Confirmed participants

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 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.

100 Bullets General Manager

Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Master in Audiovisual Business Management from the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid and Master in Television from the Universidad Complutense. He began his professional career in the R&D department of Telemadrid. In 2001, he moved to Telemadrid as assistant to the head of purchasing at the same channel, becoming head of purchasing three years later. In 2005 he arrived at Cuatro as Head of Programming for Outside Production. In 2010 he started at NBC as Director of Programming and Acquisitions for the channels Calle 13 and Syfy in Spain and Portugal. He has worked for laSexta as Director of Acquisitions and Outside Production, contributing to the launch of laSexta3 and Xplora. Later he was Director of Television at Televisión Española and Content Director at Discovery Spain and Portugal. He currently directs the production company 100 Balas, part of the Mediapro group. His fiction productions include the Vota Juan trilogy, the Prime Video series “Romancero” and “Su Majestad” and the series “Celeste” for Movistar. In the non-fiction area, he has produced successful docuseries such as “El Palmar de Troya”, “Lola”, “Matar al Presidente” and “Lina”. Professor at UC3M, Instituto de Empresa, Instituto de RTVE and ECAM. General Manager of 100 Balas.

Film and television scriptwriter specialising in comedy. He began his career writing for comedy programmes such as “Vaya Semanita”, “El Intermedio”, “Qué vida más triste” and “La noche de José Mota”.

In 2009 he made his first foray into cinema with Borja Cobeaga, with whom he wrote “Pagafantas”, winner of the Malaga Festival Award for Best New Screenplay. With Cobeaga he also wrote “No Controles” (2011) and the highest grossing film in history, “8 apellidos vascos” (2014), for which they wrote a sequel the following year, “8 apellidos catalanes” (2015). He has also appeared in films such as “Tenemos que hablar” (2016) and “Fe de etarras” (2017).

His most recent releases include “Súperlopez” (2018), for which he was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the series “Vota Juan” (2019) and its sequels “Vamos Juan” (2020) and “Venga Juan” (2021). In 2024 he will premiere Celeste, a new original series for Movistar Plus+, created by Diego San José and co-produced with 100 Balas (The Mediapro Studio).

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.”

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 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.

100 Bullets General Manager

Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Master in Audiovisual Business Management from the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid and Master in Television from the Universidad Complutense. He began his professional career in the R&D department of Telemadrid. In 2001, he moved to Telemadrid as assistant to the head of purchasing at the same channel, becoming head of purchasing three years later. In 2005 he arrived at Cuatro as Head of Programming for Outside Production. In 2010 he started at NBC as Director of Programming and Acquisitions for the channels Calle 13 and Syfy in Spain and Portugal. He has worked for laSexta as Director of Acquisitions and Outside Production, contributing to the launch of laSexta3 and Xplora. Later he was Director of Television at Televisión Española and Content Director at Discovery Spain and Portugal. He currently directs the production company 100 Balas, part of the Mediapro group. His fiction productions include the Vota Juan trilogy, the Prime Video series “Romancero” and “Su Majestad” and the series “Celeste” for Movistar. In the non-fiction area, he has produced successful docuseries such as “El Palmar de Troya”, “Lola”, “Matar al Presidente” and “Lina”. Professor at UC3M, Instituto de Empresa, Instituto de RTVE and ECAM. General Manager of 100 Balas.

Film and television scriptwriter specialising in comedy. He began his career writing for comedy programmes such as “Vaya Semanita”, “El Intermedio”, “Qué vida más triste” and “La noche de José Mota”.

In 2009 he made his first foray into cinema with Borja Cobeaga, with whom he wrote “Pagafantas”, winner of the Malaga Festival Award for Best New Screenplay. With Cobeaga he also wrote “No Controles” (2011) and the highest grossing film in history, “8 apellidos vascos” (2014), for which they wrote a sequel the following year, “8 apellidos catalanes” (2015). He has also appeared in films such as “Tenemos que hablar” (2016) and “Fe de etarras” (2017).

His most recent releases include “Súperlopez” (2018), for which he was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the series “Vota Juan” (2019) and its sequels “Vamos Juan” (2020) and “Venga Juan” (2021). In 2024 he will premiere Celeste, a new original series for Movistar Plus+, created by Diego San José and co-produced with 100 Balas (The Mediapro Studio).

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.”

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.

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.

Journalist and communicator. Audiovisual analyst at La Ventana and other radio programmes on Cadena Ser. She collaborates with TV3 and Catalunya Radio as a television expert, writes about television, feminism and pop culture in El País, SModa and the Huffington Post and directs the thought and entertainment forum Conservatorio. She regularly participates in talks, conferences and round tables related to her profession. Author of five books on television, she has just published with Espasa, Mejor que nunca, a chronicle of women born in the 1960s.

Cúcuta, Colombia.

Social communicator from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. With more than 25 years of experience in the audiovisual industry, she has been a creator, executive producer and showrunner of series for Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Disney +, Nickelodeon, Fox International Channels and Caracol TV. She was Creative Director of New Business for Caracol TV and Head of Content for The Mediapro Studio Colombia and Mexico. Since 2021 she is based in Spain, where she has worked as Director of Original Series for Netflix Spain and Executive Producer and International Development for the audiovisual group Izen.

Montse García is currently the Director of Fiction at Atresmedia TV, where she is in charge of highly successful national and international series such as ‘La Ruta’, ‘Alba’, ‘La Cocinera de Castamar’, ‘Entre Tierras’, ‘La Novia Gitana’ or ‘Cristo y Rey’, among others.

She joined Atresmedia TV in 2020, after holding the position of Executive Director at the production company Diagonal TV, from the Banijay Iberia Group. Throughout her career, she has specialized in television fiction, participating in the development and production of titles such as ‘La Señora’ (TVE), ‘Isabel’ (TVE), ‘Sin Identidad’ (Antena 3), ‘La Catedral del Mar’ (Antena 3) and ‘Matadero’ (Antena 3). She also participated in the production of the film ‘La librería’, directed by Isabel Coixet, Goya Award for Best Film in 2018. She is also responsible for the delivery and continuity of the series ‘Love in Scrambled Times’ (TVE), renewing and adapting the Atresmedia format as ‘El amor es para siempre’. She specialized in television production in Los Angeles at the studios of SPTI (Sony Television Productions International), covering all areas that make up the audiovisual production of fiction. She later joined the SPTI Group (Sony Television Productions International) as Production Manager and Delegate for Spain, where she participated in the adaptation of television formats for Sony Spain, such as Los Simuladores (Cuatro), Matrimonio con hijos (Cuatro), Mesa para cinco (Telecinco) and De Moda (Forta). As head of production at Globomedia Televisión, she produced some of the first prime-time shows in Spain, such as Más que amigos (Telecinco), Compañeros (Antena 3) and Abogados (Telecinco) with Boca-Boca Producciones. Her expertise and professional skills are the driving force behind her objectives to support and create new projects and formats, focusing on a range of commercial and quality fiction linked to the various broadcasting options currently available.

Graduated in Law by Complutense University and Master in International Business Management by ICEX, he has developed his career in the audiovisual sector, specializing in television fiction and cinema.

He has been coordinator of international relations for FAPAE, head of programming at the Warner group, director of programming and acquisitions at the Viacom group, producer of feature films and manager of the Film Academy.

He currently directs the RTVE group’s film and fiction strategy, with a special focus on independent production and a firm commitment to co-productions with European public television.

Spanish film producer, former audiovisual consultant at the Madrid regional government, AMPAS and Spanish Film Academy member, Spanish TV Academy member, member of the board in CARTOON (European Animation Producer’s Guild)PhD in Film Studies at the Rey Juan Carlos University, graduated in directing at ARTSS International UK and in the Entertainment Master Class at the Erich Pommer Institute in Berlin. Since 2001 has produced eleven feature films for the international market, eight of them in animation, and has won five Goya awards in the best animation feature category, one EFA award, one Platino award and twice the Jury Award at Annecy, the most important animation film festival in the world. 

After working in AGAPI as manager and in the Media Business School as coordinator, he joins Dygra Films in 1999 as executive producer in the films The living forest (first CGI animation film in Europe) and Midsummer Dream. In 2005 he joins Zinkia Entertainment as development and distribution director with the series Pocoyó and Shuriken School. 

In 2007 he creates Perro Verde Films and produces five films: the CGI animation film The Missing Lynx (with Kandor Moon presented by Antonio Banderas), Lost in Galicia and The night that stopped raining (both live action), Going Nuts (action and horror animation with painted peanuts) and his first 2D feature film Wrinkles based in the graphic novel by Paco Roca, directed by Ignacio Ferreras, considered one of the most relevant animation films in 2012 and released in Japan by Ghibli. 

In 2013 he produces and launches in Spain the 3D stereoscopic documentary feature film Bullrunning in Pamplona. From 2012 till 2014 works as Executive Producer in the animation film Another day of life (Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow, 2018) which had its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival. 

In 2017 announces the production of Dragonkeeper, a CGI animation family film coproduced by Spain and China that will be released in 2023. In 2019 he 

premieres the 2D animation film Buñuel in the labyrinth of the turtles (Salvador Simó) winner of the European Film Award as best animated film in Europe, the Goya award and the Jury Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and at the Animation is Film Festival in Los Angeles. 

In 2019, he joined the Region of Madrid as Audiovisual Industry Advisor where he created a support line for feature films, another for support for video games support, and renewed the development and short film production support lines. He achieved a budget increase of 89% for projects and creates the Madrid for the Goya programme, with which short films from the region win in all three categories for two years in a row, and Madrid for the Oscars, which supported The Windshield Wiper by Alberto Mielgo from Madrid which in 2022 won the Oscar for best animated short and became the first Spanish short film to do so. In 2022 he joins Mano Animation Studios as producer of the 2D animated feature film The Glassworker. 

He has been for more than 10 years member of the board in the Spanish Film Academy and Vice-President in DIBOOS (Spanish Animation Producer’s Guild): he has lectured in 21 countries. He is also a teacher at the U-TAD University and at the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) in Madrid. 

En 1996 he got one of the 12 European scholarships granted by the MPAA and entered as intern at UIP; in 1997 he was the first Spaniard selected for a grant of the Nipkow Programme in Berlin; in 2000 he was selected by the EFA in its new talent programme in Iceland; in 2007 he was selected as one of 60 personalities of the Cannes Film Festival by Variety; in 2008 selected producer in the move by European Film Promotion; in 2012 he got the CARTOON Tribute as best animation producer of Europe. 

Managing Director of Málaga Procultura of the Málaga City Council, which integrates the Málaga Festival, Málaga Film Office, Cine Albéniz and the municipal theaters Cervantes and Echegaray. He is an associate member of the Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes Cinematográficas de España, secretary of the Academia de Cine de Andalucía and member of the jury of the Platino Awards of Ibero-American cinema. He is the author of several audiovisual research publications, as well as a hundred journalistic articles of cinematographic content, having worked in various media as program director and film critic. He is a professor in several masters and training courses in audiovisual subjects.

