Iberseries & Platino Industria 2026, which showcases film and TV content from Spain, Portugal and Latin America to the world, is taking place in Madrid from September 29 - October 2. The event grew out of the merger of Iberseries and Platino Industria, the professional market linked to the Platino Awards.
The flagship programme of the event is the Co-Production and Financing Forum, which has selected 10 features and 10 series in advanced development, looking for next-step financing. There are also three projects taking part through agreements with Brussels’ genre BIF Market, Barcelona’s Serielizados and Buenos Aires-Montevideo’s Ventana Sur.
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The Co-Production and Financing Forum includes projects such as Julio Soto Gúrpide’s The Bends, a thriller series produced by Spain’s The Think Lab; Alessandro Pederzoli’s feature debut Vuelve Siempre, Sebastiana (literally, Always Come Back, Sebastiana), a folk horror film produced by Mexico’s Gatodrácula Cine and The Maestros Cine; and Horacio Alcalá’s suspense drama The Blind, produced by Spain’s The Aurora Project Entertainment, Belgium’s Ginger Pictures and Mexico’s Spectrum.
It also includes Felipe Solari Yrigoyen’s The Amateurs, fresh from the San Sebastian International Film Festival, where it took the best project award at that event’s Europe-Latin America Co-Production Forum.
The inaugural Euro Atlantic Series Co-Pro Pitch aims to consolidate Spain as the bridge between Latin America, the US and Europe. It has selected nine series projects. The selection includes the €9m Sangria, a six-part series blending heist, comedy, AI and social revenge, which is being produced by partners from Sweden, Finland and Spain.
The story follows Gloria, a 51-year-old housekeeper in the Madrid mansion of an AI billionaire who ends up leading a robbery.
A second title is Las Palmas, My Love, backed by Germany’s ZDF and produced by France’s Quad Drama. The four-part romantic comedy follows a French pop star on the verge of collapse who swaps lives with a stranger and ends up in the Canary Islands, undercover as an au pair for a widowed chef. A Spanish production partner is in talks to board the project.
Returning events for the sixth edition are the Mercado Audiovisual Internacional (MAI) for finished titles, the Pitch of Platforms and Producers, which will bring together 84 projects from 13 countries, and various screenings and workshops.
Mexico is this year’s country in focus, with more than 120 Mexican professionals set to attend, making the country the second-largest delegation after Spain. The country’s national film institute IMCINE will present the country’s new audiovisual tax credit, EFICA. Launched last February, the incentive grants a transferable tax credit of up to 30% of eligible production costs in Mexico, capped at MXN 40 million ($2.3 million) per project or production process.
Last year, South Korea was the country in focus, and this year the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) and industry professionals from the country are returning to Iberseries to participate in the various sections.
Adriana Castillo, general coordinator of Platino Industria, said: “There are many participants returning from previous years, and others who want to discover the event.
At the MIA market “a lot of packaged content is bought and sold for multiple windows in the US. And not only recent content. Producers are also selling titles from 10 or 15 years ago because there are now many smaller and secondary windows,” Castillo added.
The conferences and keynotes programme will bring together executives and representatives from Mediawan, Amazon MGM Studios, Google EMEA, IMAGINA, Wild Sheep Content, Beta Film, Movistar Plus+, Secuoya Studios, Grupo Izen and RTVE.
The conference programme will explore issues such as financing, co-production, AI, audience data, microdramas, vertical formats and new Latin American and Spanish audiovisual sources of financing. The central issue is how to make local content that travels globally.
Organisers say the number of accredited professionals is up 17% year on year to 2,764 from 54 countries.
“We are still a medium-sized event, but one of our strengths is that first-time accredited professionals can access top international executives, streamers and companies that, at other events, are often harder to reach because of overloaded schedules. We still retain that freshness,” said Samuel Castro, co-director at Iberseries & Platino Industria alongside Juan Alia.
The event will also host a pitching event for literary works for audiovisual adaptation, bringing together 16 works from Spain, Mexico, Germany and Argentina.
Iberseries and Platino Industria are organised by Spanish rights society EGEDA, and the Secuoya Foundation in partnership with the Ibero-American Federation of Film Producers (FIPCA).
Feature projects at the Co-Production and Financing Forum 2026
The Blind
Dir: Julio Horacio Alcalá
1999
Dir: David Casademunt
Last Round: I Want It All
Dir: Emilio Martínez-Borso
Carreau
Dir: Javier Polo
National Hotel
Dir: Diego Corsini
The Amateurs
Dir: Felipe Solari Yrigoyen
Stink Eye
Dir: Cristina Sánchez Salamanca
Why Did You Come Back Every Summer
Dir: Lorena Muñoz
Red Card: A Dream On Hold
Dir: Beatriz Flores Silva
Three Women
Dirs: María Eugenia Lombardi, Viviana Calò
Always Come Back, Sebastiana
Dir: Alessandro Pederzoli
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