Iberscreenings: ‘Elite’ Star Miguel Bernardeau, ’Ice Age’ Director Carlos Saldanha Bow, Sneak Peek New Series
variety.comParox (“Invisible Heroes”), partnered by Spain’s Mediterráneo Media Entertainment and Argentina’s Aleph, Mente Colectiva and HD Argentina.
A character focused chronicle of Allende’s three years in government before Pinochet’s 1973 military coup, the series has been acquired for broadcast by Chile’s TVN, RTVE in Spain and HD Argentina and Onza Distribution for international.
For eight years, growth on the Ibero-American TV scene has been driven by global streamers. Netflix, for example, released one Latin American title in 2015, 73 in 2022: Amazon bowed 4 titles in 2018, 23 in 2022, according to an Omdia analysis.
Now, however, production energies are more equally balanced between streamers, incumbents and new entrants. Of the 11 new titles premiering or sneak-peeked at Iberseries, Amazon Studios or Prime Video is the biggest player, involved in four, led by Secuoya Studios’ “Zorro,” with Bernardeau as the masked Mexican, set to unveil first look excerpts in Madrid.
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