Director of South International Series Festival since 2023

Previous positions:
Delegated Producer of the 1st Biennial of African Photography, Malaga 2022
Director of:
Showrunners Workshop (editions 1 and 2) at Iberseries
Seminar The Audiovisual Journeys of the Spanish language (4 editions)
IEEI Chair of Cultural Diplomacy

Director General of the Spanish Film Academy (2017-2018)
Director of the Cervantes Institute in Casablanca and Stockholm (2010-2017)
And director of:
Foundation for Audiovisual Research (2000-2010)
UIMP Scriptwriters’ Training Centre (Valencia)
Filmoteca de la Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Regional Government Film Institute)

He has written a dozen scripts for feature films, tv movies, and documentaries.
Author of the book La vida casi imaginaria de Berlanga (The Almost Imaginary Life of Berlanga) and
Editor of the book Cien años de Diplomacia Cultural Española (One Hundred Years of Spanish Cultural Diplomacy).

Marta Velasco is producer and founding partner of Áralan Films, which was founded in 2004 with the aim of developing projects on universal concepts, with a clear cultural interest and a strong commercial vocation. Currently, the feature film ‘Rita’, Paz Vega’s debut film as writer and director, which has participated in the 77th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival and will soon be shown at the 24th edition of the Valladolid International Film Week SEMINCI, is awaiting its premiere. His latest feature film released in theaters, ‘Segundo Premio’ directed by Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez, won the Golden Biznaga at the 27th edition of the Malaga Film Festival and is considered by some critics as the best film of the year 2024. His filmography also includes titles such as ‘Como Dios Manda’, ‘Empieza el Baile’, ‘La maniobra de la Tortuga’, ‘Cuando los ángeles duermen’, ‘Quién te cantará’, ‘Asesinos inocentes’ or ‘Los Niños Salvajes’ among others.

Cultural manager and film critic. He is a member of the Spanish Film Academy, an institution that awarded him the González-Sinde Prize in 2012 for his work in the dissemination of cinema. In 2019 he received the ASECAN Award for his work in promoting cinema in Andalusia.

With more than thirty-five years of experience, he currently coordinates the Encuentros con el Cine Español and is the director of the Muestra de Cine Español Inédito en Jaén, organised by the Jaen Provincial Government, the short film competition Rodando por Jaén, the Miguel Picazo Film Campus in Cazorla, as well as the Conversations with Directors organised by the Fundación Unicaja in Almería, Málaga and Cádiz. In 2013 he created the Short Film Festival against Gender Violence, organised by the Jaén Provincial Government, which he directed for six years. Since 2015 he has been the director of the Almería International Film Festival.

He was part of the commission that created the Andalusian Film Academy, was a member of its first board of directors and is currently vice-president of the new board.

His directorial debut was the documentary Miguel Picazo, un cineasta extramuros, which was nominated for the Forqué Awards in 2017. He recently premiered the documentary Miradas del cine español at the Malaga Festival, sponsored by the Fundación Unicaja, of which he is co-director.

He has published the books Miguel Picazo, un cineasta jiennense, La Tía Tula, guión cinematográfico, Los hijos de Alvargonzález, guión cinematográfico inédito, Jimena (ASECAN Award 2015) and Rodajes en Jaén (ASECAN Award 2017).

He was president of the Association of Audiovisual Festivals of Andalusia between 2011 and 2014, re-elected between 2016 and 2018, and a member of the board of directors of ASECAN for six years.

Teresa Segura is a producer. With a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Seville, she has worked since 2003 in the production department of several short films, feature films, music videos and documentaries with various production companies until 2009 when Diffferent Entertainment SL was born and specializes in administration, coordination, production management and executive production of all projects that have been carried out until today. Highlights include “Malviviendo” being the most watched Spanish-language webseries worldwide, the series “El viaje de Peter McDowell” and “Flaman” for RTVA, “Entertainment” and “Buster” for Atresmedia, “Síndrome Valyrio” for HBO Spain, “Mambo” and “Grasa” for RTVE Play and the recently released “En fin” for Prime. In addition to the feature films “Obra 67” and “Fogueo”, the documentary “Eterna” and numerous branded content, video clips, short films and live shows among others: www.diffferent.es She is director of the express film festivals DH Rueda, which in March 2025 will carry out its X Edition and UHU Rueda, which starts its I Edition in November 2025. She is also a teacher and project mentor, associate professor at Loyola University, teaches and coordinates workshops at Diffferent and is part of Emoce Educación Emocional. She is an expert in Transpersonal Emotional Intelligence, manages rrss campaigns and practices sports daily.

With a degree in Acting from the Escuela de Arte Dramático de Sevilla and a Diploma in Film Acting from the Instituto del Cine de Madrid, Pilar began working in production in 2014. In 2021 she was selected to participate in the SERIES WOMEN’ program, organized by the Erich Pommer Institut (Germany), and currently combines her work as a producer in her own company Magnetika Producciones, with work as an executive producer for other production companies. In addition, she has participated as associate producer in several feature films and has carried out the Services of several international productions shot in Andalusia. With more than 20 produced works, documentary and fiction, among her works stand out:
“Operación Barrio Inglés” Fiction Series of 8 chapters for TVE; “Historias de leyenda I” and “Historias de leyenda II”, coproduction of several regional TVs through F.O.R.T.A; or the Documentary Feature Films “Val del Omar, poeta audiovisual” premiered at the Seminci; “La Residencia de señoritas” premiered at the Malaga Film Festival; “La última toma” premiered at the Seville Film Festival; or “Juanito” premiered at the Malaga Film Festival; among others. She is a member of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España and of the Academia de Cine de Andalucía; she is Secretary of AAMMA, member of CIMA and is a member of the Board of Directors of ANCINE (Asociación Andaluza de Productoras de Cine).

Alejandro Ávila Villares is a film journalist. He is the director of FilmAnd, the Andalusian audiovisual magazine, and is a contributor to Cadena SER, in addition to managing the communication, press and social networks of film production companies, films, institutions and festivals.
DirCom of the Andalusian Film Academy and ANCINE (Andalusian Association of Film Production Companies), he is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Andalusian Film Academy and AICE, the association that organizes the Feroz Awards.

The EFA selected him for its Sunday in the Country program as the Spanish representative in 2019.

In 2019 he won the Best Andalusian Film Book Award for Objetivo: Planeta Tierra, a pioneering book in Spanish on environmental documentaries and has been a member of the programming team of the Another Way Film Festival.
He has worked in the area of production and documentation for award-winning docuseries for Netflix (USA) and VPRO (Public Television of the Netherlands), as well as covering international festivals such as the Berlinale, IDFA Amsterdam, San Sebastian or New Horizons (Wroclaw), among others.

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.

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.

Journalist and communicator. Audiovisual analyst at La Ventana and other radio programmes on Cadena Ser. She collaborates with TV3 and Catalunya Radio as a television expert, writes about television, feminism and pop culture in El País, SModa and the Huffington Post and directs the thought and entertainment forum Conservatorio. She regularly participates in talks, conferences and round tables related to her profession. Author of five books on television, she has just published with Espasa, Mejor que nunca, a chronicle of women born in the 1960s.

Cúcuta, Colombia.

Social communicator from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. With more than 25 years of experience in the audiovisual industry, she has been a creator, executive producer and showrunner of series for Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Disney +, Nickelodeon, Fox International Channels and Caracol TV. She was Creative Director of New Business for Caracol TV and Head of Content for The Mediapro Studio Colombia and Mexico. Since 2021 she is based in Spain, where she has worked as Director of Original Series for Netflix Spain and Executive Producer and International Development for the audiovisual group Izen.

Montse García is currently the Director of Fiction at Atresmedia TV, where she is in charge of highly successful national and international series such as ‘La Ruta’, ‘Alba’, ‘La Cocinera de Castamar’, ‘Entre Tierras’, ‘La Novia Gitana’ or ‘Cristo y Rey’, among others.

She joined Atresmedia TV in 2020, after holding the position of Executive Director at the production company Diagonal TV, from the Banijay Iberia Group. Throughout her career, she has specialized in television fiction, participating in the development and production of titles such as ‘La Señora’ (TVE), ‘Isabel’ (TVE), ‘Sin Identidad’ (Antena 3), ‘La Catedral del Mar’ (Antena 3) and ‘Matadero’ (Antena 3). She also participated in the production of the film ‘La librería’, directed by Isabel Coixet, Goya Award for Best Film in 2018. She is also responsible for the delivery and continuity of the series ‘Love in Scrambled Times’ (TVE), renewing and adapting the Atresmedia format as ‘El amor es para siempre’. She specialized in television production in Los Angeles at the studios of SPTI (Sony Television Productions International), covering all areas that make up the audiovisual production of fiction. She later joined the SPTI Group (Sony Television Productions International) as Production Manager and Delegate for Spain, where she participated in the adaptation of television formats for Sony Spain, such as Los Simuladores (Cuatro), Matrimonio con hijos (Cuatro), Mesa para cinco (Telecinco) and De Moda (Forta). As head of production at Globomedia Televisión, she produced some of the first prime-time shows in Spain, such as Más que amigos (Telecinco), Compañeros (Antena 3) and Abogados (Telecinco) with Boca-Boca Producciones. Her expertise and professional skills are the driving force behind her objectives to support and create new projects and formats, focusing on a range of commercial and quality fiction linked to the various broadcasting options currently available.

Graduated in Law by Complutense University and Master in International Business Management by ICEX, he has developed his career in the audiovisual sector, specializing in television fiction and cinema.

He has been coordinator of international relations for FAPAE, head of programming at the Warner group, director of programming and acquisitions at the Viacom group, producer of feature films and manager of the Film Academy.

He currently directs the RTVE group’s film and fiction strategy, with a special focus on independent production and a firm commitment to co-productions with European public television.

Spanish film producer, former audiovisual consultant at the Madrid regional government, AMPAS and Spanish Film Academy member, Spanish TV Academy member, member of the board in CARTOON (European Animation Producer’s Guild)PhD in Film Studies at the Rey Juan Carlos University, graduated in directing at ARTSS International UK and in the Entertainment Master Class at the Erich Pommer Institute in Berlin. Since 2001 has produced eleven feature films for the international market, eight of them in animation, and has won five Goya awards in the best animation feature category, one EFA award, one Platino award and twice the Jury Award at Annecy, the most important animation film festival in the world. 

After working in AGAPI as manager and in the Media Business School as coordinator, he joins Dygra Films in 1999 as executive producer in the films The living forest (first CGI animation film in Europe) and Midsummer Dream. In 2005 he joins Zinkia Entertainment as development and distribution director with the series Pocoyó and Shuriken School. 

In 2007 he creates Perro Verde Films and produces five films: the CGI animation film The Missing Lynx (with Kandor Moon presented by Antonio Banderas), Lost in Galicia and The night that stopped raining (both live action), Going Nuts (action and horror animation with painted peanuts) and his first 2D feature film Wrinkles based in the graphic novel by Paco Roca, directed by Ignacio Ferreras, considered one of the most relevant animation films in 2012 and released in Japan by Ghibli. 

In 2013 he produces and launches in Spain the 3D stereoscopic documentary feature film Bullrunning in Pamplona. From 2012 till 2014 works as Executive Producer in the animation film Another day of life (Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow, 2018) which had its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival. 

In 2017 announces the production of Dragonkeeper, a CGI animation family film coproduced by Spain and China that will be released in 2023. In 2019 he 

premieres the 2D animation film Buñuel in the labyrinth of the turtles (Salvador Simó) winner of the European Film Award as best animated film in Europe, the Goya award and the Jury Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and at the Animation is Film Festival in Los Angeles. 

