The short film Baile con la muerte, directed by La Salle-URL alumni Carlota Massó, has been shortlisted in the Best Animated Short Film category at the 40th edition of the Goya Awards. Brooder Lab, the content and emerging talent incubator born on campus, produced the short in collaboration with La Salle-URL. The work was conceived by eleven alumni from the Bachelor in Animation & VFX at La Salle-URL: Berta Alsinet, Paula Anglas, Núria Aranda, Martina Berney, Joan Cortit, Laia Domene, David Martín, Carlota Massó, Roger Menta, Víctor Moya, and Gisela Torres.
“We’re among the fifteen best animated short films in Spain, and aspiring to a nomination is a dream. We’re going for it with great enthusiasm”, says José Luis Montesinos, Executive Producer of Brooder Lab alongside Sergi Vizcaíno. Meanwhile, Felix Balbas, Director of the Bachelor in Animation & VFX at La Salle-URL and one of the heads of Brooder Lab, explains that the recognition “is a proof of the outstanding quality of our students’ work. It’s an honor to see that both the teaching and the talent of our students in the Animation & VFX program are being recognized in this way.”
Baile con la muerte is one of the fifteen animated short films preselected for the 2026 Goya Awards, from which the final nominees will be announced in January, followed by the announcement of the winner during the 40th Goya Awards ceremony, to be held on February 28, 2026, at the Auditori del Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona.
The short film, produced by Brooder Lab and born in the classrooms of the campus, has achieved an impressive track record over two years, with 23 national and international awards, and has been selected in qualifying festivals for the Oscars, the Goya Awards, and the Méliès Awards. Baile con la muerte is a fantasy that explores themes of destiny, immortality, and rebellion. “The short tells us that everyone knows what it means to fall in love for the first time, except death”, summarizes José Luis Montesinos about the film.
