The results of the contest by CORFO for development of television projects were made known yesterday. “Mi Abuela y Yo”, a fictional series by Retaguardia Films, created by Cristián Jiménez, Andrés Waissbluth and Miguel Ángel Labarca, was among the 19 who were awarded prizes. The series will receive Ch$6,454,000 (around US$ 12,000) from the governmental organization, which will be assigned to script-writing, casting, budget design, and the formulation of a business plan to market the project to TV channels.

This is the first time Retaguardia Films has participated in the contest. The series is a comedy that tells the story of the amorous adventures of Miguel, a 29-year-old commercial engineer, who decides to quit his job to, theoretically, devote himself to filmmaking. This decision leads to his break-up with Marisol, the lawyer with whom he’s been in a relationship for several years. Free, helpless, and broke, Miguel finds refuge in the house of his generous and eccentric grandmother. Acknowledging his incompetence in the world of love, Miguel accepts his grandmother’s proposal: it will be she who will find her grandson the woman of his dreams.