In 2019, he joined the Region of Madrid as Audiovisual Industry Advisor where he created a support line for feature films, another for support for video games support, and renewed the development and short film production support lines. He achieved a budget increase of 89% for projects and creates the Madrid for the Goya programme, with which short films from the region win in all three categories for two years in a row, and Madrid for the Oscars, which supported The Windshield Wiper by Alberto Mielgo from Madrid which in 2022 won the Oscar for best animated short and became the first Spanish short film to do so. In 2022 he joins Mano Animation Studios as producer of the 2D animated feature film The Glassworker. 

He has been for more than 10 years member of the board in the Spanish Film Academy and Vice-President in DIBOOS (Spanish Animation Producer’s Guild): he has lectured in 21 countries. He is also a teacher at the U-TAD University and at the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) in Madrid. 

En 1996 he got one of the 12 European scholarships granted by the MPAA and entered as intern at UIP; in 1997 he was the first Spaniard selected for a grant of the Nipkow Programme in Berlin; in 2000 he was selected by the EFA in its new talent programme in Iceland; in 2007 he was selected as one of 60 personalities of the Cannes Film Festival by Variety; in 2008 selected producer in the move by European Film Promotion; in 2012 he got the CARTOON Tribute as best animation producer of Europe. 

Managing Director of Málaga Procultura of the Málaga City Council, which integrates the Málaga Festival, Málaga Film Office, Cine Albéniz and the municipal theaters Cervantes and Echegaray. He is an associate member of the Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes Cinematográficas de España, secretary of the Academia de Cine de Andalucía and member of the jury of the Platino Awards of Ibero-American cinema. He is the author of several audiovisual research publications, as well as a hundred journalistic articles of cinematographic content, having worked in various media as program director and film critic. He is a professor in several masters and training courses in audiovisual subjects.

Director of South International Series Festival since 2023

Previous positions:
Delegated Producer of the 1st Biennial of African Photography, Malaga 2022
Director of:
Showrunners Workshop (editions 1 and 2) at Iberseries
Seminar The Audiovisual Journeys of the Spanish language (4 editions)
IEEI Chair of Cultural Diplomacy

Director General of the Spanish Film Academy (2017-2018)
Director of the Cervantes Institute in Casablanca and Stockholm (2010-2017)
And director of:
Foundation for Audiovisual Research (2000-2010)
UIMP Scriptwriters’ Training Centre (Valencia)
Filmoteca de la Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Regional Government Film Institute)

He has written a dozen scripts for feature films, tv movies, and documentaries.
Author of the book La vida casi imaginaria de Berlanga (The Almost Imaginary Life of Berlanga) and
Editor of the book Cien años de Diplomacia Cultural Española (One Hundred Years of Spanish Cultural Diplomacy).

Marta Velasco is producer and founding partner of Áralan Films, which was founded in 2004 with the aim of developing projects on universal concepts, with a clear cultural interest and a strong commercial vocation. Currently, the feature film ‘Rita’, Paz Vega’s debut film as writer and director, which has participated in the 77th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival and will soon be shown at the 24th edition of the Valladolid International Film Week SEMINCI, is awaiting its premiere. His latest feature film released in theaters, ‘Segundo Premio’ directed by Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez, won the Golden Biznaga at the 27th edition of the Malaga Film Festival and is considered by some critics as the best film of the year 2024. His filmography also includes titles such as ‘Como Dios Manda’, ‘Empieza el Baile’, ‘La maniobra de la Tortuga’, ‘Cuando los ángeles duermen’, ‘Quién te cantará’, ‘Asesinos inocentes’ or ‘Los Niños Salvajes’ among others.

Cultural manager and film critic. He is a member of the Spanish Film Academy, an institution that awarded him the González-Sinde Prize in 2012 for his work in the dissemination of cinema. In 2019 he received the ASECAN Award for his work in promoting cinema in Andalusia.

With more than thirty-five years of experience, he currently coordinates the Encuentros con el Cine Español and is the director of the Muestra de Cine Español Inédito en Jaén, organised by the Jaen Provincial Government, the short film competition Rodando por Jaén, the Miguel Picazo Film Campus in Cazorla, as well as the Conversations with Directors organised by the Fundación Unicaja in Almería, Málaga and Cádiz. In 2013 he created the Short Film Festival against Gender Violence, organised by the Jaén Provincial Government, which he directed for six years. Since 2015 he has been the director of the Almería International Film Festival.

He was part of the commission that created the Andalusian Film Academy, was a member of its first board of directors and is currently vice-president of the new board.

His directorial debut was the documentary Miguel Picazo, un cineasta extramuros, which was nominated for the Forqué Awards in 2017. He recently premiered the documentary Miradas del cine español at the Malaga Festival, sponsored by the Fundación Unicaja, of which he is co-director.

He has published the books Miguel Picazo, un cineasta jiennense, La Tía Tula, guión cinematográfico, Los hijos de Alvargonzález, guión cinematográfico inédito, Jimena (ASECAN Award 2015) and Rodajes en Jaén (ASECAN Award 2017).

He was president of the Association of Audiovisual Festivals of Andalusia between 2011 and 2014, re-elected between 2016 and 2018, and a member of the board of directors of ASECAN for six years.

Teresa Segura is a producer. With a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Seville, she has worked since 2003 in the production department of several short films, feature films, music videos and documentaries with various production companies until 2009 when Diffferent Entertainment SL was born and specializes in administration, coordination, production management and executive production of all projects that have been carried out until today. Highlights include “Malviviendo” being the most watched Spanish-language webseries worldwide, the series “El viaje de Peter McDowell” and “Flaman” for RTVA, “Entertainment” and “Buster” for Atresmedia, “Síndrome Valyrio” for HBO Spain, “Mambo” and “Grasa” for RTVE Play and the recently released “En fin” for Prime. In addition to the feature films “Obra 67” and “Fogueo”, the documentary “Eterna” and numerous branded content, video clips, short films and live shows among others: www.diffferent.es She is director of the express film festivals DH Rueda, which in March 2025 will carry out its X Edition and UHU Rueda, which starts its I Edition in November 2025. She is also a teacher and project mentor, associate professor at Loyola University, teaches and coordinates workshops at Diffferent and is part of Emoce Educación Emocional. She is an expert in Transpersonal Emotional Intelligence, manages rrss campaigns and practices sports daily.

With a degree in Acting from the Escuela de Arte Dramático de Sevilla and a Diploma in Film Acting from the Instituto del Cine de Madrid, Pilar began working in production in 2014. In 2021 she was selected to participate in the SERIES WOMEN’ program, organized by the Erich Pommer Institut (Germany), and currently combines her work as a producer in her own company Magnetika Producciones, with work as an executive producer for other production companies. In addition, she has participated as associate producer in several feature films and has carried out the Services of several international productions shot in Andalusia. With more than 20 produced works, documentary and fiction, among her works stand out:
“Operación Barrio Inglés” Fiction Series of 8 chapters for TVE; “Historias de leyenda I” and “Historias de leyenda II”, coproduction of several regional TVs through F.O.R.T.A; or the Documentary Feature Films “Val del Omar, poeta audiovisual” premiered at the Seminci; “La Residencia de señoritas” premiered at the Malaga Film Festival; “La última toma” premiered at the Seville Film Festival; or “Juanito” premiered at the Malaga Film Festival; among others. She is a member of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España and of the Academia de Cine de Andalucía; she is Secretary of AAMMA, member of CIMA and is a member of the Board of Directors of ANCINE (Asociación Andaluza de Productoras de Cine).

Alejandro Ávila Villares is a film journalist. He is the director of FilmAnd, the Andalusian audiovisual magazine, and is a contributor to Cadena SER, in addition to managing the communication, press and social networks of film production companies, films, institutions and festivals.
DirCom of the Andalusian Film Academy and ANCINE (Andalusian Association of Film Production Companies), he is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Andalusian Film Academy and AICE, the association that organizes the Feroz Awards.

The EFA selected him for its Sunday in the Country program as the Spanish representative in 2019.

In 2019 he won the Best Andalusian Film Book Award for Objetivo: Planeta Tierra, a pioneering book in Spanish on environmental documentaries and has been a member of the programming team of the Another Way Film Festival.
He has worked in the area of production and documentation for award-winning docuseries for Netflix (USA) and VPRO (Public Television of the Netherlands), as well as covering international festivals such as the Berlinale, IDFA Amsterdam, San Sebastian or New Horizons (Wroclaw), among others.

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.

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.

Willard Gustavo Tressel has an outstanding career in the television industry, holding key roles in companies such as ABC, Walt Disney Company and DIRECTV Latin America. During his tenure as General Manager of DIRECTV Latin America’s exclusive entertainment channel and SVOD platforms, he was responsible for bringing the best of global content to Latin American audiences. Among the most important series he introduced were FARGO, WAR OF THE WORLDS and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, in addition to high caliber documentaries directed by figures such as Ken Burns, Alex Gibney and Asif Kapadia. Tressel was a pioneer in bringing “Nordic Noir” and presenting Latin American audiences with a diverse selection of European content, highlighting series and films from Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany. Thanks to the agreements managed, it introduced titles such as PEAKY BLINDERS, THE KILLING, BROADCHURCH, THE FALL, VELVET and EL PRÍNCIPE, among others. He has not only been involved in distribution, but also in the creation and production of series, such as TODO POR EL JUEGO, in collaboration with MediaPro Studios, and LA CASA DEL MAR, which earned him a nomination for the International Emmy Awards in the category of Best Drama. In the academic field, during his time at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), he created the Spencer Tracy Award, which has been presented to renowned actors such as Tom Hanks, Jodie Foster and Harrison Ford. He also oversaw the Jack Benny Award, which was given to comedy legends such as Lily Tomlin and Robin Williams, among many other renowned figures.

A professional with more than 35 years’ experience in marketing, communication, promotion and sales of content in the entertainment industry, he is currently Deputy Director of Marketing at RTVE.

His main task is to create the launch and follow-up campaigns for the different programmes and fiction, as well as the marketing of the films in which RTVE participates.

MD/producer

Beatriz Campos started her career at ITV Global Entertainment in 2007 where she spent 5 years managing finished and format sales for Spain, Portugal, and The Middle East. In 2012 Campos moved to Shine International handling finished and format sales for a handful of territories inc. Iberia, Italy, MENA, Greece, Turkey & Israel also responsible for the sale of big commercial brands inc. BROADCHURCH, MASTERCHEF and BIGGEST LOSER. In 2015 the merger between Shine and Endemol resulted in Campos being appointed as Sales Director. In 2016, Campos joined the STUDIOCANAL family as VP Sales followed by a promotion to Head of Global Sales for TV Series in 2017. In 2019, Campos was appointed to SVP Global Sales and Production Financing, responsible for supporting STUDIOCANAL’s wealth of in-house production companies across Europe, as well as driving the sales and production financing for their growing roster of TV productions, such as Daytime Emmy® Award winning animated series THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON seasons 1, 2 and 3. Within her role she has been responsible for setting up the financing of Marc Levy’s TV series adaptation of the novel ALL THOSE THINGS WE NEVER SAID. Other production financing highlights include two long running series for RTVE in Spain, produced by Bambu: the International Emmy nominated TWO LIVES (Dos Vidas) and THE VOW (La Promesa), as well as Urban Myth Films’ production WAR OF THE WORLDS season 2 and season 3 for CANAL +, MGM+ and Disney. On the scripted format front, she drove the sale for the Mexican adaptation EL COLAPSO for the US Hispanic platform VIX, based on the French CANAL + original series L’Effondrement, both versions distributed by STUDIOCANAL. During her position at STUDIOCANAL , the distribution team has won the Broadcast Award for Best International Sales on two occasions for THE LAST PANTHERS and YEARS AND YEARS. In March 2024, Campos is named as Managing director of Anonymous Content España overseeing the company’s daily operations of the newly created JV between Anonymous Content and Morena Films, one of the most established production companies in Spain.

