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360 adrenaline writers

Adrenaline 360 brought together a group of 5 writers to develop their argument, in an unusual format in the Cuban audiovisual. Each chapter with a central theme that closed in time that allowed the central plot and subplots of the 8 protagonists to progress.

Together with Rosaida Irízar, who two years before had begun to outline the plot, Anabel Enríquez and Javier de la Torre work to specify the story and structure between 2007 and 2008. From that date and until the end of 2009, they write the episodes with the participation, in addition to Abel Ballester and Sigrid Victoria.

Adrenalina 360 has been innovative not only because of its theme and structure, because of the way it was written in 10 hands quite quickly, considering its complexity, but also because it has been the only production of its kind that was asked to be completely written to determine its productive feasibility. So when filming began in June 2010, and while there are always production adjustments required on the fly, every episode of the series was available to the filmmakers.

Meet, then, the initial responsible for this story.

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Rosaida Irizar

Original Idea | Creator| Screenwriter

(Cienfuegos, 1960- Havana, 2018) Graduated in Social and Work Psychology, she worked from the beginning of her working life in the field of media and cinematography. Director, screenwriter and television consultant. He directed artistic creation workshops for children and adolescents in the 1990s. As part of his work at the Film Studies of the FAR, and the Council of Churches of Cuba, he made several documentaries and institutional videos for CITMA, CIMAF, the CMML King and the CIERIC. He won the Caracol Prize from the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) for screenwriting and the Cine Plaza Prize for the same year with “Con el gris perado en la cheek” (2000) co-directed with Susana Pérez. He directed and adapted “In this house there is a ghost” (2002), by Karla Suárez; "Sofía y el Ángel" (2003), by Dora Alonso; La perla (2003) by Yukio Mishima, and “Shots in the classroom”, by Alberto Guerra. For educational television, he developed the series “DID YOU KNOW THAT”, with approximately 80 chapters. Author of the original idea  and creator of the Adrenalina 360 series, this was her first dramatized television series. 

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Anabel Enriquez

 Creator| Team Coordinator| Screenwriter

(Santa Clara, 1973) Psychologist and Master in Social Communication. Graduated from the 1st Course on Audiovisual Scripts of the Production House for Series and Soap Operas and the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center (2006), from the 7th Narrative Techniques Course of said center (2005), and from the Script Theory Course (UNEAC 2001). Narrator, essayist, researcher and promoter. Co-Founder of the Spiral Creation Group of the fantasy genre, organizes several events and workshops as part of it  He has published the book of stories "Nothing to declare" (Publishing House April, 2007, CF Calendar Award, 2005) and several of his stories and essays on fantasy and science fiction appear in national and international anthologies. He has unpublished scripts for radio, cartoons and monothematic television. Adrenalina 360 represented her premiere as series creator and scriptwriter for Cuban television, where she also coordinated the writing team.

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Xavier of the Tower

Creator | Screenwriter

(Havana, 1974) Graduated with a degree in Physics, and specialized in the administration of computer networks, he is known within the fantastic literature guild for his work as a promoter, organizer of events, workshops and coordinator of the Spiral Literary Creation Workshop ( between 2004-2008) and the Theoretical Encounter of the fantastic genre ANSIBLE (2004 to 2007 editions), as well as his work as co-editor of the digital bulletin Disparo en red (2004-2008). He has to his credit the creation of several fantasy-style strategy and role-playing games, and he is a researcher on the theme of playfulness as a resource for literary creation and cognitive development. It belongs to the ludic section of the Association of Pedagogues of Cuba. Graduated from the VI Narrative Techniques Course of the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center (2004). Adrenalina 360 is his trial by fire and his first script for Cuban television.

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Abel Ballester

Screenwriter

(Colón, 1975) Chemical engineer, painter, self-taught cartoonist and writer of fantasy fiction. Abel has several exhibitions as an amateur plastic artist in events of the fantastic genre. He has published the story "By Contract", in the anthology "Secretos de Futuro", (Editorial Sed de Belleza, 2005), and has numerous stories framed in fantastic horror compiled under the title "Listen", in editorial process, in addition of various comic strips with their own script. Graduated from the 8th National Course on Narrative Techniques at the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center in 2006, and a member of the Spiral Creation Group of the fantastic genre since 2004, he has  been part of the organizing committee of several events, Ansible, Council of Lorien, Arco de Korad, and exhibited numerous plastic works in the associated exhibitions. Adrenalina 360 is his first job as a screenwriter and for Cuban television.

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Sigrid Victoria

 Screenwriter

(Havana, 1980) Sisi, for friends, ventures into the script for the first time with this series. Graduated from the ICAIC animation course, and from the VII Narrative Techniques Course of the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Literary Training Center (2005), she has been part of the Spiral Creation Group of the fantastic genre since its creation, participating in the organization of events, plastic exhibitions , workshops, and has acted as a jury in various national competitions. As a narrator, she has received the 2003 Children's Literature Calendar Award, the 2005 Dinosaur Short Story Award (Literature for children and young people), the AHS Children's Literature Creation Scholarship "La noche" in 2005, special mention in the La Age contest. Gold 2009, for the novel “Ciudad en red”. He has published “The Noseniqué have a striped belly” (Publishing House April, 2005), “The beginning of the story” (Editorial Oriente, 2008), “Ciudad en red” (Editorial Gente Nueva, 2011). His stories appear in several national anthologies; and articles on the subject of fantasy fiction, in e-zines and websites. Along with writing new narrative works, he works on other audiovisual projects for adolescents and young people.

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