The ever-expanding Madrid-based confab, Iberseries & Platino Industria, is pivoting towards even more B2B activities, said its co-director Samuel Castro of the event, which is expected to surpass last year’s 2,500 accreditations.
\n\n“Over the past few years, we’ve focused a lot on fairly one-way conversations with speakers talking to an audience but we’re now also starting to promote more B2B activities during the event: more business-focused opportunities and more spaces for people to meet and connect.”
\n\nAccording to Castro, alongside the traditional activities they’ve held, such as the co-production and financing forum, they’ve introduced more pitch sessions, led by the new Euro-Atlantic Series Co-Pro Pitch program, which assembles a cross-section of mainly European TV projects that seek to advance their development.
\n\nIberseries & Platino Industria is also programming meetings with screenwriters, this time in collaboration with the SGAE Foundation, the Spanish collecting society for writers, and with DAMA, its counterpart for audiovisual creators, he said.
\n\n14 screenwriters from Recreas, DAMA’s project incubator, will be presenting their projects to the industry. These were selected from nearly 300 submissions of unreleased fiction, documentary and animation projects.
\n\n“All of this reflects the strategic shift we’re making this year. I’d like to say that…
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