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Beyond IMDB

28 October, 2024
18:00 - 18:50
Village. Palacio de Congresos

Afterwork conversations

  • Paula Cobo
    Paula Cobo
  • Chloé Wallace
    Chloé Wallace
  • Jordi Vallejo
    Jordi Vallejo
  • Hugo Stuven
    Hugo Stuven

Moderator

Paula Cobo

Interveners

Chloé Wallace
Jordi Vallejo
Hugo Stuven

What is it about?

The aim of this panel is for directors and screenwriters to share their experiences in this process of reinvention: how they have managed to break free from the expectations imposed on them and venture into new creative areas, or how the market’s lack of confidence has prevented them from taking this creative leap. Beyond IMDb aims to generate an enriching debate in which the authors reflect on the versatility of creative and authorial talent in the Spanish audiovisual scene.
Chloé Wallace, director and screenwriter.
Jordi Vallejo, scriptwriter and playwright.
Hugo Stuven, director and screenwriter.
Moderator: Paula Cobo, Producer Espotlight

Pitching session for Andalusian series projects in development
Paula Cobo

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

 

Chloé Wallace

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

Links

The Country – Hello Stranger etc

Esquire – Hello Stranger, UCP

Folie

Vogue Spain – UCP

Vogue Spain – MINF

Vogue Spain – UCP

E Billboard – MINF

Movies with N – MINF

Vein – Hello Stranger

Harpers Bazaar – LV

El País 2017

Vanity 2015

Mucho Texto Podcast

Jordi Vallejo

Screenwriter and Playwright

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

Hugo Stuven

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

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

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

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

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

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