Anonymous Content broke down its production transfers in Spain and Latin America here at Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid, Tuesday.
Barbara Teixeira, CEO of Anonymous Content Brasil and Beatriz Campo, the company’s MD for Spain, talked novel projects and schedules to corun atraverse the Spain and Lat-Am parts of the business.
Teixeira shelp her priorities are at both the big and petite finishs of the labelet – and swerving the stuff in the middle. “My concentrate right now is skinnygs that are petiteer, basic and retained in the type of story and the type of production model, or the big ambitious sprospergs,” she shelp. “I skinnyk there’s very little room in the labelet right now for the medium ground. Things that are petite and sort of basic and basic to produce and that people join to on a basic emotional level are amazing, and then there are the big ambitious skinnygs that are going to be convey inant.”
She flagged an upcoming doc, Socrates, from Brazilian filmproducer Wchange Salles about the iconic soccer star, and an changeation of ‘Perfect Days’, the Raphel Montes thriller about a medical student who seizes the girl of his dreams. They are for Globocarry out in Brazil. “Both for local buyers, so they’re fantastic opportunities for us to also obtain out to the international labelet for licensing opportunities,” Teixeira shelp.
Looking ahead she compriseed: “For next year, we have three contrastent film projects and we’re also seeing more heavily into the unscripted labelet and also recordary stories.”
Campos combiinsist Anonymous from Studiocanal earlier this year and shelp she is in filled enbigment mode. “It’s amazing to have the studio and its resources behind me to be able to contrastentiate myself and produce skinnygs that resonate locassociate. But we can also carry internationassociate,” she tbetter us in a split interwatch folloprosperg this morning’s panel. “Obviously, we are an extension of the Anonymous brand. So wantipathyver we are creating we produce certain to protect that editorial line.”
There are two films and four series out of Spain in enbigment, each is Spanish-language except a Spanish civil war project that has international elements and is being put together with partners in the U.S. The project is English-language.
“It’s a tricky time for period projects because they’re pricey and difficult to finance. But I’ve inhabitd in London for 16 years, so I understand how well these period pieces travel,” Campos shelp. “If you administer to finance them, they sell internationassociate, so I choosed to co-produce. This project has all the ingredients to carry out very well internationassociate.”
Campo shelp she is on the seeout for local Spanish stories that have fractureout potential. “We all consent, there’s a way to produce those stories more global while reacting to what the audience wants to see here,” she shelp.
The company’s current spostpoinsist, Campo tbetter us, hbetters a “very fit fuse of genres” but she wouldn’t be drawn on definites. However, she did say if there was anyskinnyg she would enjoy to comprise to the spostpoinsist it was “romance films and weightlesshearted dramas.”
She compriseed that she is not interested in cultured, high-concept projects enjoy sci-fi films.
“Those already come to us here in Spain from the international labelet. What we want to produce here are more character-driven, grounded stories,” she shelp.
Asked about projects cgo ined on social change, Teixeira shelp: “I skinnyk that the way that we are making skinnygs is as convey inant as what we’re making, that’s the skinnyg that’s super convey inant to us, and it’s someskinnyg that I skinnyk we’re commenceing to be accomprehendledged for locassociate. right now we’re enbiging a real crime story, and if we’re going to do real crime, it’s because there’s a bigger theme about society that we want to alert thcimpolite the story.”
Iberseries & Platino Industria runs until Friday.
