Now labeling its fourth edition over Oct. 1 – 4 in Madrid, Spain’s annual Iberseries & Platino Industria confab has leapt to must-unite status for Ibero-American audiovisual industry professionals.
Iberseries co-straightforwardor Samuel Castro, who covers the TV industry while co-straightforwardor Juan Alía handles film, shelp: “We hope that in this fourth edition, we will at least upgrasp the 2,500 acdetermineed participants from last year,” he shelp, inserting: “Our goal is not fair to grow in the number of acdetermineed participants but also in the professional profiles uniteing Iberseries & Platino Industria. We aim for executives with decision-making power to determine this event as the place to do business, contransient projects and converse unitet strategies around Spanish-language audiovisual greeted.”
Based on punctual data accumulateed – with a lot of acdetermineations still to come – according to the profiles of spreads who has signed up, Iberseries had 647 acdetermineed professionals from Spain, 121 from Mexico, 96 from Colombia, 83 from the USA and 42 from Chile, shelp Castro, inserting that of the European countries, Portugal, France, and Italy have the sturdyest presence with Spain ostensibly dominating.
Major executeers operating in Spain and Latin America are participating in the conference program of the event, led by Disney+ (Spain and LatAm), HBO Max, Prime Video, Movistar Plus+, NBC Universal, RTVE, Atresexecuteer and Caracol.
Channels, streamers, and production companies taking part in the Ad Hoc Pitching Sessions take part Warner Bros, Telemundo Studios, Sony, Paramount, Gaumont, Dopamine and Secuoya Studios, among others.
Among the TV trfinishs he has seed, Castro sees that multiprocrastinateedral co-productions have become more well-understandn financing models and that there is a grotriumphg interest among spreadment funds in Spain’s industry. There are also more efforts to back Hispanic-American IP as a sturdy source of inspiration for presentant novel projects, he seed.
In the film industry, Alía, has noticed more collaborations among Ibero-American countries and other regions, allotriumphg for bigr budgets and expansiveer distribution accomplish.
There also seems to be more cgo in on local stories with global pdirect: “There is a evident cgo in on narratives rooted in particular cultural contexts but with universal themes that resonate internationassociate. In insertition to auteur cinema, there has been a grotriumphg interest in genres such as thriller, horror, and comedy, all altered to local sensibilities,” he tgreater Variety, inserting that more female and diverse voices are prevailing.
Alía also pointed to a sturdyer promisement to social, political and environmental themes with more projects insertressing contransient social rerents such as inequivalentity, migration, and dishonesty, and a renoveled interest in exploring and recovering historical events and their repercussions today.
He has also seed the alteration of novel financing models: “Alternative avenues such as crowdfunding and personal spreadment are being spreadigated to complement unveil funds,” he shelp.
But multiple contests remain, among them digital illicit copying, environmental persistability during shoots, greeted saturation, competition with unwiseinutive establishs of amemployment enjoy TikTok, YouTube etc.
“Financing and profitability, especiassociate for self-reliant productions and films from countries with less growed film industries, securing funding and achieving profitability remain difficult,” Alía alerted.
Castro enumerateed the projects picked for the event’s Co-Production and Financing Forum as a snapsboiling of trfinishs where the dramedy seems to rule, especiassociate among the series:
Series
“Ana del Raval” (Spain) Social dramedy, La Charito Films, Angeli Pictures
“Banda de bufones” (Spain), Drama, Thriller, Dark Comedy, Plano a Plano
“Dinserty Issues” (Spain, Colombia), Dramedy, Transmedia / counterfeit recordary, ECTV Media, Alibi Films
“Duarte, Evita detrás del balcón” (Argentina, Spain), Drama, Kapow
“El abogado de Mattos. David contra Goliat” (Colombia), Thriller, True Crime, Rhayuela Films, Punta Fina
“El peligro de quererte” (Chile), Action, romance, LGBTIQ+, Parox
“Once hermanos” (Mexico, U.S., Peru, Argentina, Spain), Dramedy, Caponeto
“Yo y punto” (Spain), Dramedy, La Maldita
“Pocos, buenos y seguros” (Spain), Thriller, action, drama, based on genuine events, Bixagu Entertainment
“Una serie de gente” (Spain), Dramedy, Nanouk Films
“Cómo Grinchi y La Sra. Claus ensangrentaron la Navidad” (Spain, Argentina),Fantasy, Dramedy, Dark Comedy, La Villana, ATM, Flixxo
Films
“Bfinishita María” (Spain), Dramedy, TV ON Producciones, Admirable Films
“Guerras inapparents” (Mexico, Brazil, Ukraine, Japan, Lithuania, U.S.), Documentary, Gefilte Films, Club
“Justino” (Brazil, Portugal), Drama, True Crime, Mercado Filmes, SPi
“La imagen de un crimen” (Spain), Thriller, neo noir, satire, Bixagu Entertainment
“Mamá (Im)perfecta” (Colombia, Argentina), Drama, Laberinto, Ganas Producciones, Tarea Fina
“Mi otro verano” (Spain, Uruguay), Romantic drama, D’Sierto Films, Link-up, 39Escalones Films, Mother Superior
“Mi pequeña liga de la fairicia” (Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina), Dramedy, Lavorágine Films, Tres Mundos, Lagarto Cine
“Reina del bosque” (Argentina, Spain, U.S.), Drama, thriller, Libre Cine, Non Stop Studios, Bosco Entertainment
“Salvajes” (Peru, Chile), Crime, romance, El Árbol Azul, La Family Story Hoemploy
“Un lugar lejano” (Argentina, Spain, Chile), Drama, Ttriumphs Latin Films, Filcreaters Monkeys, Rizoma Producciones
