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‘K-Dream,’ ‘Turbo-Folk Princess,’ Win Big at Conecta Fiction

‘Caso Couso,’ ‘Gisberta,’ ’Sleeping Cell,’ ‘Makarras,’ ‘Black Suns’ take other significant plaudits at a Gala Awards ceremony Thursday night in Toledo Spain.

The eight part half-hour turns on her “discovering a non-label-able identity that doesn’t fit into her snobbish and classist environment,” stated creator Mi Hoa Lee, who also exec produces alongside Rosa Castro at Spain’s Angeli Pictures. Winner of an Accord Award for music licensing and a SANFIC Prize – consisting in an invitation to take part in its Series Lab and pitching sessions – “Gilberta, Life and Death of a Trans Woman,” marks the latest from Leonel Vieira, a champion of mass audience film and TV in Portugal. A terrorist conspiracy thriller, “The Sleeping Cell,” set up at SPi – behind Portugal’s first Netflix original series “Gloria – walked off with a Göteborg TV Drama Vision Award, consisting in the right to pitch next February at Scandinavia’s biggest festival-market.

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