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Toledo Spain — “K-Dream” and “The Adventures of a Turbo-Folk Princess,” two scripted shows about young women chasing their dream of becoming pop stars, won big at Thursday evening’s Gala Awards at this year’s Conecta Fiction.

Shot in Spanish and Korean, musical drama “K-Dream,” now in development and directed at teens, sees a Venezuelan-Spanish teenager, a victim of bullying, focusing on her musical career to achieve her goal: Creating her very own K-pop band in Korea. The eight part half-hour turns on her “discovering a non-label-able identity that doesn’t fit into her snobbish and classist environment,” stated creator Mi Hoa Lee, who also exec produces alongside Rosa Castro at Spain’s Angeli Pictures.

Flamboyant musical dramedy “Turbo-Folk Princess” features Vaska, who quits home under the mentorship of beguiling prostitute Eboni, aiming at taking the pop folk Balkavision Song Contest by storm. The journey of two women struggling with “their inner demons,...

Styled after addicting and aesthetically apt crime dramas “Mindhunter” and “True Detective,” author Ignacio del Valle and writer-director Rai García (“Al salir de clase”) are readying an upcoming series, “Black Suns” (“Soles Negros”), based on the fourth installment of del Valle’s historical suspense oeuvre published in 2016.

His novel “The Time of Strange Emperors” was adapted for the big screen in Gerardo Herrero’s 2012 film “Silence in the Snow.” It starred Feroz award-winning actor Juan Diego Botto (“I Don’t Like Driving”) and Goya winner Carmelo Gómez (“The Method”).

“Adapting my novel into a series is an exciting undertaking that ignites my creativity and makes me explore new paths to ensure that the adaptation is visual and dynamic,” de Valle told Variety.

Ignacio del Valle, Director Rai García

“This can be a challenge as the two mediums are very different, what works in a novel may not work on a series,...

Spanish creators will pitch their series projects to producers as the Sgae Foundation celebrates its eighth consecutive year of boosting regional talent at this year’s Conecta Fiction & Entertainment market.

Heading to the forum are six projects from writers and filmmakers Roberto Márquez, Borja Echevarría, Samu Fuentes, David Caiña, Vicenta Ndongo, Diego Sabanés, Ignacio del Valle and Rai García.

Developed as part of the foundation’s XI Television Series Creation Laboratory, the narratives range from historical to crime and social justice drama to horror thriller and coming-of-age comedy.

More on the titles in production:

“Dark Suns” (“Soles Negros”), Ignacio del Valle & Raimundo García

Based on del Valle’s 2016 crime novel of the same name, the six-part episodic follows protagonist Captain Arturo Andrade. The fourth installment in his experimental written rubicon is directed for the screen by García and covers a poorly known period of Spain’s post-civil war. “With the...