'Rodando Páginas' presents the 14 finalist works of its first edition

This initiative is conceived as an annual event in which editors and literary agents seeking new avenues of exploitation and income for their works can meet with audiovisual producers in search of new content and new ideas for their projects.

This Monday, January 29, the fourteen literary works selected as finalists of the first edition of Rolling Pages, books go to screens, the initiative to unite the audiovisual and publishing industries promoted by the Madrid Audiovisual Association (OR) and the Federation of Editors' Guilds of Spain (FGEE), with the support of the Community of Madrid and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and the collaboration of the Casa del Lector, the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation, the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain and the International Book Fair (LIBER).

These fourteen finalist works have been selected by a expert committee among the 89 proposals presented as those with the greatest potential to be adapted to different audiovisual formats.

Once the participating titles have been made public, the dissemination period among audiovisual producers begins, as well as the personalized advice that the finalists will have for the public presentation of their works, which will take place on March 1 at the Casa del Lector in Madrid. A presentation that will be complemented by individual meetings between producers and adaptation rights holders.

In this same period, the edition of a catalog with the selected projects will also be prepared, which will soon be available at www.rodandopaginas.com and the registration period to attend the event opens today.

The selection of this first edition of Rolling Pages, books go to screens It is made up of three children's and young adult novels, three graphic novels, a children's comic and seven novels of different genres signed by six authors and ten men.

Rolling Pages, books go to screens It is an initiative that was born with the aim of stimulate audiovisual and cinematographic creation encouraging the adaptation of literary works. A natural synergy between the audiovisual and publishing industries to encourage and promote that stories, comics and books have the possibility of adapting to audiovisual language and being brought to different screens.

In short, Rotating Pages It is conceived as the annual event in which editors and literary agents seeking new avenues of exploitation and income for their works can meet those audiovisual producers searching for new content and new ideas for their projects.

Finalist works

• Goodbye my Havana, by Anna Veltfort
• The Murder of Pythagoras, by Marcos Chicot
• The indiscreet editor, by F. Bellart
• Sisters, dogs, geeks and other specimens, by Maite Carranza and Julia Prats
• Lamia, by Rayco Pulido
• The Ephemerals, by Pilar Adón
• The grooves of chance, by Paco Roca
• Neimhaim. The Children of the Snow and the Storm, by Aránzazu Serrano
• No llames a casa, de Carlos Zanón
• It is forbidden to read Lewis Carroll, by Diego Arboleda and Raúl Sagospe
• Superpatata (7 volumes), by Artur Laperla
• Tea Rooms. Working Women, by Luisa Carnés
• Everything that happened in the valley, by Ramón Solsona
• A mother, by Alejandro Palomas