Evolution Mallorca Revives Script Lab Pitch Event — SkimNews
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- Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (Oct. 28 – Nov. 4) is reviving its Evolution Pitch event for its 15th edition, giving seven Script Lab projects five minutes each to pitch to international film professionals, producers, directors, and financiers.
- Sandra Lipski, the festival's founder, said she was inspired to reinstate the pitch after attending Portugal's Fest – New Directors/New Films Festival over the summer, with seven projects chosen from Script Lab submissions that met specific deck and readiness requirements.
- Two-time Academy Award-winning producer Kim Magnusson ('I'm Not a Robot,' 'Helium') sits on a jury alongside 'Sirāt' producer Xavi Font, director Russell Goldman ('Sender'), writer-director Gabriela Ortega ('Marga en el DF'), former Mallorca Film Commission director Pedro Barbadillo, Largo.ai CEO Sami Arpa, and 'Turkish for Beginners' director Bora Dagtekin.
- The winning project receives a one-year subscription to Largo.ai, with Lipski framing the pitch as an opportunity for filmmakers 'ready to shoot their next feature' to connect with established industry figures for development, financing, and co-production.
- Lipski identified a 'nostalgia' theme running through selected projects, saying storytellers are 'reverting to more nostalgic storytelling' — simple relationship and family stories — after years saturated with future-focused narratives and the AI boom.
- The pitching slate spans a queer Western ('Camino'), an Atlantic rowing drama ('Under the Same Sky'), a Mallorca-set Agatha Christie mystery ('No Shade at Noon'), an animated war film about a girl who becomes butterflies ('Flutter'), and a daughter-father grief drama ('Demasiado Lejos').
Why it matters: The revival gives seven emerging filmmakers a direct line to financiers and producers — including a two-time Oscar winner — during a five-minute pitch window, with the winning project taking home a one-year Largo.ai subscription. Lipski's 'nostalgia' observation also signals a tonal shift toward intimate family and grief stories among international indie writers after two years of AI and future-focused screenwriting.
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