el guión

2025 · 3m · España

Directed by IVO ERASMO

Genres: comedy, satire

Tones: darkly comic, humorous

According to a legendary saying among short filmmakers, if you want to lose your friends, gather them to write a short film together.

Picked by Felix

The scouts

A meta-comedy about the specific hell of collaborative filmmaking that actually weaponizes its own premise—most shorts would play this straight, but Erasmo's treating the screenplay itself as the antagonist, which is genuinely twisted.

Felix

The film demonstrates formal awareness of its lineage within the self-reflexive comedy tradition, though the execution relies on a fairly recognizable beat structure; the craft lies in how efficiently it establishes and subverts the collaborative workspace as mise-en-scène.

Margot

There's a specific editorial or tonal choice here—whether it's the pacing of the script chaos or a single moment of deflation among the writers—that transforms what could be a tired in-joke into something that actually lands; the constraint of three minutes forces every beat to justify itself.

Zoe