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Extraordinary TAI INCUBA

Feature film incubator for new perspectives

Call for applications from April 2 to May 4, 2025

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Call for applications

A program to promote new film talent committed to risk and creative experimentation

Call open between April 2 and May 4, 2025

TAI INCUBA is the new incubator for feature film projects born in TAI

  • We support and promote four projects a year (fiction, documentary, and experimental films).
  • We help you move from your creation and development to your future production and distribution process on the international contemporary film circuit.
  • We support them with consulting, mentoring, space and material resources, as well as financial resources to promote their project in international film laboratories and markets.
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Who is it for?

TAI INCUBA bets on new film talents whose gaze does not hesitate to take risks and explore aesthetics and narratives with which to connect with the public of the 21st century.

It is aimed at Producers, directors, screenwriters and creators from any background, both in the field of fiction like from the cinema documentary y experimental, with the aim of positioning itself in the international circuit of contemporary cinema.

Any questions about TAI Incuba do not hesitate to contact: tai.incuba@taiarts.com

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Program allocation

The selected projects will receive support and resources valued at a total of between 15.000€ y 20.000€ in the concept of:

  • Advice, mentoring with prestigious professionals, participation in workshops and master classes.
  • Provision of resources, equipment, and facilities (rehearsal rooms, studio sets, post-production and multimedia rooms) for the production of promotional materials (teasers, dossiers, brochures, etc.).
  • Specific funding of between €6.000 and €8.000 for the costs of producing promotional materials and for attending and participating in international laboratories, forums, and markets.
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advisors

The 1st Edition of TAI INCUBA will have the support and advice of filmmakers and professionals of international prestige such as Albert Serra, Lois Patiño, Valerie Delpierre or Robert Bahar, among others.

Photo by Albert Serra

Albert serra

Director, producer and screenwriter

Albert serra

Director, producer and screenwriter

Albert Serra is considered today one of the most important figures in contemporary cinema on an international scale.

His films have been recognized and awarded by top-tier festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival and the Locarno Film Festival. Since his debut, Honor of Cavalleria, which premiered at the Directors' Fortnight at Cannes and was considered one of the best films of the year by the prestigious French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Albert Serra has continually reinvented cinematic language with increasingly personal films such as Història de la meva mort in 2013 (awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival) or, more recently, Pacification (2022), which competed in the Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival and was chosen as the Best Film of the year, again by Cahiers du Cinéma.

His latest film, Tardes de Soledad, won the Golden Shell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival last year.
Photo by Alejandro del Pino

Lois patiño

Filmmaker and visual artist

Lois patiño

Filmmaker and visual artist

Lois Patiño is one of the most recognized figures in the current avant-garde cinema scene. Her audiovisual works, in feature-length and video installation formats, explore cultural and anthropological aspects through intimate and contemplative approaches, with a visual and pictorial sensibility. Her work has been exhibited and awarded at international film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Toronto, and Rotterdam.

Her films and video installations have also been shown at contemporary art centers such as MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, and MACBA, and at fairs such as ARCO, Estampa, Paris Photo, and the Aichi Triennale in Japan. In 2016, Harvard University awarded her the Robert Fulton III Fellowship, intended for emerging filmmakers "with an independent spirit, who explore diverse cultures with a profound aesthetic sensibility."

The reflection on death and the relationship with the afterlife in diverse cultures is present in several of his projects, such as his feature film 'Samsara' (2023, Special Jury Prize at the Berlinale) or 'Lúa vermella' (2020, Berlinale Forum).
Photo by Valerie Delpierre

Valerie Delpierre

Producer and executive producer

Valerie Delpierre

Producer and executive producer

Valérie Delpierre is one of the most active and recognized producers, both nationally and internationally, in her commitment to personal and innovative cinema.

In 2006, she founded the production company Inicia Films, where filmmakers of the stature of Carla Simón (Verano 1993, 2017 - Best First Film at the Berlinale and Goya Award for Best New Director) have found a space to flourish; Pilar Palomero (Las niñas, 2020 - winner of four Goya Awards, including Best Film; and Los Destellos, 2024 - Silver Shell for Best Performance at the San Sebastián Film Festival), Víctor Iriarte (Foremost by Night, 2023, which premiered at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice and won the Feroz Arrebato Award for Fiction) and Klaudia Reynicke (Reinas, 2024 - premiered at Sundance, Grand Prize in the Generation section of the Berlinale and audience award at the Locarno Film Festival).

His career is notable both for his international reach and for his attention to the sensitivity and talent of each filmmaker he works with.
Photo by Valerie Delpierre

Robert Bahar

Producer and director

Robert Bahar

Producer and director

Robert Bahar is an American producer and director specializing in the development and production of socially impactful documentary films with international reach. Along with Almudena Carracedo, he produced and directed the multi-award-winning "The Silence of Others" (2018), recognized at the Berlin Film Festival with the Panorama Audience Award, the Goya Award for Best Documentary Feature, the Grand Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and its Oscar shortlisting. He also produced "Made in LA" (2007), which won an Emmy Award.

His latest film as producer and director, "No está sola" (2024), received the DuPont-Columbia Award in New York and a Goya nomination for Best Documentary Feature, among other accolades. He has also been honored as a Creative Capital Fellow and a Sundance Documentary Fellow.

Project requirements

  1. They can be presented filmmakers (directors and producers) of any nationality and origin who reside in Spain during the months of development of the incubation program.
  2. The project must be presented by a creative team made up of at least a director and a producer.

    In the case of documentary or experimental projects, the option of being presented by a single person as director-producer may be considered.
  3. Projects must be first or second feature-length fiction films from the applicant director (they may have produced more than two documentary films previously).
  4. They can be presented projects that have already benefited from other programs incubation and development such as laboratories, residencies or international workshops.
  5. The projects They do not need to have confirmed financing neither for development nor for production.
  6. For feature-length fiction projects, it will be necessary to submit a fully developed version of the script (latest version available). In the case of documentary and/or experimental feature films, a treatment developed for the project.
  7. Projects submitted must be found in development phase (without having been filmed).

    In the case of documentary or experimental projects, projects that have already addressed the topic will be accepted. initial stages of filming or editing of raw materials.
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