Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, presidents of the Jury for short series in the Cannes Series

Beyond the Cannes film-focused festival, which will be held in May as every year, on the French Riviera it is gradually gaining strength, edition after edition, the Cannes Series festival, which this year will feature two heavyweights from the small screen in our country.

We talk about Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, who will be the presidents of the Jury for short series this year. Together with the two directors and creators, Two actresses will also be members of the jury: the Swiss Marina Rollman and the Italian Simona Tabasco, whom we have known last year for being in the cast of the series ‘The White Lotus’. In addition to the Short Duration Series category, Cannes Series has the Official Section and the Documentary Section. In the Short Duration Series section there will also be a Spanish presence: ‘El hijo zurdo’, produced by Movistar+, is one of the ten titles in the section.

As the information on the festival’s website says, the Javis, as they are called in their file and as the public popularly knew them, are winners of an Ondas Award, two Feroz Awards, two Silver Frames, a GLAAD Award and two Iris Awards. from the Television Academy, in addition to having won other distinctions, Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo have created some of the most powerful projects that have resonated with the public in recent years, such as the musical ‘La llamada’, which is still on poster 9 years after its premiere and received 5 Goya Award nominations for its adaptation to the big screen. Added to this project is ‘Paquita Salas’, whose three seasons are on Netflix. His latest production, ‘Veneno’, has been one of the most nationally and internationally acclaimed fiction in recent years, and considered one of the best series of 2021 according to The New Yorker, Variety and The New York Times. Together they have started a new journey at the head of the production company Suma Content, which was born with the aim of creating new products that continue to express their vision of the world. His latest production, ‘Thistle’, has won the Feroz Awards for Best Drama Series and Best Actress. In the last edition of the Malaga Film Festival they won the Malaga Talent Award.

As the words dedicated to the creators end, “both have shown that their creativity goes beyond any platform and screen format.” They are currently working on ‘La Mesías’, the new series that they direct, write and produce for Movistar+ and they are also producers of ‘Vestidas de azul’, the second “spiritual” part of ‘Veneno’, based on the lives of the women portrayed in the 1983 documentary by Antonio Giménez-Rico, ‘Vestida de azul’.

The Cannes Series festival will be held from April 14 to 19.