The seven selected projects range from a queer Western to an animated war film This year’s Evolution Mallorca, held on the Spanish island between Oct. 28 and NoV. 4, is bringing back Evolution Pitch, the pitching component of its Script Lab program as part of the festival’s 15th edition. Each selected project has five minutes to present to a panel of international film professionals, including producers, directors, and financiers. The event opens doors to development, financing, co-production, and industry support.
The winning project receives a one-year subscription to Largo.ai. The pitch jury is composed of two-time Academy Award-winning producer Kim Magnusson (“I’m Not a Robot,” “Helium”), whose film “Family” is screening at the festival; “Sirāt” producer Xavi Font; director Russell Goldman, who’s also in Mallorca with “Sender;” writer-director Gabriela Ortega (“Huella”), screening “Marga en el DF” at the festival; producer and former director of the Mallorca Film Commission Pedro Barbadillo; founder and CEO of Largo.ai Sami Arpa and screenwriter and director Bora Dagtekin (“Turkish for Beginners”). There are certain guidelines you need when presenting your film to Oscar-winning producers.” Lipski was inspired to bring the pitch back to Evolution after participating in the pitching session at Portugal’s Fest – New Directors/New Films Festival.
I felt like I needed to bring it back to Mallorca.” “And we had so many great Script Lab submissions, so we felt we wanted to use what we already had and amplify it,” highlights Lipski, who says a “nostalgia” theme has emerged among selected projects. We have advanced so much in the last two years, with the whole AI boom, that I am seeing storytellers revert to more nostalgic storytelling, a lot of simple relationship and family stories. It’s like going back to the roots of what really matters, which I think is really beautiful.” From a queer Western to an animated war film, see a full list of pitching projects at Evolution Mallorca’s Script Lab below: “No Shade at Noon,” written by Sheila Pye and Ally MackieA screenwriter retreats to a secluded Mallorcan monastery in search of inspiration and uncovers Agatha Christie’s forgotten journey during her famous 1926 disappearance.
As both women seek solace in the island’s haunting legends, their stories intertwine across time, revealing how betrayal and creativity can lead to murder under the Mediterranean sun. Pye is a Canadian filmmaker based in Mallorca. When Ifa, a gender-fluid cowboy, arrives looking for work, everything shifts.
After a violent standoff forces them out, the two set off across the badlands, and what began as an escape becomes a dangerous test of loyalty, desire, and how far they’ll go for each other. Fazio is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker who attended EMIFF last year with her short film “Scene House.” This is her first feature script. Weeks in, exhausted and stripped down to instinct, they spot a migrant boat from West Africa drifting on the horizon.
Two very different odysseys collide in a story about endurance, privilege, and our shared humanity. Rose is a British actress and filmmaker who grew up in Mallorca. A fresh start seems possible, until Julia realises her father isn’t the man she remembered.
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