Conecta FICTION Unveils Pitch Session Finalists

Conecta FICTION has revealed the finalists from its four pitching sessions, with selected projects hailing from Argentina, Chile, Spain, the Netherlands and the U.S., among others.

Finalists of the Pitch Copro Series, Pitch Fundación SGAE and Pitch Digiseries sessions will present their projects live at Conecta FICTION on Tuesday, June 18. Entries selected as finalists for the Pitch Clips category, a call for projects in collaboration with the Spain Writer’s Guild ALMA, will be exhibited on different screens within the event venue.

The winning projects will be announced on Wednesday, June 19, at 8 p.m. in the auditorium Sala de Cámara in the Baluarte, with at least one development agreement offered by TVE for projects of the Pitch Copro Series and Pitch Fundación SGAE sessions. Likewise, Acorde will provide music for one project of the Pitch Digiseries session, and Arpa Abogados will offer ten hours of consulting and legal mentoring for a project presented at the Pitch Copro Series, Pitch Fundación SGAE or Pitch Digiseries.

The Pitch Copro Series saw 117 projects from 13 different countries, with Spain leading the pack with 48 entries. Of those, ten projects have been selected, and they are mostly drama entries mixed with thriller and crime, with several stories based on real events. The chosen finalists are: Lost Toys (Storylab, Argentina), In Search of Spring (Cepa Audiovisual), The Cliff (Mediapro Chile), The Yellow Bird (Producciones Clandestinas), The Frontier (Filmo Estudios and Filmo sonido), The Saddest Goal (Manufactura de Películas), Greed (Lemming Film), The Mothers of Water (El Médano Producciones), Dolores (Kaboga Art & Films y Ondenou Audiovisual) and 2050 (Mondo TV Iberoamérica).

Three finalists have been chosen for The Pitch Fundación SGAE sessions: a drama from Emilio López Verdú, La Loba Dance Club; a comedy/mockumentary from Pepe Macías and Carla Guimarães, Why Did Men Disappear?; and The Factory, a social drama from Beatriz García Alós.

Malaka, the winning project of the TVE development award in the last edition of Conecta FICTION, will close this pitching session with a presentation from its author and executive producer, Daniel Corpas, who will explain its current status.

The Pitch Digiseries session offers an opportunity to present projects of series designed and intended to be broadcasted on different platforms and seen through devices available to all audiences. The finalists, which are all in the comedy vein, are Spain’s The P.A. (Pecado Films) and From De Dead (Valen Arts Paraíso), Peru’s Syndrome (Cinecorp), Argentina’s Dead Line (Nativa Contenidos) and Italy’s The Director of Funerals (Yanez Film).

With the format of clips of video between 30 seconds and two minutes in length, the five project finalists from the Pitch Clips session are all from Spain. They are La Indiana from Jorge Hernández, The Brides from Silvia Arribas, Bad Company from Sergio Grande and Pablo Bartolomé, The Witches of the Block from Alberto Hay-Saleh and Silvia Eva Hidalgo, and The Eslava Girls from Alba Cordero and Laura Puentes.

All the live pitching sessions will have the special collaboration of Laura Cantizano, a sales expert coach, who will perform as a Pitch Doctor for the representatives of each project.