Roding pages: 6th edition with more than 130 works registered

The Eugenio Trías Public Library of Madrid will host the sixth edition of ‘Rolling pages, from the book to the screen’, an initiative in which producers, distributors, televisions, platforms and editors will seek synergies between the audiovisual sector and the editorial.

134 Works, national and international (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Peru), have been registered for this event that will take place the days the days June 7 and 8, coinciding with the Madrid Book Fair. Among them, only between 14 and 16 works They can participate in the event, whose announcement will be made in mid -May.

This shortlist It will allow Madrid to bring "the best Spanish -speaking talent" to promote meetings and promote the possibility of adapting literary works to the different screens. In fact, during the last edition, more than 1,000 attendees gathered and more than 70 professional meetings were held.

A committee of experts, all and all active professionals, is in charge of evaluating and selecting the works that will participate in this new edition. The committee is composed of Cave Souza, Film Festivals as the Sunday Festival; Benito Zambrano, director and screenwriter; Fernando Pérez, film director and screenwriter; Mosquera Lidia, director, screenwriter and head of communication at Movistar+; Lola May, screenwriter, producer and film teacher; Sergio Mixón, screenwriter, film teacher, and Silvia Lobo, film producer and distributor.

Sales workshop and pitch

In addition to the presentation of the selected works in Pitch format, the professional meetings one to one And the round tables, the workshop “The presentation of literary works before the audiovisual sector: Sales and Pitch dossier”, aimed at authors, literary agencies, scriptwriters and students will also be taught. This initiative of Running pages It will offer theoretically and practical, the essential tools and techniques to improve and make presentations more attractive, understood as key sales elements, of literary projects. It will be taught by the specialist in communication and marketing Álvaro Vega, founder of the double agency, and will take place from June 8, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Registrations are free until capacity is completed through this link or on the website of Rolling Pages.

Rolling pages is organized by the Madrid Audiovisual Association (AMA) and the Federation of Editors Guilds of Spain (FGEE). In addition, it has the support of the Community of Madrid, Madrid City Council through the Government of Economy, Innovation and Employment, Book Fair, Cedar and Lady.