The contents of television and streaming and production trends were firmly under the spotlight of the ninth edition of the fiction and entertainment industry reached Cuenca, Spain this week, which ended on Thursday.
Warner Bros. leaders. Discovery, The Walt Disney Co., Gaumont Television, of the Atresmedia group of Spain, the Banijay production giant, Nbcuniversal Telemundo and Movistar Plus + and many others have praised their programming and their original plans. They discussed the state of industry and its prospects.
The latter opened the door to American president Donald Trump to also launch his shadow on sunny and picturesque Cuenca at least a few times, even if no speaker or paneilists mentioned his name.
One of the first sessions of Concta 2025 on Tuesday prepared the land in this regard. It was entitled “Focus Canada: Dei diversity, equity and inclusion”. The moderator Marina Mathieu, Executive Director of Coalition Media (Media for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility), began by mentioning that the panel was not set up “to annoy a certain president”, but because its organization believed strongly in the intrinsic value of Dei initiatives. It was a reference to Trump’s repression against diversity and inclusion policies in the United States
Later in the day, the president and producer of television from Gaumont Isabelle Degeorges indirectly referenced Trump when he rented the rules of France forcing American and global streamers to invest at least 20% of their French net income in European works. “If we do not have the IP, we lose our identity,” she said. “If we do not have the IP, my feeling is that everything belongs to the United States, and in the end, it is their identity.”
Degeorges, however, stressed that French industry cannot rest on its laurels. “These regulations are very important to us, and we will always fight for that … especially with this new administration in the United States, because they don’t care.” She concluded: “We know that our decrees, our French decrees, are not acceptable to them.”
Trump and how his Possible Maga policies could affect international markets were also presented during a session on production incentives. During the portion of questions and answers, a person asked if the American prices threatened the films made abroad to help stimulate production in California and other parts of the United States “we really do not know what the President of the United States will implement,” said Ana Marqués, executive director of the Film Portugal Commission, highlighting a lack of specific plans so far. Thus, Portugal focuses on its strategy, in particular “diversity, hopefully, cultural exchange and co-production,” she concluded. “It’s our way of working.”
Victor Lamadrid, secretary general of the Spanish film commission, shared similar thoughts. “We are in contact with American production companies, of course, trying to see what is going on,” he told the public of Concta. “Sometimes the measures they want [launch to] Protection, I think, is worse for production companies in the United States. We are also trying to open new markets, new territories “, something that the team of their commission always has an eye.
Concluded Lamadrid with regard to any measures of the film Trump: “But we do not think it will be as bad as everything seemed to be when he announced it. We are not real at the moment.”
In one of the last sessions of Conca 2025 Thursday, Sergio Mendoza, vice-president, scripted development at Nbcuniversal Telemundo Enterprises, also mentioned the current political and division in the United States without going into details. “We live in a specific political and social moment,” he said. “This opens up opportunities to tell certain types of stories.”
