Iberseries & Platino Industria Spotlights Six New Ibero-American Series Projects
- The sixth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria opened in Madrid this week, featuring a pitching session dedicated to six new series projects developed by seven screenwriters.
- Among the six selections is La librera, created by Virginia Burgos from Seville and Juan Sánchez from Madrid.
- Alberto Grondona brings historical satire to the lineup with El capricho.
The sixth edition of Iberseries & Platino Industria opened in Madrid this week, featuring a pitching session dedicated to six new series projects developed by seven screenwriters. Organized in collaboration with Fundación SGAE, Spain’s primary collective management organization for intellectual property rights, the showcase connects creative talent with producers, buyers, and investors across the Ibero-American audiovisual sector. Event organizers designed the session to foster the production, financing, and international reach of upcoming fiction projects.
Pioneers and Rural Contrasts Take Center Stage in Madrid
Among the six selections is La librera, created by Virginia Burgos from Seville and Juan Sánchez from Madrid. Set in the early 1990s, the drama follows a woman who establishes the country’s first LGBT bookstore. Over several decades, the shop functions as both a political backroom and a safe haven for the community, until the surrounding neighborhood eventually turns its back on her. Shifting from urban history to Galician migration, Avión comes from writer Miguel Cavadas of Vigo. The series explores the titular village as a living monument to the utopia of Galician emigration, where residents leave impoverished and return wealthy. During winter, the town experiences severe rural precarity and aging, but summer transforms the streets into a lively display of money, ranchera music, and Mexican flags. The narrative examines the sharp collision between community and individualism, past and present, and local low pensions against foreign fortunes.
Satirical Court Intrigue and Midnight Landline Calls
Alberto Grondona brings historical satire to the lineup with El capricho. The comedy centers on three women battling for power at the 18th-century Spanish court: Queen María Luisa of Parma, the charismatic Duchess of Alba, and the enlightened Duchess of Osuna. Francisco de Goya observes the political struggles within a collapsing Spain, narrating the palace intrigue with fierce irony. In Teléfonos fijos by Ángel Mirou, residents in the modest Recalde neighborhood of Bilbao receive calls on their landlines during the early hours of the morning. The callers on the other end are deceased friends, relatives, or acquaintances. The narrative questions whether these mysterious communications represent genuine contact with an afterlife or a sophisticated technological fraud.
Dystopian Futures and Family Swaps
Roberto Osa presents La edad menor, set in a dystopian Madrid where children serve as the legal guardians of their parents. The plot follows María as she challenges a system that has admitted her mother to an irreversible process of infantilization known as La edad menor. While her brother struggles between family loyalty and institutional power, a dark secret emerges to threaten them all. Rounding out the slate is Trueque by Pedro Pablo Picazo. The comedy follows three close-knit families struggling with difficult teenagers at home. Convinced they know how to fix each other’s households, the parents decide to swap their children to see what happens.