The Malaga Film Festival will wink at television production at Screen TV 2018

From October 3 to 6, Screen TV 2018 a complete vision of current television production with the support and collaboration of networks and production companies of national and international prestige.

The Albéniz Cinema will host within the framework of the Malaga Festival a new edition of Screen TV 2018 which will offer a complete vision of current television production with the support and collaboration of networks and production companies of national and international prestige.

The programming of this fifth edition, with series premieres, new television formats, round tables and other activities, brings together platforms and networks such as Mega, Flooxer and Atresplayer from Atresmedia Televisión, AXN, HBO España, Movistar+, #0, Netflix, RTVE, La 2, Playz, Syfy, Calle 13 and TNT.

Absolute premieres in Spain, previews of new seasons, television formats, round tables and more activities make up the programming of this festival around television culture, organized by Festival de Málaga and Málaga City Council, with the collaboration of the María Zambrano Classroom for Transatlantic Studies (University of Málaga), College of Architects of Málaga, Center Pompidou Málaga, Collection of the Russian Museum of Saint Petersburg Málaga, Picasso Museum Malaga and University of Malaga.

Screen TV 2018 will offer numerous contents and news, which will be reflected in more than ten hours of projections of different television formats (series premieres, webseries, television programs...) and fifteen presentations, meetings and discussions on television culture. We will also have training activities for educational centers and spaces for analysis and debate.

Among the series that we can see on Screen TV 2018, we find: the web series Uru and other stories of the red earth; andhe preview of the second season of Things, a Playz musical comedy starring David Sáinz and Aarón Gómez; the national preview of Condor, new spy series from Calle 13, starring Max Irons, William Hurt and Mira Sorvino; Chapter 0, from #0, from Movistar +, a parody of long-standing series seen from the unique and personal perspective of Ernesto Sevilla and Joaquín Reyes.; Vota Juan, Javier Cámara's new series for TNT, which addresses the world of politics in a comedic way; the premiere of the pilot The wonderful friend, new HBO series, adaptation of the first novel of Elena Ferrante's tetralogy; the national premiere of the first episode of the second season of the successful The Good Doctor (AXN); and the premiere of the pilot of the fictional adventure series The Outpost (Syfy).

They will also be presented new formats, like the series + than 100 lies by Flooxer, which will be seen on the Atresplayer video platform produced by Lucky Road or Crimes that changed history, Mega's first major documentary series.

Netflix will bring a meeting that promises to be one of the high points of Screen TV 2018: Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi and Brays Efe will talk about one of the greatest hits on television: Paquita Salas.

For its part, RTVE's La 2 will screen the premiere of The muse hour, its new and long-awaited format, presented by Maika Makovski, which returns live music to prime time television with top-level national and international groups that talk and play about music for an hour. After the screening, on Friday at the Albéniz Cinema (9:30 p.m.), we will have a discussion with Urbana Gil (director of Culture of La2) and Jerónimo Rodríguez (director of The muse hour).

The television event of the Malaga Festival will also pay tribute to one of the most revolutionary television formats on television in Spain: The crystal ball, in a tribute to Lolo Rico, its creator, for the 30th anniversary of the end of its broadcast. A tribute that has had a special involvement from the family and the Television Academy, which has exclusively donated one of its Living Treasures of TV, interviews with people who have stood out for their work in front of and behind the cameras.

On Screen TV, a summarized edition of the interview they recorded with Lolo Rico for this space will be shown.

On Thursday night at Cine Albéniz, the Fiction Pilots Showcase that Screen TV organizes together with Serielizados Fest and the Igualada International Television Fiction Festival (Zoom Festival) will take place. Its objective is to give visibility and projection to emerging talent in the field of series and web series.

Those selected are: The libertarian, written and directed by Carla Tejada, Paula Casadesús and Irene Guerrero (produced by Michelle González and Tanit Venturós. Project originated at the Pompeu Fabra University); I'm not that, written and directed by Rocío Mahoro (produced by Code Sur Producciones); Outsiders, written and directed by Laia Palacios and Ainoa Alonso (produced by Tomás Limeres); Locked up, written by Miquel Jové, Felipe Auladell and Carlos Tiana (directed and produced by Miquel Jové. Project originated at the Ramon Llull University – Blanquerna); Unscrupulous, written and directed by Héctor Prieto (produced by Laura Agustí. Project originated at the Higher School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia – ESCAC).

Parallel activities

The auditorium of the Picasso Museum Málaga, the Center Pompidou Málaga, the Collection of the Russian Museum of Saint Petersburg Málaga and the Albéniz Cinema will host various round tables and presentations. The cycle Serial architecture, in collaboration with the College of Architects of Malaga, will approach the series from an architectural point of view. Mad Men, The Americans y Black Mirror These will be the series that we will analyze from Wednesday the 3rd to Friday the 5th.
But these will not be the only discussions. The 20 years of the now legendary Sex in New York motivate a meeting between Conchi Cascajosa and Mariola Cubells on Saturday the 6th with the title Sex in New York a open wounds.

The educational centers of the capital will participate on the 4th and 5th in the activity Look at the series that I watch, in which Screen TV travels to the IES to learn first-hand about the interests of secondary and high school students in television fiction.

Admission to Screen TV 2018 screenings and events will be free until capacity is reached.