Director of Andalucía Film Commission, she has been a member of the Board of the European Film Commission Network and the Spanish Film Commission, and is a member of the Board of the Andalusian Film Academy.

She has been Technical Director of the Seville European Film Festival for five years. She was show coordinator at Port Aventura for three years, working with the companies of artists and dancers from Mexico, China and Polynesia, as well as the team of Els Comediants. During Expo 1992 in Seville, she was assistant to the director of Descubriteca (Sociedad Estatal) and assistant producer of the lake shows (CAE or Centro de Apoyo al Espectáculo).

Accredited as a film commissioner by the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) and trained at the Comisión Filmica de México in 1999.

She has worked on various projects and shoots, including The Crown, Assassin’s Creed, Game of Thrones T5; The Rhythm Section by Reed Morano; Exodus: Gods and Kings by Ridley Scott; Memories of the Alhambra by Ahn Gil-Ho, Toro by Kike Maillo; Alatriste by Agustín Díaz Yanes; Kingdom of Heaven by Ridley Scott; StarWars: Episode II. Attack of the Clones by George Lucas; Talk to Her by Pedro Almodóvar; James Bond: Die Another Day by Lee Tamahori or Carmen by Vicente Aranda.

She has given lectures and seminars in various forums, markets and festivals in Spain and abroad: Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, USA, Italy, England and Germany.

She is co-author, with Carlos Rosado, of the book Cine y Turismo: Una nueva estrategia de promoción (2006). Translated into English and presented at the Marché du Film in Cannes. Two editions.

She has collaborated with various international publications (Variety, Screen International, Kemps, The Hollywood Reporter, AFCI News Releases and the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), Editorial Coordinator of the 1st Andalusian Audiovisual Guide, Film and Television Production (2002), 1st Production Guide of Spain FC, ICEX, EGEDA and FAPAE (2003), Manual of Good Filming Practices, AFC 2005/2010 and the Rutas de cine: Alatriste, El camino de los ingleses, El corazón de la tierra, Entrelobos, Isla Mínima, Sergio Leone Trilogy. All these itineraries and project coordination can be visited at Andalucía destino de cine.

She has participated in the organisation of the Andalusian Film Commission’s participation in the most important international film festivals: Berlinale, Marche du Film Cannes, American Film Market, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Focus London, Ischia Film Festival.

She has participated as a jury member in many festivals and in the project selection committees of the Diputación de Málaga in three editions and with Filmand in the Mallorca Talents Lab, Atlantida 2020 and in the Mallorca Talents Lab.

Andalucian Film Commission has received the following national and international awards for its work in promoting Andalusia during her tenure as director:

Award for the Work of Film Promotion in Andalusia ASECAN Awards 2017 ‘Excellence in Management’ Tourism Awards 2015 (Ministry of Tourism of the Regional Government of Andalusia); Historias de Luz Awards (2014), Ideas with Soul Award: Andalusia Film Commission, for its contribution to the international projection of Andalusia in the audiovisual sector: Asociación de Empresarios, Profesionales y Autónomos de Osuna (2014), Award to the AFC for its work in promoting Osuna; XIX ASECAN Awards (2002), Best work in promoting film in Andalusia; Borsa Internationale del Cine Turismo de Ischia in Italy (2006), Award for the book Cine y turismo, una nueva estrategia de promoción, written by Carlos Rosado and Piluca Querol; II Spanish Film Commission Award (2006), La leyenda del tiempo, by Isaki Lacuesta; III Spanish Film Commission Award (2007), Alatriste by director Agustín Díaz Yanes; Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI), Best International Publicity 1999.

Al De Azpiazu is Senior Vice President of Distribution & Co-productions at Fremantle International, with responsibilities for France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
He joined Fremantle in 2016 after six years at Warner Bros.
International Television, where he had responsibilities for program distribution and format licensing in Europe and Latin America.
He previously worked at Mediapro, Cadena SER and Televisió de Catalunya, where he performed production tasks.
He has a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Barcelona; he has completed the MEGA postgraduate degree from the Media Business School and training programs from Bertelsmann University at the INSEAD business school.
He is fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan and collaborates as a lecturer in the master’s programs of the National Film & Television School in the United Kingdom.  

Cultural manager and programmer specializing in cultural content innovation. In 2023, she has been chosen by Forbes among the 100 most creative professionals in the business world. Responsible for the expanded programming of Festival de Málaga (Málaga de Festival), and responsible for Neópolis, section on Science, Technology and Art of Festival de Málaga. Responsible for the sound essay in podcast format, En construcci(On).

Artistic Director of the Festival de Cine Flamenco y Etnográfico de Jerez. Coordinator of the ‘Anverso/Reverso’ Cycle of the Cervantes Theater. Programmer of the ‘Encounters with Authors’ of the Culture Area of the City Council. of Malaga. Coordinator of the cycle on contemporary thought and digital coexistence, ‘El MAE se mueve’, organized by the Museo Andaluz de la Educación.

He collaborates with literary programs with the Diputación de Málaga. Coordinator of the series ‘Encuentros en la Ría’ organized by the Huelva City Council. Coordinator of the colloquiums of the Alicante Book Fair since 2021. Coordinator of the cycle ‘A qué suena’ of Las Tardes del Foro de la Diputación de Huelva. Programmer of literary activities on feminist issues for different public and private entities. Responsible for the strategic plan Neighborhood Agents of Marbella Creative and Inclusive City of Marbella City Council.

Collaborator of the Master in Cultural Management at Universidad Carlos III. Teaching coordinator of the course of Management and Design of Cultural Programs of the IMFE. Collaborator of the Master of Literary Heritage of the UMA. Collaborates in Cadena Ser Malaga with her own section, ‘No me toques el algoritmo’. She has an opinion column, ‘La vida quieta’, in El Español. He writes for La Vanguardia Magazine about literature and territory. He collaborates in Secret Olivo and Igluu Magazine with conversations.

I started by chance and once I discovered this wonderful world, I never left.
I have been working in the art department for over twenty years as an art director, set decorator, assistant art director, advance and prop man.

I started my career by going straight to the heart of the industry and I insist that it was purely by chance. I met Bigas Luna and from there I ended up working for him. Luckily I have always worked with the best.

After a short time, I started working in the world of production services, mainly on English language films that came to Spain, which allowed me to work in large productions with different working systems to ours.

Thanks to the producers Marta Velasco and Gonzalo Bendala, I made the leap to art director.

Her career includes titles such as the series “La Peste”, “Isla minima”, “Adios” and her participation in international productions such as “The Promise” and “The Impossible” “Knight and Day”. Her most recent films include Warrior Nun (TV series), La Veneno (TV mini-series) and Rambo: Last Blood.

With a degree in Audiovisual Communication, Irene Lara has almost 30 years of experience in the audiovisual industry. Throughout her career at Atresmedia, she has worked in different departments, which has given her a global and strategic vision of the sector. Her work has been characterized by a constant focus on creativity, transversal strategy and innovation.

She currently heads the Content Marketing team, where she is responsible for the planning and implementation of promotional strategies for the premieres of Antena 3, laSexta and other channels in the group. Her experience has allowed her to work closely with players from all over the industry: media agencies, creative agencies, production companies and all the different departments of the Atresmedia Group, consolidating her ability to generate effective and impactful campaigns.

Born in Madrid, Irene is also passionate about travelling and the arts: cinema, literature and, above all, good TV series and programmes.

Alejandro Ávila Villares is a film journalist. He is the director of FilmAnd, the Andalusian audiovisual magazine, and is a contributor to Cadena SER, in addition to managing the communication, press and social networks of film production companies, films, institutions and festivals.
DirCom of the Andalusian Film Academy and ANCINE (Andalusian Association of Film Production Companies), he is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Andalusian Film Academy and AICE, the association that organizes the Feroz Awards.

The EFA selected him for its Sunday in the Country program as the Spanish representative in 2019.

In 2019 he won the Best Andalusian Film Book Award for Objetivo: Planeta Tierra, a pioneering book in Spanish on environmental documentaries and has been a member of the programming team of the Another Way Film Festival.
He has worked in the area of production and documentation for award-winning docuseries for Netflix (USA) and VPRO (Public Television of the Netherlands), as well as covering international festivals such as the Berlinale, IDFA Amsterdam, San Sebastian or New Horizons (Wroclaw), among others.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Willard Gustavo Tressel has an outstanding career in the television industry, holding key roles in companies such as ABC, Walt Disney Company and DIRECTV Latin America. During his tenure as General Manager of DIRECTV Latin America’s exclusive entertainment channel and SVOD platforms, he was responsible for bringing the best of global content to Latin American audiences. Among the most important series he introduced were FARGO, WAR OF THE WORLDS and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, in addition to high caliber documentaries directed by figures such as Ken Burns, Alex Gibney and Asif Kapadia. Tressel was a pioneer in bringing “Nordic Noir” and presenting Latin American audiences with a diverse selection of European content, highlighting series and films from Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany. Thanks to the agreements managed, it introduced titles such as PEAKY BLINDERS, THE KILLING, BROADCHURCH, THE FALL, VELVET and EL PRÍNCIPE, among others. He has not only been involved in distribution, but also in the creation and production of series, such as TODO POR EL JUEGO, in collaboration with MediaPro Studios, and LA CASA DEL MAR, which earned him a nomination for the International Emmy Awards in the category of Best Drama. In the academic field, during his time at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), he created the Spencer Tracy Award, which has been presented to renowned actors such as Tom Hanks, Jodie Foster and Harrison Ford. He also oversaw the Jack Benny Award, which was given to comedy legends such as Lily Tomlin and Robin Williams, among many other renowned figures.

A professional with more than 35 years’ experience in marketing, communication, promotion and sales of content in the entertainment industry, he is currently Deputy Director of Marketing at RTVE.

His main task is to create the launch and follow-up campaigns for the different programmes and fiction, as well as the marketing of the films in which RTVE participates.

