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Highlights of the 2024 edition

Well-known characters from our favorite series left us unforgettable moments to remember in the 2024 edition.

Participants 2024 edition

Meet the professionals who will participate in the second edition of South International Series Festival

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JJ Lousberg

JJ Lousberg is the Managing Director and Producer at Magical Society UK, which he co-founded with Paul Trijbits as a partnership with the Paris-based television and film studio Magical Society set up by Aton Soumache and Joann Sfar.

Lousberg recently produced Day & Night, the top-rated medical series for Dutch broadcaster NPO, with a second season in production and a third in prep. Previously he was Focus Features / Universal’s SVP International Productions and Acquisitions, working across the slate on films like Inglorious Basterds, Ex Machina, Mama and Theory of Everything.

As the head of the international production division at Universal & Focus, Lousberg also oversaw the local language production and acquisition strategy for the studio, co-producing numerous local hit films in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico and Australia.

Magical Society currently has BBC One drama Virdee in post-production and is preparing a live-action adaptation of St Exupery’s beloved masterpiece The Little Prince. Also in pre-production is Klezmer, based on Joann Sfar’s graphic novel series, a Wild-East action-adventure set in 1903 Odessa, to be directed by Fauda’s Assaf Bernstein.

 

Giuseppe di Bella

 

Paula Cobo

Paula graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad San Jorge de Zaragoza, and later specialized in Business & Management at NYU, in addition to embarking on other creative courses taught at The School of Visual Arts (SVA). He completed his training, always focused on content development and production, with a diploma in International Distribution at the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba). Her professional career began in the development department of Mogambo, where she also worked as executive production assistant. A year later, she joined the representation agency Alter Ego Talent House, taking on the negotiation of projects for a wide portfolio of directors, screenwriters and composers over several years. With the birth in 2020 of the production company, Espotlight Media, Paula begins to work in creative production and content development, until becoming the executive producer of the third series of the company: “Un nuevo amanecer” (Atresplayer) and “Dime tu nombre” (Prime Video).

 

Sofia Squittieri

Sofía Squittieri is an audiovisual professional with experience in executive production, content development and screenwriting, both in Spain and the United States. With a degree in English Studies from UCM and a Masters in Screenwriting for Film and TV from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Sofia complemented her education with a prestigious scholarship in film, screenwriting and acting at the University of Los Angeles, California (UCLA). In addition, she furthered her acting skills at the Cristina Rota School and Work In Progress.

She began her career as a screenwriter at Comedy Central News (2017) and participated in the production of film festivals, series and entrepreneurship projects with The Pink Dream Factory (2017-2019), combining these activities with her work as an actress. In 2019, she joined Balance Media Entertainment, where she has managed the Content and Sales departments, overseeing project development, talent search, content sales and international co-productions.

In parallel, she has developed her career as an independent creator through her label Adrenaline Productions, where she has produced and scripted both fiction and entertainment, collaborating with prominent producers and filmmakers. She has also taken on the role of director on music videos and the Instagram series Chicos in her T1. In 2021, she was invited to give a TEDx talk titled Fiction Breaks the Silence, in which she explores the power of audiovisual narrative to make taboo topics visible and generate social impact.

Member of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas and the Academia de la Televisión, and winner of the MAFIZ Hack at the Malaga Film Festival (2023), she continues her career as a creator of innovative content, specializing in executive production, scriptwriting and development of audiovisual projects. She also stands out in the field of comedy as a stand-up scriptwriter and creator of the videopodcast Curreles. She will soon premiere on Filmin the mini-series Crónicas de una actriz superviviente (Chronicles of a Surviving Actress ) as creator and producer.

 

Victor Lamadrid

Telecommunications engineer, with more than 20 years of experience in the cultural sector. Director of Cantabria Film Commission and vice-president of Spain Film Commission. Coordinator of the catalog of short films “Cantabria en corto”, which this year celebrates its tenth edition, organizer of the training sessions Diálogos de cine y producción (DCP), of which 35 have been held to date, to promote the audiovisual sector in Cantabria. Speaker at festivals such as the European Film Festival of Seville, Aguilar de Campoo, SEMINCI, or Malaga, jury of various competitions and catalogs of short films. Curator of the exhibition “Spain, a country of cinema”, inaugurated at the Berlinale 2019, and of the exhibition “Cantabria de cine” inaugurated in 2023 in Berlin.

