With Midnight at the Barn, we want to support filmmakers who turn their dreams into moving images, even when those dreams are uncomfortable, fragile, or feel like nightmares. We are inspired by filmmakers and artists who use montage, juxtaposition, sound, and storytelling to create new meanings and emotional truths. We are drawn to films that show what happens beneath the surface: the internal, political, emotional, and invisible realities of people. Films, that rather than draw conclusion set in stone, instead, continue to think out loud.

We are open to different ways of producing films — one that challenges traditional systems of financing and filmmaking, films that do not easily fit within existing structures or market expectations and take creative risks in search of a new cinematic language, or that try to reinvent existing ones. We believe imagination protects freedom, especially in a world where systems constantly try to reduce, simplify, or control it.

Because of our personal histories and heritage, we feel strongly connected to Latin America, Spain, and the Netherlands. We strongly believe in international collaboration in filmmaking, bringing together different cultures, languages, and ways of thinking. Through this, we hope to help close the gap between film markets and financing across borders.