Thursday, October 17, 2024. With less than ten days left to activate the machinery and roll out the red carpet, South International Series Festival 2024 confirms the latest additions to the program of its ambitious second edition. Between October 25 and 31, Cadiz will host up to 12 world premieres and 15 national premieres of the best series of the moment, and of course their teams. Renowned national and international actors and speakers will travel to South 2024 from the UK, Portugal, Germany, France, Colombia, USA, Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil and of course from all corners of our country, having already received the confirmation of the festival, to date, the confirmation of Can Yaman, Itziar Ituño, Leonor Watling, David Shore, Nacho Guerreros, Amaia Salamanca, Maxi Iglesias, Malcolm Treviño, Mario Conde, Nathalie Seseña, Alberto and Laura Caballero, Carlos Areces, María Adánez, Rafa Cobos, Numa Paredes, Javier Gutiérrez, Eva Ugarte, Carlos Scholz, Óscar Casas and Niña Pastori, among others, as well as Eduardo Strauch (from “Alive”, survivor of the Andes plane crash), that will walk South’s daily red carpets and participate in its various activities.

While the 12 world premieres to be enjoyed at South 2024 will be. La vida breve, Luz en la oscuridad, Blanca Bocanegra, Paco de Lucía Flamenco Legacy, Asuntos internos, La que se avecina T15, Vizinhos para sempre, SAC En la mente criminal, Muertos S.L., Andalucía Salvaje, Tartessos y Los oficios del cine; the 15 national premieres will be those of This town, Xuxa, Nautilus, Rivages (Sea Shadows), (In)visibles, Oderbruch, La historia del reguetón, Leonardo Da Vinci, Matilha (Dogpack), Alive, the Andes plane disaster, Joan, On thin ice, Dead in the water, La Favorita y I will spit on their graves.

All this has been announced today Thursday at a press conference held in the courtyard of the Diputación de Cádiz, which has counted with the participation and presence of Almudena Martinez, president of the Diputación de Cádiz; Bruno GarciaMayor of Cadiz; Mercedes Colombo, delegate of the Government of the Junta de Andalucía in Cádiz, and Tania Barcelona, delegate of Tourism of the Junta de Andalucía in Cadiz. In her speech, the president of the Provincial Council of Cádiz has emphasized that “South opens a new possibility to associate the province of Cadiz with the cultural industry. We are taking decisive steps to consolidate our position as a destination for the production and realization of films and series. . Los results are satisfactory in view of the response that the locations in the province of Cadiz are providing to all these productions. This path finds in South an added value: the value of showing the novelties of films and series from this southern vertex that, thanks to this festival, becomes the center of all eyes. We want to persevere and be constant in this adventure in view of the benefits it brings in terms of employment, promotion of the destination and generation of economy. In the Diputación you will always find an ally in the objective of strengthening and stabilizing this relationship between the province of Cadiz and South International Series Festival. “.

For his part, the mayor of Cádiz, Bruno García has pointed out that despite the fact that this year will be held for the second time, “the people of Cadiz have already adopted this festival as their own”, “the people of Cadiz have already adopted this festival as something of their own”. In this sense, he added that the South “contributes to generate the goal we have that Cadiz is a cultural city. Also, the councilman has advanced that This year there will also be a series of parallel activities around the festival that will be announced in a few days “so that the communion between the South and the city is the maximum”, and, along with this, it has also announced that at noon on October 26th, the South International Series Festival will host the presentation of Gadir, the resurgence of the Phoenicians: a documentary of 22 minutes that commissioned by the Fundación de Cultura del Ayuntamiento de Cádiz, which shows how the show directed by ‘La Fura dels Baus’ is being created. and that serves as colophon to the Phoenician Week organized by the City Council. This is a show in which we have worked closely with the most representative assets of the cultural world of Cadiz, which have an important role during the show: Carnival authors and choirs, choreographers and dancers of flamenco and contemporary dance and composers of experimental and symphonic music. The free show took place on Saturday, September 21 on the beach of La Caleta with the presence of thousands of people.

The president, the mayor and the delegate were joined by the president, the mayor and the delegate. Joan Álvarez, director of South International Series Festival, who thanked once again for the fundamental support that the provincial institution provides to the festival for its realization, at the same time that he has made known the main novelties of the 2024 Cádiz seriéfila event, among which, In local terms, it is worth mentioning the announcement that the Cádiz CF’s Salvadoran myth, Jorge Alberto González Barillas “Mágico” will return this October to Cádiz through the preview that will be screened on Saturday, October 26, at 1 p.m., at the Auditorium of the Palacio de Congresos, under the title “Mágico”. Thus, in South you will be able to enjoy the preview of an upcoming docu-series that will narrate his career from an intimate look at his life. During 4 episodes, this production uncovers the mythology and legacy of the “Magician” who became “MagicalThe “The World Cup” is an ode to his eternal free and creative spirit, which has made him a legend in world soccer. Produced by by Ecocinema, Desment, Ventures, KAF Suisse and We are tigers with the collaboration with Cádiz C.F.This docu-series has the general direction and script by Gonzalo Lamela and Javier Krauseas well as with Pedro Delguy in the direction of fiction and Executive Producer Miguel Ángel Mendoza and Ángel Cassani.

