edición, Nest ha seleccionado 13 cortometrajes, chosen from among the 421 works presented, from 209 schools in 53 countries, the highest registration figure in the history of this section of the San Sebastián Festival. The Nest The Mediapro Studio Award jury, made up of a renowned personality in the cinematographic field and students from the selected schools, will choose the winning short film. In the chosen works, diverse formal and thematic approaches coexist, fictions and non-fictions with a personal look at the consequences of violence, the iconography of public space, political utopias, gender conventions or the process of mourning.