Narrative Films & Web Series

Here is how this works in practice. Spanish scripted productions at the short, mid-length, and web-series tier is one of Europe's most efficient development tracks. And our producers work directly with the houses that ship into it. Mediapro Studios (the global force behind La Casa de Papel) keeps a development pipeline for emerging directors. Filmax in Barcelona (the REC franchise, Operation Mincemeat) runs genre and arthouse. Bambú Producciones ships Las Chicas del Cable / Cable Girls and the Bambú short-film incubator. Atresmedia Cine and Mediaset España Cinema commission first-feature and short content tied to broader theatrical slates.

Here is the short of it. Movistar+ Productions backs the Movistar+ Originales short-form strand; Boomerang TV. Globomedia, Plano a Plano, La Productora. Zeta Studios, Lazona, and Suma Latina extend the indie-producer bench. Major streamer commissions land at Netflix Spain (Élite spinoffs, Berlin, the youth-skewing slate), HBO Max Spain (30 Coins universe, Patria, Reigns). Amazon Prime Video Spain (Operación Marea Negra, El Internado: Las Cumbres), Disney+ (the localized Star slate). Apple TV+ (Now and Then, the bilingual Miami-Madrid co-pros), Filmin (the arthouse SVOD sites). And Atresplayer Top (Veneno, Cardo, Drag Race España). We finish to sites delivery-spec including Netflix IMF, AppleTV+ IMF, and Disney+ DTS-X masters.

Here is the breakdown. Financing layers ICAA's 30 percent federal rebate (with regional uplifts in Madrid, Canary Islands, Navarra, and the Basque Country). The Ibermedia program (a 23-country Latin American + Iberian co-production fund administered through SEGIB and CACI in Madrid that has financed hundreds of cross-border narrative shorts and first features). And the Spanish-European treaty network (HU–ES, FR–ES, DE–ES, IT–ES, PT–ES, BE–ES, plus the wider European Convention on Cinematographic Co-production). Eurimages, the MEDIA strand of Creative Europe, and IFCIC tranches stack on top for European co-prods.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. For Latin American co-pros we route through Ibermedia plus bilateral treaty paperwork. Crews work in Castilian Spanish as the default but ship native Catalan (TV3's Lo Carrer del Pi short-film slate, the ESCAC graduate pipeline). Basque (EITB shorts and the Kimuak short-film collection from the Basque Film Library). And Galician (TVG's Cinemas Galaicos strand) production. The festival route runs through Sitges (the world's top genre festival, October), Gijón Global Film Festival, Alcine Alcalá de Henares (the historic short-film festival). Festival de Cine Iberoamericano de Huelva, MECAL Pro Barcelona. ZINEBI Bilbao, and the Goya short-film categories. Average first-feature timeline from greenlight to delivery is 18–24 months with rebate paperwork running in parallel.