AMC Networks Intl. Latin America has acquired Rtve hit, Spanish-Portuguese thriller “Sequía,” which will be broadcast throughout the region on its Europa Europa channel.
The story centers on the mystery behind two mummified corpses – apparent murder victims — that are discovered when a long submerged village emerges from the drying Campomediano reservoir along the Spanish-Portuguese border during a prolonged drought (“sequía” in Spanish).
While a Spanish inspector and investigative reporter suspect the bodies may be linked to environmental protests that took place to prevent the creation of the reservoir, a Portuguese detective is secretly investigating the possibility that one of the deceased could be the heir to the Souza Cardoso fortune who disappeared years ago.
Weaving between two time periods, the late 1990s and the present, when secrets begin to be revealed, the story follows two influential families in Spain and Portugal who inhabit beautiful areas of both countries as well...
The story centers on the mystery behind two mummified corpses – apparent murder victims — that are discovered when a long submerged village emerges from the drying Campomediano reservoir along the Spanish-Portuguese border during a prolonged drought (“sequía” in Spanish).
While a Spanish inspector and investigative reporter suspect the bodies may be linked to environmental protests that took place to prevent the creation of the reservoir, a Portuguese detective is secretly investigating the possibility that one of the deceased could be the heir to the Souza Cardoso fortune who disappeared years ago.
Weaving between two time periods, the late 1990s and the present, when secrets begin to be revealed, the story follows two influential families in Spain and Portugal who inhabit beautiful areas of both countries as well...
- 5/24/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Crime thriller “Sequía” (Drought), the first-ever fiction co-production between Spain and Portugal’s pubcasters, Rtve and Rtp, was discussed at a Conecta Fiction panel session moderated by the forum’s director, Géraldine Gonard,
The session was sponsored by ONSeries Lisboa, a new event running Nov. 25-26 in Lisbon, that will offer a showcase for Portuguese TV series, aiming to attract international broadcasters and buyers.
The panelists were the co-producers involved in “Sequía”: Rtve’s content director, Amalia Martínez de Velasco, Rtp’s programming director, José Fragoso, and Jorge Sánchez Gallo, chairman of Atlantia Media (Spain) and Bruno Santos, managing director of Coral Europa (Portugal).
Sequía is a noir thriller set in a small submerged village on the Spanish-Portuguese border, that re-emerges from a huge dam built in the 1990s, after a severe drought. Two skeletons are unearthed, revealing evidence of a bloody crime.
The action switches between the 1990s and the present day,...
The session was sponsored by ONSeries Lisboa, a new event running Nov. 25-26 in Lisbon, that will offer a showcase for Portuguese TV series, aiming to attract international broadcasters and buyers.
The panelists were the co-producers involved in “Sequía”: Rtve’s content director, Amalia Martínez de Velasco, Rtp’s programming director, José Fragoso, and Jorge Sánchez Gallo, chairman of Atlantia Media (Spain) and Bruno Santos, managing director of Coral Europa (Portugal).
Sequía is a noir thriller set in a small submerged village on the Spanish-Portuguese border, that re-emerges from a huge dam built in the 1990s, after a severe drought. Two skeletons are unearthed, revealing evidence of a bloody crime.
The action switches between the 1990s and the present day,...
- 9/17/2021
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
We’ve been given the chance to debut this brand new trailer for a movie that up until now, we’ve not yet seen in the UK called The Contestant. The movie comes from director, Rodrigo Cortés who we saw last year directing Ryan Reynolds in the critically acclaimed movie, Buried.
Buried is released in the UK on DVD on 14th February and The Contestant could be yours a as part of HMV’s exclusive Rodrigo Cortes boxset edition of Buried DVD.
You can also join the official Buried Facebook page by clicking here.
Check out the brand new trailer for The Contestant below which features a cast that includes Leonardo Sbaraglia, Chete Lera, Miryam Gallego, Fernando Cayo, Myriam De Maeztu, Luis Zahera and Amaia Lizarralde.
Synopsis: Martín Circo Martín, young professor of History of Economics, has just become the winner of the most lucrative game show in the history...
Buried is released in the UK on DVD on 14th February and The Contestant could be yours a as part of HMV’s exclusive Rodrigo Cortes boxset edition of Buried DVD.
You can also join the official Buried Facebook page by clicking here.
Check out the brand new trailer for The Contestant below which features a cast that includes Leonardo Sbaraglia, Chete Lera, Miryam Gallego, Fernando Cayo, Myriam De Maeztu, Luis Zahera and Amaia Lizarralde.
Synopsis: Martín Circo Martín, young professor of History of Economics, has just become the winner of the most lucrative game show in the history...
- 2/1/2011
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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