 

Jordi Vallejo

Screenwriter and Playwright

With a degree in Screenwriting from ESCAC, he began his professional career as a screenwriter in 2006, occupying various positions in several screenwriting salons.

His first big success comes in 2015 with his debut as a playwright with “El Test”, winner of the Fray Luís de León Award, a comedy that became a hit in Madrid for 3 consecutive seasons. The play, premiered in 10 countries and optioned in 9 more, wins the 2018 ACE Award (Argentine Theater Award) for best comedy in 2018.

In 2016, he worked as a screenwriter for the forensic thriller “Nit i Dia” and wrote for “Pau Casals, la Força del Silenci”, nominated for best fiction at the 2018 Nymphe d’Or and awarded the Monte Carlo Red Cross Award.

In 2018, he released his first feature film for cinema, “Alegría, Tristeza”, a drama directed by Ibon Cormenzana. That same year he also releases “El Pacto”, David Victori’s debut feature film, produced by Sony and Ikiru Films.

In 2019, he creates and writes together with Oriol Paulo the Netflix miniseries “The Innocent”, an adaptation of Harlan Coben’s novel of the same name, which turns out to be a global success, entering the top 3 in the United States as the most watched series for several weeks.

At the end of 2020 David Victori’s second film, “No Matarás”, starring Mario Casas and produced by Filmax, will be released, number one in theaters and for which Casas won the Goya for best actor.

In 2023, “Tú también lo Harías”, a series co-created and co-written with David Victori, will premiere in Spain on Disney Plus.

In 2024, together with Oriol Paulo, he premieres the series “La Última Noche en Temblor” for Netflix.

He is currently writing two originals for Netflix, two feature-length thrillers, one of them for Albert Pintó (“Nowhere”). He is also developing content for Apple TV+, where on October 30 he premieres the first season of “Tú también Lo Harías” for everyone.

 

Hugo Stuven

based on a true story and starring Alain Hernández, Aura Garrido, Ben Temple and Leticia Etala. The film was selected as part of the official Malaga Premiere section at the Malaga Film Festival. It was released in theaters in 2018 by the hand of the distributor Filmax.

ANOMALOUS is his feature film debut. A psychological thriller shot between New York and Barcelona and starring Lluis Homar, Christy Escobar, Edgar Fox, Adria Arjona and Ben Temple.

With his debut film he won the award for best film and best actor (Lluis Homar) at the Marbella Film Festival. It also won first prize at the 13th Talca International Film Festival in Chile. It won the bronze award in the thriller/suspense category at the Worldfest Independent Film Festival in Houston and has participated in the Official Competition Section at Fantaspoa (Brazil).

Anomalous was the only Spanish film that competed and won a nomination at the Soho International Film Festival in NYC. It has also participated in the Macabro Film Festival in Mexico.

With his first novel El Faro de las lágrimas perdidas he was a finalist for the 2010 Minotauro Prize (International Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels of the Planeta group). In 2016 his second novel was released, based on his first film, titled Anómalo.

Hugo will soon premiere “Dime tu nombre”, the new Prime Video horror series he is directing, which is produced by Espotlight in co-production with Skyboundent.

