Seguir Cantando — A Short Film

Seguir Cantando is an independent short film we are preparing to shoot in Madrid this summer. This Verkami campaign will help us secure a crucial part of the financing and give the shoot and post-production the care this story requires.

The project already has a solid production base, our own team, and a clear plan in motion, but we need this final push to cover essential costs such as cast and crew, production, locations, sound, post-production, and festival distribution.

Lucas has raised his daughter Sofía on his own. Together, they have built a life shaped by routines, games, songs, and small everyday rituals — held together by the bond between two people who have learned how to carry each other.

But when Lucas receives a serious diagnosis, the fragile balance he has worked so hard to build begins to fall apart.

How do you prepare a daughter for the possibility of loss without taking her childhood away too soon?

Seguir Cantando is a short film about cancer, fatherhood, and the need to protect joy even when the future is no longer guaranteed.

We don’t want to tell a story about illness. We want to tell a story about everyday love: the small gestures that hold a relationship together and that, sometimes without realizing it, become the most meaningful way of caring for someone.

Lucas is not a hero or a martyr. He is someone trying to let his daughter remain a child while carrying a fear he doesn’t know how to name. To us, that is far more compelling than any overstated drama.

This film speaks to something universal: the fear of not being there for the people we love.

And to something deeply specific: what we do with love when we can no longer guarantee the future.

Seguir Cantando was born from a desire to explore fatherhood from an unusual place: fragility. Not through heroism or epic sacrifice, but through the intimate fear that appears when someone depends entirely on our being there.

The film does not focus on illness as its central conflict, but on everything that happens around it: how the way you look at your daughter changes, how every gesture takes on a different weight when time is no longer something you can count on.

I want to observe that transformation with restraint, avoiding emotional overstatement and trusting the power of silences, glances, and small shared rituals.

The parallel between Sofia’s birth and Lucas’s possible absence is not meant to heighten the drama, but to remind us that every bond begins with a silent promise: TO BE THERE.

Between a first cry and the uncertainty of an operating room, the film traces an arc that is not about death, but about presence.

This is a story about how to keep living when fear moves in. About how to hold on to joy in the middle of uncertainty. About the conscious decision to keep singing, even when the future trembles.

The total budget of Seguir Cantando is higher than the goal of this campaign. We have already secured part of the financing through our own contributions and private support. However, we still need one key final piece in order to complete the project with the care and guarantees it deserves.

The €8,000 raised will go towards: cast and crew, production and logistics, art direction, wardrobe and makeup, on-set sound, original music, editing, colour grading, sound design, DCP, and festival distribution.

Every contribution brings us closer to shooting this story with the care it needs.

• Shoot: Week of July 20th.

• Post-production: August–September.

• Premiere: October.

• Reward delivery: October–December.

• Digital thank-you: We’ll send you a personalised thank-you that you can share however you like. A small but meaningful way to leave your mark on the project.

• Access to exclusive updates: Throughout the shoot and post-production process, we’ll keep you updated from the inside: production decisions, images from set, editing updates. Content we won’t share anywhere else.

• Exclusive online screening before the premiere: Before the short film is released publicly, backers will receive a private link to watch it first. One date, one link, and the film just for you.

• Digital copy of the script: The full script of Seguir Cantando in PDF format, with a note from the director. A real working document, not a promotional version.

• Invitation to the Madrid premiere: One ticket to the official screening of Seguir Cantando in Madrid, planned for October 2025. The moment the film meets the world for the first time.

• Your name in the credits: Your name will appear in the short film’s credits, permanently. Depending on your contribution level, the credit will be standard, featured, associate producer, or sponsor.

• Online meeting with the team: A video call with the Seguir Cantando team to talk about the process, the creative decisions, and anything you’d like to ask. No script, no presentation: a real conversation.

• Invitation to a day on set: You’ll join us on set for one of the shooting days. You’ll see how the team works, how a scene is built, and how the story comes to life. Very limited spots available.

Seguir Cantando is a co-production between Alpha Producciones and Jarana Films, two independent Madrid-based production companies joining forces around a story that matters to us.

ALPHA PRODUCCIONES specialises in fiction with a strong focus on performance, an author-driven approach, and optimised production models.

It has produced more than 950 narrative micro-projects, amounting to over 70 hours of original footage and more than 5,500 pages of screenplay brought to the screen, consolidating extensive experience in production, directing actors, and post-production.

It has also collaborated with Nostromo Pictures on a TV show selected for Ventana Cinemad, where it won the Best TV Show Award.

Its work has received more than 160 official selections and 19 awards at film festivals.

JARANA FILMS focuses on developing projects that combine an authorial voice, creative identity, and a strong sense of entertainment.

It has produced short films with institutional and festival recognition, including El Relevo, Open Mic, Leonardo, Una conversación pendiente, and La Garita, selected at festivals such as Málaga, San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival, SIFF Seattle, Calgary Underground, Fantaspoa, Alicante, FICCUE, and Almagro, while also receiving international awards and selections.

In feature films, it has co-produced Dante, alongside HBO Max, directed by Hugo Ruiz and starring Chino Darín, Ester Expósito, Enrique Arce, Vicente Romero, and Asier Etxeandía, awaiting its premiere in the official selection of the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival.

Jarana Films continues to establish itself as an emerging production company with international ambition and a clear commitment to high-quality projects.

To say that we want to make this film with the care it deserves. No shortcuts, no rush — with the team, time, and conditions needed to let the story breathe.

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