Netflix, Dama Unveil Spain’s 2023 Cambio de Plano Diversity Drive Winners
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent MALAGA, Spain — “My Parents’ Great Bazar,” from “Ane is Missing” co-scribe Marina Parés, bio “Costus,” on the iconic Madrid Movida artists, and “Villa Futuro,” a queer old age drama from “Locked Up” star Alberto Velasco, all feature among eight winners of Tell Us the Stories That Nobody Tells, a diversity drive contest for movies and TV shows backed by Netflix and Dama, the Spanish audiovisual authors’ rights collection body.
Announced Wednesday at an awards ceremony hosted by the Malaga Film Festival, the winners of the competition, which forms part of the partners’ Cambio de Plano initiative, will receive €6,000 ($6,348) a piece.
Two will also get a teaser financed by Netflix and Dama. As importantly, the partners will pay for mentoring for the development of their projects from Daniela Fejerman, director of Malaga’s opening film, “Someone Who Takes Care of Me,” TV critic and screenwriter Bob Pop (“Maricón perdido”), screenwriter Valentina Viso, co-writer of milestone Catalan movie “Three Days With the Family,” and renowned scribe-helmer Fernando Franco, whose latest film, “The Rite of Spring” played to praise in San Sebastian’s main competition last September.
Fejerman, Viso, Pop and writer-director Arantxa Echevarría (“Carmen y Lola”) served on the jury. The contest ratifies Dama’s “commitment to diversity, plurality and richness within new proposals to make it easier to tell the stories that no one is telling,” said its president, Virginia Yagüe. “At Netflix, we know how important it is to feel identified with the stories we watch and tell, so we are committed to local talent and we are very proud to participate in initiatives such as Cambio de Plano, which
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