Chloé Wallace

Chloé Wallace is a half Spanish and half American writer, director and photographer born in Madrid. She majored in Audiovisual Communication at Goldsmiths University of London and graduated with an MFA from NYU Grad Film, with the Willard T.C. Johnson and Maurice Kanbar scholarships. After 11 years living between London, New York and Los Angeles, she returned in 2022 to Madrid. At the age of 20, Chloé signed with the production company CANADA as a filmmaker, making her the company’s first and youngest director. Some of her clients have been: Snapchat, Chanel, Reebok, Booking.com, LOLA, Rimmel London, Bayer and Microsoft, to name a few. In 2017, she is awarded Best Director and Best Emerging Artist at the Berlin Commercial Festival. In 2019, her music video for Shura was nominated for a UKMVA award and named one of the top 20 music videos of the year by Billboard. Chloé first picked up a camera at the age of 14 and by 16 was already working as a photographer, becoming a frequent contributor to publications such as Glamour and Vogue Spain for which she still writes and photographs. Eager to learn more, her love of photography pushed her to try directing and the rest is history in the making. In July 2023 she premieres ‘Un Cuento Perfecto’ on Netflix, starring Anna Castillo and Álvaro Mel, her first fiction. A week later, the miniseries becomes the number 1 most watched series in the world, with 6.8 million views in the first week. Un Cuento Perfecto’ becomes the most watched content worldwide for a Spanish-language serialized fiction product, with 24,000,000 viewers and more than 89,000,000 hours viewed of the title, followed by Wednesday (Wednesday), with 23,900,000 million viewers. In November 2023, he publishes his first book ‘Hola, Stranger’ with LAVA publishing house. In February 2024, she begins shooting her first feature film, the adaptation of the Wattpad novel, ‘Bad Influence’. Chloé’s work celebrates popcorn and feminism with equal parts enthusiasm and honesty. She is passionate about original, authentic female characters and bittersweet experiences, always seeking to create a complicated, fantastical, and truly honest world that embraces both darkness and light. When not writing or creating fiction projects, she puts her love of film into commercial work or passion projects in music and fashion. Her background in music (Chloé studied at a music conservatory for 11 years, specializing in baroque recorder) allows her to apply rhythm and melody in her work in a poignant and unique way. “Desire” (2019), her first narrative short film, circulated the festival circuit having been accepted into Palm Springs ShortFest, Maryland Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival and more.

Links

The Country – Hello Stranger etc

Esquire – Hello Stranger, UCP

Folie

Vogue Spain – UCP

Vogue Spain – MINF

Vogue Spain – UCP

E Billboard – MINF

Movies with N – MINF

Vein – Hello Stranger

Harpers Bazaar – LV

El País 2017

Vanity 2015

Mucho Texto Podcast

Ramón Salázar

He trained as an actor at the ESAD in Malaga and studied screenwriting at the ECAM.

His first short film HONGOS (1999) was widely screened at national and international festivals with public and critical acclaim. Thanks to this, he was able to shoot his debut film PIEDRAS (2002), which competed in the Official Selection at the Berlinale. The film won awards at international festivals such as Stockholm, Ghent, San Francisco; as well as a Goya nomination for the best film of the year.
Best New Director
.

His second feature film, the musical 20 CENTÍMETROS (2005) won awards in the Official Selection of the Locarno Festival, as well as a wide international premiere in countries such as the United States, France, Italy and Belgium.

In his third film as director and screenwriter 10.000 NOCHES EN NINGUNA PARTE (2013) he starts a creative tandem with actress Susi Sánchez that gets his first Goya nomination.

Her fourth and latest feature film LA ENFERMEDAD DEL DOMINGO (2018) premiered at the Berlinale and New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and actress Susi Sanchez won the Goya for.
Best Actress in a Leading Role
for her work in the film.

As a screenwriter, he has adapted two bestsellers, 3 METERS ABOVE THE SKY (2010) and its sequel TENGO GANAS DE TI (2012), nominated for the Goya for
Best Adapted Screenplay
for both.

In television, he has been the director of the first two seasons of ELITE (2018-2019) for Netflix, as well as the final season of the prison drama VIS A VIS (2019). He has pending release his first international series shot in the UK RED ROSE (2022) produced by the BBC, Eleven Film and Netflix.

Sonsoles Miranda

Sonsoles Miranda is the head of recruitment and institutional relations for the Haz project at the RTVE Institute. She is responsible for seeking collaboration with institutions in the audiovisual sector in order to bring the Haz training offer to as many people and institutions as possible.

 

Gustavo Cotta

Gustavo Cotta has been working as a television content creator for more than 30 years. As showrunner, he has directed series such as Un paso adelante, Casi Perfectos, Mis Adorables Vecinos, Mesa para Cinco, SMS, Cafetería Manhattan and Sin tetas no hay paraíso for broadcast throughout Europe. He also gives lectures and seminars on directing for film and television.

 

Juan Antonio Clemente

Juan Antonio Clemente is location manager, production manager and director.

He has worked for Oscar-winning directors such as Ridley Scott, Wes Anderson and Steven Soderbergh on Hollywood blockbusters including Exodus, The Counselor, Asteroid City and Jurassic World Dominion.
His most recent work includes the international series Kaos and Warrior Nun 2, released on Netflix.

 

Jacobo Alvarez

Senior Sync Manager / Music Supervisor.

