The Malaga Film Festival will give a nod to television production at Screen TV 2018

From 3 to 6 October, Screen TV 2018 will provide a complete overview of current television production with the support and collaboration of prestigious national and international channels and production companies.

The Albéniz Cinema will host within the framework of the Malaga Film Festival A new edition of Screen TV 2018 which will offer a complete vision of current television production with the support and collaboration of networks and production companies of national and international prestige.

The programming of this fifth edition, with series premieres, new television formats, round tables and other activities, brings together platforms and channels such as Mega, Flooxer and Atresplayer of Atresmedia Television, AXN, HBO Spain, Movistar+, #0, Netflix, RTVE, La 2, Playz, Syfy, Calle 13 and TNT.

World premieres in Spain, previews of new seasons, television formats, round tables and more activities make up the programme of this festival around television culture, organised by the Malaga Festival and Malaga City Council, with the collaboration of the María Zambrano Classroom for Transatlantic Studies (University of Malaga), Malaga College of Architects, Centre Pompidou Málaga, Collection of the Russian Museum of St. Petersburg Malaga, Picasso Museum Malaga and University of Malaga.

Screen TV 2018 will offer numerous contents and novelties, which will be reflected in more than ten hours of screenings of different television formats (series premieres, web series, television programs...) and fifteen presentations, meetings and colloquiums on television culture. We will also have training activities for educational centers and spaces for analysis and debate.

Among the Series that we can see at Screen TV 2018, we find: the web series Urú and other stories of the red earth; andl preview of the second season of Mambo, Playz's musical comedy starring David Sáinz and Aarón Gómez; the national preview of Condor, the new Calle 13 spy series, starring Max Irons, William Hurt and Mira Sorvino; Chapter 0, from #0, from Movistar +, a parody of the series of a lifetime seen from the unique and personal point of view of Ernesto Sevilla and Joaquín Reyes.; Vota Juan, the new series by Javier Cámara for TNT, which addresses the world of politics in a comedy key; the premiere of the pilot of The great friend, a new HBO series, adaptation of the first novel of Elena Ferrante's tetralogy; the national premiere of the first episode of the second season of the successful The Good Doctor (AXN); and the premiere of the pilot of the fictional adventure series The Outpost (Syfy).

Also presented will be Innovative formats, such as the series + 100 lies by Flooxer, which will be seen on the video platform Atresplayer produced by Lucky Road or Crimes that changed history, Mega's first major documentary series.

Netflix will bring a meeting that promises to be one of the highlights of Screen TV 2018: Javier Calvo, Javier Ambrossi and Brays Efe will talk about one of the great hits of television: Paquita Salas.

For its part, RTVE's La 2 will screen on Screen TV 2018 the premiere of The muse hour, its new and long-awaited format, presented by Maika Makovski, which brings live music back to prime time television with top-level national and international groups talking and playing over music for an hour. After the screening, on Friday at the Albéniz Cinema (9.30 pm), we will have a colloquium with Urbana Gil (director of Culture of La2) and Jerónimo Rodríguez (director of The Hour Muse).

The Malaga Film Festival will also pay tribute to one of the most revolutionary television formats in Spain: The crystal ball, in a tribute to Lolo Rico, its creator, for the 30th anniversary of the end of its broadcast. A tribute that has had a special involvement of the family and the Television Academy, which has given, exclusively, one of its Living Treasures of TV, interviews with people who have stood out for their work in front of and behind the cameras.

On Screen TV, a summarized edition of the interview that Lolo Rico recorded for this space will be screened.

On Thursday night at Cine Albéniz, the Showcase of Fiction Pilots will take place that Screen TV organizes together with Serielizados Fest and the Igualada International Television Fiction Festival (Zoom Festival). Its objective is to give visibility and projection to emerging talent in the field of series and web series.

Those selected are: The libertarian, written and directed by Carla Tejada, Paula Casadesús and Irene Guerrero (produced by Michelle González and Tanit Venturós. Project originated at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra); I'm not that, written and directed by Rocío Mahoro (produced by Código Sur Producciones); Outsiders, written and directed by Laia Palacios and Ainoa Alonso (produced by Tomás Limeres); Locked, written by Miquel Jové, Felipe Auladell and Carlos Tiana (directed and produced by Miquel Jové. Project originated in the Ramon Llull University – Blanquerna); Unscrupulous, written and directed by Héctor Prieto (produced by Laura Agustí. Project originated at the Higher School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia – ESCAC).

Parallel activities

The auditorium of the Picasso Museum Malaga, the Centre Pompidou Malaga, the Collection of the Russian Museum of St. Petersburg Malaga and the Albéniz Cinema will host various round tables and presentations. The cycle Serial architecture, in collaboration with the College of Architects of Malaga, will approach the series from an architectural point of view. Mad Men, The Americans and Black Mirror will be the series that we will analyze from Wednesday 3 to Friday 5.
But these will not be the only colloquiums. The 20th anniversary of the now legendary Sex and the City motivate on Saturday 6 a meeting between Conchi Cascajosa and Mariola Cubells with the title Sex and the City to Open wounds.

The educational centers of the capital will participate on the 4th and 5th in the activity Look at the series that I watch, in which Screen TV moves to the IES to learn first-hand about the interests of secondary and high school students in television fiction.

Admission to the screenings and events of Screen TV 2018 will be free until full capacity is reached.

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