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TV Biopic ‘Fortún’ by ‘Skam’ Spain Writer Among Seven Hot TV Projects to Watch at Madrid’s ECAM Forum
The Spanish TV projects were selected by four seasoned scriptwriters including Int’l Emmy-nominated Luis Gamboa.
Arías who has researched the iconic novelist’s life, notably in Tenerife, and interviewed the son of Florinda (the little girl who inspired the character of Celia), scooped a best TV screenplay award for the project from DAMA and Movistar Plus+ at the latest IsLABentura Canarias. Private eye Ulises Parra is investigatig some “very, very screwed up murders.” References for the show are Robert Altman’s “The Long Goodbye”, Howard Hawks’ “The Big Sleep”, and the series “The Americans,” created by Joe Weisberg. The story turns on an unlikely duo – a pregnant zillennial and a bankrupt diva in her seventies, who set up a weed empire in Benidorm.“It’s ‘Hacks’ meets ‘Breaking Bad,’ a feisty black dramedy by the Mediterranean, inhabited by Almodovaresque women,” says the logline.
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