Conecta Fiction: three intense days dedicated to promoting the co-production of fiction for television between Europe and America

There will be more than 25 meetings and round tables with top international professionals, who will debate and share their experiences around the world of creation, financing and production of television series.

Conecta Fiction, which will be held from June 20 to 23 in Santiago de Compostela, presents an extensive program focused on connecting professionals from Europe and America with the aim of promoting new fiction co-productions for television between both sides of the Atlantic.

Con 350 profesionales provenientes de 20 países de Europa, Estados Unidos y Latinoamérica, contará con la asistencia de productores, plataformas de OTT, inversores, creativos, distribuidores, guionistas y más de 35 canales internacionales de televisión. Además, está confirmada la participación de los principales grupos de TV de España: RTVE, Atresmedia, Mediaset, Movistar + y la colaboración de TVG (Televisión de Galicia) y del Grupo La Voz de Galicia.

Geraldine Gonard, director of Conecta Fiction, summarizes the objective of the international meeting: "We are pioneers and we have a priority objective which is to make it possible for professionals from both territories to make contact to generate joint projects. Professionals from Europe and America meet several times a year to buy and sell already produced content, but we want to be at a previous stage, at the origin of fiction content and for it to be born in co-production, this is the driving force of Conecta Fiction."

The event will open on the night of June 20 at the Auditorio de Galicia with a concert of original soundtracks from well-known television series performed by the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, under the direction of Geoffrey Styles.

International co-production

The world of co-production of fiction series for television will be discussed in depth and analyzed by prominent international speakers from all possible angles thanks to the 15 panels and round tables, 6 workshops and case studies, various sessions on financing and tax incentives, branded content, a live demonstration of the most advanced technology to capture and improve the audience and 2 pitching sessions to present 16 projects that aspire to find a co-production partner in Conecta Fiction.

Entre los panelistas están nombres como Pau Freixas, guionista, productor y director, España, Pablo Muñoz, Vicepresidente, de Branded Content Marketing Association, BCMA Spain, Presidente y CEO de la agencia de publicidad FCB , España; Kelly Wright, VP Distribution and New Business, Keshet International, Israel; Camila Misas, Vicepresidente Creativa , Sony Pictures Televisión, Estados Unidos; Julie Anthony, Commissioning editor, TF1, Francia; María Iregui, EVP Strategy, RCN, Colombia; Mariana Pérez, SVP Development & Production, Fox America Latina; Leonardo Aranguibel, Director of Production, Disney Media Distribution y Olivier Bibas, CoManaging Director, Atlantique Productions, Francia entre otros destacados ponentes internacionales.

Some of the star panels will be those dedicated to the presentation of the series The Cathedral of the Sea, based on the novel of the same name and international bestseller by Ildefonso Falcones, which will be attended by its executive producer Albert Sagalés, from Diagonal TV, and Ignacio Manubens, Deputy Director of Fiction, from Atresmedia Televisión; How to transform a literary work into a series without distorting the story and the characters? with the intervention of Roberto Ríos from HBO Latin America, Manuel Martí from Pol-ka Producciones, Argentina and Peter Nadermann from Nadcon Films, Germany and the case study of the co-production of Until I met you from BTF Mexico and Disney Media Distribution Latin America.

The Fiction Box

Con el objetivo de garantizar a los participantes la oportunidad de hacer contactos e iniciar conversaciones que hagan nacer proyectos en común, se ha creado la Caja de Ficción, denominación que integra una plataforma de matchmaking online para la búsqueda y la presentación de proyectos de ficción y que será también la denominación de la zona de reuniones one-to–one de la Ciudad de la Cultura.

The web del evento dispone de una herramienta online especialmente concebida para solicitar y cerrar reuniones entre los participantes y gestionar su agenda durante Conecta Fiction según los intereses específicos de cada profesional.

Proyección de series internacionales

The Conecta Fiction screenings will allow us to highlight the quality and attractiveness of international series produced on both sides of the Atlantic. The screenings will take place in the daytime session on June 21 and at night on June 21 and 22.

Within the special program dedicated to Argentina as a Country of Honor, Lost Identity, a police thriller series created by Nacho Viale and Diego Palacio, produced by Story Lab and Kapow, will be screened in Stockholm daytime, the first Argentine series released globally – with a world premiere – on the Netflix digital platform. At night and completing the screenings dedicated to Argentina, the screenings of A Rooster for Aesculapius el miércoles 21 de Junio en el Teatro Principal de Santiago a la que asistirán los productores de la serie Gonzalo Armendares de Underground TV y Guillermo H. Borensztein de Telefe Argentina y La Fragilidad de los Cuerpos el jueves 22 de junio en el Salón Teatro a la que igualmente asistirán sus coproductores Manuel Martí de Pol-Ka producciones y Marcelo Tamburri de Turner Argentina.

With 52 fiction series formats sold for international adaptation, in 2014 Argentina became the third exporting country in the world in this concept only behind the United Kingdom and the United States and ahead of Spain, which ranked fourth according to the report carried out by the consulting firm specialized in the audiovisual sector, The Wit.

The program dedicated to Argentina will include an overview of its audiovisual industry and several sessions that will allow for an in-depth analysis of all co-production opportunities with this country and a meeting between Argentine and French production companies with the Galician Audiovisual Cluster (CLAG), in addition to series screenings that will allow participants in Conecta Fiction to see some of the most recent Argentine fiction productions for the first time in Europe.

Conecta Fiction es el primer evento internacional dedicado exclusivamente a la coproducción de series de ficción para televisión entre Europa, Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos de habla hispana. La primera edición se celebrará en Santiago de Compostela entre los días 20 y 23 de junio, está organizado por la Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (AGADIC) de la Xunta de Galicia, ICEX España Exportación e Inversiones, la Fundación SGAE, y producido por Inside Content.

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