Weird Market will present 28 projects in its 2023 edition

Although the catalog of Weird Market (International Animation, Video Games and New Media Market) It will include a total of 170 projects, 28 of them will be presented during the event, which will take place from September 26 to October 1 in Valencia.

He 15º Weird Market will include 19 feature films, 43 shorts, 18 series, 37 video games, 24 webseries, 6 transmedia projects, 9 comics and 14 board games, showing once again the potential, diversity and plurality of this sector worldwide. This is how he values the notorious figures José Luis Farias, director of the event: "Animation is experiencing a brilliant moment, both industrially and economically, as well as artistically and creatively. Weird Market has positioned itself in these 15 years as a showcase of future trends, a place where you can find out which works are going to be talked about in the coming months and years."

He Beneficencia Cultural Center will host the presentation sessions where 5 feature films will be put on the table; productions by such notable filmmakers as Alberto Vazquez. The Galician winner of four Goya Awards and author of other feature films such as Unicorn Wars y Psychonauts, the forgotten children He is immersed in his new film, Decorated, which is based on one of his short films with the same name. Other titles that will be talked about in the capital of Turia will be The pirate grandmother of Álex Cervantes and Anthony Christov, with a script of Josep Cat.Operation Shrimp, Tadeo Jones 3) and Philip LaZebnik (Pocahontas, Mulan, The Prince of Egypt); Western Dragons of Jose Manuel Muñoz Pardo y Pinkooland of Luis Uson. The latter alternates his role behind the cameras with the world of visual effects, having worked on great titles such as Dune by Dennis Villeneuve or Death on the Nile by Kenneth Branagh, among others.

Complete this section Like of Nacho The House (Spanish-Peruvian co-production). Currently, in parallel with the work he will talk about in Weird Market, he is immersed in the pre-production of Norbert, a 3D animated feature film in international co-production with Argentina, and producing Superklaus, a co-production with Canada that will be released at Christmas 2023.

Short films, series, webseries, transmedia, video games...

In addition to WFest, its competitive festival, Weird Fest reserves a special section for projects in short film format with a dozen titles where they appear Anaglyph from Valle Comba, The locksmith by Mauro Luis and Juan Torres, A clearing in the forest by Gonzalo Rute, The body of Christ by Bea Lema, M.I.A.U. (International Ultrafeline Uprising Movements) by Álvaro León and María Ruisánchez or the co-production between Portugal and Italy The last sock by Carolina Batista. This section also includes Changelings by Goya winner Abraham López Guerrero (Blue & Malone Casos Imposibles), The truth rejects you, Cornelius by Marc Torices and Krish Cembe, Caregivers from the Ecuadorian living in Spain Daniela Cuenca, and Chuminadas Animated: “On rails and crazy” by Pablo Río, a filmmaker who aspires to enter the WFest list of winners with his most recent work: Rabbit's big date.

As with short films, there will be space for series, four productions and co-productions from countries such as Spain, Portugal, Mozambique, Ireland and Finland. These are DIFFICULT by Adrián Andújar and José Antonio Vaca, The Informals by João Roxo and João Graça, Sky Plaza by José Garnelo and Taste Buddies of Veronica Lassenius

The 2023 edition of Weird Market also includes the presentation of webseries as Saturday Sabadete by Alex Rey, where the viewer is transported to Spain in the 80s; and the transmedia project Is there anyone dead in the room? by Miguel Medrano Malo and Lucía Sampedro. The video games They continue to shine with their own light, with four proposals: Stars in the Trash of Valley Cats, Sushi For Robots de Ludipe and Friends, DE-EXIT: Eternal Matters de Sandbloom Studio (EMMA: Lost in Memories) y American Arcadia by Out Blue Games, a BAFTA-nominated studio with Call of the Sea.