VIFF, Málaga Film Festival Launch Emerging Filmmaker Exchange

By Katherine Brodsky

Katherine Brodsky

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The Vancouver International Film Festival’s Institute for the Moving Image has announced a new partnership with Spain’s Málaga Film Festival to launch an exchange between their respective emerging-talent programs – the Málaga Talent program and VIFF Catalyst.

The first filmmaker selected from this year’s Catalyst participants is Diego Minor Martínez, a Mexico-born filmmaker who is now based in Vancouver. The Málaga Talent’s program is aimed at filmmakers under 30 and is conducted in Spanish. Martínez will travel to Spain to participate early next year, while a participant from Málaga Talent’s 2027 cohort will come to Vancouver for Catalyst later that year. There’s no age limit for Catalyst.

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