Buoyed by the success of last year’s one-to-one networking sessions, Madrid’s 2nd Iberseries & Platino Industria market is launching a new TV forum aimed at fostering co-production and financing pacts between selected producers and potential partners or investors.
“We are functioning as an accelerator in a way as the selected projects have at least 40 of their financing in place and just need that final push to see the light,” said Iberseries director Samuel Castro, who adds that these series have budgets ranging from €5 million-€30 million ( million-30 million) .
The 10 companies, selected out of some 25 submissions, include some heavy hitters led by Spain’s Zebra Prods (Grupo Izen), Gato Grande-MGM, Argentina’s Storylab and El Estudio, founded by former Canana producing partner Pablo Cruz, producer Enrique López Lavigne and former Sony Pictures Intl. Prods. head, Diego Suárez Chialvo.
Projects include animated features, thrillers, romantic comedies and dramas.
Forum coordinator Rodrigo Ros has been playing matchmaker,...
“We are functioning as an accelerator in a way as the selected projects have at least 40 of their financing in place and just need that final push to see the light,” said Iberseries director Samuel Castro, who adds that these series have budgets ranging from €5 million-€30 million ( million-30 million) .
The 10 companies, selected out of some 25 submissions, include some heavy hitters led by Spain’s Zebra Prods (Grupo Izen), Gato Grande-MGM, Argentina’s Storylab and El Estudio, founded by former Canana producing partner Pablo Cruz, producer Enrique López Lavigne and former Sony Pictures Intl. Prods. head, Diego Suárez Chialvo.
Projects include animated features, thrillers, romantic comedies and dramas.
Forum coordinator Rodrigo Ros has been playing matchmaker,...
- 9/28/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Lima-based Apus Animation Studio has pacted with Spanish and Brazilian shingles to co-produce its projects, among them TV series “Chek & Chan” with Valencia-based Hampa Animation Studio and Apus’ first animation feature, “Nimuendajú: El Hombre que Encontró su Camino,” with Brazil’s Anaya Films.
Apus presents “La Orquestita,” co-produced with Barcelona-based Mago Prods., at the inaugural Co-Production and Financing Forum hosted by the Iberseries & Platino Industria TV event in Madrid (Sept.27-30).
Directed by Uruguayan Juan Carve, founder of chucho.tv, the kids animated series teaches kids about the mystery behind music, how it’s composed, why it move us. The 26-part, 11-minute episode series has already been sold to Argentina’s Pakapaka, TV3 Catalonia, Señal Colombia and pubcaster Tve, said Bonilla.
According to Apus Animation Studio founder and CEO Gabriel Bonilla, “Nimuendajú” will be filmed in rotoscope, a new technique for Latin America and for his traditional 2D animation studio.
Apus presents “La Orquestita,” co-produced with Barcelona-based Mago Prods., at the inaugural Co-Production and Financing Forum hosted by the Iberseries & Platino Industria TV event in Madrid (Sept.27-30).
Directed by Uruguayan Juan Carve, founder of chucho.tv, the kids animated series teaches kids about the mystery behind music, how it’s composed, why it move us. The 26-part, 11-minute episode series has already been sold to Argentina’s Pakapaka, TV3 Catalonia, Señal Colombia and pubcaster Tve, said Bonilla.
According to Apus Animation Studio founder and CEO Gabriel Bonilla, “Nimuendajú” will be filmed in rotoscope, a new technique for Latin America and for his traditional 2D animation studio.
- 9/28/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Eight animated TV series projects involving Spanish companies will be presented to buyers and producers attending 2022 Cartoon Forum’s pitching sessions, the event’s main attraction.
Among well-known production companies presenting their latest cartoon shows figure In Efecto Atlantis, the Spanish-French studio behind Disney’s series “Tara Duncan;”Sygnatia, the producer of multi-award winning animated film “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles,” and Peekaboo Animation, creator of world sales hit series “I, Elvis Riboldi.”
Two of the Spanish projects selected (“My Brother is a T-Rez” and “Polka Dot Zebra”) target preschoolers; five titles are intended for older children; “Firsts” aims for family audiences.
“The eight magnificent Spanish series demonstrate the wealth of knowledge and talent Spain has generated since we began to develop the industry in the 60s,” says Nico Matji, chairman of Diboos, the Spanish federation of animation producers and VFX production companies.
