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Direction and TV series
The session will address the differences between directing series and films. How can you maintain your own style when working collectively with other directors? How can you collaborate as a team while maintaining stylistic and narrative coherence throughout the entire project?
Filmmakers Juana Macías, Belén Macías, and Ramón Salazar, who have extensive experience in film and television, will participate. They will discuss the challenges and nuances of directing serial fiction. They will discuss working with actors, narrative rhythm, differences between film and television, and constructing universes that accompany viewers throughout several episodes. Antonio Hens will moderate the conversation.
(Within the "1st ACCIÓN Meeting of Film Directors from Spain" Conference).
Antonio Hens (Córdoba, 1969) is a film director, screenwriter, and producer. His credits include Mi gran despedida (2020), En vivo (2020), Oh! Mammy Blue (2018, Golden Tesela in Alicante), The Last Match (La partida, 2014, Best Film at Roze Filmdagen, Amsterdam), and Clandestinos (2008, Best Film at BridgeFest Sarajevo). He co-wrote Bulgarian Lovers (2004) and has directed several short films and documentaries.
In television, he has directed or worked on series such as Desconocidas (2021-2022), Entreolivos (2017-2018), Arrayán (2001-2013), and Servir y proteger (2022), among others.
As a producer, he has made 11 short films, 9 documentaries, and 12 fiction features, earning four Goya Award nominations and one win. His films have been showcased at Sundance, Rotterdam, and San Sebastián. He is currently president of PROCINEMA and a board member of the Andalusian Film Academy.
Belén Macías, born in Tarragona, studied Information Sciences at the Complutense University, Acting at RESAD, and Screenwriting at the San Antonio de los Baños Film School in Cuba.
She has worked as a writer and director in theatre (The Balcony, The Monk, The Wedding, The Bald Soprano), television (La señora, 14 de abril. La República, Víctor Ros, Fugitiva, Hospital Central, Madres. Amor y vida, Una. Un nuevo amanecer, El juicio), and TV movies and miniseries (The Princess of Éboli, Stolen Stories).
In cinema, her shorts El puzzle and Mala espina won over seventy national and international awards. Her debut feature, El patio de mi cárcel (El Deseo), competed in San Sebastián, earned several prizes, and received four Goya nominations. She later directed Marsella (Tornasol), nominated for two Goya Awards, and Verano en rojo (2023), acclaimed by audiences and critics alike.
He trained as an actor at ESAD Málaga and studied screenwriting at ECAM. His first short, Hongos (1999), gained wide international recognition and led to his debut feature, Stones (Piedras, 2002), selected for the Berlinale and nominated for a Goya Award for Best New Director.
He went on to direct 20 Centimeters (2005), awarded at Locarno and released internationally; 10,000 Nights Nowhere (2013), marking the beginning of his creative partnership with actress Susi Sánchez; and Sunday’s Illness (La enfermedad del domingo, 2018), premiered at Berlinale and Tribeca, with Sánchez winning the Goya for Best Actress.
As a screenwriter, he adapted the bestsellers Three Steps Above Heaven (2010) and I Want You (2012), both Goya-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. In television, he directed Élite (2018-2019, Netflix), Vis a vis (2019), and the international series Red Rose (2022, BBC/Netflix).
Winner of a Goya Award in 2000 for the short film Siete cafés por semana and nominated for Best New Director in 2010 with her debut feature Planes para mañana, she has directed six features (Planes para mañana, Embarazados, Bajo el mismo techo, Fuimos canciones, El favor, and Las chicas de la estación) and nine shorts awarded at more than fifty national and international festivals. Her seventh feature, Looking for Michael (Persiguiendo a Michael), will premiere in 2026.
For television, she has directed the series Madres (Telecinco/Amazon Prime Video) and Las abogadas (RTVE/MOD Producciones). Founder of Teoponte P.C. and Feelgood Media, she combines her directing work with executive producing.
Author of the book 24 palabras por segundo. Cómo escribir un guión de cine, she was vice president of CIMA for six years, where she led initiatives such as CIMA Mentoring and the Women in Action! award to support new female talent.
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