Tabook's is an initiative of SITGES - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia that wants to bring literature and fantasy cinema closer together, focusing on literary adaptations for fantasy production films. Since the beginning of Sitges Industry, the Sitges - International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia wants to promote the close union that has always existed between literature and cinema, especially in the genre of fantasy, horror and science-fiction.
Since its creation, Tabook's has brought to debate and analysis by experts in the field everything that encompasses the legal framework and the state of the audiovisual market with talks on market trends with speakers such as Oriol Sala-Patau, Xavier Parache or Francisco Vargas or conferences on the theoretical exposition of the bases of a film adaptation contract with Rafael Fernández-Shaw, among others.
The first four editions featured a pitch event with several projects of previously selected literary works with the aim of promoting their adaptation to audiovisuals.
Tabook's has analysed promotional spaces such as festivals or events where the literature-cinema binomial has a place. Case studies have also been presented, such as that of Pedro Olea, who began his career working on several adaptations such as the cult title El bosque del lobo, or the success story of the adaptation of the book Reina Roja by Juan Gómez-Jurado to a television series. At the same time, talks have been proposed with the experience of renowned writers such as, for example, the Argentinian writer Mariana Enríquez who, in tandem with the writer and translator Javier Calvo, gave a masterclass on literary adaptations of horror to the cinema.
Among many others, Tabook's icons of the world of the genre have also been part of Tabook's, such as the master of giallo Dario Argento, who offered an interesting conversation about all his books, both his own (Paura, Horror. Stories of blood, spirits and secrets) as references, or Pablo Berger who analyzed in depth the secrets of the success of Robot Dreams, the animated film adaptation by Pablo Berger, together with the author of the comic Sara Varon.
