Anonymous Content Panel at Iberseries: Walter Salles Doc Series

High executives from Nameless Content material (True Detective, Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer, Highlight, The Revenant) and its joint ventures in Spain and Brazil took the stage in Madrid on Wednesday as day 2 of the fourth annual Iberseries & Platino Industria occasion kicked off.

Jacobo Aparicio director of worldwide at Nameless Content material in L.A., Barbara Teixeira, CEO of Nameless Content material Brazil, a three way partnership with RT Options that additionally has the monetary backing of Hollywood expertise company CAA, and Beatriz Campos, managing director of Nameless Content material Spain, a three way partnership with Morena Movies, mentioned their technique and growth plans in a highlight session moderated by the author of those traces.

Campos mentioned that since she is just a few months into her function, she has no official titles to unveil, however shared that, “we’ve got two movies and 4 TV collection in growth.” All of them are Spanish-language, aside from one worldwide English-language venture. “We jumped on board as a result of we love the idea,” she defined. “We’re aware that English-language could be barely tougher, however it’s a narrative that’s set in Spain’s Civil Struggle, however it has a really natural worldwide method. It is sensible to inform that story, and it’s one which we’re attempting to place along with our companions within the U.S.”

In the meantime, Teixeira touted two beforehand introduced initiatives from AC Brazil. They’re its first scripted venture, a TV adaptation of Raphael Montes’ bestseller Good Days, and a documentary collection about Brazilian soccer star Sócrates, each for Globoplay, the streaming service of trade big Globo Brazil.

The eight-episode Good Days, directed by Joana Jabace (Treasured Pearl) and written by Claudia Jouvin (The Nightshifter), is about Clarice (Julia Dalavia), a carefree screenwriter who playfully kisses awkward medical scholar Téo to harass her faculty boyfriend. However the joke turns right into a nightmare when the obsessed Téo kidnaps her and takes her on a street journey throughout Rio de Janeiro. Teixeira referred to as it “a giant thriller.”

In the meantime, the Sócrates venture may even present the star as a “very distinguished political determine,” she shared. “It’s a really human story, greater than an athlete’s biography, as solely Walter Salles may inform it. So it’s one thing we’re actually enthusiastic about.” Salles’ I’m Nonetheless Right here was not too long ago chosen as Brazil’s contender for the most effective worldwide function Oscar.

Aparicio described the objective of Nameless Content material’s worldwide joint ventures (it additionally has them for the U.Ok., France, and the Nordics) as being “capable of attain not simply the U.S. viewers, however a worldwide viewers, and encourage native workplaces to be formidable of their storytelling, dangerous, daring, and to have the ability to actually purpose for one thing really particular.”

Arguing that the COVID pandemic and the twin Hollywood strikes opened audiences’ eyes to new content material from extra elements of the world, he concluded: “These tales have been those which have actually resonated.”