Vigo and Lisbon will host the filming of 'Auga seca', a co-production by Portocabo and SPi for Televisión de Galicia and the Portuguese RTP

The thriller will have 6 chapters of 50 minutes and covers the universe of arms trafficking and its connections with the business world.

The Portuguese actress Victoria Guerra and the Galicians Monti Castiñeiras and Sergio Pazos will star Dry water, the series that the producers Portocabo y SP-i prepare for Galicia Television y RTP, the Portuguese public channel.

The Real Club Náutico de Vigo, one of the settings for the series, hosted this Monday the presentation of this international co-production, which is beginning filming in Vigo and Lisbon and will also feature Eva Fernández, Cris Iglesias, Manolo Cortés and Tacho González in its cast.

“After several years filming abroad, it is a privilege to be able to make an ambitious production like this in Galicia and continue strengthening ties with our Portuguese collaborators,” he comments. Alfonso Blanco, general director of Portocabo, in an event in which he was accompanied by the protagonist herself and by Rosa Vilas (deputy to the General Director of TVG), Jacobo Sutil (director of Agadic), José Amaral (from SP-i) and Isabel Correia (director of RTP Porto).

Dry water It begins with the death of Paulo Duarte in the industrial port of Vigo. An apparent suicide that does not convince his bosses, nor the police, nor his sister Teresa, who moves from Lisbon to Vigo and begins to work in the company where Paulo was, with the aim of discovering what happened. Victoria Guerra, who plays Teresa, explained that “above all, it is a very well-written, very surprising series,” and highlighted the importance on an artistic level of collaborating between professionals from Galicia and Portugal.

This cross-border character is integrated into the plot itself: “it is a series very focused on the sea, and hence Vigo is the main focus, another protagonist,” said Alfonso Blanco, who also placed special emphasis on the “naturalistic” character of the series: “for us it was important that it be plausible, credible.” TO

The series will have 6 chapters of 50 minutes and covers the universe of arms trafficking and its connections with the business world. “It is a thriller, and as a thriller it is a story that travels,” explained José Amaral, general director of SP-i, who told how the idea of ​​the series conquered him from the first moment. “It is a story in which Portugal is part of an organic way, without being forced, and that changes everything,” said the producer, also highlighting that his company's collaboration with RTP and TVG opens “a long way forward” in the international market. At the moment, that path has just begun with the entry into the project of the British distributor DCD Rights and the sale of the broadcast rights to the series for Holland, Finland and Eastern Europe (in this case, to the prestigious American channel AMC).

Along the same lines, those responsible for the television stations that will premiere the series celebrated this opportunity to delve into their joint work. The deputy to the Directorate of the TVG, Rosa Vilas, wanted to highlight that Auga seca is a product “very much ours but that can travel and make our reality known”, and was convinced that it was going to “make everyone fall in love” due to its very high quality. Likewise, he recalled the good reception of Vidago Palace, a Portocabo co-production that was also broadcast by TVG and RTP.

Isabel Correia, director of RTP Porto, highlighted the increasingly hybrid nature of television products and the advantage of taking advantage of the existing connection between Galicia and Portugal: “in Portugal and Galicia we recognize each other a lot, we are very similar people, and we identify with the story of Auga seca.” This link was also pointed out by Jacobo Sutil, director of Agadic, who commented on the ease of “working with the other side of the border” due to the common points in language and history. In addition, he emphasized the contribution of the project to Galician audiovisual, since it will employ more than 150 people and opens avenues for the sector internationally, an aspect in which Sutil highlighted Portocabo as a “reference.”

Auga seca continues in this way with the international productions of Portocabo, which will premiere Hierro next June 7, produced for Movistar+ with ARTE France and Atlantique Productions and directed by Jorge Coira.