The Spanish book business, filmmakers, and television executives converge in early April for the fourth edition of a curated content pitching event called ‘Rolling Pages.’ This Year: 157 Submissions.

Our international readership has long been familiar with the Books at Berlinale program. That’s the event that–under normal, non-pandemic circumstances—convenes film and television producers at Berlin’s Abgeordnetenhaus to hear pitches from agents about books during the Berlin International Film Festival. A program from Frankfurter Buchmesse, Books at Berlinale normally would be taking registrations for the afternoon-long event at this time in February.

At the moment, Berlin’s 71st film festival is planning a two-part Berlinale—an industry event that runs March 1 to 5, followed by a “summer special” set for June 9 to 20—clearly in hopes that the mercy of vaccinations may have eased the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic enough to allow, as organizers are putting it, “the general public the opportunity to see the majority of the 2021 selected films in Berlin cinemas in the presence of the filmmakers.”

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