'Detective Romi', first series created by students of 'Showrunners: Aula de Ficción'

This action and mystery thriller starring a deaf detective is the result of the program created by the ESCAC (Higher School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia) and Mediaset Spain.

Showrunners: Fiction Classroom, program created by the CHESS (Higher School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia) and Mediaset Spain to train and convert young creative talents into future showrunners of national fiction, begins to bear fruit with the start of production of Detective Romi, the first project created by students from its first class.

The program, which will launch the call for its second edition in January, was created in 2019 with the aim of training students comprehensively in the field of television fiction, one of the most in-demand contents in the audiovisual industry.

As a result of this, Showrunners: Fiction Classroom will close this first stage with the first of its projects, Detective Romi, in the pre-production phase, and two other projects that are currently in the development phase.

This action and family mystery thriller, which Mediaset will produce together with Mandarina, is an original idea by Iker Azkoitia (Guipúzcoa, 1987) developed together with Pau Bacardit (Barcelona, ​​1984) and Lluis Mosquera (Valencia, 1990), young talents who have award-winning professional experiences in theater, film, television and advertising.

Set in Bilbao, its main plot focuses on the work of Romina Goitia, Romi, a thirty-something private detective with an innate gift for investigation: she is deaf, which is why she has developed a unique ability to interpret non-verbal communication and detect lies.

Romi complements this extraordinary skill with a certain tendency to skirt the law to achieve his objectives, in contrast to the extremely disciplined and responsible profile of Patricia Irureta, his new intern partner.

The investigations carried out by Romi into the mysterious death of her father 25 years ago will uncover a dangerous network of institutional corruption in whose investigation the detective will collaborate with her own mother, Alaia Uribe, head of criminal investigation at the Ertzaintza.

The series delves into the human relationships of its protagonist female trio - detective, mother and assistant - and their personal and professional environment. Furthermore, it delves through irony into the clichés traditionally associated with Basque culture and society and the contrasts in communication between the deaf and hearing, making visible diversity, inclusion and especially the usefulness of sign language in this sense.

The selection of projects presented by the students of Showrunners: Fiction Classroom has been carried out by a court made up of Mediaset España for Manuel Villanueva, general director of content, and Arantxa Écija, fiction director; and on behalf of the ESCAC for Aintza Serra, program director, and Oriol Hat, coordinator and tutor.