150 professionals participate in 'Rodando Páginas, from the book to the screens'

This annual event in which editors, writers, literary agents, film and television producers and platforms participate seeks to create literary adaptations for different screens.

The fourth edition of Rolling Pages, from the book to the screens took place this Thursday, April 8, in a hybrid format. This essential and reference annual event between the audiovisual and publishing sector seeks to create literary adaptations to different screens. In this edition, more than 150 professionals (editors, writers, literary agents, film, television and platform producers) gathered, mainly virtually and, following all security measures against COVID-19, in person at the headquarters of the DAMA management entity.

The day began with the institutional presentation by the organizers and collaborators. Mario Madueño, president of the Madrid Audiovisual Association (AMA), organizer of this meeting, was optimistic about the celebration of Rodando Páginas, from the book to the screens in a particularly complicated year for culture: “this event is crucial for the publishing and audiovisual sector and it is a great joy that it could be held in order to continue promoting synergies and opportunities between different professionals.”

Next Antonio María Ávila, executive director of the Federation of Editors' Guilds of Spain (FGEE), highlighted the event as “a magnificent meeting point between two fundamental cultural industries and the professionals who are part of them.”

Ruperto Merino, deputy director of cultural programming of the Community of Madrid, stated that “we as an institution support the creative processes that generate culture and industry and Rodando Páginas is a project that has managed to consolidate itself in a short time.”

Jorge Corrales, general director of CEDRO, spoke about the importance of the continuity of projects like this: “we consider that cultural creations go beyond the initial support from which they start, they must be supported in their different stages.”

Borja Cobeaga, president of DAMA, highlighted that “the relationship between whoever writes a novel, a play or a comic with the audiovisual world is very strong, which is why events like this make so much sense.”

The selected works

During the fourth edition of Rodando Páginas, from the book to the screens, a discussion session was held pitch of the 10 selected literary works among the more than 157 works presented. These titles were: 15 by David Muñoz and Andrés G. Leiva (Astiberri, 2021), Collection Felipe and his friends by Gracia Iglesias and Sara Sánchez (Ediciones Jaguar, 2016), Fair fat man by Esther García Llovet (Editorial Anagrama, 2021), The nameless woman by Vanessa Montfort (Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency, 2020), The pellet by José Ángel Mañas (Alt Autores editorial, 2018), The right wars by Gabriel Ochoa (Express Author, SGAE Foundation, 2015), The prodigy girls by Sabina Urraca (Fulgencio Pimentel, 2016), Malasangre by Michelle Roche Rodríguez (Agencia Literaria Dos Passos, 2020), Telefónica by Ilsa Barea-Kulcsar (Carmen Balcells Literary Agency), and Men live cabales by Guillermo Alonso (Editorial children gratis, 2019).

The day was completed with the round table Literary adaptations with female protagonism, moderada por la periodista Eva Cruz, en la que participarán la guionista Ángela Armero; la productora Mariela Besuievsky (Tornasol Media); y Anna Soler-Pont, directora de Pontas Literary & Film Agency.