Oct 5, 2023

Alberto Vazquez-s-Decorado-Headlines Impressive Spanish projects line up in the word market in Valencia.

Weird Market (formerly 3D Wire) is Spain's leading animated pitching and networking event, which celebrated its 15th anniversary in Valencia last weekend.

We were there and caught all of this year's pitching sessions. Below we've spotlighted 12 that stood out from this year's crop.

Format: Feature

Director: Alberto Vázquez

Producer: Uniko, Abano Produciones, Glow Animation Studio, Sardinha em Lata

Spanish film director Alberto Vázquez has written and directed the film Birdboy: The Forgotten Children and Unicorn Wars, and the short film Birdboy, Unicorn Blood, Homeless Home, and He wrote and directed "Decorado." Both of his previous features were based on shorts, which were based on cartoons, and Vasquez has replicated that cycle in his latest project, Decorado, a 2d animated comedy about a mouse experiencing a duel existential and relationship crisis.

Format: Short

Director: Bea Lema

Producer: Uniko, Abano Produción

Adapted from the cartoon of the same name, this 2d short story tells the story of Adela, who suffers from a psychiatric crisis caused by historical abuse that she does not recognize as such. Instead, she believes demons are the root cause of her problems and is turning to religion to remedy them. The filmmaker cites the sxsw Audience Award-winning Columbia short "Viral Tropical" as a significant influence on her film.

Format: Short

Director: Daniela Cuenca

Producer: Saltarinas

One of the few documentary projects in this year's Strange, Cuidadoras tells the story of a Latin American immigrant who moves to Spain and works as a caregiver for the elderly. You can do it. Thousands of these workers exist in Spain and they have created a complex network that allows them to help others in similar situations. Cuidadoras feature 2d animations that are often superimposed on real photos of the house or neighborhood where the caregiver is working. The creators said that shorts such as Love, dad and Carnet had a great influence on their films.

Format: Series

Director: Adrián Andújar, José Antonio Vaca

Producer: José Antonio Vaca

The word dibus is a playful way of referring to drawings that are often applied to children's artwork. This is the appropriate title for this series, which is half produced in cg and half produced in 2d crayon drawings and is intended for preschool audiences. In the show, the real world of the protagonist Nico is featured in vivid cg animation, but when the boy starts drawing, he turns into a 2d hand-drawn world where anything is possible.This show is produced from an emerging Spanish animation hub in the Canary Islands.

Format: Short

Director: Valle Comba

Producer: Zampanú Producciones

Aimed at teenage audiences, Anaglifo is a thoughtful rumination about mental health and depression. The protagonist of the short, Violeta, often struggles to make it through some days, while others are a breeze. The film is painted in blue and red, like old-fashioned 3d glasses, and shows how Violeta sees the world in extremes.

Format: Short

Director: Marc Tris, Khris Cembe

Producer: Hampa Studio

The presenter of Cornelius presents two projects from the same IP, a new comic and animated 2d animation and a stop-motion animation. This short film, which mixes animation and animation, is an often absurd story about Cornelius, a dog struggling to tell a psychologist the truth about his relationship with the frog Avalutsa.

Format: Featured

Directors: Alex Cervantes, Anthony Christophe

Producer: Hampa Studios

One of the more commercially viable pitches in this year's Weird is Hampa Studios' Grandma Pirate, a fun, comic-book movie. It was a family-friendly adventure featuring characters and lush fantasy backgrounds. In the film, brother and sister discover that their grandmother is a legendary pirate and begin an epic G-rated adventure. The bright and colorful pitch gave the impression that Granny Pirate, if successful, could launch a franchise similar to Spanish Tadeo Jones.

Format: Series

Director: José Garnelo

Producer: José Garnelo

This 2d fantasy series, Garnelo's long-time passion project, is aimed at YA audiences, but doesn't shy away from touching adult themes and situations. You will not have to worry about it. It turns a group of three friends who live in a small town to visit the nearby Sky Plaza, a huge building where each floor is its own world. Given the nature of the setting of the series, the possibilities for storytelling are almost endless.

Format: Webseries

Director: Alex Ray

Producer: Mirachechu Productions

Saturday Sabadete probably threw at the Spanish event Most Spanish borrowed heavily from Netflix's Bojack Horseman, the modern series is the most popular in Spain. That is, more or less, Saturday's Sabadete is loaded with references to Spanish pop culture, which turns the protagonist of an anthropomorphic animal from a 1980s family sitcom trying to recapture stardom, and definitely not co-starring the brain in a bottle- wink, wink・ former dictator Francis Coquelin. co-Franco. Creator, writer, director and animator Alex Ray has already produced a full 25・minute pilot and is looking for a partner to finish the 10-episode season.

Format: Short

Director: Pablo Rio

Producer: Pablo Rio

This year's last pitch of the strange market was undoubtedly its most energetic. The film's creative team, dressed in Nine, took to the stage with unparalleled volume and enthusiasm over the weekend to applaud the virtues of their throwback animated short Funnie Fantasies: "Some Chu Chu like it." Featuring rubber hose animations, antics action sequences, and plenty of typical cartoon characters, the short features of all ages were shared and the audience stitched between the pitches they suspect a short animatic.

Format: Short

Director: Miguel Medrano Malo, Lucia San Pedro

Producer: Miguel Medrano Malo

A bored priest in a small Spanish village wants to host a funeral. Unfortunately for him, no one has died in Pueblo for 100 years. Is there a corpse in the house characterized by 2d painterly characters whose facial features are sketched with thick black lines superimposed on top of a photo of a real Spanish village? Pitch as the Transmedia project, it is developed for distribution on social media platforms.

Format: Special Feature

Director: Luis Uson Perez

Producer: Luis Uson-Perez

Set in a family theme park called Pinkland, think of it as a giant Disneyland that fell in the middle of a dystopian wasteland - this adult-only feature features a violent horror story about two children from a slum trapped in what should be the happiest place on Earth. It's a great place to start. Instead, the iconic animatronic pink bear that roams the park turns into evil and begins to slaughter whatever moves. Uson shared an ongoing clip of a dark comedy thriller in which everyone in the room was holding their breath and laughing loudly in the same part.