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RECLab Prizes ‘Face to Face,’ ‘Jone, Batzuetan,’ ‘Woman Bites Dog’ as the Spanish Program Launches Innovative Industry Initiatives
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Tarragona’s RECLab is broadening the festival industry forum experience, focusing on people and audiences.
Its prize, however, by most fest standards, is highly unusual: not cash nor in-kind services but a screening with a real public who answer a call of “Can You Keep a Secret?” attending without knowing what film they’ll see and leaving cell phones in the entrance. RECMatch teams indie creators, such as Burnin’ Percebes with project “Royal Films,” with mainstream actors looking to broaden their career: this year Alvaro Cervantes (“Crazy About Her”) and the now Madre-based Dominican Laura Gómez In “Josephine,” which world premiered at San Sebastian’s 2021 New Directors strand, Marco made a quietly affecting debut about the serendipitous encounter of two solitary souls delivered with a meticulously dowdy mise-en-scène, top-notch perfs and a measured screenplay.
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