RTVE Revolution: Spain’s Public Broadcaster Plows Into Bolder Co-Production & Pick-Ups Leveraging its VOD Service
variety.comRTVE, Spain’s public broadcaster, was sensed at an upbeat showcase on Wednesday. Moderated by José Pastor, RTVE’s director of film and fiction, the show-case, RTVE Co-Productions on Board, featured three shows, “Allende, the Thousand Days,” a RTVE pre-buy; and “This Is Not Sweden,” and “The Last Wolf,” both RTVE co-productions.
From top Chilean fiction house Parox (“Invisible Heroes”), Spain’s Mediterráneo Media Entertainment and Argentina’s Aleph, Mente Colectiva and HD Argentina, “Allende, the Thousand Days” brought to Conecta Fiction what the networking forum loves most: a sneak-peek, here nine minutes presented by Parox co-head Sergio Gándara, of a TV show in the making.
Everybody knows what happened to Salvador Allende, Chile first democratically-elected socialist president, slaughtered on Sept.
11, 1973 by Chilean armed forces’ bombing and shelling of La Casa de la Moneda, which Allende refused to abandon. But few outside Chile know much about Allende the man, or his political ambitions.
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