BrLab is an annual event dedicated to the audiovisual market, with training initiatives through anddifferent simultaneous workshops and laboratories aimed at prospective films in the development, financing and editing stages.
Held since 2011, BrLab receives projects from all over Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula and Italy and promotes multiple workshops and international meetings, including development, editing and coproduction workshops, as well as several activities open to the public such as panels, seminars and debates, which take place in person and are also live streamed in order to promote the event’s democratization and accessibility. BrLabs main objective is to contribute to stimulate and enrich the creative and economic development of the audiovisual industry, accelerating talents and projects through its different activities, as well as the articulating professionals from different countries and industry audiovisual sectors.
In addition to the main event, BrLab also promotes regional activities in different states of Brazil, publications, and initiatives in partnership with renowned institutions.
The 14th edition of BrLab will take place from October 1st to 7th, 2024, in São Paulo.
In 2024, BrLab presents:
- BrLab Features, aimed at the development of fiction projects selected through open submissions.
- Audience Design Workshop, organized in partnership with Projeto Paradiso to promote debates on audience design for projects supported by the institution.
- BrLab Rough Cut, for films in the editing stage.
- São Paulo Locarno Industry Academy: in partnership with the Locarno Film Festival, focused on training sales professionals.
- BrPlot: Lectures and seminars on creative audiovisual departments in partnership with ABRA – Brazilian Association of Screenwriters.
- Reach: encounter on audiovisual audience design with public debates.
- Film and Sustainability Cycle: a series of activities on sustainable industry practices, including panels open to the public.
- BrLab CoPro: international coproduction meeting.
Check out the films that have previously participated in BrLab events and have been released in theaters!
In 2024, BrLab is a project carried out by Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual, thanks to the co-sponsorship of Projeto Paradiso, Spcine, and the Secretaria de Cultura Municipal de São Paulo, as well as the Ibermedia Program. It has support from the Cinemateca Brasileira, Sociedade Amigos da Cinemateca, Instituto Cervantes, Embassy of Spain in Brazil, Embassy of France in Brazil, Vitrine Filmes and its Manequim label. It also has partnerships with the Industry Academy and Open Doors programs of the Locarno Film Festival, Torino Film Lab, Cinéma en Développement of the Latin American Film Festival of Toulouse, PopUp Film Residency, EAVE – European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, and Bogotá Audiovisual Market. It has the institutional collaboration of ABRA, APAN, API, Programa Cinema do Brasil, SIAESP – Sindicato da Indústria Audiovisual do Estado de São Paulo, Cinema Verde and + Mulheres, with media partnerships from LatAm Cinema, Revista de Cinema and Imprensa Mahon. Achievement: Klaxon Cultura Audiovisual.
More information on BrLab 2024 soon.
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