Sync Manager at BMG Iberia, working with artists and writers such as Mecano, Iggy Pop, Ganges, Blondie, IZARO, Tears for Fears; previously at PIAS UK, where he worked on Peaky Blinders, Sex Education, Killing Eve or DARK and with artists such as IDLES, Beach House, The Black Keys or Apparat.

Music Supervisor and Licensing Executive at Sky Studios / Sky Group, responsible for a wide range of scripted, documentary and entertainment projects including Midwich Cuckoos, A Discovery of Witches and co-productions with HBO and Peacock such as I Hate Suzie, The Third Day and Intelligence. At Sky, he was also responsible for several advertising projects for the group’s brands and worked with NBCUniversal’s distribution teams.
He has also worked as head of music supervision for Adidas, working with their agencies and marketing teams worldwide.

 

Sara Sevilla

She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Navarre and a Master of Business Administration from the Chamber of Commerce. She has been working at the INAAC Foundation (Institute of Audiovisual Arts and Cinematography) since 2011. Since 2014 she has been the Director of the Navarre Film Commission, which works to promote the audiovisual sector in the region and attracts film shoots to Navarre, as part of NICDO (Navarra Impulsa Cultura, Deporte y Ocio). Since 2017, she has been a member of the jury for the Public Grants for the Audiovisual Sector: Generazinema, promoted by the Department of Culture of the Government of Navarra. Since 2018 she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Film Commission and has participated as a jury member in several film festivals and competitions (Punto de Vista, NIFF, Navarra Tierra de Cine, Conecta Fiction, etc).

 

Chema Garcia Jimenez

Chema García Jiménez is an entrepreneur and business executive with extensive experience in new technologies applied to the publishing, audiovisual and film sectors. He is co-founder of Lantia Publishing and Lantia Films, companies that manage more than 85,000 books by 40,000 authors and 300 publishers, operating in Europe and America. A pioneer in the introduction of e-books and print-on-demand in Spain and Latin America since 2001, he has driven the digital transformation of the sector.

He has led and founded several innovative B2B and B2C projects. His entrepreneurial approach has been recognised with awards such as the Red Herring Europe and Global awards, which highlight the 100 most innovative companies in the world.

Currently, Chema remains active as a partner and executive in several technology and publishing companies.

 

JJ Lousberg

JJ Lousberg is the Managing Director and Producer at Magical Society UK, which he co-founded with Paul Trijbits as a partnership with the Paris-based television and film studio Magical Society set up by Aton Soumache and Joann Sfar.

Lousberg recently produced Day & Night, the top-rated medical series for Dutch broadcaster NPO, with a second season in production and a third in prep. Previously he was Focus Features / Universal’s SVP International Productions and Acquisitions, working across the slate on films like Inglorious Basterds, Ex Machina, Mama and Theory of Everything.

As the head of the international production division at Universal & Focus, Lousberg also oversaw the local language production and acquisition strategy for the studio, co-producing numerous local hit films in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Mexico and Australia.

Magical Society currently has BBC One drama Virdee in post-production and is preparing a live-action adaptation of St Exupery’s beloved masterpiece The Little Prince. Also in pre-production is Klezmer, based on Joann Sfar’s graphic novel series, a Wild-East action-adventure set in 1903 Odessa, to be directed by Fauda’s Assaf Bernstein.

 

Giuseppe di Bella

 

Paula Cobo

Paula graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad San Jorge de Zaragoza, and later specialized in Business & Management at NYU, in addition to embarking on other creative courses taught at The School of Visual Arts (SVA). He completed his training, always focused on content development and production, with a diploma in International Distribution at the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba). Her professional career began in the development department of Mogambo, where she also worked as executive production assistant. A year later, she joined the representation agency Alter Ego Talent House, taking on the negotiation of projects for a wide portfolio of directors, screenwriters and composers over several years. With the birth in 2020 of the production company, Espotlight Media, Paula begins to work in creative production and content development, until becoming the executive producer of the third series of the company: “Un nuevo amanecer” (Atresplayer) and “Dime tu nombre” (Prime Video).

 

Sofia Squittieri

Sofía Squittieri is an audiovisual professional with experience in executive production, content development and screenwriting, both in Spain and the United States. With a degree in English Studies from UCM and a Masters in Screenwriting for Film and TV from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Sofia complemented her education with a prestigious scholarship in film, screenwriting and acting at the University of Los Angeles, California (UCLA). In addition, she furthered her acting skills at the Cristina Rota School and Work In Progress.

