“There have been three Conectas in one”, said Géraldine Gonard, director of the first TV event that held a face-to-face post-Covid edition and that ends with a very positive balance.
This Thursday, September 3, the face-to-face edition of Conecta Fiction Reboot came to an end, which brought together more than 100 people at the Baluarte Pamplona Conference Center (Navarra, Spain), who together with the virtual participants totaled 472 participants.
But the numbers matter very little. The general feeling is that empty seats, technical defects or meetings two meters away are in the background, and what prevails is the optimism of seeing that the physical event has taken place and that the television industry is back on track .
“The balance is very positive, with the participation and reaction of the participants and the audience. It has been three Conecta in one: two weeks in June, two weeks now in virtual format, and the face-to-face format”, the director of Conecta Fiction, Géraldine Gonard, summarizes to ttvnews.
“The face-to-face edition shows us that there is a lot of optimism, a lot of desire to stay connected,” she added.
“It is important because we are in a sector where physical connections are essential to close projects. And furthermore, we consulted the national and international industry twice, and they have told us to do so twice. It was not a decision only ours or the Government of Navarra, it was consensual”, she completed.
The organizer also highlighted the security measures.
“We are happy to do so with maximum security conditions. Within a professional event, nothing has to happen. Here people have come to work, to meet, to exchange projects and start new businesses”.
And after the experience of having organized a virtual event and another hybrid, Gonard believes that many of the tools that have been put in place during these months will remain.
“We have all discovered, both those who do events and those who attend, the advantages of digital. It is not complete, it will never cover the face-to-face part, but it offers many tools. I think we are going to continue participating in events using both forms.
SERIES PROJECTS
Since its first edition, Conecta Fiction has been an event highly focused on carrying out the projects that are presented there. In these years, series like Malaka, Inés del alma mía or Invisible Heroes have emerged from the event.
And the hope is that several more will emerge from this new edition.
“This year is very interesting because we have a variety of genres and a very, very wide budget,” says Gonard. “We have projects with very low budgets, about 150,000 euros per episode, even other very large ones.”
The most ambitious: the Pharaoh series, presented by Limmat Films in the Pitch Copro Series and set in Ancient Egypt, with a budget of 80 million euros per season.
Regarding the possibilities of each other, the director recognizes that larger projects now have more complications, given the circumstances. “The others, although they also have difficulties, are easier to produce and may be the first to be realized.”
Conecta Fiction continues until Friday, September 11 on the online platform, with new networking meetings, live events and an exclusive interview with a French actress.
In addition, the panels of these days are still available via streaming.
