Seven hot Spanish TV projects in early development will be making their debuts at the inaugural ECAM Forum co-production market, unspooling June 10-14 in Madrid. Six projects from emerging writing talents were picked out of more than 150 submissions by a team of writing experts, including Int’l Emmy nominated Luis Gamboa (“Promesas de Campaña”, “Control Z”), Estibaliz Burgaleta (“You’re Nothing Special,” “Cable Girls”), Gorka Magallón (“Los hombres de Paco,” “Tad, The Last Explorer”) and Susana López Rubio (“The Time in Between,” “Presumed Guilty”). The remaining project, “Fortuna Mineshaft” (“Pozo Fortuna”), the only one from a seasoned Spanish professional writer-director-producer – José Antonio Quirós, Goya nominated for “Ashes from the Sky”– was invited to participate at ECAM Forum’s Series showcase through an agreement between the Spanish film school ECAM and Spanish copyrights collective DAMA.
Gamboa, who also runs the master program in TV writing at ECAM together with Magallón, said the quality of the script was the key criteria for the selection of the six TV projects. “We didn’t look for any specific genre, and didn’t evaluate the credentials of the writers. We all choose the most compelling and interesting stories.
” With genres running a gamut from drama comedy to surreal neo-noir, social drama, biopic, and animation for kids, narratives are both rooted in the national and regional zeitgeist a.
