Now marking its fourth version over Oct. 1 – 4 in Madrid, Spain’s annual Iberseries & Platino Industria confab has leapt to must-attend standing for Ibero-American audiovisual trade professionals.
Iberseries co-director Samuel Castro, who covers the TV trade whereas co-director Juan Alía handles movie, mentioned: “We hope that on this fourth version, we are going to a minimum of keep the two,500 accredited contributors from final yr,” he mentioned, including: “Our objective isn’t just to develop within the variety of accredited contributors but in addition within the skilled profiles attending Iberseries & Platino Industria. We goal for executives with decision-making energy to determine this occasion because the place to do enterprise, current initiatives and focus on joint methods round Spanish-language audiovisual content material.”
Primarily based on early knowledge collected – with numerous accreditations nonetheless to come back – in keeping with the profiles of delegates who has signed up, Iberseries had 647 accredited professionals from Spain, 121 from Mexico, 96 from Colombia, 83 from the USA and 42 from Chile, mentioned Castro, including that of the European nations, Portugal, France, and Italy have the strongest presence with Spain ostensibly dominating.
Main gamers working in Spain and Latin America are taking part within the convention program of the occasion, led by Disney+ (Spain and LatAm), HBO Max, Prime Video, Movistar Plus+, NBC Common, RTVE, Atresplayer and Caracol.
Channels, streamers, and manufacturing corporations participating within the Advert Hoc Pitching Classes embrace Warner Bros, Telemundo Studios, Sony, Paramount, Gaumont, Dopamine and Secuoya Studios, amongst others.
Among the many TV traits he has noticed, Castro sees that multilateral co-productions have develop into extra fashionable financing fashions and that there’s a rising curiosity amongst funding funds in Spain’s trade. There are additionally extra efforts to advertise Hispanic-American IP as a robust supply of inspiration for main new initiatives, he seen.
Within the movie trade, Alía, has famous extra collaborations amongst Ibero-American nations and different areas, permitting for bigger budgets and broader distribution attain.
There additionally appears to be extra deal with native tales with international attraction: “There’s a clear deal with narratives rooted in particular cultural contexts however with common themes that resonate internationally. Along with auteur cinema, there was a rising curiosity in genres resembling thriller, horror, and comedy, all tailored to native sensibilities,” he informed Selection, including that extra feminine and various voices are prevailing.
Alía additionally pointed to a stronger dedication to social, political and environmental themes with extra initiatives addressing modern social points resembling inequality, migration, and corruption, and a renewed curiosity in exploring and recovering historic occasions and their repercussions right this moment.
He has additionally noticed the variation of recent financing fashions: “Various avenues resembling crowdfunding and personal funding are being explored to enhance public funds,” he mentioned.
However a number of challenges stay, amongst them digital piracy, environmental sustainability throughout shoots, content material saturation, competitors with brief types of leisure like TikTok, YouTube and many others.
“Financing and profitability, particularly for unbiased productions and movies from nations with much less developed movie industries, securing funding and reaching profitability stay tough,” Alía warned.
Castro listed the initiatives chosen for the occasion’s Co-Manufacturing and Financing Discussion board as a snapshot of traits the place the dramedy appears to dominate, particularly among the many collection:
Sequence
“Ana del Raval” (Spain) Social dramedy, La Charito Movies, Angeli Footage
“Banda de bufones” (Spain), Drama, Thriller, Darkish Comedy, Plano a Plano
“Daddy Points” (Spain, Colombia), Dramedy, Transmedia / pretend documentary, ECTV Media, Alibi Movies
“Duarte, Evita detrás del balcón” (Argentina, Spain), Drama, Kapow
“El abogado de Mattos. David contra Goliat” (Colombia), Thriller, True Crime, Rhayuela Movies, Punta Fina
“El peligro de quererte” (Chile), Motion, romance, LGBTIQ+, Parox
“As soon as hermanos” (Mexico, U.S., Peru, Argentina, Spain), Dramedy, Caponeto
“Yo y punto” (Spain), Dramedy, La Maldita
“Pocos, buenos y seguros” (Spain), Thriller, motion, drama, primarily based on actual occasions, Bixagu Leisure
“Una serie de gente” (Spain), Dramedy, Nanouk Movies
“Cómo Grinchi y La Sra. Claus ensangrentaron la Navidad” (Spain, Argentina),Fantasy, Dramedy, Darkish Comedy, La Villana, ATM, Flixxo
Movies
“Bendita María” (Spain), Dramedy, TV ON Producciones, Admirable Movies
“Guerras invisibles” (Mexico, Brazil, Ukraine, Japan, Lithuania, U.S.), Documentary, Gefilte Movies, Membership
“Justino” (Brazil, Portugal), Drama, True Crime, Mercado Filmes, SPi
“La imagen de un crimen” (Spain), Thriller, neo noir, satire, Bixagu Leisure
“Mamá (Im)perfecta” (Colombia, Argentina), Drama, Laberinto, Ganas Producciones, Tarea Fina
“Mi otro verano” (Spain, Uruguay), Romantic drama, D’Sierto Movies, Hyperlink-up, 39Escalones Movies, Mom Superior
“Mi pequeña liga de la justicia” (Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina), Dramedy, Lavorágine Movies, Tres Mundos, Lagarto Cine
“Reina del bosque” (Argentina, Spain, U.S.), Drama, thriller, Libre Cine, Non Cease Studios, Bosco Leisure
“Salvajes” (Peru, Chile), Crime, romance, El Árbol Azul, La Household Story Home
“Un lugar lejano” (Argentina, Spain, Chile), Drama, Twins Latin Movies, Filmakers Monkeys, Rizoma Producciones
