Spanish TV Talents to Track
variety.comThe battle for success on the new drama series scene is the battle for talent, led by screenwriters. Following, portraits of Spanish TV scribes or creators, sometimes writing teams, who’ve made an impact, or look set to do so: 2022 was Araujo’s year.
He co-wrote Berlin Competition’s “One Night, One Day” and “Rapa,” Movistar+’s biggest 2022 bow. “Offworld,” a collective series he coordinated, was a Variety’s International TV Show of the Year.
An iconoclast – “if I do the same thing, I get bored,” he says – who tears up the rule book. Best known for acting, winning at Malaga for “The Wild Ones,” but a driving force as co-creator, director and star behind “This Is Not Sweden” a €1.5 million grant recipient and groundbreaking Spain-Scandinavia-Germany co-pro, turning on a couple who think they’ve found a model lifestyle.
But “there are no guarantees,” says Clotet. Written by both with Costafreda directing and Rujas starring “Cardo” turned the two into one of the hottest young writing duos in Spain, alongside Los Javis who produced. “Cardo” portrays Maria, 30, who with no future, living in a quick pleasure-fix present of sex and booze.
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