MD/producer

Beatriz Campos started her career at ITV Global Entertainment in 2007 where she spent 5 years managing finished and format sales for Spain, Portugal, and The Middle East. In 2012 Campos moved to Shine International handling finished and format sales for a handful of territories inc. Iberia, Italy, MENA, Greece, Turkey & Israel also responsible for the sale of big commercial brands inc. BROADCHURCH, MASTERCHEF and BIGGEST LOSER. In 2015 the merger between Shine and Endemol resulted in Campos being appointed as Sales Director. In 2016, Campos joined the STUDIOCANAL family as VP Sales followed by a promotion to Head of Global Sales for TV Series in 2017. In 2019, Campos was appointed to SVP Global Sales and Production Financing, responsible for supporting STUDIOCANAL’s wealth of in-house production companies across Europe, as well as driving the sales and production financing for their growing roster of TV productions, such as Daytime Emmy® Award winning animated series THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON seasons 1, 2 and 3. Within her role she has been responsible for setting up the financing of Marc Levy’s TV series adaptation of the novel ALL THOSE THINGS WE NEVER SAID. Other production financing highlights include two long running series for RTVE in Spain, produced by Bambu: the International Emmy nominated TWO LIVES (Dos Vidas) and THE VOW (La Promesa), as well as Urban Myth Films’ production WAR OF THE WORLDS season 2 and season 3 for CANAL +, MGM+ and Disney. On the scripted format front, she drove the sale for the Mexican adaptation EL COLAPSO for the US Hispanic platform VIX, based on the French CANAL + original series L’Effondrement, both versions distributed by STUDIOCANAL. During her position at STUDIOCANAL , the distribution team has won the Broadcast Award for Best International Sales on two occasions for THE LAST PANTHERS and YEARS AND YEARS. In March 2024, Campos is named as Managing director of Anonymous Content España overseeing the company’s daily operations of the newly created JV between Anonymous Content and Morena Films, one of the most established production companies in Spain.

Director of Andalucía Film Commission, she has been a member of the Board of the European Film Commission Network and the Spanish Film Commission, and is a member of the Board of the Andalusian Film Academy.

She has been Technical Director of the Seville European Film Festival for five years. She was show coordinator at Port Aventura for three years, working with the companies of artists and dancers from Mexico, China and Polynesia, as well as the team of Els Comediants. During Expo 1992 in Seville, she was assistant to the director of Descubriteca (Sociedad Estatal) and assistant producer of the lake shows (CAE or Centro de Apoyo al Espectáculo).

Accredited as a film commissioner by the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) and trained at the Comisión Filmica de México in 1999.

She has worked on various projects and shoots, including The Crown, Assassin’s Creed, Game of Thrones T5; The Rhythm Section by Reed Morano; Exodus: Gods and Kings by Ridley Scott; Memories of the Alhambra by Ahn Gil-Ho, Toro by Kike Maillo; Alatriste by Agustín Díaz Yanes; Kingdom of Heaven by Ridley Scott; StarWars: Episode II. Attack of the Clones by George Lucas; Talk to Her by Pedro Almodóvar; James Bond: Die Another Day by Lee Tamahori or Carmen by Vicente Aranda.

She has given lectures and seminars in various forums, markets and festivals in Spain and abroad: Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, USA, Italy, England and Germany.

She is co-author, with Carlos Rosado, of the book Cine y Turismo: Una nueva estrategia de promoción (2006). Translated into English and presented at the Marché du Film in Cannes. Two editions.

She has collaborated with various international publications (Variety, Screen International, Kemps, The Hollywood Reporter, AFCI News Releases and the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), Editorial Coordinator of the 1st Andalusian Audiovisual Guide, Film and Television Production (2002), 1st Production Guide of Spain FC, ICEX, EGEDA and FAPAE (2003), Manual of Good Filming Practices, AFC 2005/2010 and the Rutas de cine: Alatriste, El camino de los ingleses, El corazón de la tierra, Entrelobos, Isla Mínima, Sergio Leone Trilogy. All these itineraries and project coordination can be visited at Andalucía destino de cine.

She has participated in the organisation of the Andalusian Film Commission’s participation in the most important international film festivals: Berlinale, Marche du Film Cannes, American Film Market, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Focus London, Ischia Film Festival.

She has participated as a jury member in many festivals and in the project selection committees of the Diputación de Málaga in three editions and with Filmand in the Mallorca Talents Lab, Atlantida 2020 and in the Mallorca Talents Lab.

Andalucian Film Commission has received the following national and international awards for its work in promoting Andalusia during her tenure as director:

Award for the Work of Film Promotion in Andalusia ASECAN Awards 2017 ‘Excellence in Management’ Tourism Awards 2015 (Ministry of Tourism of the Regional Government of Andalusia); Historias de Luz Awards (2014), Ideas with Soul Award: Andalusia Film Commission, for its contribution to the international projection of Andalusia in the audiovisual sector: Asociación de Empresarios, Profesionales y Autónomos de Osuna (2014), Award to the AFC for its work in promoting Osuna; XIX ASECAN Awards (2002), Best work in promoting film in Andalusia; Borsa Internationale del Cine Turismo de Ischia in Italy (2006), Award for the book Cine y turismo, una nueva estrategia de promoción, written by Carlos Rosado and Piluca Querol; II Spanish Film Commission Award (2006), La leyenda del tiempo, by Isaki Lacuesta; III Spanish Film Commission Award (2007), Alatriste by director Agustín Díaz Yanes; Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI), Best International Publicity 1999.

Al De Azpiazu is Senior Vice President of Distribution & Co-productions at Fremantle International, with responsibilities for France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
He joined Fremantle in 2016 after six years at Warner Bros.
International Television, where he had responsibilities for program distribution and format licensing in Europe and Latin America.
He previously worked at Mediapro, Cadena SER and Televisió de Catalunya, where he performed production tasks.
He has a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Barcelona; he has completed the MEGA postgraduate degree from the Media Business School and training programs from Bertelsmann University at the INSEAD business school.
He is fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan and collaborates as a lecturer in the master’s programs of the National Film & Television School in the United Kingdom.  

Cultural manager and programmer specializing in cultural content innovation. In 2023, she has been chosen by Forbes among the 100 most creative professionals in the business world. Responsible for the expanded programming of Festival de Málaga (Málaga de Festival), and responsible for Neópolis, section on Science, Technology and Art of Festival de Málaga. Responsible for the sound essay in podcast format, En construcci(On).

Artistic Director of the Festival de Cine Flamenco y Etnográfico de Jerez. Coordinator of the ‘Anverso/Reverso’ Cycle of the Cervantes Theater. Programmer of the ‘Encounters with Authors’ of the Culture Area of the City Council. of Malaga. Coordinator of the cycle on contemporary thought and digital coexistence, ‘El MAE se mueve’, organized by the Museo Andaluz de la Educación.

He collaborates with literary programs with the Diputación de Málaga. Coordinator of the series ‘Encuentros en la Ría’ organized by the Huelva City Council. Coordinator of the colloquiums of the Alicante Book Fair since 2021. Coordinator of the cycle ‘A qué suena’ of Las Tardes del Foro de la Diputación de Huelva. Programmer of literary activities on feminist issues for different public and private entities. Responsible for the strategic plan Neighborhood Agents of Marbella Creative and Inclusive City of Marbella City Council.

Collaborator of the Master in Cultural Management at Universidad Carlos III. Teaching coordinator of the course of Management and Design of Cultural Programs of the IMFE. Collaborator of the Master of Literary Heritage of the UMA. Collaborates in Cadena Ser Malaga with her own section, ‘No me toques el algoritmo’. She has an opinion column, ‘La vida quieta’, in El Español. He writes for La Vanguardia Magazine about literature and territory. He collaborates in Secret Olivo and Igluu Magazine with conversations.

I started by chance and once I discovered this wonderful world, I never left.
I have been working in the art department for over twenty years as an art director, set decorator, assistant art director, advance and prop man.

I started my career by going straight to the heart of the industry and I insist that it was purely by chance. I met Bigas Luna and from there I ended up working for him. Luckily I have always worked with the best.

After a short time, I started working in the world of production services, mainly on English language films that came to Spain, which allowed me to work in large productions with different working systems to ours.

Thanks to the producers Marta Velasco and Gonzalo Bendala, I made the leap to art director.

Her career includes titles such as the series “La Peste”, “Isla minima”, “Adios” and her participation in international productions such as “The Promise” and “The Impossible” “Knight and Day”. Her most recent films include Warrior Nun (TV series), La Veneno (TV mini-series) and Rambo: Last Blood.

With a degree in Audiovisual Communication, Irene Lara has almost 30 years of experience in the audiovisual industry. Throughout her career at Atresmedia, she has worked in different departments, which has given her a global and strategic vision of the sector. Her work has been characterized by a constant focus on creativity, transversal strategy and innovation.

She currently heads the Content Marketing team, where she is responsible for the planning and implementation of promotional strategies for the premieres of Antena 3, laSexta and other channels in the group. Her experience has allowed her to work closely with players from all over the industry: media agencies, creative agencies, production companies and all the different departments of the Atresmedia Group, consolidating her ability to generate effective and impactful campaigns.

Born in Madrid, Irene is also passionate about travelling and the arts: cinema, literature and, above all, good TV series and programmes.

Alejandro Ávila Villares is a film journalist. He is the director of FilmAnd, the Andalusian audiovisual magazine, and is a contributor to Cadena SER, in addition to managing the communication, press and social networks of film production companies, films, institutions and festivals.
DirCom of the Andalusian Film Academy and ANCINE (Andalusian Association of Film Production Companies), he is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Andalusian Film Academy and AICE, the association that organizes the Feroz Awards.

The EFA selected him for its Sunday in the Country program as the Spanish representative in 2019.

In 2019 he won the Best Andalusian Film Book Award for Objetivo: Planeta Tierra, a pioneering book in Spanish on environmental documentaries and has been a member of the programming team of the Another Way Film Festival.
He has worked in the area of production and documentation for award-winning docuseries for Netflix (USA) and VPRO (Public Television of the Netherlands), as well as covering international festivals such as the Berlinale, IDFA Amsterdam, San Sebastian or New Horizons (Wroclaw), among others.

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.

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.
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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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

Journalist and communicator. Audiovisual analyst at La Ventana and other radio programmes on Cadena Ser. She collaborates with TV3 and Catalunya Radio as a television expert, writes about television, feminism and pop culture in El País, SModa and the Huffington Post and directs the thought and entertainment forum Conservatorio. She regularly participates in talks, conferences and round tables related to her profession. Author of five books on television, she has just published with Espasa, Mejor que nunca, a chronicle of women born in the 1960s.

Willard Gustavo Tressel has an outstanding career in the television industry, holding key roles in companies such as ABC, Walt Disney Company and DIRECTV Latin America. During his tenure as General Manager of DIRECTV Latin America’s exclusive entertainment channel and SVOD platforms, he was responsible for bringing the best of global content to Latin American audiences. Among the most important series he introduced were FARGO, WAR OF THE WORLDS and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, in addition to high caliber documentaries directed by figures such as Ken Burns, Alex Gibney and Asif Kapadia. Tressel was a pioneer in bringing “Nordic Noir” and presenting Latin American audiences with a diverse selection of European content, highlighting series and films from Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, France and Germany. Thanks to the agreements managed, it introduced titles such as PEAKY BLINDERS, THE KILLING, BROADCHURCH, THE FALL, VELVET and EL PRÍNCIPE, among others. He has not only been involved in distribution, but also in the creation and production of series, such as TODO POR EL JUEGO, in collaboration with MediaPro Studios, and LA CASA DEL MAR, which earned him a nomination for the International Emmy Awards in the category of Best Drama. In the academic field, during his time at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), he created the Spencer Tracy Award, which has been presented to renowned actors such as Tom Hanks, Jodie Foster and Harrison Ford. He also oversaw the Jack Benny Award, which was given to comedy legends such as Lily Tomlin and Robin Williams, among many other renowned figures.

Victoria Fernández is responsible for the MEDIA Program in Andalusia, with a solid background in the sector, she is key in the connection between Andalusian professionals and the opportunities of the MEDIA subprogram. Her work is focused on promoting and supporting the audiovisual sector in the region, facilitating access to European opportunities provided by MEDIA.

