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Laura Caballero (Madrid, February 18, 1978) is a Spanish television screenwriter and director.

She is the director and screenwriter of the most popular tv shows in Spain in the past 20 years: Aquí No Hay Quien Viva (2003-2006) and La Que Se Avecina, (2007-present). She has also directed two episodes of A Tortas con La Vida. It should be noted that she, together with her brother Alberto Caballero, she wrote 44 chapters of the Portuguese adaptation of the Aquí No Hay Quien Viva.

She is also the director and screenwriter in all of the latest Contubernio series: El Pueblo (Mediaset), 3 seasons, MACHOS ALFA (Netflix) 2 seasons and MUERTOS SL for Movistar +.

Néstor Hernández is Sony Pictures’ Head of Content for Latin America and US Hispanic until 2023. With a 23-year career in the industry, he previously served as Content and Production Manager for HBO Latin America and later as Director of Content for Mediapro USA.

During his 23-year career, he has created, written and produced series, films and documentaries of great international scope, such as the Emmy winner for Best Drama Series “Señor Avila” (HBO), the Emmy nominee for Best International Series in 2020 “The Bronze Garden” (HBO) or the winners of the NYC Telly Awards; “Mil Colmillos” (HBO) and “Guerras Ajenas”. He is also responsible for several critically and commercially acclaimed projects such as “La Reina Del Flow” 2 (Netflix), “De Brutas Nada” (Amazon) or “Entre Hombres” (HBO).

In 2023, Néstor Hernández (CEO) launched the creative and business project “We The Pixels”, a creative boutique and audiovisual production company with a presence in Miami, Mexico, Santiago de Chile and Madrid. In just one year, several projects have been launched, including the Spanish-Mexican co-production “Freeland”, directed by Katina Medina (Emily in Paris), and the series “12”, which will soon be announced by one of the most important media groups in the United States.

A radio and television communicator trained at CADENA SER, he has worked on a large number of programmes for Antena 3, Telemadrid, La1, “LA NOCHE DE LOS OSCAR” for CANAL+, CAIGA QUIEN CAIGA for Tele 5 and LaSexta and LA NUBE for LA2…., achieving a high level of recognition at Cadena SER with HOY POR HOY, ASUNTOS PROPIOS for RNE.

Producer of programmes such as “YU, No te pierdas nada”, “Un lugar llamado mundo”, XREY, CUERPOS ESPECIALES, LA PIJA Y LA QUINQUI, LA SCRIPT…

He is a regular contributor to UNICEF.

Travis Donnelly is a writer currently working as a Co-Executive Producer on America’s #1 television show, “Tracker.” His past work includes “Medium,” “Hawaii 5-0,” and “Bull.” He has been serving on the Writers Guild of America, West Board of Directors since 2018. He was also a member of the 2020 and 2023 WGA Negotiating Committee that led the guild during the 148-day strike that resulted in unprecedented new gains and protections for writers.

Travis lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

Clara Ruipérez de Azcárate holds a PhD in Law, LL.M. from the Humboldt University of Berlin and is a specialist in intellectual property law. She is the author of several books and articles on cultural industries, copyright and artificial intelligence.

After working in the IP & Media departments of Garrigues and Baker & McKenzie, she has worked as a business and production lawyer in the audiovisual industry at Telefónica Studios, Movistar+ and Netflix.

She is currently Director of Content Legal Strategy and Digital Transformation at Telefónica and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Movistar+.

Graduate in Law and Business Administration and Management (E3 programme) from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE), member of the Higher Corps of Civil Administrators of the Stat since 2012 and Undersecretary of State for Culture since 27 February 2024.

She began her career in the public sector at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, where she was Deputy Assistant Director of Intellectual Property and advisor to the entities managing intellectual property rights. In 2016, she took up the post of Deputy Assistant Director for International Relations and Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior, and subsequently became Head of the Support Unit of the Directorate General for International Relations of the same Ministry. In 2019, she returned to the Ministry of Culture and Sport, where she held the positions of Deputy Director General for Cooperation and International Promotion of Culture and Deputy Director General for the Promotion of Cultural Industries until October 2022, when she was appointed Secretary General of the EOI Foundation, F.S.P. (School of Industrial Organisation) of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism.

She held the post of Director General for Cultural Industries, Intellectual Property and Cooperation until her appointment as Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Culture on 27 February 2024.

She has given courses and lectures on intellectual property, international relations and administrative law at various institutions, including the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP). She was awarded the White Cross of the Order of Police Merit in 2018.

Born in Italy, Alberto has developed his entire career in Spain, alternating between production and writing tasks for film and television.
His credits as film executive producer include titles such as the horror saga “[REC]”, or “The Way” (dir. Emilio Estévez) Among his film writing credits are titles like “Sleep Tight” (winner of the Gaudí Award for best screenplay), “El Desconocido/Retribution” (nominated for the Goya Awards for best screenplay), “Your Son” or “El 47”.
In television, Alberto has been responsible for the development of the series “Red Bracelets” (Filmax/TVC whose remake in the United States was produced by S. Spielberg, “The Red Band Society”).

He is the co-creator of the series “The Unit” (Movistar, its third season winner of the Spanish TV Academy Award for best series of the year) and “Marbella” (Movistar), and a writer for episodes of series such as “Stories to Stay Awake” (Amazon/TVE/ZDF) and “Offworld” (Movistar, in Serie Mania official competition).

