'I'm No Longer Here' Director on Continuing the Mexican Filmmaking Legacy (Exclusive Video)

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorInternational distributor Global Screen, part of Will Smith’s Telepool, has sold crime thriller miniseries “Dark Woods” to U.S., Canada, Spain and France, following its stellar ratings success in Germany.Inspired by a true crime, unsolved for almost 30 years, the six-part show centers on a high-ranking police officer’s desperate search for his sister, and the family’s suffering.

Manori Ravindran International EditorNBC comedy “Superstore” is getting a Spanish-language adaptation.NBCUniversal Formats has partnered with Mexican production outfit Dopamine (“Hernán,” “Amarres”) to co-produce the first international version of the hit workplace comedy. A Spanish-language remake of the America Ferrera-fronted show — which follows a group of employees at a fictional big-box store called Cloud 9 in St.

Emilio Mayorga Olmo Figueredo’s Seville-based La Claqueta, producer of Spain’s Oscar submission “The Endless Trench,” has boarded “The Turtles,” the second feature from Belén Funes, one of the leading lights of Barcelona’s fast-growing – and often women-led – newest wave of filmmakers.Funes’ second feature, following on San Sebastian’s 2019 New Director winner “A Thief’s Daughter,” “The Turtles” has been selected for next week’s Berlinale Co-Production Market.A lynchpin on Spain’s burgeoning

The rapper was arrested on Tuesday (February 16) after he failed to turn himself in last week to start a nine-month prison sentence.The sentence, which has sparked a major debate about free speech in Spain, was handed to Hasél for a series of tweets and lyrics he wrote, including one post in which he made allegations that the former king Juan Carlos I was a mafia boss.His jailing immediately sparked protests in Barcelona, which continued across the weekend.

Eiza González has a resume that young actors dream of — and she's only getting started.The 31-year-old actress began her career in Mexico, starring in her own telenovela,, when she was in her late teens. She first garnered attention in the U.S.

Outspoken actress Rose McGowan has moved to Mexico and says she will never return to live in the USA.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor“The Metamorphosis of Birds,” which premiered in the Encounters sidebar of the Berlin Film Festival and won the FIPRESCI prize from the international critics’ jury, has been sold in multiple major territories, including the U.S., the U.K., China, Italy and Spain.Portuguese director Catarina Vasconcelos’ “beautifully pensive, lyrical debut feature,” in the words of the Variety review, explores her family stories in the form of a fictionalized

Naman Ramachandran Content group iZen has optioned Eduardo Mendoza’s acclaimed Spanish historical novel “City of Marvels” (La Ciudad de los Prodigios) and is developing it as a six-part series.

Once again, Meghan McCain didn’t mince words when talking about Republicans she disagrees with on The View. Meghan went after Texas senator Ted Cruz, who was pictured at the airport heading to Mexico as a historic snowstorm in his state has left millions without power, heat, water, and food. At least 20 people have died amidst the traumatic freeze. She said the “optics” of him jetting off on a luxurious family vacation while his constituents suffer are horrifying.

EastEnders' Zoe Slater had one of the most explosive range of storylines on the hit BBC soap during her time. If it wasn’t finding out Kat Slater was her real mother, it was falling pregnant with Dirty Den’s baby in a ploy to keep boyfriend Dennis Rickman around.

Anna Marie de la Fuente James Schamus (pictured, left), the former co-president of Focus Features who is best known for his laureled producing partnership with multi Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, is creating his first TV series for Netflix Mexico.Schamus will serve as executive producer and showrunner for the series, which he co-wrote with Monika Revilla (“The House of Flowers,” “Someone Has to Die”) and author Fernanda Melchor (“Hurricane Season”).The series, whose storyline is under wraps,

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn June 2019, Colombian artist Doris Salcedo set up an exhibition, Quebrantos, in Bogota’s main Bolivar Square, opposite Colombia’s parliament, and wrote in broken glass the names of 165 activists killed since – not before – Colombia’s peace agreement in 2016. “If we forgot them, if we don’t remember their names, we’re killing them a second time,” she explained.Colombia, Colombians themselves complain, are good at forgetting.

Emiliano De Pablos Spain’s Bendita Film Sales has picked up worldwide sales rights to coming-of-age drama “The Saint of the Impossible,” the feature debut of Swiss director Marc Wilkins.

 Eva Longoria ’s husband  José Bastón  is an extremely private person. For this reason, it’s rare to see the 52-year-old Mexican media mogul appear on red carpets or the 45-year-old star’s social media pages.

Fernando Frias’ I’m No Longer Here (Ya No Estoy Aquí) had a long journey to the screen — conceived when Frias was a student at New York’s Columbia University, the project was selected by the Sundance Writers Lab in 2014, and went before cameras in 2017, ultimately hitting the festival circuit in 2019, and Netflix last year. Challenges in getting the acclaimed drama made included everything from financing hurdles to a lengthy hiatus and the lead actor being rejected for a U.S.

Jamie Lang Amazon Prime Video enlisted company executives, series creators and stars from some of its top originals to confirm several announcements of new titles, returning favorites and broader initiatives to help Mexico’s hard-hit production industry recover from damage inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic.One new production, an untitled soccer docuseries about Mexican supper-club Las Chivas, and two returning programs, “Pan y Circo” and “LOL: Last One Laughing,” were confirmed, with as many

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDirector Fernando Frias new film, Mexican Oscar hopeful “I’m No Longer Here,” gives audiences a look into the American dream, and his deconstruction of it.Rather than cast well-known actors, Frias relied on his casting director to find non-actors to help tell the story of Ulises, played by Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño who goes on a journey from Monterrey, Mexico to New York for a new life, except his American dream isn’t all it’s expected to be.Frias teamed with

Jamie Lang The Walt Disney Company Germany has picked up a pair of Beta Films series for its Fox pay TV network for German-speaking territories: Spanish YA drama “Alive and Kicking” and Russian thriller “Dead Mountain – The Dyatlov Pass Incident.” Both series were presented to buyers at Mipcom in October and several more deals for each are in advanced negotiations, and expected to be announced shortly.A Movistar Plus original series from Spain, “Alive and Kicking” will participate in the

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLaunched by “El Chapo” producer Camila Jiménez and its creator Silvana Aguirre, L.A.-based The Immigrant is developing drama series with Guatemala’s Jayro Bustamante (“Ixacanul,” “La Lorona”) and Spain’s Javier Ruíz Caldera (“Superlópez”).The news comes after The Immigrant made a large splash in October 2019 when Fremantle bought into the production house, acquiring a 25% stake, marking its first major investment in a Latinx company.Jiménez has