Spanish film producer, former audiovisual consultant at the Madrid regional government, AMPAS and Spanish Film Academy member, Spanish TV Academy member, member of the board in CARTOON (European Animation Producer’s Guild)PhD in Film Studies at the Rey Juan Carlos University, graduated in directing at ARTSS International UK and in the Entertainment Master Class at the Erich Pommer Institute in Berlin. Since 2001 has produced eleven feature films for the international market, eight of them in animation, and has won five Goya awards in the best animation feature category, one EFA award, one Platino award and twice the Jury Award at Annecy, the most important animation film festival in the world. 

After working in AGAPI as manager and in the Media Business School as coordinator, he joins Dygra Films in 1999 as executive producer in the films The living forest (first CGI animation film in Europe) and Midsummer Dream. In 2005 he joins Zinkia Entertainment as development and distribution director with the series Pocoyó and Shuriken School. 

In 2007 he creates Perro Verde Films and produces five films: the CGI animation film The Missing Lynx (with Kandor Moon presented by Antonio Banderas), Lost in Galicia and The night that stopped raining (both live action), Going Nuts (action and horror animation with painted peanuts) and his first 2D feature film Wrinkles based in the graphic novel by Paco Roca, directed by Ignacio Ferreras, considered one of the most relevant animation films in 2012 and released in Japan by Ghibli. 

In 2013 he produces and launches in Spain the 3D stereoscopic documentary feature film Bullrunning in Pamplona. From 2012 till 2014 works as Executive Producer in the animation film Another day of life (Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow, 2018) which had its world premiere in the Cannes Film Festival. 

In 2017 announces the production of Dragonkeeper, a CGI animation family film coproduced by Spain and China that will be released in 2023. In 2019 he 

premieres the 2D animation film Buñuel in the labyrinth of the turtles (Salvador Simó) winner of the European Film Award as best animated film in Europe, the Goya award and the Jury Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and at the Animation is Film Festival in Los Angeles. 

In 2019, he joined the Region of Madrid as Audiovisual Industry Advisor where he created a support line for feature films, another for support for video games support, and renewed the development and short film production support lines. He achieved a budget increase of 89% for projects and creates the Madrid for the Goya programme, with which short films from the region win in all three categories for two years in a row, and Madrid for the Oscars, which supported The Windshield Wiper by Alberto Mielgo from Madrid which in 2022 won the Oscar for best animated short and became the first Spanish short film to do so. In 2022 he joins Mano Animation Studios as producer of the 2D animated feature film The Glassworker. 

He has been for more than 10 years member of the board in the Spanish Film Academy and Vice-President in DIBOOS (Spanish Animation Producer’s Guild): he has lectured in 21 countries. He is also a teacher at the U-TAD University and at the King Juan Carlos University (URJC) in Madrid. 

En 1996 he got one of the 12 European scholarships granted by the MPAA and entered as intern at UIP; in 1997 he was the first Spaniard selected for a grant of the Nipkow Programme in Berlin; in 2000 he was selected by the EFA in its new talent programme in Iceland; in 2007 he was selected as one of 60 personalities of the Cannes Film Festival by Variety; in 2008 selected producer in the move by European Film Promotion; in 2012 he got the CARTOON Tribute as best animation producer of Europe. 

Managing Director of Málaga Procultura of the Málaga City Council, which integrates the Málaga Festival, Málaga Film Office, Cine Albéniz and the municipal theaters Cervantes and Echegaray. He is an associate member of the Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes Cinematográficas de España, secretary of the Academia de Cine de Andalucía and member of the jury of the Platino Awards of Ibero-American cinema. He is the author of several audiovisual research publications, as well as a hundred journalistic articles of cinematographic content, having worked in various media as program director and film critic. He is a professor in several masters and training courses in audiovisual subjects.

Director of South International Series Festival since 2023

Previous positions:
Delegated Producer of the 1st Biennial of African Photography, Malaga 2022
Director of:
Showrunners Workshop (editions 1 and 2) at Iberseries
Seminar The Audiovisual Journeys of the Spanish language (4 editions)
IEEI Chair of Cultural Diplomacy

Director General of the Spanish Film Academy (2017-2018)
Director of the Cervantes Institute in Casablanca and Stockholm (2010-2017)
And director of:
Foundation for Audiovisual Research (2000-2010)
UIMP Scriptwriters’ Training Centre (Valencia)
Filmoteca de la Generalitat Valenciana (Valencian Regional Government Film Institute)

He has written a dozen scripts for feature films, tv movies, and documentaries.
Author of the book La vida casi imaginaria de Berlanga (The Almost Imaginary Life of Berlanga) and
Editor of the book Cien años de Diplomacia Cultural Española (One Hundred Years of Spanish Cultural Diplomacy).

Iban Diez is managing partner at MENTA Legal, a law boutique specialized on Media and Entertainment Law. Beforehand, he was Of Counsel in the Intellectual Property and Technology Area at Gomez Acebo & Pombo law firm, one of the big four Spanish law firms. He was leading the IP and Media practice.

Iban has been ranked in many of the most important international lawyers’ rankings. He is currently Band 2 in Media Law for Chambers & Partners, and he has also qualified for Legal 500 and Best Lawyers.

He is author of numerous articles and publications in regard with Intellectual Property and New Technologies, and he collaborates as lecturer in a high number of Masters and Postgraduates Degrees of Intellectual Property, Audiovisual Law and Production.

Iban is highly specialized on the audiovisual and entertainment industry, working for both national and international companies. He has acted as counsel for many productions, including “La casa de papel” (“Money Heist”), “Nacho”, “Tú también lo harías” (“You would do it too”) or “El caso Asunto” (“The Asunta Case”).

A professional with more than 35 years’ experience in marketing, communication, promotion and sales of content in the entertainment industry, he is currently Deputy Director of Marketing at RTVE.

His main task is to create the launch and follow-up campaigns for the different programmes and fiction, as well as the marketing of the films in which RTVE participates.

Marta Velasco is producer and founding partner of Áralan Films, which was founded in 2004 with the aim of developing projects on universal concepts, with a clear cultural interest and a strong commercial vocation. Currently, the feature film ‘Rita’, Paz Vega’s debut film as writer and director, which has participated in the 77th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival and will soon be shown at the 24th edition of the Valladolid International Film Week SEMINCI, is awaiting its premiere. His latest feature film released in theaters, ‘Segundo Premio’ directed by Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez, won the Golden Biznaga at the 27th edition of the Malaga Film Festival and is considered by some critics as the best film of the year 2024. His filmography also includes titles such as ‘Como Dios Manda’, ‘Empieza el Baile’, ‘La maniobra de la Tortuga’, ‘Cuando los ángeles duermen’, ‘Quién te cantará’, ‘Asesinos inocentes’ or ‘Los Niños Salvajes’ among others.

I have been involved in music for as long as I can remember. Professionally, I developed my career in the record industry, working in various positions: radio promotion, project manager, A&R and artistic director at Chrysalis, Emi and Virgin, with artists such as Antonio Vega, Amaral, Los Delincuentes, Dover, Luz Casal, Enrique Morente, among others.

At Globomedia I learned the job of music supervisor for fiction series and films, working on “Vis a Vis”, “El Barco”, “Los Hombres de Paco”, “Estoy Vivo”, “Byb”, “Kamikaze”, “Tres Metros Sobre el Cielo”, “Fuga de Cerebros I y II”, “Tengo Ganas de Ti”, among others. I currently participate in panels at international congresses to share my experience and combine teaching at ECAM, UNIR, SAE… with my work as music supervisor in “El Embarcadero”, “Por H o Por B”, “Nasdrovia”, “Sky Rojo”, “Entrevias”, “Now & Then”, “Nacho”, “Los Farad”, “Berlin”, “Land Of Woman”, “Cómo Cazar a un Monstruo” or “La Casa de Papel / Money Heist”, among others.

Composer, orchestrator and sound artist, Isabel Royán holds a degree in Musical Composition (Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga), a Master’s degree in Composition for Audiovisuals and Video Games (Katarina Gurska Center), a Master’s degree in Musical Heritage/Ethnomusicology and Flamenco (Universidad Internacional de Andalucía) and has completed specialized training in film composition at the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program (Seattle Film Institute, Washington). She is also a classically trained pianist and has a degree in Journalism. She has received nominations for the Carmen Awards 2023 in the category of Best Original Score for her soundtrack for Alimañas, as well as for the Berlanga Awards 2023 for her music for the film Olvido, by Inés París. That same year, her music for the film Emilio Prados, cazador de nubes received a nomination for the Premios de la Música para el Audiovisual Español, and in 2022 her soundtrack for Princesa was nominated at Ibicine. She has been nominated for the FIMUCINEMA 2021 awards in the categories of Best Music for Documentary for Paraíso en llamas, nominated for the Goya 2021 awards, and Best Music for Short Film for La pequeña Leona. The same year she was also nominated for Best Soundtrack for her work for El Secreto de Lucía at the Actrum Awards. Her music has also received several nominations at the Jerry Goldsmith Awards 2017 for El glóbulo de Bok (Best Original Composition) and for La Verónica (Best Soundtrack for Short Film). He has also received a nomination at the PlayStation Talents Awards for his work in the video game Night and Day and in 2016 for Best Soundtrack for Video Game at the Jerry GoldSmith Awards 2016 for the music of Paula, from Ikigai Play. He has also won along with NoOBo Games the only prize awarded by the AEVI in the Idea Game Jam 2019. He is currently working on the composition of soundtracks for films, video games, scenic, new AV formats and concert music, being one of his latest works the commission of the National Center for Musical Diffusion of his work El vientre del fuego.

MD/producer

Beatriz Campos started her career at ITV Global Entertainment in 2007 where she spent 5 years managing finished and format sales for Spain, Portugal, and The Middle East. In 2012 Campos moved to Shine International handling finished and format sales for a handful of territories inc. Iberia, Italy, MENA, Greece, Turkey & Israel also responsible for the sale of big commercial brands inc. BROADCHURCH, MASTERCHEF and BIGGEST LOSER. In 2015 the merger between Shine and Endemol resulted in Campos being appointed as Sales Director. In 2016, Campos joined the STUDIOCANAL family as VP Sales followed by a promotion to Head of Global Sales for TV Series in 2017. In 2019, Campos was appointed to SVP Global Sales and Production Financing, responsible for supporting STUDIOCANAL’s wealth of in-house production companies across Europe, as well as driving the sales and production financing for their growing roster of TV productions, such as Daytime Emmy® Award winning animated series THE ADVENTURES OF PADDINGTON seasons 1, 2 and 3. Within her role she has been responsible for setting up the financing of Marc Levy’s TV series adaptation of the novel ALL THOSE THINGS WE NEVER SAID. Other production financing highlights include two long running series for RTVE in Spain, produced by Bambu: the International Emmy nominated TWO LIVES (Dos Vidas) and THE VOW (La Promesa), as well as Urban Myth Films’ production WAR OF THE WORLDS season 2 and season 3 for CANAL +, MGM+ and Disney. On the scripted format front, she drove the sale for the Mexican adaptation EL COLAPSO for the US Hispanic platform VIX, based on the French CANAL + original series L’Effondrement, both versions distributed by STUDIOCANAL. During her position at STUDIOCANAL , the distribution team has won the Broadcast Award for Best International Sales on two occasions for THE LAST PANTHERS and YEARS AND YEARS. In March 2024, Campos is named as Managing director of Anonymous Content España overseeing the company’s daily operations of the newly created JV between Anonymous Content and Morena Films, one of the most established production companies in Spain.