She began her career as a screenwriter at Comedy Central News (2017) and participated in the production of film festivals, series and entrepreneurship projects with The Pink Dream Factory (2017-2019), combining these activities with her work as an actress. In 2019, she joined Balance Media Entertainment, where she has managed the Content and Sales departments, overseeing project development, talent search, content sales and international co-productions.

In parallel, she has developed her career as an independent creator through her label Adrenaline Productions, where she has produced and scripted both fiction and entertainment, collaborating with prominent producers and filmmakers. She has also taken on the role of director on music videos and the Instagram series Chicos in her T1. In 2021, she was invited to give a TEDx talk titled Fiction Breaks the Silence, in which she explores the power of audiovisual narrative to make taboo topics visible and generate social impact.

Member of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas and the Academia de la Televisión, and winner of the MAFIZ Hack at the Malaga Film Festival (2023), she continues her career as a creator of innovative content, specializing in executive production, scriptwriting and development of audiovisual projects. She also stands out in the field of comedy as a stand-up scriptwriter and creator of the videopodcast Curreles. She will soon premiere on Filmin the mini-series Crónicas de una actriz superviviente (Chronicles of a Surviving Actress ) as creator and producer.

 

Victor Lamadrid

Telecommunications engineer, with more than 20 years of experience in the cultural sector. Director of Cantabria Film Commission and vice-president of Spain Film Commission. Coordinator of the catalog of short films “Cantabria en corto”, which this year celebrates its tenth edition, organizer of the training sessions Diálogos de cine y producción (DCP), of which 35 have been held to date, to promote the audiovisual sector in Cantabria. Speaker at festivals such as the European Film Festival of Seville, Aguilar de Campoo, SEMINCI, or Malaga, jury of various competitions and catalogs of short films. Curator of the exhibition “Spain, a country of cinema”, inaugurated at the Berlinale 2019, and of the exhibition “Cantabria de cine” inaugurated in 2023 in Berlin.

 

Jordi Vallejo

Screenwriter and Playwright

With a degree in Screenwriting from ESCAC, he began his professional career as a screenwriter in 2006, occupying various positions in several screenwriting salons.

His first big success comes in 2015 with his debut as a playwright with “El Test”, winner of the Fray Luís de León Award, a comedy that became a hit in Madrid for 3 consecutive seasons. The play, premiered in 10 countries and optioned in 9 more, wins the 2018 ACE Award (Argentine Theater Award) for best comedy in 2018.

In 2016, he worked as a screenwriter for the forensic thriller “Nit i Dia” and wrote for “Pau Casals, la Força del Silenci”, nominated for best fiction at the 2018 Nymphe d’Or and awarded the Monte Carlo Red Cross Award.

In 2018, he released his first feature film for cinema, “Alegría, Tristeza”, a drama directed by Ibon Cormenzana. That same year he also releases “El Pacto”, David Victori’s debut feature film, produced by Sony and Ikiru Films.

In 2019, he creates and writes together with Oriol Paulo the Netflix miniseries “The Innocent”, an adaptation of Harlan Coben’s novel of the same name, which turns out to be a global success, entering the top 3 in the United States as the most watched series for several weeks.

At the end of 2020 David Victori’s second film, “No Matarás”, starring Mario Casas and produced by Filmax, will be released, number one in theaters and for which Casas won the Goya for best actor.

In 2023, “Tú también lo Harías”, a series co-created and co-written with David Victori, will premiere in Spain on Disney Plus.

In 2024, together with Oriol Paulo, he premieres the series “La Última Noche en Temblor” for Netflix.

He is currently writing two originals for Netflix, two feature-length thrillers, one of them for Albert Pintó (“Nowhere”). He is also developing content for Apple TV+, where on October 30 he premieres the first season of “Tú también Lo Harías” for everyone.

 

Hugo Stuven

based on a true story and starring Alain Hernández, Aura Garrido, Ben Temple and Leticia Etala. The film was selected as part of the official Malaga Premiere section at the Malaga Film Festival. It was released in theaters in 2018 by the hand of the distributor Filmax.

ANOMALOUS is his feature film debut. A psychological thriller shot between New York and Barcelona and starring Lluis Homar, Christy Escobar, Edgar Fox, Adria Arjona and Ben Temple.

