South International Series Festival: 10 Titles to Watch
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Unspooling in Cadiz over Oct. 25-31, the South International Series Festival is a bellwether on trends and highlights for the current season.
What could be some of its star performers? Following, 10 titles to track, which also often say something about the way the market is going. “The Big Jump” (Atresmedia International Sales) One of Atresmedia’s biggest bets at Mipcom, a biopic series about the rise to Olympic Gold Medals at Sydney and Athens of Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr and, in a second timeline, his descent into drugs and alcohol, incapable of accepting failure in competition and lost when retired.
Oscar Casas (“Instinto,” “Jaguar”) plays Deferr, with “Gangs of Galicia” helmer Roger Gual directs. An Atresplayer Original Series, bowing on Nov.
17. “La Favorita 1922” (Mediterraneo) From “Grand Hotel” through “Velvet” and “Cable Girls,” Ramon Campos’ Studiocanal j.v.
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