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Writers Unions

29 October, 2024
16:00 - 16:50
Sala 2. Palacio de Congresos

Industry talks

  • Travis Donnelly
    Travis Donnelly
  • Carolin Otto
    Carolin Otto
  • Carlos de Pando
    Carlos de Pando

Moderator

Willard Tressel

Interveners

Travis Donnelly Carolin Otto Carlos del Pando

What is it about?

Global challenges for screenwriter’s guilds in Europe and the USA. Common challenges, diverse solutions?

Travis Donnelly, WGA West.
Carolin Otto, Presidenta de la Federation of Screenwriters of Europe (FSE).
Carlos del Pando, Sindicato de guionistas español ALMA.
Moderado por Willard Tressel, Media Consultant.

ORDER IN CHAOS: how to transform our heritage into the set of a superproduction
Travis Donnelly

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.

 

Carolin Otto

Screenwriter and director, President of the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE)

Carolin Otto has been a scriptwriter and director since 1995. She studied documentary film and scriptwriting at the Munich Film Academy (HFF) and received her doctorate (PHD) at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She worked as a scriptwriter for many popular series and films, such as Bier Royal. Actually Headwriter of long-running ZDF TV-Show Lena Lorenz. She was author, director and producer of the feature films Aphrodite’s Night and The White Raven. Her first novel, Berchtesgaden, will be published in early 2025. Since 2019 FSE president.

www.carolinotto.de

 

Carlos de Pando

In 2003 he began working for the production company Globomedia on series such as Casi Perfectos, 7 Vidas and Aída.
In 2008 he joined the production company Notro TV, where he wrote the series Plan América and created the miniseries Karabudján.
After coordinating the script team of the series Herederos, he joined Bambú Producciones, where he coordinated the series Hispania and Imperium and wrote for Gran Hotel and Velvet.
In 2015 he signed up for El Ministerio del Tiempo, for which he received the Ondas award for best series, and the Iris award for best script.
Today he is part of the Zeta Studios team, where he has written his first feature film, El Silencio del Pantano, has created and written the series GARCÍA! and has been showrunner of the series El Vecino and Sin Huellas.