With his debut film he won the award for best film and best actor (Lluis Homar) at the Marbella Film Festival. It also won first prize at the 13th Talca International Film Festival in Chile. It won the bronze award in the thriller/suspense category at the Worldfest Independent Film Festival in Houston and has participated in the Official Competition Section at Fantaspoa (Brazil).

Anomalous was the only Spanish film that competed and won a nomination at the Soho International Film Festival in NYC. It has also participated in the Macabro Film Festival in Mexico.

With his first novel El Faro de las lágrimas perdidas he was a finalist for the 2010 Minotauro Prize (International Prize for Fantasy and Science Fiction Novels of the Planeta group). In 2016 his second novel was released, based on his first film, titled Anómalo.

Hugo will soon premiere “Dime tu nombre”, the new Prime Video horror series he is directing, which is produced by Espotlight in co-production with Skyboundent.

Chloé Wallace

Chloé Wallace is a half Spanish and half American writer, director and photographer born in Madrid. She majored in Audiovisual Communication at Goldsmiths University of London and graduated with an MFA from NYU Grad Film, with the Willard T.C. Johnson and Maurice Kanbar scholarships. After 11 years living between London, New York and Los Angeles, she returned in 2022 to Madrid. At the age of 20, Chloé signed with the production company CANADA as a filmmaker, making her the company’s first and youngest director. Some of her clients have been: Snapchat, Chanel, Reebok, Booking.com, LOLA, Rimmel London, Bayer and Microsoft, to name a few. In 2017, she is awarded Best Director and Best Emerging Artist at the Berlin Commercial Festival. In 2019, her music video for Shura was nominated for a UKMVA award and named one of the top 20 music videos of the year by Billboard. Chloé first picked up a camera at the age of 14 and by 16 was already working as a photographer, becoming a frequent contributor to publications such as Glamour and Vogue Spain for which she still writes and photographs. Eager to learn more, her love of photography pushed her to try directing and the rest is history in the making. In July 2023 she premieres ‘Un Cuento Perfecto’ on Netflix, starring Anna Castillo and Álvaro Mel, her first fiction. A week later, the miniseries becomes the number 1 most watched series in the world, with 6.8 million views in the first week. Un Cuento Perfecto’ becomes the most watched content worldwide for a Spanish-language serialized fiction product, with 24,000,000 viewers and more than 89,000,000 hours viewed of the title, followed by Wednesday (Wednesday), with 23,900,000 million viewers. In November 2023, he publishes his first book ‘Hola, Stranger’ with LAVA publishing house. In February 2024, she begins shooting her first feature film, the adaptation of the Wattpad novel, ‘Bad Influence’. Chloé’s work celebrates popcorn and feminism with equal parts enthusiasm and honesty. She is passionate about original, authentic female characters and bittersweet experiences, always seeking to create a complicated, fantastical, and truly honest world that embraces both darkness and light. When not writing or creating fiction projects, she puts her love of film into commercial work or passion projects in music and fashion. Her background in music (Chloé studied at a music conservatory for 11 years, specializing in baroque recorder) allows her to apply rhythm and melody in her work in a poignant and unique way. “Desire” (2019), her first narrative short film, circulated the festival circuit having been accepted into Palm Springs ShortFest, Maryland Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival and more.

Links

The Country – Hello Stranger etc

Esquire – Hello Stranger, UCP

Folie

Vogue Spain – UCP

Vogue Spain – MINF

Vogue Spain – UCP

E Billboard – MINF

Movies with N – MINF

Vein – Hello Stranger

Harpers Bazaar – LV

El País 2017

Vanity 2015

Mucho Texto Podcast

Ramón Salázar

He trained as an actor at the ESAD in Malaga and studied screenwriting at the ECAM.

His first short film HONGOS (1999) was widely screened at national and international festivals with public and critical acclaim. Thanks to this, he was able to shoot his debut film PIEDRAS (2002), which competed in the Official Selection at the Berlinale. The film won awards at international festivals such as Stockholm, Ghent, San Francisco; as well as a Goya nomination for the best film of the year.
Best New Director
.

His second feature film, the musical 20 CENTÍMETROS (2005) won awards in the Official Selection of the Locarno Festival, as well as a wide international premiere in countries such as the United States, France, Italy and Belgium.