100 Bullets General Manager

Degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Master in Audiovisual Business Management from the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid and Master in Television from the Universidad Complutense. He began his professional career in the R&D department of Telemadrid. In 2001, he moved to Telemadrid as assistant to the head of purchasing at the same channel, becoming head of purchasing three years later. In 2005 he arrived at Cuatro as Head of Programming for Outside Production. In 2010 he started at NBC as Director of Programming and Acquisitions for the channels Calle 13 and Syfy in Spain and Portugal. He has worked for laSexta as Director of Acquisitions and Outside Production, contributing to the launch of laSexta3 and Xplora. Later he was Director of Television at Televisión Española and Content Director at Discovery Spain and Portugal. He currently directs the production company 100 Balas, part of the Mediapro group. His fiction productions include the Vota Juan trilogy, the Prime Video series “Romancero” and “Su Majestad” and the series “Celeste” for Movistar. In the non-fiction area, he has produced successful docuseries such as “El Palmar de Troya”, “Lola”, “Matar al Presidente” and “Lina”. Professor at UC3M, Instituto de Empresa, Instituto de RTVE and ECAM. General Manager of 100 Balas.

Director of Andalucía Film Commission, she has been a member of the Board of the European Film Commission Network and the Spanish Film Commission, and is a member of the Board of the Andalusian Film Academy.

She has been Technical Director of the Seville European Film Festival for five years. She was show coordinator at Port Aventura for three years, working with the companies of artists and dancers from Mexico, China and Polynesia, as well as the team of Els Comediants. During Expo 1992 in Seville, she was assistant to the director of Descubriteca (Sociedad Estatal) and assistant producer of the lake shows (CAE or Centro de Apoyo al Espectáculo).

Accredited as a film commissioner by the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) and trained at the Comisión Filmica de México in 1999.

She has worked on various projects and shoots, including The Crown, Assassin’s Creed, Game of Thrones T5; The Rhythm Section by Reed Morano; Exodus: Gods and Kings by Ridley Scott; Memories of the Alhambra by Ahn Gil-Ho, Toro by Kike Maillo; Alatriste by Agustín Díaz Yanes; Kingdom of Heaven by Ridley Scott; StarWars: Episode II. Attack of the Clones by George Lucas; Talk to Her by Pedro Almodóvar; James Bond: Die Another Day by Lee Tamahori or Carmen by Vicente Aranda.

She has given lectures and seminars in various forums, markets and festivals in Spain and abroad: Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, USA, Italy, England and Germany.

She is co-author, with Carlos Rosado, of the book Cine y Turismo: Una nueva estrategia de promoción (2006). Translated into English and presented at the Marché du Film in Cannes. Two editions.

She has collaborated with various international publications (Variety, Screen International, Kemps, The Hollywood Reporter, AFCI News Releases and the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences), Editorial Coordinator of the 1st Andalusian Audiovisual Guide, Film and Television Production (2002), 1st Production Guide of Spain FC, ICEX, EGEDA and FAPAE (2003), Manual of Good Filming Practices, AFC 2005/2010 and the Rutas de cine: Alatriste, El camino de los ingleses, El corazón de la tierra, Entrelobos, Isla Mínima, Sergio Leone Trilogy. All these itineraries and project coordination can be visited at Andalucía destino de cine.

She has participated in the organisation of the Andalusian Film Commission’s participation in the most important international film festivals: Berlinale, Marche du Film Cannes, American Film Market, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Focus London, Ischia Film Festival.

She has participated as a jury member in many festivals and in the project selection committees of the Diputación de Málaga in three editions and with Filmand in the Mallorca Talents Lab, Atlantida 2020 and in the Mallorca Talents Lab.

Andalucian Film Commission has received the following national and international awards for its work in promoting Andalusia during her tenure as director:

Award for the Work of Film Promotion in Andalusia ASECAN Awards 2017 ‘Excellence in Management’ Tourism Awards 2015 (Ministry of Tourism of the Regional Government of Andalusia); Historias de Luz Awards (2014), Ideas with Soul Award: Andalusia Film Commission, for its contribution to the international projection of Andalusia in the audiovisual sector: Asociación de Empresarios, Profesionales y Autónomos de Osuna (2014), Award to the AFC for its work in promoting Osuna; XIX ASECAN Awards (2002), Best work in promoting film in Andalusia; Borsa Internationale del Cine Turismo de Ischia in Italy (2006), Award for the book Cine y turismo, una nueva estrategia de promoción, written by Carlos Rosado and Piluca Querol; II Spanish Film Commission Award (2006), La leyenda del tiempo, by Isaki Lacuesta; III Spanish Film Commission Award (2007), Alatriste by director Agustín Díaz Yanes; Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI), Best International Publicity 1999.

Al De Azpiazu is Senior Vice President of Distribution & Co-productions at Fremantle International, with responsibilities for France, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
He joined Fremantle in 2016 after six years at Warner Bros.
International Television, where he had responsibilities for program distribution and format licensing in Europe and Latin America.
He previously worked at Mediapro, Cadena SER and Televisió de Catalunya, where he performed production tasks.
He has a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Barcelona; he has completed the MEGA postgraduate degree from the Media Business School and training programs from Bertelsmann University at the INSEAD business school.
He is fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan and collaborates as a lecturer in the master’s programs of the National Film & Television School in the United Kingdom.  

Ana Torrent began her film career at the age of seven with director Víctor Erice in El espíritu de la colmena – for which she won the Silver Fotogramas Award for Best Actress. 30 years later, she worked with him again in the film Cerrar los ojos, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 and earned her nominations for the Goya, Forqué and Feroz Awards for Best Supporting Actress, as well as the Fotogramas de Plata and the CEC Medal for Best Supporting Actress.

She worked with Carlos Saura on the films Cría Cuervos, which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and Elisa Vida Mia, which also won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. In 1980 she made El nido with Jaime de Armiñan, a film that was nominated for an Oscar and for which she won the Best Actress award at the Montreal Festival and the New York Critics Awards.

Encouraged by Erice to continue her acting career, Ana attended Cristina Rota’s classes, combining them with a degree in Geography and History. Years later, she won a scholarship to study filmmaking in New York. She also studied acting for four years with Uta Hagen at the Manhattan Theatre School HB Studios and was introduced to the Alexander Technique.

Since then, Ana divides her time between Madrid and New York. She has taken part in national projects such as Sobre todo de noche, directed by Víctor Iriarte; Nieva en Benidorm, by Isabel Coixet; Verónica, directed by Paco Plaza; Tesis, by Alejandro Amenábar, for which she was nominated for a Goya in the Best Actress category; Vacas, by Julio Medem; Yoyes, by Helena Taberna; or No-Do, by Elio Quiroga – as well as international films – There Be Dragons, by Roland Joffé; The Other Boleyn Girl, directed by Justin Chadwick; or in the series of British films by Peter Greenaway: The Tulse Luper Suitcases II and III. She also appeared in Raúl Herrera’s short film Plein Air. She recently filmed Raíces in Puerto Rico, directed by Gustavo Ramos.

Her television career began with the series Anillos de oro, directed by Pedro Masó, and continued with El jardín de Venus, by José María Forqué, and Segunda enseñanza, also by Masó. She has participated in international series such as Hemingway, by Bernhard Sinkel, La Piovra, for RAI in Italy, and Kinsey, for the BBC. Her most recent works include Bosé, directed by Mikel Rueda, for SkyShowtime and Mano de hierro, by Lluís Quílez, for Netflix. She recently shot Furia, the latest series by Félix Sabroso for Max.

In the theatre, her recent productions include Muero por que no muero, by Paco Bezerra and directed by Matías Umpiérrez. Las Criadas, directed by Luis Luque; Todas las noches de un día, by Alberto Conejero; and Imperio, by Matías Umpiérrez. She has also appeared in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, directed by Magüi Mira, and William Shakespeare’s Richard III, directed by Carlos Martín.

Angeles González-Sinde is a screenwriter and film and television director. She won a Goya Award for best screenplay for “La buena estrella” and another for best new director for “La suerte dormida”. She has also directed the feature films “El comensal” (2022), adapted from the novel of the same name by Gabriela Ybarra; “Una palabra tuya” (2008), adapted from the novel by Elvira Lindo; “A mí quién me cuida” (2006) for Canal Sur and TV3; “La suerte dormida” (2004). She is currently preparing “Después de Kim”, to be shot in 2025. Her latest work as a director is the documentary “La conquista de la democracia”, which RTVE will premiere in 2025.

She is the screenwriter of several feature films, such as “Tierra baja” by Miguel Santesmases; “Todos estamos invitados” and “La vida que te espera” by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón; “Mentiras y gordas” and “Entre vivir y soñar” by Menkes and Albacete; “Los aires difíciles, Heroína, El misterio de Galíndez, Las razones de mis amigos by Gerardo Herrero; Segunda piel by Gerardo Vera; La puta y la ballena by Luis Puenzo; Antigua vida mía by Héctor Olivera; 7 minutos by Daniela Fejerman; Otra ciudad by Silvia Quer.

She has been awarded the Cartelera Turia Prize, the Best Film Prize at the Nantes Spanish Film Festival, the Mestre Mateo Prize at the Galician Film Academy, the Best Screenplay Prize at the Malaga Film Festival, the Silver Lighthouse at the L’Alfas del Pi Film Festival, the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos Medal, among others.

A versatile writer, as a novelist she was a finalist for the Planeta Prize, winner of the Edebé Prize for Children’s Literature, and is also a playwright. Her work in television ranges from comedies to daily series (five seasons of “Amar es para siempre”) or primetime dramas (Bosé). She has a degree in Classics and an MFA from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles.

With more than 30 years of experience in the audiovisual industry, Juan Parodi has played key roles in various areas of the media. He was Director of Programming for a major television network and Executive Director of Argentina’s public media, where he led key initiatives for the development and distribution of quality content.

Internationally, he worked at Sony Pictures International and FremantleMedia, overseeing productions of global scope and bringing his strategic vision to high-impact projects.

He then created his own production company, which has won major awards in the fiction and entertainment categories and established himself as an influential figure in the creation of audiovisual content.

Cúcuta, Colombia.

Social communicator from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. With more than 25 years of experience in the audiovisual industry, she has been a creator, executive producer and showrunner of series for Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Disney +, Nickelodeon, Fox International Channels and Caracol TV. She was Creative Director of New Business for Caracol TV and Head of Content for The Mediapro Studio Colombia and Mexico. Since 2021 she is based in Spain, where she has worked as Director of Original Series for Netflix Spain and Executive Producer and International Development for the audiovisual group Izen.

Cultural manager and film critic. He is a member of the Spanish Film Academy, an institution that awarded him the González-Sinde Prize in 2012 for his work in the dissemination of cinema. In 2019 he received the ASECAN Award for his work in promoting cinema in Andalusia.

