Serielizados Barcelona Opens Oct. 19 With Moffat, Sorogoyen — SkimNews
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- Serielizados festival opens Oct. 19 in Barcelona with the Catalan premiere of HBO Max-3Cat's fertility drama "In Vitro" as its opening-night showcase
- The 2025 edition fields six international and four national series in competition, headlined by the world premiere of Movistar Plus-100 Balas' "Celeste 2," whose first season became Movistar Plus' most-watched show of the year
- Serielizados Pro industry program expects 300+ delegates from YouTube, Mubi, RTVE, Arte France, Beta Film, ZDF, and DR Sales for co-production case studies and its second Mind the Gap pitch featuring 11 projects
- Co-founder Betu Martínez Molero reports 80% visitor growth last year and pins this year's motto, "An Eye for It," on the need for editorial curation in an age of algorithmic streaming overload
- The festival is executive-producing its first series, "Episòdic: El principi d'Arquimedes," alongside Barcelona City Council and betevé, granting 38 film students from 11 educational centers their first IMDb credits
- Headline guests include Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue (celebrated as a U.K.-Catalan comedy bridge thanks to "Mr. Bean," "Fawlty Towers," and "Monty Python" on local TV), plus Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Ferran Adrià, Carmen Machi, Hagai Levi, and Victoria Martín
- Programming trends spotlight public broadcasters — France's Arte, Germany's ARD, and Estonia's ERR — backing bold auteur series over algorithm-driven VOD platforms, with Germany's fiction quality flagged as a surprise leap
Why it matters: Serielizados has evolved from a fan discovery event into a boutique production outfit, with its first executive-produced series giving 38 film students their first IMDb credits alongside the Barcelona City Council and betevé. With 300+ industry delegates and a roster of European public-broadcast co-productions, the festival is positioning itself as the curated counterweight to algorithm-driven streaming — and the German fiction surge plus Arte/ARD/ERR-backed auteur bets suggest where European prestige TV is actually being financed.
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