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Platino brings together the industry Platino Industria is organized by Egeda Mexico, Ibero-American Federation of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Producers (FIPCA), the Government of Quintana Roo (Mexico); World Tourism Organization, Grupo Barceló and other tour operators in the region, and with the support of the National Chamber of the Film Industry of Mexico (Canacine). Due to Covid-19, Platino Industria has developed several weekly online panels as Platino Industry Meetings (EPI) since July about the “Animation Industry in Latin America” together with Paul Vaca from Alterego (USA). The sessions, including 21 panelists from Canada, USA and Latin America, gathered more than 1.000 attendees from 19 countries. The talks last until December to discuss about different topics that concern producers, content directors, creators, students and the community of the film, audiovisual, tourism and education sector. ‘We are glad to announce new alliances with whom we will share the different topics’, underlines Adriana Castillo, coordinator of Platino Industria, and she exemplifies with three: WAWA, the Mexican Society of Photography Authors (AMC) and the Latin American Federation of Cinematographic Photography Authors (FELAFC) to carry out the workshop “How to make a film from start to finish” from the hands of internationally recognized directors and cinematographers as well as winners of the Platino Awards. ‘We will end the year with the participation at Ventana Sur (Argentina), she added. Castillo concludes: ‘EPI is an opportunity to create new links between professionals from a variety of regions, to bring together film, audiovisual, tourism and education sectors as well as an opportunity to create business in Latin America, Spain and Portugal through a digital environment’.
Adriana Castillo, coordinator of Platino Industria
Astrolab transforms crisis in opportunities Argentine-based Astrolab is is just an example of how a crisis is at the same time a source of opportunities. 2020 has been an extremely unusual year, that has taken the whole world by surprise. But at the same time, it has allowed content developers to bare time, skills and grey matter into the new challenges that await ahead. Many boutique production companies, keen Federico Badia, CEO in the development of original contents knew how to manage their resources in a flexible manner, allowing them to mitigate the effects of the Covid19 Pandemic. Such is the case of Astrolab, who was able to keep its creative department very active during the worldwide freeze. During 2020, Astrolab proMind-Blowing Breakthr oughs, duced a pilot episode with animated series the aim of making a big step on the ultra-competitive OTT platforms fiction miniseries niche. The pilot of Formicario (10x’44) was fully financed by Astrolab, as a laboratory experience to confirm their skills to create high standard products for the high-standard international market. After 12 years of success in creating edu-tainment contents for international networks, Astrolab also ventured in the production of its first action and adventure animation series for young teens Brotheroids (26x’11) which combines acid comedy with action, though maintaining the same ADN stamps on all its creations, since underneath its main plot lies the ecological value of how to obtain renewable energies. While planning the fourth season of its animation TV series MindBlowing Breakthroughs (78x’12), Astrolab and its South Korean partner Grafizix, premiered the third season at Korean EBS network. Astrolab also premiered the second season of their original productionJAVI & The Tree House Club (21x’11) at NatGeoKids Latinamerica, a Pay TV panregional channel currently managed by the Disney Company network.
Mondo TV Iberoamérica and RTVE will co-produce Annie & Carola
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Grupo Mondo TV Iberoamérica partners with RTVE for the co-production of the animated series Annie & Carola, an original work by Myriam Ballesteros. The series premiere is scheduled for the second half of 2022. With the details of the participation of the public television in negotiation, children’s channel Clan has selected Annie & Carola among six other projects in the annual call to creator, which seeks to support the Spanish audiovisual industry. The series is written by Txema Ocio and directed by Myriam Ballesteros, CEO of MB Producciones, whom the company has recently signed a strategic agreement that helps the company
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to obtain almost all of the IP and take care of international distribution. Annie & Carola will consist of 52 episodes of 11 minutes each, in 2D HD. The series follows Carola, a nerd with no social skills, who builds herself a clone friend, with whom she can share her love of science and keep herself safe from the world of teenagers she is unaware of and fears.. All pre-production will be in charge of Mondo TV Producciones Canarias, which will play a key role in the development of the property Maria Bonaria Fois, CEO of Grupo Mondo TV Iberoamerica, said: ‘The selection of Clan of Annie & Carola is an important vote of confidence of the channel and we believe that it is an important milestone for the development of the series. Our group is proud to be part of this very special project together with Myriam ‘.
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