John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentPortugal’s “The Last Wolf,” Lebanon’s “Status Quo” and Uruguay’s “The Invisible Ink” proved big winners at the 6th Conecta Fiction & Entertainment, which will wrap Friday in Toledo, Spain.A potential part of a burgeoning production axis between Spain and Portugal, “The Last Wolf” won the largest prize of the night, a development deal at Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, worth an estimated €50,000 ($52,500) and a virtual invitation to set the project up as a co-production with Spain.The prize is a sign of the times. Battling financial straights, RTVE is turning to co-production or license deals – with its peers in Europe (Germany’s ZDF Studios on Simon West Magellan epic “Boundless”) or go-ahead and more flexible U.S.
Portugal’s SPi, Caracol Protagonista Team to Co-Produce ‘The Last Wolf,’ a Drug Lord Drama by Bruno Gascon (EXCLUSIVE)
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Emiliano De Pablos Two of Portugal’s most international production houses – SPi, producer of the country’s first Netflix Original series “Gloria,” and Caracol Protagonista – are teaming to co-produce police drama series project “O Último Lobo” (“The Last Wolf”).The show tells the true story of Franklim Lobo, one of the greatest European drug lords, exploring his rise, and the corruption in the Portuguese police in the late 1990s. Portuguese filmmaker Bruno Gascon, whose credits include “Carga” and “Shadow,” is the writer-director.The eight-episode series focuses on Castilho, an honest police investigator with a dark past, who sees it as his personal mission to capture Lobo.
He discovers during this investigation that what he defends is rotten, and that Portugal’s Judiciary Police – the national criminal investigation police agency – is an accomplice of the greatest Portuguese drug trafficker of all times. Lobo, who came to be considered the baron of cocaine trafficking in Europe, escaped several times from justice in Portugal, Spain and Brazil.It’s also the story of Ana, an archivist who was never given the opportunity to be a police investigator, but who ends up becoming the only person who believes in Castilho and who tries to help him.“It is definitely not a ‘good guy vs.
bad guy’ kind of story. It is a story about the ‘good vs.
evil’ fight inside each person. It plays around the concept of how each one of us has two wolves inside, a good and a bad one.
Music Box Films Buys Cannes’ Un Certain Regard Prizewinning ‘Rodeo’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMusic Box Films has acquired North American rights to “Rodeo,” the bold feature debut of Lola Quivoron which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes where it won the Coup de Cœur du Jury special prize. Produced by Charles Gillibert (“Annette”) at CG Cinema and represented by Les Films du Losange, “Rodeo” stars newcomer Julie Ledrue a Julia, a hot tempered and fiercely independent young woman who infiltrates an underground dirt bike community in France.After a chance meeting at an urban ‘Rodeo,’ Julia finds herself drawn into a clandestine and volatile clique and striving to prove herself to the ultra-masculine group, but is she is faced with a series of escalating demands that will make or break her place in the community.
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