With more than thirty-five years of experience, he currently coordinates the Encuentros con el Cine Español and is the director of the Muestra de Cine Español Inédito en Jaén, organised by the Jaen Provincial Government, the short film competition Rodando por Jaén, the Miguel Picazo Film Campus in Cazorla, as well as the Conversations with Directors organised by the Fundación Unicaja in Almería, Málaga and Cádiz. In 2013 he created the Short Film Festival against Gender Violence, organised by the Jaén Provincial Government, which he directed for six years. Since 2015 he has been the director of the Almería International Film Festival.

He was part of the commission that created the Andalusian Film Academy, was a member of its first board of directors and is currently vice-president of the new board.

His directorial debut was the documentary Miguel Picazo, un cineasta extramuros, which was nominated for the Forqué Awards in 2017. He recently premiered the documentary Miradas del cine español at the Malaga Festival, sponsored by the Fundación Unicaja, of which he is co-director.

He has published the books Miguel Picazo, un cineasta jiennense, La Tía Tula, guión cinematográfico, Los hijos de Alvargonzález, guión cinematográfico inédito, Jimena (ASECAN Award 2015) and Rodajes en Jaén (ASECAN Award 2017).

He was president of the Association of Audiovisual Festivals of Andalusia between 2011 and 2014, re-elected between 2016 and 2018, and a member of the board of directors of ASECAN for six years.

Rémi Tereszkiewicz is an expert in OTT services and TV series marketing.
Having worked since 1994 as VP or SVP in sales and marketing positions for various companies such as Warner Brothers (2016), Lagardère Studios (2014), Netgem (2004) or Eurosport (1994), he led the creation and launch of numerous TV services.
and xVOD offerings.
He is currently CEO of Betaseries, a media platform offering recommendation services for a community of 5 million monthly TV series fans and analyzes the uses of TV series and OTT for the media industry. B2B https://betaseries.pro/en/
B2C www.betaseries.com

Teresa Segura is a producer. With a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Seville, she has worked since 2003 in the production department of several short films, feature films, music videos and documentaries with various production companies until 2009 when Diffferent Entertainment SL was born and specializes in administration, coordination, production management and executive production of all projects that have been carried out until today. Highlights include “Malviviendo” being the most watched Spanish-language webseries worldwide, the series “El viaje de Peter McDowell” and “Flaman” for RTVA, “Entertainment” and “Buster” for Atresmedia, “Síndrome Valyrio” for HBO Spain, “Mambo” and “Grasa” for RTVE Play and the recently released “En fin” for Prime. In addition to the feature films “Obra 67” and “Fogueo”, the documentary “Eterna” and numerous branded content, video clips, short films and live shows among others: www.diffferent.es She is director of the express film festivals DH Rueda, which in March 2025 will carry out its X Edition and UHU Rueda, which starts its I Edition in November 2025. She is also a teacher and project mentor, associate professor at Loyola University, teaches and coordinates workshops at Diffferent and is part of Emoce Educación Emocional. She is an expert in Transpersonal Emotional Intelligence, manages rrss campaigns and practices sports daily.

With a degree in Acting from the Escuela de Arte Dramático de Sevilla and a Diploma in Film Acting from the Instituto del Cine de Madrid, Pilar began working in production in 2014. In 2021 she was selected to participate in the SERIES WOMEN’ program, organized by the Erich Pommer Institut (Germany), and currently combines her work as a producer in her own company Magnetika Producciones, with work as an executive producer for other production companies. In addition, she has participated as associate producer in several feature films and has carried out the Services of several international productions shot in Andalusia. With more than 20 produced works, documentary and fiction, among her works stand out:
“Operación Barrio Inglés” Fiction Series of 8 chapters for TVE; “Historias de leyenda I” and “Historias de leyenda II”, coproduction of several regional TVs through F.O.R.T.A; or the Documentary Feature Films “Val del Omar, poeta audiovisual” premiered at the Seminci; “La Residencia de señoritas” premiered at the Malaga Film Festival; “La última toma” premiered at the Seville Film Festival; or “Juanito” premiered at the Malaga Film Festival; among others. She is a member of the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España and of the Academia de Cine de Andalucía; she is Secretary of AAMMA, member of CIMA and is a member of the Board of Directors of ANCINE (Asociación Andaluza de Productoras de Cine).

Cultural manager and programmer specializing in cultural content innovation. In 2023, she has been chosen by Forbes among the 100 most creative professionals in the business world. Responsible for the expanded programming of Festival de Málaga (Málaga de Festival), and responsible for Neópolis, section on Science, Technology and Art of Festival de Málaga. Responsible for the sound essay in podcast format, En construcci(On).

Artistic Director of the Festival de Cine Flamenco y Etnográfico de Jerez. Coordinator of the ‘Anverso/Reverso’ Cycle of the Cervantes Theater. Programmer of the ‘Encounters with Authors’ of the Culture Area of the City Council. of Malaga. Coordinator of the cycle on contemporary thought and digital coexistence, ‘El MAE se mueve’, organized by the Museo Andaluz de la Educación.

He collaborates with literary programs with the Diputación de Málaga. Coordinator of the series ‘Encuentros en la Ría’ organized by the Huelva City Council. Coordinator of the colloquiums of the Alicante Book Fair since 2021. Coordinator of the cycle ‘A qué suena’ of Las Tardes del Foro de la Diputación de Huelva. Programmer of literary activities on feminist issues for different public and private entities. Responsible for the strategic plan Neighborhood Agents of Marbella Creative and Inclusive City of Marbella City Council.

Collaborator of the Master in Cultural Management at Universidad Carlos III. Teaching coordinator of the course of Management and Design of Cultural Programs of the IMFE. Collaborator of the Master of Literary Heritage of the UMA. Collaborates in Cadena Ser Malaga with her own section, ‘No me toques el algoritmo’. She has an opinion column, ‘La vida quieta’, in El Español. He writes for La Vanguardia Magazine about literature and territory. He collaborates in Secret Olivo and Igluu Magazine with conversations.

I started by chance and once I discovered this wonderful world, I never left.
I have been working in the art department for over twenty years as an art director, set decorator, assistant art director, advance and prop man.

I started my career by going straight to the heart of the industry and I insist that it was purely by chance. I met Bigas Luna and from there I ended up working for him. Luckily I have always worked with the best.

After a short time, I started working in the world of production services, mainly on English language films that came to Spain, which allowed me to work in large productions with different working systems to ours.

Thanks to the producers Marta Velasco and Gonzalo Bendala, I made the leap to art director.

Her career includes titles such as the series “La Peste”, “Isla minima”, “Adios” and her participation in international productions such as “The Promise” and “The Impossible” “Knight and Day”. Her most recent films include Warrior Nun (TV series), La Veneno (TV mini-series) and Rambo: Last Blood.

Montse García is currently the Director of Fiction at Atresmedia TV, where she is in charge of highly successful national and international series such as ‘La Ruta’, ‘Alba’, ‘La Cocinera de Castamar’, ‘Entre Tierras’, ‘La Novia Gitana’ or ‘Cristo y Rey’, among others.

She joined Atresmedia TV in 2020, after holding the position of Executive Director at the production company Diagonal TV, from the Banijay Iberia Group. Throughout her career, she has specialized in television fiction, participating in the development and production of titles such as ‘La Señora’ (TVE), ‘Isabel’ (TVE), ‘Sin Identidad’ (Antena 3), ‘La Catedral del Mar’ (Antena 3) and ‘Matadero’ (Antena 3). She also participated in the production of the film ‘La librería’, directed by Isabel Coixet, Goya Award for Best Film in 2018. She is also responsible for the delivery and continuity of the series ‘Love in Scrambled Times’ (TVE), renewing and adapting the Atresmedia format as ‘El amor es para siempre’. She specialized in television production in Los Angeles at the studios of SPTI (Sony Television Productions International), covering all areas that make up the audiovisual production of fiction. She later joined the SPTI Group (Sony Television Productions International) as Production Manager and Delegate for Spain, where she participated in the adaptation of television formats for Sony Spain, such as Los Simuladores (Cuatro), Matrimonio con hijos (Cuatro), Mesa para cinco (Telecinco) and De Moda (Forta). As head of production at Globomedia Televisión, she produced some of the first prime-time shows in Spain, such as Más que amigos (Telecinco), Compañeros (Antena 3) and Abogados (Telecinco) with Boca-Boca Producciones. Her expertise and professional skills are the driving force behind her objectives to support and create new projects and formats, focusing on a range of commercial and quality fiction linked to the various broadcasting options currently available.

Graduated in Law by Complutense University and Master in International Business Management by ICEX, he has developed his career in the audiovisual sector, specializing in television fiction and cinema.

He has been coordinator of international relations for FAPAE, head of programming at the Warner group, director of programming and acquisitions at the Viacom group, producer of feature films and manager of the Film Academy.

He currently directs the RTVE group’s film and fiction strategy, with a special focus on independent production and a firm commitment to co-productions with European public television.

With a degree in Audiovisual Communication, Irene Lara has almost 30 years of experience in the audiovisual industry. Throughout her career at Atresmedia, she has worked in different departments, which has given her a global and strategic vision of the sector. Her work has been characterized by a constant focus on creativity, transversal strategy and innovation.

She currently heads the Content Marketing team, where she is responsible for the planning and implementation of promotional strategies for the premieres of Antena 3, laSexta and other channels in the group. Her experience has allowed her to work closely with players from all over the industry: media agencies, creative agencies, production companies and all the different departments of the Atresmedia Group, consolidating her ability to generate effective and impactful campaigns.

Born in Madrid, Irene is also passionate about travelling and the arts: cinema, literature and, above all, good TV series and programmes.

Alejandro Ávila Villares is a film journalist. He is the director of FilmAnd, the Andalusian audiovisual magazine, and is a contributor to Cadena SER, in addition to managing the communication, press and social networks of film production companies, films, institutions and festivals.
DirCom of the Andalusian Film Academy and ANCINE (Andalusian Association of Film Production Companies), he is a member of the European Film Academy (EFA), the Andalusian Film Academy and AICE, the association that organizes the Feroz Awards.

The EFA selected him for its Sunday in the Country program as the Spanish representative in 2019.

In 2019 he won the Best Andalusian Film Book Award for Objetivo: Planeta Tierra, a pioneering book in Spanish on environmental documentaries and has been a member of the programming team of the Another Way Film Festival.
He has worked in the area of production and documentation for award-winning docuseries for Netflix (USA) and VPRO (Public Television of the Netherlands), as well as covering international festivals such as the Berlinale, IDFA Amsterdam, San Sebastian or New Horizons (Wroclaw), among others.

Film and television scriptwriter specialising in comedy. He began his career writing for comedy programmes such as “Vaya Semanita”, “El Intermedio”, “Qué vida más triste” and “La noche de José Mota”.

In 2009 he made his first foray into cinema with Borja Cobeaga, with whom he wrote “Pagafantas”, winner of the Malaga Festival Award for Best New Screenplay. With Cobeaga he also wrote “No Controles” (2011) and the highest grossing film in history, “8 apellidos vascos” (2014), for which they wrote a sequel the following year, “8 apellidos catalanes” (2015). He has also appeared in films such as “Tenemos que hablar” (2016) and “Fe de etarras” (2017).

His most recent releases include “Súperlopez” (2018), for which he was nominated for the Goya Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the series “Vota Juan” (2019) and its sequels “Vamos Juan” (2020) and “Venga Juan” (2021). In 2024 he will premiere Celeste, a new original series for Movistar Plus+, created by Diego San José and co-produced with 100 Balas (The Mediapro Studio).

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.
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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.