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David Caiña Depicts ‘Shameful, Tragic, Gruesome’ Adolescence During the Basque Conflict in ‘Makarras’
The concept will be presented to industry professionals as part of Conecta Fiction & Entertainment's SGAE Foundation pitch event.
It’s 1996 in Bilbao, and adolescent strife reaches a crescendo in David Caiña’s series concept, “ Outcasts ” (“Makarras”), attending Spain’s Conecta Fiction& Entertainment Market to pitch to industry leaders as part of the SGAE Foundation selections slated for presentation. Caiña’s previous project, “Past Imperfecto,” developed through SAGE’s Comedy Film Screenplay Writing Laboratory, was a finalist of Ventana Sur’s 2023 Tinta Oscura. His short films have sailed through the festival circuit to acclaim; he concludes that “In the Basque Country, in Spain and the south of France, we lived through a shameful, tragic and gruesome conflict which lasted too long.
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