Basque Talent Day Spotlights New Generation With Jiu-Jitsu Drama, LSD Nuns and a Ukulele

By Callum McLennan

Callum McLennan

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Zineuskadi’s Talentuaren Gunea, the Basque Country’s emerging talent showcase, returned May 29 with a slate pointing to a new generation of creators thinking beyond graduation shorts towards series, genre, animation IP and international industry routes.

Staged as a Talent Day connecting film schools, training programs, producers and market professionals, the event served as a live stress test for early-stage projects. Students and young filmmakers pitched before a fiction jury comprising Pedro Andrade of Lab Barcelona, Manuel Lacasa of Abycine Lanza and Filmin programmer Elody Mellado.

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