Consolidating the impact of Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) beyond the days of this trade fair in Barcelona, ​​the most important in the audiovisual sector, which began today, Tuesday, and runs until this Friday, is the objective behind the creation of the ISE Foundation, in which the Barcelona City Council and the Catalan Government participate. It is a similar model to the one established following the Mobile World Congress (MWC), Mobile World Capital Barcelona, ​​in which the Spanish government also participates.

First staging of the socialist government's push for the Catalunya Media City project, the hub which aims to become a European benchmark in the audiovisual, digital and video game sector, located in the Tres Chimeneas building in Sant Adrià de Besòs. President Salvador Illa – accompanied by the Ministers of the Presidency, Territory, Research and Culture, a large group of mayors from the Besòs area and representatives of the audiovisual and university sectors – visited this Saturday an emblematic space that citizens were able to discover thanks to the Manifesta Biennial and will not be able to return until the end of 2028, when the iconic turbine hall of the former thermal power plant is expected to be operational, converted into a 22,600 m² macro-space that will be used for production, research, training, business development, and audiovisual exhibition.

"This is a bit like one speed dating", says Alícia Teba, who together with her partner David Casademunt has presented her series project to several producers, Four pending issuesThe couple is part of the group of 16 participants in the third edition of Serielizados Kick, the Catalan series incubator linked to the digital media Serielizados. This week, one of the culminating moments of the initiative was experienced at the CCCB, the pitching, the meeting in which the series projects selected by Serielizados Kick are presented to various producers in the hope that one of them will be interested and want to make the fiction a reality. The creators must synthesize months of work in five minutes –"it's almost like making a wine reduction," says Teba– and this is not a lax rule: when the end of the stipulated time approaches, the bell rings.