TOLEDO, Spain Wellborn Family, Favritx, Border Station and Death in the Andes won some of the biggest prizes on offer at the seventh edition of Conecta Fiction Entertainment, the Spanish TV co-pro and networking forum which hit its final straightsWednesday evening with its now traditional prize awards ceremony.
The announcements were preceded by an exclusive premiere of Time Zone, a new entertainment format created by Spains Zeppelin and Endemol Shine Nederland, a Banijay company, which is set to bow on HBO Max on July 14.
Written by Zebina Guerra and Jorge Ydice, Wellborn Family,a comedy presented by Spains Fundacin SGAE, walked off with the biggest award of the night,a development contract at Spanish pubcaster RTVE.
A corrosive and classically structured social satire,Wellborn Family turns on the aristo scar Casa-Calabuig who will do what he must to save his family from ruin, even if it means marrying off his beloved daughter to the son of an extraordinarily vulgar but rich family.
A noirish procedural which weighs in as the first scripted series to be set and shot on Menorca, Favritx scooped a Spain Film Commission award for best use of locations.
One of the biggest projects introduced at Conecta Fiction in terms of artistic ambition, Border Station, a historical espionage drama-thriller, with time-travel elements, about a jazz singer transported back to 1941, scooped another big plaudit, the Warner Music Award, consisting in three days of Dolby Atmos sound studio access at its creative hub, The Music Station in Madrid.
Border Station Courtesy of Vertice 360 Another big plaudit, the BTF Award from BTF Media, went to another high-profile prestige project, Death in the Andes, an adaptation of the novel by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa by Perus Josu Mndez, an illustrious film director and TV series writer.Federation Studios-backed Glisk run by Philipp Steffens, the former head of fiction at RTL TV, and ex-Relativity TV exec Julie Link (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) produces.
Created by sponsors, most Conecta Fiction prizes went to Spanish titles, partly because most sponsors are Spain based. So non-Spanish winners are often well worth tracking. Disgrace, a buzzy thriller set at the Argentina 1978 soccer World Cup from Germanys Story House Pictures, scooped a TV Drama Vision Award, an invitation to the event at the Gteborg Film Festival.
Brazils Dende, a true-crime mockumentary about Dend, Brazils most successful rapper, walked off with two nods, an invitation to Chiles Sanfic Industria, one of the key industry events in South America, and the Core Award, voted by students at Madrids Core Entertainment Science School, a joint venture with Secuoya Studios.
An obvious move to the mainstream and a play for younger audiences, Time Zone in a fast-paced reality contest. It features 10 famous faces, including left-wing politician Alberto Rodrguez, rap artist El Chojin, influencer Alba Paul, ex-soccer ref Cristbal Soria, fashion designer Fiona Ferrer, and Angela Ponce, the first trans woman to compete in Miss Universe,. Contestants have to progress from different time zones resolving mental and physical challenges as quickly as they can. The slowest is eliminated each program. The winner faces off with Master of Time Cristinini, a streamer.
The Time Zone presentation was led by Miguel Martn, managing director of Zeppelin; Miguel Salvat, VP original programming and commissioning editor HBO Max Iberia; and the celebrity contestants Antn Lofer and Joana Pastrana.
Ns55, The Abandoned Spy 2023 Conecta Fiction Entertainment Prize Winners:
RTVE Award
Wellborn Family, (Zebina Guerra, Jorge Ydice, Spain)
Cmmedia Award
Carbon 14, (Izen Producciones, Spain)
Spain Film Commission Award
Favritx, (Tv On Producciones, Emptic Comunicacin, Spain)
Warner Music Award
Border Station, (Vertice 360, Spain)
Triodos Bank Award
Until the Wedding Do Us Part, (ngela Armero, Alegra Collantes, Spain)
BTF Award
Death in the Andes, (Glisk, Capacitor, Germany, Peru)
Acorde Award
Ns55, The Abandoned Spy, (Kometa Producciones, Artemisa Entertainment, Dusko Pictures, Spain)
Labelled Red, (Minoria Absoluta, Spain)
Alma Award:
Voices, (Santi San Martn, Spain)
BAM Bogot Award
Cachimba, (Avi Films, Mexico)
TV Drama Vision Award
Disgrace, (Story House Pictures, Germany)
Sanfic Industria Award
Dend, (Vandalo, Brazil)
Nem Zagreb Award
The Lake, (Grupo Ganga Producciones, Spain)
Produ Award
Dend, (Vandalo, Brazil)
Wawa Award
The Lake, (Grupo Ganga Producciones, Spain)
Bosque Del Cine Award
Clean up!, (Minora Absoluta, Spain)
K is for Knowledge Award
Clean Up!, (Minora Absoluta, Spain)
D.O. Castilla-La Mancha Wines Award
Tonight You Should Go See The Boss, (Chulada Cine, Spain)