Telefónica Studios will celebrate its first anniversary in San Sebastián

Movistar TV, which has developed the official application with all the news of the film exhibition in real time, will be the official sponsor of the 62nd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival.

For the second consecutive year, Movistar TV is the official sponsor of the 62nd edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival (September 19-27), which is why it has launched several actions related to the event. Specifically, it has developed the official application of the Festival, it will organize the debate together with the BirraSeries forum The false border between cinema and television series and will carry out a solidarity action related to football in support of acute leukemia research.

Furthermore, within the framework of the Festival, Telefónica Studios will celebrate its anniversary. In its first year of operation, the Telefónica production company has become one of the main production companies in Latin America and Spain with titles among which stand out football by Juan José Campanella, Grand Piano by Eugenio Mira or the animated success The Adventures of Tadeo Jones, as well as the television series Isabel y Victor Ros. Among its upcoming releases are Torrente 5: Operation Eurovegas, Palm Trees in the Snow o Regression, by Alejandro Amenábar. Wild Tales, a co-production of Telefónica Studios through Telefé together with El Deseo, will be present in the “Pearls” section of the Festival.

On the other hand, Movistar TV has designed and developed the official Festival application, free and available in three languages ​​(English, Basque and Spanish) on the three main application platforms (App Store, Windows Phone and Google Play). In it you can find the news and all the current events of the contest, with videos of the day, photo galleries, trailers and promotional clips, in addition to the programming and detailed information on the films of this 62nd edition. Likewise, the application allows you to mark programming preferences as favorites, comment on movies and share content on social networks.

Movistar TV, together with the BirraSeries forum, will also organize the round table The false border between cinema and television series, which will bring together bloggers and journalists specialized in television series on September 20 at 8:00 p.m. at Espacio Keler (Paseo Ramón MªLili, nº2).

The participants will be the journalists Mariló García (head of the series section of the magazine Cinemanía and author of the blog Yonomeaburro), Diego del Pozo (head of R&D Fiction at Atresmedia Televisión and author of Carrusel de Series), Alberto Rey (author of the blog Asesino en Series of the newspaper El Mundo), Miriam Lagoa (Movistar TV and head of the blogs Seriéfilos in Eldiario.es and En Terra de Series in Terra) and will be moderated by Alberto Nahum García (professor of Audiovisual Communication at the University of Navarra and author of the blog Diamantes en Serie). During the debate, which is open to the public, questions will be discussed such as: Are television series still the little sister of cinema or is it true that the best cinema can now be found in television series? What does cinema have to learn from TV and vice versa? What are the reasons for the rise of miniseries? Are they 10-hour movies or a new way of making fiction on television?