Development of Fiction Series
The executive duties of the showrunner
A course by Hernán Caffiero , Filmmaker and screenwriter
About the video: The executive duties of the showrunner
Overview
“En esta lección, profundizaremos en la figura del showrunner en su aspecto ejecutivo, ahondando en el proceso de búsqueda de recursos y en encuentro con un canal que quiera producir una serie original. Te mostraré además parte del trabajo ejecutivo detrás de nuestra serie, Una historia necesaria.”
In this video lesson Hernán Caffiero addresses the topic: The executive duties of the showrunner, which is part of the Domestika online course: Development of Fiction Series. Learn to change your big ideas into projects for TV and online platforms.
Partial transcription of the video
“If you thought that just by writing the pilot script you were ready, no sir. The project must be attractive, narrative and commercially as well. Let's see the executive work of the showrunner. Within the tasks that a screenwriter must develop, to arrive with your project to port and that is produced and then broadcast on some channel, It's the sale, it's how we sell our idea. For that, there is a figure that has been developed in the USA. UU. and what is good to know, which is the showrunner. Born in the heat of the emergence of the great fiction series in recent years, mainly in the US UU....”
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Course summary for: Development of Fiction Series
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Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Script, TV

Hernán Caffiero
A course by Hernán Caffiero
Hernán Caffiero is a Chilean director, producer, scriptwriter and editor, creator of the Emmy winning series for the best short-form series, "A Necessary Story", which chronicles 16 cases of detainees, missing persons and human rights violations during the Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile.
Although his degree is that of publicist, Caffiero never exercised the career. His passion has always been to tell the truths that surround him without prejudice, for the construction of a better society.
He is currently also the executive director of Tridi, a specialist producer of stereoscopic 3D projects.
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