The 9th edition of Conecta Fiction returns with great news

Conecta Fiction & Entertainment, a forum for professionals in the audiovisual sector, has announced the main lines of the program for its ninth edition, which will be held from June 16 to 19 at the Teatro Auditorio José Luis Perales and the Hospedería del Seminario de Cuenca (Castilla-La Mancha).

The presentation event included the participation of the general director of tourism, commerce and crafts of the Community Board of Castilla-La Mancha, Ana Isabel Fernandez, who opened the meeting by highlighting the relevant role that the audiovisual sector plays as a vector of growth for the region's economy: "Thanks to the work of the Castilla-La Mancha Film Commission, last year we hosted more than 70 filming of series, feature films and advertising, and so far in 2025 we have managed 148 requests for information, 57 projects have been filmed and a dozen more will be filmed in the coming weeks." The spokesperson for the Castilla-La Mancha region, which has been hosting Conecta since 2022, has revealed that they will take advantage of the forum to announce in Cuenca the two winners of the III Feature Film and TV Series Production Competition, which will award a prize of €100,000 to each project.

Next, the director of the event, Geraldine Gonard, has offered a summary of the program's contents, highlighting that "in total we will offer 55 activities in which nearly 100 speakers will participate." The delegations of the focus countries will be made up of fifty companies from France y Canada, the largest professional presence achieved by an international event held in Spain. Both nations represent the second power on the American continent in exporting audiovisual content and services, and the leader in continental Europe in the distribution of a multi-genre offer. To talk about it, Gonard gave the floor to Laurent Coulon, cultural and audiovisual attaché of the French Embassy in Spain, whose collaboration has been essential to achieve the participation of a large delegation of French producers who will visit Cuenca in June.

In addition to the already famous sessions of pitching for international projects, which this year have two new calls for films for platforms (Pitch Direct to Streaming Movies) and interactive entertainment formats (Pitch Innova Formats), the Conecta 9 conference agenda will feature international consulting firms The Wit, Glance y Fabric to offer an overview of the current state of audiovisual production in Europe and Latin America; will review the latest legislative changes in international tax incentives; will recover the sessions in which the commissioners of the big entertainment brands from Europe, America and Spain will detail their content needs, and will offer presentations by the top representatives of main French production powers such as Banijay y Gaumont.

Las empresas de Brasil y Portugal, países foco protagonistas de la pasada edición, también regresan a Conecta Fiction & Entertaintment protagonizando sendos showcases of content and exclusive networking moments to seek new co-production opportunities. In addition to the numerous moments of networking In the format of breakfasts and afterwork cocktails, the agenda is completed with sessions belonging to the usual content verticals Conecta Women y Connect Digital, to which the new seal of content open to the public is added Conecta Fiction Fest.

Pitch Talent for creatives

Conecta wants to serve as a launching platform for new talent, offering for the first time a unique showcase of visibility for screenwriters and creatives. To do this, it has partnered with five of the script labs most prestigious in the Spanish industry: Residencies Film Academy, IsLABentura Canarias, CIMA Impulsa, DAMA Ayuda y The ECAM Incubator. Each of them will select a talent who has participated in the last edition, inviting them to pitch their project within the framework of the new Pitch Talent which will take place on Wednesday the 18th at 12:30 in Auditorium 1 of Conecta.

After the individual presentations of their respective fiction projects, the five participants will share the stage in a round table moderated by the famous screenwriter and executive producer Javier Olivares, whose credits include iconic series such as The ministry of time, Isabel o Ena. Queen Victoria Eugenie.

Monograph of The hunt

Prior to the celebration of the Awards Gala on the afternoon of Wednesday the 18th, Conecta accredited members will be able to enjoy the presentation of The Hunt. Irati, fourth season of the saga produced by DLO Productions which conquered viewers and was adapted with great success in France under the name Rivière-Perdue. This new installment will be released in 2025 for the first time on Movistar Plus+.

Jose Manuel Lorenzo, president and founder of DLO Producciones, and prominent members of the cast, will reveal the details of this psychological thriller starring Megan Montaner, Félix Gómez and Silvia Alonso set in the Irati Jungle (Navarra) as the new setting. The series is directed by Rafa Montesinos (The Immortal, Rapa) and Javier Pulido (The Hunt), and created by Agustín Martínez.

Conecta Fiction Fest: approaching the general public

For the first time in its history, Conecta organizes Conecta Fiction Fest, a festival that aims to bring great international series closer to the citizens of Cuenca and series lovers. Led by the Cuenca City Consortium, the festival will take place in parallel to the conference program for professionals in Conecta Fiction & Entertainment, offering screenings and large-format premieres of some of the most recent titles of European and Latin American serial fiction.

The projections, in which the audience You will be able to meet first-hand some of the producers and leading actors of the series, they will take place at the José Luis Perales Auditorium Theater in Cuenca: on Monday the 16th the first two episodes of Zorro, a co-production of Paramount+ and France Télévisions filmed in Castilla-La Mancha that will soon be released by AMC+ in Spain, which will be attended by producer Marc Dujardin and leading actress Audrey Dana; On Tuesday the 17th it will be the turn of The incredible story of Julia Pastrana, a new Disney+ series starring Fátima Molina and Eduardo Noriega, and the series will conclude on Wednesday the 18th with Favorite, the first Spanish series set and filmed on the island of Menorca, which was a finalist and awarded at the seventh edition of Conecta held in Toledo.

The program also includes a round table el martes 17 a las 17:30 sobre adaptaciones literarias a la pantalla, en la que participa María Contreras, Head of Movies & Scripted Spanish International Originals de Prime Video & Amazon Studios, acompañada de tres pesos pesados de la literatura española contemporánea cuyas obras han sido adaptadas a series y películas que han cautivado a audiencias de todo el mundo: Juan Gómez-Jurado, autor de la trilogía Red Queen y Scar; María Dueñas, creator of novels such as The time between seams and Temperance, one of the series The artists, and Manel Loureiro, author of the trilogy Apocalypse Z, whose first delivery Apocalypse Z: the beginning of the end became the most-watched international original film in Prime Video history last December.