IN-EDIT LAB: TALENT LABORATORY
In-Edit LAB is the Festival’s programme dedicated to supporting emerging talent and professional development within the field of music documentary. Its main goal is to strengthen the training of new creators and boost documentary production, establishing it as one of the pillars of the Catalan and Spanish audiovisual sector.
The programme includes a range of educational and professional activities in collaboration with other local stakeholders, such as specialised workshops, masterclasses, talks, project pitch sessions, and networking events between professionals from the music and audiovisual industries. These initiatives are designed to foster networking, mentorship, and the development of audiovisual projects, contributing to their quality and competitiveness.
Under the In-Edit LAB umbrella, the programme also promotes labs and residencies conceived as spaces for intensive support for creators and production companies. These initiatives focus on refining selected projects and encouraging cross-sector collaboration.
Through this initiative, In-Edit Festival reaffirms its commitment to promoting local talent and fostering industry growth by creating a hub for professional exchange and consolidating the music documentary as a key genre within the audiovisual landscape.
1. YOUNG TALENT
Talent / Acció>Cinema
As part of the Acció>Cinema programme, a workshop focused on the creation of musical documentary short films is organised for young people aged between 18 and 25. The workshop includes training sessions on screenwriting, managing music rights in audiovisual works, and exploring social and gender-related topics, as well as practical filming sessions and the final presentation of the documentaries within the In-Edit Festival programme. The initiative promotes audiovisual storytelling as a tool for social transformation, aiming to foster a more critical, committed, co-responsible citizenry that defends human rights.
Acció>Cinema is an initiative led by Catalunya Film Festivals, in collaboration with the Agència Catalana de Cooperació al Desenvolupament of the Departament d’Acció Exterior i Unió Europea, and in alliance with Lafede.cat. This project is made possible thanks to the support of the Departament de Cultura and is also carried out in collaboration with the audiovisual festival Reteena, AVisual, and Festival Cruïlla.
Pantalla en viu
In-Edit welcomes participants of Pantalla en Viu, an initiative that offers a first professional experience to newly graduated students in the audiovisual field.
This project is driven by the Clúster Audiovisual de Catalunya as a strategic line to support emerging talent, in collaboration with 3Cat.
Contraplà
In-Edit organises audiovisual and collective creation workshops aimed at children and teenagers aged between 10 and 17, from neighbourhoods participating in the Barris i comunitats, motors de transformació social project in the province of Barcelona.
The main goal is the production of short films by the participants themselves—children and young people living in complex social environments—offering them the opportunity to become creative agents, guided by professionals from the film industry. In 2025, In-Edit Festival worked with children and teenagers from the Sant Cosme neighbourhood in El Prat de Llobregat.
Contraplà is a programme designed to integrate cultural policies with the fight against poverty and inequality during childhood and adolescence. It acknowledges the transformative power of culture and creativity in promoting effective access to and full participation in the social and cultural life of citizens, especially children and teenagers in vulnerable situations.
This is a project led by Catalunya Film Festivals, with the support of the Diputació de Barcelona through the Àrea de Sostenibilitat Social, Cicle de Vida i Comunitat of the Departament de Cultura. The programme has been resumed in 2025 with a commitment to continuity. In-Edit Festival workshops are coordinated by the team from the audiovisual festival Reteena.
2. INDUSTRY
Professional Meetings
Individual meetings are organised between audiovisual production companies and musicians and/or artist representatives to foster new partnerships and encourage the production of Catalan music documentaries. This initiative is organised in collaboration with Pro-Docs, the Documentary Producers Association, and the Mercat de Música Viva de Vic. The production companies participating in 2025 had been: Minoria Absoluta, Nanouk Films, Del Barrio, BAS Broadcaster, Playlab, La Manchester, Digital Films, Vampire, and In-Edit Films.
Professional Sessions
As part of In-Edit Festival’s professional programme, a Switch Session will be held — a free training session co-organised with the Audiovisual Cluster of Catalonia. In 2025, the session had been led by Joan Rosés, editor of the Observatori Switch, and it’s been focus on documentary archiving and audiovisual creation using artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
Boost to Internationalization
The In-Edit Festival will become a connecting bridge between local talent and film festivals around the world, opening up new visibility opportunities for our creators. In 2025, a collaboration has been established with the FIC Guadalajara International Film Festival: its professional market hosted a documentary supported by In-Edit to promote its international distribution and exposure.
3. PARALLEL ACTIVITIES
Every year, In-Edit Festival organises educational activities open to the general public as part of its programme, with the aim of offering new learning opportunities and cross-disciplinary experiences that provide a broader perspective on music documentaries.
You will find the full schedule of parallel activities in the In-Edit Festival programme.
Partners of In-Edit Lab