It was also announced today that Cádiz has not only been the place chosen for the world premiere of season 15 of La que se avecina by Mediaset España and Prime Video, but also of the city that will host on Sunday, October 27th, at 12:00 noon, the world premiere of Vizinhos para Semprethe Portuguese adaptation of La que se avecina that will tell the daily life of a community of neighbors in a condominium on the outskirts of Lisbon. Its cast will be represented at the Palacio de Congresos de Cádiz by Diogo Valsassina and Diana Nicolau, in an event that will also feature with the presence of its producers, the brothers Laura and Alberto Caballero and Nathalie Seseña, Nacho Guerreros and María Adánez, actresses who also will be awarded at the opening of the II edition of the Festival, next Friday, October 25, with one of the three “International Honorary SISF Member Award”. to be awarded in this edition.

Also released today, Thursday, were some information about “Matar a Mario Conde”: a docu-series that Womack Studios is currently working on together with La Goota Entertaiment, of which a small advance, as his section in which he participates is also called, South International Series Festival will be screened on Monday 28th at 13h. The director of the festival did not want to reveal more information about this milestone, but he did announce that Mario Conde himself will be present at the screening, and at the end of the screening he will answer questions from the press and the public, together with the producers of the production. The event will detail the reasons why, more than 30 years later, people continue to talk about Mario Conde, a figure who, with thousands of followers in social networks, continues to be a social phenomenon, since his case shook Spanish society, being, without a doubt, a person who, according to the producers of the future documentary series “they wanted to kill because he did not respect the rules and now it will be shown, therefore, a story of resistance in which it is necessary to kill Mario Conde, the character, so that Mario, the real one, survives”.

Finally, in his speech he recalled Joan Álvarez that after the first edition in 2023, in which South International Series Festival presented the “Tribute Awards” to the iconic Spanish actors Petra Martínez and Luis Zahera, in this second edition the three “International Honorary SISF Members” 2024 will be awarded. “International Honorary SISF Member” 2024The festival aims, in this and every future edition, to recognize the careers of actors, directors, screenwriters or other great personalities of the scene, who stand out for a successful career. With this, on the nights of October 25th, 28th and 30th, during the the Opening Gala of the Festival and screening of “La vida breve”, the screening of “What are you waiting for?and the screening of “La Favorita 1922”, respectively, the presentation of the above-mentioned of the aforementioned awards to María Adánez will be presented to María Adánez, David Shore and Can Yaman2024 award winners, who will also participate in the photocalls and red carpets of their days.

The tickets for the new previews about Mágico González and Mario Conde will be available tomorrow, Friday, October 18 at 12:00h at the Festival website, www.southseriesfest.comwhere tickets for the series already announced in previous weeks are available, until all seats are sold out.

A week of stars in Cadiz

Once this call has been held, South International Series Festival begins its official countdown to the start of its second edition on Friday, October 25, the day on which it will officially open with the screening of the series La vida breve (Spain), after the inaugural gala, which will be attended by its protagonists Leonor Watling, Carlos Scholz and Javier Gutiérrez. No son estos los únicos rostros que ya han confirmado su participación en las proyecciones, alfombras rojas y otras citas de South 2024, ya que también Nacho Fresneda, Carla Campra or Marta Povedaamong others, will come to Cádiz to present Internal Affairs (Spain); Amaia Salamanca, Carlos Areces, Salva Reina and Adriana Torrebejano will step on the red carpet will step on the red carpet in South to present the black comedy Muertos S.L.; and Karina Kolokolchykova, Maxi Iglesias and Martiño Rivas will do so for She, damned soul.

Among other names, the Atresmedia series What are you waiting for? will be represented by its protagonists Eva Ugarte, Francisco Ortíz and Rubén Cortada, while the director Daniel Ecija will come to Cádiz accompanied by Marta Hazas and Javier Gutierrez, protagonists of The Agency. The young cast of Physics or Chemistry with Biel Antón, María Bernabeu, Rocío Velayos, Kiko Bena, Miguel Fernández and Santiago Garzorzi. Y Óscar Casas and Olivia Baglivi with The Great Leap, in addition to Malcolm Treviño and Itziar Ituño will be present in Cádiz with Detective Touré. El miércoles 30, La Favorita South’s red carpet will be graced with faces such as Verónica Sánchez, Andrea Duro, Luis Fernández, Joel Sánchez Verónica Sánchez, Andrea Duro, Luis Fernández, Joel Sánchez, Elena Maroto and Maribel Salas. In a more international key, the Portuguese series Matilha will attract to South the Portuguese talent of its leading actors Alfonso Pimentel and Margarida Vila-Nova.