What Madrid Market Iberseries & Platino Industria Says About the TV Business
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Expanded to four full days, Madrid’s Iberseries & Platino Industria, a joint venture of the Fundación Secuoya and EGEDA, Spain’s large rights collection society, opens its doors for its third edition on Tuesday Oct.
3, running all week at Madrid’s Matadero. I & IP is a market, thanks to its Iberscreenings showcase, and ever more a co-pro forum as well as a massive financing emporium with 149 (sic) projects being pitched behind closed doors at Platforms, Producers Pitch sessions.
The event takes place post-peak TV, however, with a new sense of realism and calculation flooding the world’s TV and film industries.
A now robust conference strand looks set to debate key issues and market trends. Tow weeks out from the event, Variety sat down with Iberseries director Samuel Castro of the Grupo Secuoya and Adrian Castillo, who heads up EGEDA’s office in Mexico, to check out their take on the major changes coursing through international markets, and the evolution of Iberseries & Platino Industria.
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