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Un thriller de supervivencia ambientado en el lugar más remoto del planeta. © Prime Video

Prime Video ha lanzado las primeras imágenes de Punto Nemo, su nueva serie original, dirigida por Denis Rovira (La influencia) y escrita por Daniel Martín Sáez de Parayuelo (Matadero) y Daniel Benmayor (Awareness).

En Punto Nemo, los miembros de una expedición oceanográfica compuesta por científicos y la Armada Española se embarcan en el buque Pentonkontors para investigar y concienciar al mundo de los problemas de la isla de plástico localizada en el Pacífico Sur. Sin embargo, una fuerte tormenta arrastra a los miembros de la expedición hasta una isla situada en los confines del planeta. Se trata de un lugar anteriormente habitado por militares rusos, que pondrá a prueba todas sus habilidades e instinto de supervivencia para intentar salir del punto más aislado del planeta Tierra: el Punto Nemo. Un lugar lleno de misterios y peligros al acecho.

Esta es la breve historia del breve reinado, el breve matrimonio y la breve vida de Luis I… el Breve. © Movistar Plus+

Movistar Plus+ ha compartido el primer tráiler y póster de su nueva serie original, La vida breve, dirigida por Adolfo Valor y Diego Núñez, y creada y escrita por Cristóbal Garrido y Valor.

Se trata de una serie de época, llena de humor e irreverencia, que recrea los sorprendentes acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar durante el reinado más corto de la historia de España con el monarca más desconocido: Luis I, hijo de Felipe V. Permaneció en el trono 229 días, desde el 15 de enero de 1724 hasta su muerte el 31 de agosto de ese mismo año.

Como cualquier joven, Luis (Carlos Scholz) está a punto de experimentar grandes cambios. Le casan con una prima desconocida y va a heredar el trono de España. En pleno siglo Xviii esto sería un...

“Oderbruch,” the second series in a first-look TV deal between CBS Studios and Berlin-based Syrreal Entertainment, triumphed at Cadiz’s 2nd South Intl. Series Festival on Thursday, scooping its best fiction series award.

A brooding mystery series, it kicks in with the grisly discovery of the bodies and bones of 248 murder victims left in a pile in a field in set in the desolate marshes of Germany’s northern border with Poland. World premiering at the Munich Film Festival, series is recognized in its ambition as one of the biggest this year in Germany.

The other major winner in scripted was “Joan,” sold by All3International, an Audience Award winner which also took best screenplay. It stars Sophie Turner who is “thrilling in The CW’s tense and engaging jewel thief drama,” Variety announced in its review.

Sophie Turner in “Joan”

Best non-fiction series went to “On Thin Ice: Putin vs.

German crime drama Oderbruch has won the Best Fiction Series Award at the South International Series Festival, which wraps today in Cadiz.

Set in Germany’s most sparsely populated region of the same name, Oderbruch is about an investigation into a serial killer and has touches of the fantastic genre. It’s directed by Christian Alvart and Adolfo J. Kolmerer and produced by Syrreal Entertainment, in co-production with Ard Degeto and CBS Studios.

The fiction jury, headed by producer Rémi Tereszkiewicz, gave the Best Fiction Series Screenplay Award to ITV drama Joan, a dramacreated by Anna Symon, directed by Richard Laxton and starring Sophie Turner.

German crime drama Oderbruch has won the Best Fiction Series Award at the South International Series Festival, which wraps today in Cadiz.

Set in Germany’s most sparsely populated region of the same name, Oderbruch is about an investigation into a serial killer and has touches of the fantastic genre. It’s directed by Christian Alvart and Adolfo J. Kolmerer and produced by Syrreal Entertainment, in co-production with Ard Degeto and CBS Studios.

The fiction jury, headed by producer Rémi Tereszkiewicz, gave the Best Fiction Series Screenplay Award to ITV drama Joan, a dramacreated by Anna Symon, directed by Richard Laxton and starring Sophie Turner.

The world premiere of Movistar Plus+’s period comedy drama The Short Life (La Vida Breve) will headline the second edition of South International Series Festival, which takes place in Cádiz in southern Spain from October 25-30. It will showcase 47 series, including 12 world premieres and 15 Spanish premieres.

Created by Cristóbal Garrido and Adolfo Valor, and starring Leonor Watling and Javier Gutiérrez, The Short Life is set during the brief reign of Spain’s King Louis I. It is the only world premiere in competition.

Two competitions, fiction and non-fiction, have been created this year. BetaSeries CEO Rémi Tereszkiewicz heads the...

Spanish TV fiction producers are finding ways to navigate the rocky international scene thanks to increasing interest from foreign producers looking to co-finance in Spain, leveraging the country’s generous tax incentives.

Apart from streamer financing — which accounts for over 50% of total Spanish content investment, the highest in major European markets — the peak TV bubble has burst. Moreover, distributors worldwide are paying smaller minimum guarantees, broadcaster buyers are taking fewer risks and many players are commissioning fewer titles.

Solutions raised by Spanish companies include establishing beachheads in America, developing English-language productions and selling on the open market.

“Zorro” producer Secuoya Studios will develop and produce large-scale projects in English as part of its international expansion strategy, recently unveiled by CEO Brendan Fitzgerald, a former Sony executive.

The studio, presided over by James Costos, will operate multiple production fronts simultaneously to speed up timelines without compromising quality.

“We want to become language-agnostic and begin with English,...

Still expanding “Elite” producer Zeta Studios has reached an agreement with auteur filmmaker Paco Plaza to develop and produce projects together. The agreement is non-exclusive regarding Plaza’s directorial work.

According to Zeta, the first project developed with Plaza will launch production in 2025.

A Valencia native who studied at Madrid’s Ecam, Plaza’s debut feature, “El Segundo nombre” (2002), won the European Grand Prix for a Fantasy Film at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival. He is best known for co-creating the “[Rec]” franchise, co-directed with Jaume Balagueró. The first film in the trilogy is a modern Spanish classic that achieved outstanding international success and was later remade in English as “Quarantine.”

Other standout titles from the filmmaker’s resume include Spanish Academy Goya nominee “Veronica” (2017),a big hit on Netflix, Luis Tosar-starrer “An Eye for an Eye” (2019), San Sebastian player “La Abuela” (2022) and Netflix’s “Hermana Muerte” (2023).

With his latest feature,...

Backed by Mediaset España and Movistar Plus+, Cadiz’s South International Series Festival made an inaugural splash last year, showcasing some of Spain’s biggest series of the season.

In 2024, the Andalusia-based event has moved to a post-Mipcom stop-over berth, and with France as the guest country, attendance could well scale up.

Spain has hosted major TV markets for years now, including Conecta Fiction each summer and Iberseries & Platino Industria, which unspooled in Madrid last week. South sets itself apart by being a true festival in the vein of Canneseries or the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in France. While there will be plenty of roundtables, networking, and B2B get-togethers at South, the event’s main objective is to showcase some of the best new and new-ish series from around the world.

“From the very beginning, the idea was to create something different from what was already being done in Spain,...