The adventures of a Spanish conquistador battling his way through the South American jungle could land on network television if a Hawaii-based production team gets a boost from a screening at Comic-Con 2017, which ends today in San Diego.

“Juventud,” starring Honolulu actor Nicholas Masciangelo and produced through a partnership between local companies Hawaii Integrated Productions and Memuneh Productions, is a short film shot over five days in Honolulu last December. The action/fantasy was screened Friday at the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival.

“What I’m seeing more and more, and not just with my group but with everyone in the industry in Hawaii, is that all of these people are finally rising up and realizing they can create their own content and send it out for distribution,” said producer Connie Alicinio of Hawaii Integrated Productions, who teamed up with Hawaii-based executive producer Moumen El Hajji and Hollywood-based director/writer Austin Everett on the project.

Alicinio has lived in Hawaii for 12 years, and about five years ago decided her calling was to help show Hawaii’s film industry was ready to take things to the next level.

“I decided that I was going to make it my purpose to do creative content in Hawaii for the mainland market,” she said. “Anyone can do a story about Hawaii in Hawaii and get recognition that way, but doing a show that isn’t for Hawaii in Hawaii, in my opinion, earns you a lot more credit.”

Although “Juventud” was produced as a stand-alone short film, Alicinio said Everett also spent two and a half months traveling to Spain in an effort to finish writing a pilot script and story arc for a potential TV version. Being at Comic-Con enables the filmmakers to pitch industry professionals and gauge audience support.

“That’s why we only wrote the first season. We really want to see what kind of reaction we get,” she said.

Alicinio said the plan is to submit “Juventud” to more festivals, perhaps even the Hawaii International Film Festival. An official trailer will be available late next month at juventudfilm.com.