Argentina is Country of Honor at Inaugural Conecta FICTION

Conecta FICTION has revealed more details for its upcoming event, which will see Argentina as the inaugural Country of Honor.

Some 350 professionals from 20 countries in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America are expected to attend. The event will open on June 20 with a concert of the Real Filharmonía de Galicia, under the direction of Geoffrey Styles, performing original soundtracks of well-known television series.

Highlights will include the International Coproduction: Opportunities and Challenges session, featuring writer/ producer/director Pau Freixas; Kelly Wright, VP of distribution and new business at Keshet International; Camila Misas, creative VP at Sony Pictures Television; Julie Anthony, commissioning editor at TF1; María Iregui, executive VP of strategy at RCN; Leonardo Aranguibel, director of production at Disney Media Distribution; and many others.

In an effort to provide all participants the opportunity to make contacts and initiate conversations that give rise to their projects, Conecta FICTION has created the Fiction Box, a section that integrates an online matchmaking platform and a dedicated one-to-one meeting area.

The screenings at Conecta FICTION will shine a spotlight on international series produced on both sides of the Atlantic. They will take place during the day on June 21 and on the nights of June 21 and 22.

There is also the Argentina Country of Honor Special Programme, developed in collaboration with the National Institute of Film and Audiovisual Arts of Argentina (INCAA). The program dedicated to Argentina will include an overview of its audiovisual industry and several sessions that will enable an in-depth analysis of the many opportunities for co-production with the country, as well as a meeting between Argentine and French producers with the Galician Audio Cluster (Clag), and series screenings.

Geraldine Gonard, director of Conecta FICTION, said: “We are pioneers and our main objective is to facilitate contact between professionals from both these continents to develop projects together. Professionals in Europe and America meet several times a year to buy and sell content that’s already produced, but we want to be present at an early stage, at the origin of fiction content born out of co-production. This is the engine that drives Conecta FICTION.”