La Caza. Guadiana, Fuerza de paz, Sequía, La última frontera y Raíces; They stand out among the award-winning productions of the Spanish Corporation for the Cannes market.
RTVE’s commercial team returned to Mipcom to offer the main novelties of this new season. The great fiction series, series for the youngest, the best entertainment and great documentaries make up the Corporation’s portfolio at Cannes.
Among the big bets that RTVE presents in this edition, the prime time series La Caza. Guadiana, Fuerza de paz y Sequía; the daily series Dos Vidas, a finalist for the International Emmy Awards; in addition to the youth fictions Ser o no ser e Yrreal; and the documentary series La última frontera y Raíces, the story of Carlos Maldonado.
La Caza. Guadiana, is the third season of the successful series that began with La Caza. Monteperdido, which garnered several international awards (Luchon, Venice). Starring Megan Montaner, Alain Hernández and Félix Gómez; It tells the life of a small town divided by the Guadiana riverbed that is dramatically altered on a Sunday market. Mario, a 19-year-old man, in the grip of a manic crisis, carries out a massacre and ends the lives of three people. A case that Lieutenant Baín and Sara Campos are in charge of.
For its part, Fuerza de paz, starring Silvia Alonso, Martiño Rivas, Félix Gómez, Alain Hernández and Alfonso Bassave; has recently been nominated for the prestigious Prix Europa awards for best television fiction. The peace mission of a Spanish military contingent displaced to the African republic of Equatorial Guinea is compromised after the death of one of its members. An event that will be investigated unofficially.
Meanwhile, Sequía is the first co-production between RTVE and the Portuguese public TV RTP, which has achieved close to 3 million views on the RTVE Play platform. The fiction stars Elena Rivera, Rodolfo Sancho, Miryam Gallego and Miguel Ángel Muñoz; It has ingredients of love, ambition, betrayal, greed and an unsolved crime. Due to a strong drought, the town of Campomediano, located on the border between Spain and Portugal, emerges from the waters. Human remains appear in one of the old houses. Everything suggests that it is a crime that has remained hidden for years. Police inspector Daniela Yanes takes charge.
Likewise, Dos Vidas, produced by RTVE and Mascaret Films in collaboration with Bambú Producciones, is among those nominated for the International Emmy Awards in the category of Best Telenovela. It is the only Spanish fiction among the 60 candidates. Set in present-day Spain and in the colony of Spanish Guinea in the 1950s, and with Laura Ledesma and Amparo Piñero leading the cast, Two Lives was created by Josep Cister. The series has already won an award at the 60th edition of the Rose D’Festival Or, one of the most prestigious competitions in the television industry, as Best Daily Series and became the first Spanish fiction to receive it in its category. Also, in March of last year, it won the ALMA award for Best Daily Series Screenplay. In addition, this series has also managed to reach 20 million views on the RTVE Play platform.
Youth and documentaries
The series aimed at the youngest also have a main place in the extensive catalog of RTVE. Yrreal is an award-winning action thriller at Conecta Ficción, starring Angy Fernández and Veki Velilla, awarded at the Luchon International Festival, which mixes live action and 2D animation; and To be or not to be, a finalist at the Prix Italia awards, is a youth series in which Joel, a trans teenager, begins stage high school at a new institute.
In addition, RTVE presents in this edition the documentary series La última frontera and Raíces, the story of Carlos Maldonado.
La última frontera, presented by Javier Santaolalla, physicist and aspiring astronaut; takes you on a journey through four chapters to learn about the great enigmas of the universe and the requirements to fulfill the dream of becoming an astronaut for the European Space Agency (ESA) and crossing the last frontier. We will meet national and international experts who provide us with their knowledge and experience on the great enigmas of the universe: where is the end of space? How big is our galaxy? Are we alone in the universe? will we land on Mars? or what is exotic matter?
Finally, Raíces, the story of Carlos Maldonado, is a documentary series that is a journey to the origins of chef Carlos Maldonado. A retrospective look at that rebellious young man who accompanied his father in the street vendor, who conquered almost four million viewers by winning the third edition of MasterChef and who
Finally, Raíces, the story of Carlos Maldonado, is a documentary series that is a journey to the origins of chef Carlos Maldonado. A retrospective look at that rebellious young man who accompanied his father in the street vendor, who conquered almost four million viewers by winning the third edition of MasterChef and who has become the first candidate in the world to get a Michelin Star in a own restaurant. The documentary series explores his evolution as a chef, but also as a person. The steps he took to start his professional projects.
International channels and the OTT RTVE Play+
Within RTVE’s offer, its broad portfolio of linear international channels also stands out, which continue to gain subscribers around the world: TVE, 24 Horas; the fiction channel STAR HD and Clan, which reaches millions of homes in 17 American countries, including the US.
In addition, RTVE offers exclusive access to the RTVE Play+ video-on-demand platform available throughout the Americas with more than 10,000 hours of subscription content.
