Spanning thrillers, sci-fi, comedy and historical drama, the selected projects also reflect heir search for new industry partners South Boost is expanding its role as a development platform for Andalusian TV producers, bringing six projects to Cádiz in search of production partners, broadcasters and platforms. Now in its third edition, the initiative received 36 submissions, up from 22 in 2025 and 15 in 2024. Organizers expanded the selection from five projects to six, reflecting what Carles Montiel, director of the South International Series Festival, describes as an emphasis on projects with a realistic path to production.
Among this year’s selections is “La playa de los alemanes,” a seven-part thriller created by Silvestre García and developed by Cádiz-based Intuitivofilms with Cahuenga Filmmakers. María Ripoll (“Un asunto privado”) is attached as executive producer, showrunner and episodic director, alongside director David Valero Simón (“Enemigos”). Set on Cádiz’s Atlantic coast, the story begins with a woman’s body discovered during a tuna catch.
A police detective and an heiress of German descent uncover secrets involving the heiress’s family and its Nazi past. Ripoll points to a landscape where fishing communities, luxury villas and World War II bunkers coexist. Following a period of development, the project is beginning its outreach to potential producers and broadcasters.
A documentary crew returns to the crime scene with the family’s sole surviving daughter, stirring memories and unsettling phenomena. It’s not just a physical space, but a container of time, a prison for memories,” Lemcke says. Odeón Studios’ “Los extranjeros,” created by Julio Blez and Hugo Baena, combines murder mystery and sci-fi.
Set in an Andalusian mining town in the late 1980s, the eight-episode series follows an investigation into a British mining magnate’s death and a Super 8 film revealing underground life. Two comedies offer contrasting takes on Andalusian life. Enciende TV’s six-seg “Folklóricas,” from Fany de la Chica and Miguel Ángel Parra, reunites four faded copla stars for a TV documentary in 1991, reigniting old rivalries.
Magnetika Producciones’ six-part “Lo de siempre” follows a Portuguese entrepreneur reopening the only bar in Valdemedio, a fictional village in western Andalusia near the Portuguese border, where residents resist change. Completing the lineup is “Colombine,” a six-chapter historical drama from Almería-based 32 Historias Producciones, written and directed by Kurro González and produced by Francisco Conde, the team behind “La zona vacía.” It connects journalist and women’s rights advocate Carmen de Burgos with a librarian protecting her books from Francoist censorship in 1939. The initiative’s first winner, Gibraltar-set thriller “La Roca,” returns for an industry case study ahead of a Cádiz shoot.
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