Nine other Spanish production companies...
Among well-known production companies presenting their latest cartoon shows figure In Efecto Atlantis, the Spanish-French studio behind Disney’s series “Tara Duncan;”Sygnatia, the producer of multi-award winning animated film “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles,” and Peekaboo Animation, creator of world sales hit series “I, Elvis Riboldi.”
Two of the Spanish projects selected (“My Brother is a T-Rez” and “Polka Dot Zebra”) target preschoolers; five titles are intended for older children; “Firsts” aims for family audiences.
“The eight magnificent Spanish series demonstrate the wealth of knowledge and talent Spain has generated since we began to develop the industry in the 60s,” says Nico Matji, chairman of Diboos, the Spanish federation of animation producers and VFX production companies.
Nine other Spanish production companies...
- 9/19/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
“Disposable,” “Ghost Bros” and “Olivia and the Shadows” feature among projects to be pitched from Monday June 14 at at an Ibero-American Animation Focus held at Annecy’s Mifa market and backed by Argentina’s Ventana Sur section Animation!, Spain’s Quirino Awards and Mexico’s Pixelatl festival.
Projects’ slate includes two features, two TV series and a short. In addition, Ventana Sur will this year unveil a special program Animation! Mentoring Program: Female Directors in Focus, which it has created
with the support of Argentina’s French Institute to highlight the work of five women directors.
La Liga projects describe a broad gamut, Animation! head Silvina Cornillon told Variety just before Annecy. Some are clearly auteurist – “Disposable,” “Bring On the Revolution” and “Where Is My Espresso” – while others have far larger commercial potential, such as “Olivia and the Shadows” and “Ghost Bros.” All, however, reflect the Latin DNA of their creators,...
Projects’ slate includes two features, two TV series and a short. In addition, Ventana Sur will this year unveil a special program Animation! Mentoring Program: Female Directors in Focus, which it has created
with the support of Argentina’s French Institute to highlight the work of five women directors.
La Liga projects describe a broad gamut, Animation! head Silvina Cornillon told Variety just before Annecy. Some are clearly auteurist – “Disposable,” “Bring On the Revolution” and “Where Is My Espresso” – while others have far larger commercial potential, such as “Olivia and the Shadows” and “Ghost Bros.” All, however, reflect the Latin DNA of their creators,...
- 6/14/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
The Quirino Ibero-American Animation Awards has confirmed the dates of its key upcoming industry hybrid online-in-person events, plus its major new talent drive.
Running May 19-20 online and May 28-29 on-site, the Quirino Awards‘ Co-Production and Business Forum has a new home this year, after relocating to headquarters in La Laguna on the Canary island of Tenerife.
Executives from more than 100 companies in 19 countries will attend the awards either online or in person. Among the largest are Adult Swim, Discovery Kids channel, VOD service Filmin, Spanish public pubcaster Rtve, YouTube channel El Reino Infantil, kids channels Pakapaka in Argentina and KiKa in Germany.
Other attendees take in French sales agent Indie Sales, Indian animation giant Toonz Media Group, distributors such as France’s Pgs and French producer-distributors Dandelooo and Sola Media.
In a pattern which looks to be repeated at late spring and early summer events across Europe, the lion...
Running May 19-20 online and May 28-29 on-site, the Quirino Awards‘ Co-Production and Business Forum has a new home this year, after relocating to headquarters in La Laguna on the Canary island of Tenerife.
Executives from more than 100 companies in 19 countries will attend the awards either online or in person. Among the largest are Adult Swim, Discovery Kids channel, VOD service Filmin, Spanish public pubcaster Rtve, YouTube channel El Reino Infantil, kids channels Pakapaka in Argentina and KiKa in Germany.
Other attendees take in French sales agent Indie Sales, Indian animation giant Toonz Media Group, distributors such as France’s Pgs and French producer-distributors Dandelooo and Sola Media.
In a pattern which looks to be repeated at late spring and early summer events across Europe, the lion...
- 5/6/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Online market ran from November 30-December 3.
Nico Manzano’s Venezuelan entry Me And The Beasts picked up three out of the six Primer Corte awards at Friday’s (December 4) online awards ceremony marking the conclusion of 2020 Ventana Sur.