Detailed list of movies and series on IMDB.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1157609/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Originally from Canada, and a former lawyer, David Shore has been writing and producing television for more than 20 years. He was Executive Producer and Co-Showrunner on the hit ABC drama “The Good Doctor,” which recently completed its seventh and final season. Prior to that, he created and was showrunner on the groundbreaking medical drama, “House,” which ran on Fox for eight seasons. Shore’s work on “House” earned him several Emmy nominations for Producing and he won the Emmy Award for “Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series,” as well as the Humanitas Prize, Peabody Award, and Writers Guild of America Award.

Shore’s additional producer credits include “Sneaky Pete,” “Battle Creek,” “Hack,” “Family Law,” “Beggars and Choosers,” “Law & Order” and “Traders.” He was nominated for two Emmy Awards as a producer on “Law & Order” and was part of the writing team for the Emmy Award-winning first season of “The Practice.”

Law graduate and career civil servant in the Senior Civil Service of Spain. He is currently attached to the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union as Counsellor for Culture and Audiovisual Affairs. He has been Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and Sport, Deputy Director-General for Cooperation and Competitiveness in Tourism at the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Financial Director of Acción Cultural Española and Deputy Director-General for Music and Dance and Human Resources at the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

DIRECTOR OF A PRODUCTION AND CONTENT CONSULTANCY

GECA (Gabinete de Estudios de Comunicación Audiovisual)

Expert in Audiovisual Formats and Markets, Creativity and Executive Production. She has been Director of International Markets and Communication, Head of Programmes, Head of New Projects, Content Director and Fiction Coordinator. She has participated and lectured at international events such as Iberseries, Conecta Fiction, Southseries MIP Cancun or Content Americas. She has worked in television channels such as Telecinco and audiovisual production companies. She holds a PhD “cum laude” in Audiovisual Communication from the Complutense University, teaches at professional masters and at the Francisco de Vitoria and Carlos III universities in Madrid, is an expert lecturer on the RTVE Haz project and participates in several university research projects. She writes and collaborates in the publication of books on the audiovisual sector: ¿Qué es eso del formato, Diccionario de Teorías Narrativas, El Entretenimiento en España, Intermedia, among others.

Ibán García del Blanco was a Member of the European Parliament during the 9th parliamentary term, from July 2019 to July 2024. In his role as coordinator of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Group in the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, he was, among other things, part of the negotiating team for the Artificial Intelligence Act, rapporteur for the legislative initiative on the ethical aspects of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies and for the opinion on the Data Act, and co-rapporteur for the own-initiative report on virtual worlds. As a member of the Committee on Culture and Education, he was rapporteur for the own-initiative report on “Cultural Diversity and Conditions for Authors in the European Streaming Music Market”.

He is a member of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Spanish National Library.

Ibán García del Blanco has a degree in law. As a lawyer, he has specialised in cultural management.

As a director, producer, scriptwriter or editor, I have worked for the most important television channels and production companies on entertainment programmes, fiction series and documentaries, ranging from the true crime genre, such as “Arny, historia de una infamia” or “Yo fui un asesino. El crimen de la catana“, to the musical genre with productions such as “Mi vida entre las hormigas” or the most recent collaboration as editor and co-screenwriter of “Labordeta, un hombre sin más“, winner of the GOYA 2023 for Best Documentary. In the area of fiction, I have co-created and written the series “El Caso, crónica de sucesos“, broadcasted by RTVE.

Nerea Sanjuan holds a degree in Law from the University of Valladolid and a Master of Law (LL.M.) from Columbia University, New York (Fulbright Grantee), specialising in copyright, entertainment and telecommunications law, as well as international contracts. Nerea also holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and has attended various courses in audiovisual production at the Instituto del Cine in Madrid and the Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon.

Nerea Sanjuan is currently head of the culture, sport and entertainment practice at Andersen. She previously worked at Uría Menéndez, Vodafone and Cuatrecasas in the areas of intellectual property, audiovisual and electronic communications regulation, advertising and consumer affairs. He regularly advises a large number of national and international companies in various sectors of the entertainment, cultural and technology industries. In the academic field, he teaches at the Complutense University of Madrid in the Masters in Law of New Technologies, at ISDE-Pons in the Masters in Industrial and Intellectual Property, Competition and New Technologies, and at ISDE in the Masters in Entertainment Law.

Xavier is one of the UK’s leading producers and senior executives with over 30 years of industry experience.

Just prior to setting up Moonriver, Xavier was President of Production at eOne Features. He joined eOne when it acquired the Alliance Films Group that Xavier jointly ran, which included Momentum Pictures, the UK distributor whose growth he engineered over ten years.

He has also held senior executive positions at Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Warner Bros and Universal.

Some of his recent film credits as Producer and/or Executive Producer include Wild Rose (2019), Stan & Ollie (2018), Eye In The Sky (2015); Spotlight (2015), Suite Française (2014); The Woman In Black (2012); Quartet (2012); and The King’s Speech (2010).

Xavier and Moonriver produced the feature film Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (2022).

He has just delivered as the lead Executive producer Nautilus, an epic action- adventure TV series for Disney, based on Jules Verne’s beguiling anti-hero, Captain Nemo, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Nautilus will be released by AMC in North America and premium channels internationally.

The series, A Gentleman in Moscow, an adaptation of Amor Towles’ best-selling novel, starring Ewan McGregor has just been released on March 29th, 2024, on Showtime and Paramount + global to great critical acclaim. Xavier Marchand, alongside Tom Harper optioned the rights to the novel and Executive produced the series.

Xavier and Moonriver have several series in development in the US, UK, France and Australia with Sky, Netflix, TF1, France Televisions amongst other.