The sixth edition of the event began this Wednesday in Toledo, offering a complete program of panels, talks, workshops and presentations, and its classic pitching sessions, which will award 14 individual prizes to the selected projects.
Today in Toledo marks the beginning of the sixth edition of Conecta Fiction & Entertainment, the largest international forum dedicated to the co-production of scripted series for television between Europe and America, which is also open to the entertainment genre for the first time.
Over the next three days, the event will offer the professional attendees a programme with almost sixty activities, including pitching sessions, panels, talks, workshops, keynotes and presentations. The Palacio de Congresos El Greco will be the venue for all of them, with Spain as the focus country during this sixth edition.
This year, Conecta Fiction & Entertainment will award 14 individual awards to the winning projects of the five pitching categories: Copro Series (series and short-form series), High-End Series (high-budget projects), Docudrama Series (dramatized documentaries), Feelgood Formats (original entertainment formats with a “feel good” component) and Pitch Clips (call by ALMA-Spanish scriptwriters guild).
Pitching sessions and selected projects awards
Pitch Copro Series
The classic Conecta session is renewed in this edition to include not only scripted series projects but also short-form series. It is specially designed for those projects in the development phase that, with international potential, are looking for partners to produce. They are open to companies from anywhere in the world.
Pitch Copro Series projects are eligible for the following awards:
RTVE AWARD: Development contract.
ACORDE AWARD: License to use its music library for the first season.
SPAIN FILM COMMISSION AWARD: €1,000 for the project that best showcases Spanish locations.
VIS STORYTELLERS AWARD: €10,000 for the best pitch.
TV DRAMA VISIÓN AWARD: Invitation to pitch at TV Drama Vision at the Göteborg Festival.
BAM BOGOTÁ AWARD: Invitation to pitch at BAM Bogotá.
WAWA AWARD: Membership and pitch at WBF.
SANFIC INDUSTRIA AWARD: Fast track for the SANFIC Industria Series Lab.
Pitch High-End Series
International call for high-budget fiction series projects. They must have at least guaranteed financing equal to or greater than 10% of the budget. The limits of this financing will be a minimum of 500K Euros for series of fewer than 30’ duration and 1M Euros for those that exceed that duration per episode.
Pitch High-End Series projects are eligible for the following awards:
RTVE AWARD: Development contract
SPAIN FILM COMMISSION AWARD: €1,000 for the project that best showcases Spanish locations
VIS STORYTELLERS AWARD: €10,000 for the best pitch.
TV DRAMA VISIÓN AWARD: Invitation to pitch at TV Drama Vision at the Göteborg Festival.
BAM BOGOTÁ AWARD: Invitation to pitch at BAM Bogotá.
Pitch Docudrama Series
International call for documentary series projects whose narrative includes recreations of fictional events (both in actual image and animation).
Pitch Docudrama Series projects are eligible for the following awards:
ACORDE AWARD: License to use its music library for the first season.
CASTILLA-LA MANCHA MEDIA AWARD: Recording of a promotional clip of the project and promotion of the project on Castilla La-Mancha TV.
SPAIN FILM COMMISSION AWARD: €1,000 for the project that best showcases Spanish locations
LA MANCHA WINES AWARD: Weight of the winner in wine
Pitch Feelgood Formats
International call for creators and producers with original and fresh entertainment program projects that incorporate elements of humor or seek to make the viewer smile.
Pitch Feelgood Format projects are eligible for the following awards:
CASTILLA-LA MANCHA MEDIA AWARD: Recording of a promotional clip of the project and promotion of the project on Castilla La-Mancha TV.
SPAIN FILM COMMISSION AWARD: €1,000 for the project that best showcases Spanish locations.
COCA-COLA AWARD: Winner’s stature in Coca-Cola.
Pitch Clips: in collaboration with ALMA scriptwriters guild
Pitch Clips projects are eligible for the following awards:
ALMA AWARD: Recognition for the best Pitch Clip by the ALMA guild.
TRIODOS BANK AWARD: 3.000 € to the Pitch Clip that best represents the value of creativity development promoted by Triodos Bank.
CASTILLA-LA MANCHA MEDIA AWARD: Recording of a promotional clip of the project and promotion of the project on Castilla La-Mancha TV.
VIS STORYTELLERS AWARD: €10,000 for the best pitch.
SPAIN FILM COMMISSION AWARD: €1,000 for the project that best showcases Spanish locations.
