How Six Students at Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra Made Tender San Sebastián Drama ‘The Imminent Age’ in Under a Year

Six young students met at Barcelona’s prestigious Pompeu Fabra University and realized they worked well together. The result of that synergy is Col·lectiu Vigília, formed by Clara Serrano Llorens, Gerard Simó Gimeno, Laura Corominas Espelt, Ariadna Ulldemolins Abad, Laura Serra Solé and Pau Vall Capdet. In defiance of the industry’s usually glacial pace for debuts, the collective makes its first feature outing with a graduation project turned festival hit in “The Imminent Age.”

Playing at the Made in Spain sidebar at the San Sebastián Film Festival, “The Imminent Age” is an intimate look at the life of soon-to-be 18-year-old Bruno (Miquel Mas Martínez), whose youthful impulses and longings stand in contradiction to the responsibility of being the sole carer for his ailing 86-year-old grandmother, Nati (Antonia Fernández Mir). The film has been nominated for best new director at the Gaudí Awards, received the best Spanish Screenplay Award at the Gijón Festival,…