VP Code Lab, Navarrese incubator for fiction feature films, is born

Specialized in new producers, the Navarrese incubator VP Code Lab It will make fiction feature films a reality with the mentorship of Javier Macipe and Carlos Lechuga, among other personalities.

The first edition of VP Code Lab It gets underway with the opening of registration for participants on its website until next May 13. The incubator, which will start with an initial residency from June 17 to 21 in Pamplona and will close with another in Tudela de Navarra in mid-October (and will be monitored through online tutoring during the months of July, August and September), will pay special attention to the new producers and to the projects originating or located in the Foral Community, although it is open to the entire State.

A total of four projects, and the teams from production y direction-script, who will have the mentoring and advice of top-level professionals. The projects must be in the development phase, may have participated in other accelerators and will not need to have confirmed financing.

Javier Macipe, which with its debut The blue star has starred in one of the cinematographic phenomena of the year, he will be the directing mentor. Specialized in directing actors at the Cuban Film School (EICTV), he has already achieved international recognition with short films such as Expenses included (2019). He will be in charge of script mentoring Carlos Lechuga, one of the most prominent new voices in Cuban cinema. Lechuga wrote four feature films (Havana Club, The lost Eden, glooms y Finally, the evil) before making his directing debut with Molasses (2012), which was followed Santa and Andrew (2016) y Vincent B (2022). He rest of experts It will be announced in the coming weeks.

Both in the residencies and in the online tutorials that will be held during the summer months, the directing-script teams will receive advice on topics such as script development (peer to peer), directing actors and team management. The production teams, for their part, will have guidance on issues such as financing, the production process, communication and marketing and everything related to tax, legal and labor. Special importance will also be given to sustainability in a shoot, with advisors in green coaching y green shooting.

Training for technicians and virtual set

Los technical equipment They will also have the opportunity to learn from various experts at VP Code Lab through the master classes which will be held in Pamplona and Tudela. These master classes will be open to the public and will cover topics such as direction of photography, sound, audience analysis and festival strategy, distribution and access to TV channel platforms, among others. VP Code Lab, which will host the final residency, is a virtual production set which seeks with this initiative the dramatic application of new technologies.

Behind this incubator there is also The Troop Produces, a company dedicated to the production of cultural events. He has been in charge of the production of all editions of the Feroz Awards and is currently in charge of communication for the Mostra de València and the Almagro International Classical Theater Festival. Furthermore, in recent years it has launched several incubation and acceleration processes such as La Dinámica and La Probeta.