Beasts took home the Sofia Films Award, Nmf Y Color Front Award, and La Mayor Cine Award offering various post-production services.
Juan Carve’s Uruguayan project Olivia And The Shadows triumphed in the Animación sidebar, picking up The MIFA / Annecy Award and La Liga de la Animactón Iberoamericana Award.
Sebastian Perillo’s The Nights Belong To The Monsters from Argentina won three...
Nico Manzano’s Venezuelan entry Me And The Beasts picked up three out of the six Primer Corte awards at Friday’s (December 4) online awards ceremony marking the conclusion of 2020 Ventana Sur.
Beasts took home the Sofia Films Award, Nmf Y Color Front Award, and La Mayor Cine Award offering various post-production services.
Juan Carve’s Uruguayan project Olivia And The Shadows triumphed in the Animación sidebar, picking up The MIFA / Annecy Award and La Liga de la Animactón Iberoamericana Award.
Sebastian Perillo’s The Nights Belong To The Monsters from Argentina won three...
- 12/4/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Taking place on site in five cities – Madrid, São Paulo, Mexico City, Bogotá and Santiago de Chile – and online for the rest of the world, Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest film market, climaxed Friday with a virtual awards ceremony for its major industry competitions hosted out of Buenos Aires.
Awards went to some buzzed up titles from major production houses, as well as others – “Me & The Beasts,” for example, which came from seemingly nowhere to take multiple industry sponsors by storm.
Following, the prize winners:
Primer Corte
Venezuelan Nico Manzano’s “Me & The Beasts” – an original, fantasy-tinged drama turning on a singer seeking inspiration as Venezuela’s crisis roils – won three of the six prizes on offer at Ventana Sur’s 2020 Primer Corte, its art film pix-in-post competition. Post-production prizes took in a Dcp copy (Nmf/Colorfront), color correction and Vxf supervision (Sofia Films) and a final mix check (La Mayor.
Awards went to some buzzed up titles from major production houses, as well as others – “Me & The Beasts,” for example, which came from seemingly nowhere to take multiple industry sponsors by storm.
Following, the prize winners:
Primer Corte
Venezuelan Nico Manzano’s “Me & The Beasts” – an original, fantasy-tinged drama turning on a singer seeking inspiration as Venezuela’s crisis roils – won three of the six prizes on offer at Ventana Sur’s 2020 Primer Corte, its art film pix-in-post competition. Post-production prizes took in a Dcp copy (Nmf/Colorfront), color correction and Vxf supervision (Sofia Films) and a final mix check (La Mayor.
- 12/4/2020
- by John Hopewell, Emilio Mayorga and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Uruguay’s government has announced new and ambitious film-tv legislation aimed at converting the small Latin American nation into a far larger film-tv hub via a new series of cash rebates for international shoots and co-productions with Uruguay.
Coming as Uruguay neighbors Brazil and Argentina battle huge challenges to state film funding – an incentive free in Brazil, a decimation of state funding in Argentina tanks to Covid-19 – the new regulation in Uruguay looks set to accelerate a disappear of productions from Latin America and runaway international shoots to its shores.
Measures take in a qualitative leap in the ceiling put on cash rebate plus a plunge in the minimum expenditure in Uruguay required to access them.
Announced Nov. 25, the regs, framed in an Uruguay Audiovisual Program (Pua), establish four action lines. International shoots and international co-productions filming in Uruguay with a local expenditure from $300,000 to $4 million receive a 25% of spend...
Coming as Uruguay neighbors Brazil and Argentina battle huge challenges to state film funding – an incentive free in Brazil, a decimation of state funding in Argentina tanks to Covid-19 – the new regulation in Uruguay looks set to accelerate a disappear of productions from Latin America and runaway international shoots to its shores.
Measures take in a qualitative leap in the ceiling put on cash rebate plus a plunge in the minimum expenditure in Uruguay required to access them.
Announced Nov. 25, the regs, framed in an Uruguay Audiovisual Program (Pua), establish four action lines. International shoots and international co-productions filming in Uruguay with a local expenditure from $300,000 to $4 million receive a 25% of spend...
- 12/2/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
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