‘Águila Roja’ and ‘Cuéntame como paso’, from TVE, awarded at the FyMTI in Buenos Aires

‘Águila Roja’ wins the award for Best Director. 'Tell me how it happened', one of TVE's longest-running series, wins the award in the Best Script category.

Two of TVE's most successful series have been awarded at the FyMTI in Buenos Aires, Red Eagle y Tell me how it happened. This is a festival that annually recognizes the best international fiction series and has just celebrated its third edition.

Águila Roja, directed by José Ramón Ayerra, Arantxa Écija, Marco A. Castillo, Marc Vigil and Miguel Alcantud, has won the Best Direction Award at the FyMTI (International Fiction TV Festival and Market). The fiction tells the story of the apparently peaceful teacher Gonzalo de Montalvo who decides to take action after the murder of his wife under strange circumstances. This leads him to live a double life, a teacher by day and a secret hero when night falls.

The series, starring David Janer, Myriam Gallego, Inma Cuesta and Francis Lorenzo, ended its fourth season in January and obtained excellent audience results with an average of 5,798,000 viewers and a 29.3% audience share. It was the leader of its broadcast slot in all its installments and 12 of the 18 episodes broadcast reached or exceeded 6 million viewers. TVE will broadcast the fifth installment of the series throughout this season.

For its part, Tell me how it happened, one of TVE's longest-running series and which has also achieved great audience success throughout its thirteen seasons, has won the Best Screenplay Award at this Buenos Aires festival. The script is the responsibility of Eduardo Ladrón de Guevara, Jacobo Delgado, Curro Royo, Carlos Molinero, Sonia Sánchez, Alberto Macías and Marisol Farré.

Starring Imanol Arias, Ana Duato, Pilar Punzano, Pablo Rivero, Ricardo Gómez and María Galiana, among many other actors, it begins in April 1968 and draws a portrait of contemporary Spain through a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, who live day by day the transformation of Franco's Spain into a modern democracy. Throughout its 10 years of broadcast, it has won dozens of awards inside and outside Spain, becoming a benchmark for quality independent production.

The FyMTI, which has held its third edition in Buenos Aires, is an Ibero-American event dedicated to content, formats and production services for television fiction in which three parts come together: a festival with audiovisual samples and awards, a market with exchange and business rounds, and a forum with round tables and master classes.