In his third film as director and screenwriter 10.000 NOCHES EN NINGUNA PARTE (2013) he starts a creative tandem with actress Susi Sánchez that gets his first Goya nomination.

Her fourth and latest feature film LA ENFERMEDAD DEL DOMINGO (2018) premiered at the Berlinale and New York’s Tribeca Film Festival and actress Susi Sanchez won the Goya for.
Best Actress in a Leading Role
for her work in the film.

As a screenwriter, he has adapted two bestsellers, 3 METERS ABOVE THE SKY (2010) and its sequel TENGO GANAS DE TI (2012), nominated for the Goya for
Best Adapted Screenplay
for both.

In television, he has been the director of the first two seasons of ELITE (2018-2019) for Netflix, as well as the final season of the prison drama VIS A VIS (2019). He has pending release his first international series shot in the UK RED ROSE (2022) produced by the BBC, Eleven Film and Netflix.

Sonsoles Miranda

Sonsoles Miranda is the head of recruitment and institutional relations for the Haz project at the RTVE Institute. She is responsible for seeking collaboration with institutions in the audiovisual sector in order to bring the Haz training offer to as many people and institutions as possible.

 

Gustavo Cotta

Gustavo Cotta has been working as a television content creator for more than 30 years. As showrunner, he has directed series such as Un paso adelante, Casi Perfectos, Mis Adorables Vecinos, Mesa para Cinco, SMS, Cafetería Manhattan and Sin tetas no hay paraíso for broadcast throughout Europe. He also gives lectures and seminars on directing for film and television.

 

Juan Antonio Clemente

Juan Antonio Clemente is location manager, production manager and director.

He has worked for Oscar-winning directors such as Ridley Scott, Wes Anderson and Steven Soderbergh on Hollywood blockbusters including Exodus, The Counselor, Asteroid City and Jurassic World Dominion.
His most recent work includes the international series Kaos and Warrior Nun 2, released on Netflix.

 

Jacobo Alvarez

Senior Sync Manager / Music Supervisor.

Sync Manager at BMG Iberia, working with artists and writers such as Mecano, Iggy Pop, Ganges, Blondie, IZARO, Tears for Fears; previously at PIAS UK, where he worked on Peaky Blinders, Sex Education, Killing Eve or DARK and with artists such as IDLES, Beach House, The Black Keys or Apparat.

Music Supervisor and Licensing Executive at Sky Studios / Sky Group, responsible for a wide range of scripted, documentary and entertainment projects including Midwich Cuckoos, A Discovery of Witches and co-productions with HBO and Peacock such as I Hate Suzie, The Third Day and Intelligence. At Sky, he was also responsible for several advertising projects for the group’s brands and worked with NBCUniversal’s distribution teams.
He has also worked as head of music supervision for Adidas, working with their agencies and marketing teams worldwide.

 

Sara Sevilla

She holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Navarre and a Master of Business Administration from the Chamber of Commerce. She has been working at the INAAC Foundation (Institute of Audiovisual Arts and Cinematography) since 2011. Since 2014 she has been the Director of the Navarre Film Commission, which works to promote the audiovisual sector in the region and attracts film shoots to Navarre, as part of NICDO (Navarra Impulsa Cultura, Deporte y Ocio). Since 2017, she has been a member of the jury for the Public Grants for the Audiovisual Sector: Generazinema, promoted by the Department of Culture of the Government of Navarra. Since 2018 she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Film Commission and has participated as a jury member in several film festivals and competitions (Punto de Vista, NIFF, Navarra Tierra de Cine, Conecta Fiction, etc).

 

Chema Garcia Jimenez

Chema García Jiménez is an entrepreneur and business executive with extensive experience in new technologies applied to the publishing, audiovisual and film sectors. He is co-founder of Lantia Publishing and Lantia Films, companies that manage more than 85,000 books by 40,000 authors and 300 publishers, operating in Europe and America. A pioneer in the introduction of e-books and print-on-demand in Spain and Latin America since 2001, he has driven the digital transformation of the sector.

He has led and founded several innovative B2B and B2C projects. His entrepreneurial approach has been recognised with awards such as the Red Herring Europe and Global awards, which highlight the 100 most innovative companies in the world.

Currently, Chema remains active as a partner and executive in several technology and publishing companies.