The event unveiled the list of prominent international industry professionals who will be the members of the editorial committees of the projects of its international pitching sessions.
Conecta FICTION & ENTERTAINMENT announces the incorporation of prominent international industry professionals as members of the editorial committees of the projects of its international pitching sessions.
The names of the first professionals confirmed for this purpose who will also be attending the event in Toledo between 26 and 29 June are: Al de Azpiazu, Senior Vice President of Distribution & Co-Productions, FREMANTLE INTERNACIONAL (UK); Diego del Pozo, Head of Scripted, ATRESMEDIA TV (Spain); Marie Leguizamo, Managing Director, BANIJAY México & US Hispanic (-USA); Monica Athayde, Head of International CoProductions, GLOBO (Brasil); Óscar Prol, Head of Spanish Unscripted Originals, AMAZON STUDIOS (Spain); Paula Kirchner, Director of Unscripted Content Latam & US Hispanic, WARNER BROS DISCOVERY (Argentina); Sheila Hall Aguirre, EVP, Co-production & Distribution Latin America & US Hispanic, FREMANTLE (USA); Christian Gockel, EVP International Operations BETA ENTERTAINMENT SPAIN & BETA FICTION SPAIN (Spain); y Guillermo Borensztein, SVP Content Licensing & Co-Production, TELEVISAUNIVISION (USA), Filip Bobinski, Producer and Showrunner, DRAMEDY PRODUCTIONS (Czech Republic); Pablo Borghi, Music composer (Argentina) and Natacha Caravia, writer and scriptwriter (Argentina).
These executives join this year those of Diego Ramírez Schrempp, Executive Producer and partner at DYNAMO (Colombia); Patricia Arpea, Head of National & International Coproductions, PEGASUS (Italy); Alexander Keil, Managing Director, QUOKAS ORIGINALS (Germany) and Ana Celia Urquidi, CEO, ATENEA MEDIA (Mexico), who have also been part of the project evaluation committees in previous editions. In the coming weeks, and before the closure of the different categories of calls for projects, all the evaluation committees will be completed, with new additions that will be announced in due course.
Géraldine Gonard, Director of Conecta FICTION & ENTERTAINMENT “I would like to thank all the professionals and talent who will be collaborating with us this year, and of course all the participants from previous editions. Their continuous support and guidance in the selection of the finalist projects has helped in a very decisive way so that more than a dozen projects have been realized, broadcasted or are currently in different stages of production both in Spain and abroad”.
Some of the titles under the “Born in Conecta” label are: DRAMA IN PANAMA (Bulgaria) GAIA (Spain), GRAF SPEE (Uruguay), INVISIBLE HEROES (Chile-Finland), INÉS OF MY SOUL (Spain-Chile), STRINGS (Russia), THE LIFE OF US (Chile), MALAKA (Spain), DEAD LINE (Argentina), UNREAL (Spain),PATAGONIC WINDS (Chile).
Last days to submit projects to the 5 international call for projects:
Calls for the 5 international categories will remain open for only a couple of weeks, the closing dates for each of them are:
March, 28 for fiction projects to participate in Pitch Copro Series and Pitch High-End Series
April, 3 for projects to be presented in the Pitch Music Series
April, 4 for all those meeting the requirements of the Pitch Docudrama Series y Pitch Feelgood Formats.
2023 Registrations:
For all those interested in participating in the seventh edition of Conecta FICTION & ENTERTAINMENT, accreditations will be available from today March 9 through the event’s website. The special Early Bird price will apply exclusively to registrations made before April 23.
