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Premium Soaps, Genre Blending and Bending, and Legendary Showrunners Power Up Spanish Titles at MipTV
A selection of high profile titles from Spain which remains a prominent presence at the Cannes trade fair MipTV.
Powered in creative terms by Pau Freixas, behind iconic series from “Red Band Society” To “I Know Who You Are” And “Todos Mienten,” All Produced By Filmax, “Dating In Barcelona” features a top-tier cast, this time round in Season 2 led by such Spanish stars as Anna Castillo (“Nowhere”), Natalia Tena (“Harry Potter”), Óscar Casas (“The Orphanage”), Leonor Watling (“Talk To Her”) and Verónica Echegui (“Fortitude”). Based on the book saga by Jon Arretxe, and impactfully located in Bilbao – from its San Francisco multicultural barrio to its docks and chic new high rises, the tale of a cheery, attractive but paperless Guinea immigrant with acute skills of deduction hired to get photos of a husband with his lover. Selected for 2022’s Series Mania Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, an achievement in itself, and a sneak peak hit at last October Iberseries, Also featuring “Money Heist” and “Intimacy” star Itziar Ituño, with director David Pérez Sañudo (“Ane is Missing”) straddling multiple genres – film noir, comedy, social drama, crime thriller – with a fluidity in a lighter-toned procedural which explains why he’s emerging as one of the most-courted young helmers in Spain today.
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