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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,...

It’s 1996 in Bilbao, and adolescent strife reaches a crescendo in David Caiña’s series concept, “Outcasts” (“Makarras”), attending Spain’s Conecta Fiction & Entertainment Market to pitch to industry leaders as part of the Sgae Foundation selections slated for presentation.

The comedy focuses on teens struggling to fit in as their experiences parallel the era’s Basque conflict. Noting a wish to focus on the intimate and interpersonal instabilities of youth, the director will emphasize how those similarities are shared across cultures.

“We have a huge volume of narratives about the conflict in Spain. I don’t fancy that narrative. It looks like the conflict was the center of our lives. It looks, depending on the side telling the story, like there was a ‘good side’ and a ‘bad side,'” Caiña told Variety.

David Caiña

“I want to tell another story. For me, the son of Galician immigrants, the...

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...