Conecta Fiction Winners: "Wellborn Family", "Favàritx", "Border Station", "Death in the Andes" Scoop Big Awards

TOLEDO, Spain — “Wellborn Family,” “Favàritx,” “Border Station,” and “Death in the Andes" picked up some of the biggest prizes on offer at the seventh edition of Conecta Fiction & Entertainment, the Spanish co-pro and TV networking forum that reached its home stretch on Wednesday night with its now traditional awards ceremony. price.

The announcements were preceded by an exclusive premiere of "Time Zone", a new entertainment format created by Spanish Zeppelin and Endemol Shine Nederland, a Banijay company, which is set to drop on HBO Max on July 14.

Written by Zebina Guerra and Jorge Yúdice, "Wellborn Family", a comedy presented by the Spanish Fundación SGAE , won the biggest prize of the night, a development deal with Spanish broadcaster RTVE.

Corrosive and classically structured social satire, "Wellborn Family" takes on aristocrat Óscar Casañ -Calabuig who will do what he must to save his family from ruin, even if it means marrying off his beloved daughter to the son of an extraordinarily vulgar - but wealthy - family.

A blackish procedural that weighs like the first scripted series to be set and filmed in Menorca, "Favàritx ” won an award from the Spanish Film Commission for Best Use of Location.

One ​​of the greatest projects presented at Conecta Fiction in terms of artistic ambition, "Border Station ", a dramatic historical spy thriller, with time travel elements, about a jazz singer transported to 1941, won another big hit, the Warner Music Award, consisting of three days of access to the studio of Dolby Atmos sound at its creative hub, The Music Station in Madrid.

Border station courtesy of Vertice 360

Another big applause BTF Media BTF award went to another high profile project from high level, "Death in the Andes", an adaptation of the novel by Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa by the Peruvian Josué Méndez, illustrious director and scriptwriter of television series. Glisk, supported by Federation Studios - directed by Philipp Steffens, the former head of fiction at RTL TV, and ex-director of Relativity TV Julie Link (“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”) - product.

Created by sponsors, most Conecta Fiction awards have gone to Spanish titles, partly because that most of the sponsors are based in Spain. So no span...