Movistar Plus’ first U.S. co-production, “Advise Me Who I Am,” produced with Telemundo, has been sold by Germany’s Beta Movie to HBO Latin The US, a deal announced recently right thru the sales firm’s pioneering are residing digital pitching occasion – Beta Summer season Insights.
As effectively as to the Latin American deal, Telemundo’s boarding production at closing one year’s Natpe ensured U.S. distribution for the assortment as effectively.
One in every of Movistar Plus’ biggest gambles since entering into new production, deals for U.S. and Latin American distribution scrutinize esteem promising early payback, and that payout is likely.
In step with the stylish Spanish fresh “Dime Quien Soy” from author Julia Navarro, the assortment takes web snort across a couple of decades of the 20th century, kicking off when 30-one thing cyber web journalist Javier is tasked by his aunt to research the lifetime of his broad-grandmother, Amelia Garayoa, who left her husband and son within the lend a hand of her as she fled Spain as a results of the Spanish Civil Battle in 1936.
Amelia, played by Spanish Academy Goya a success actor Irene Escolar, becomes embroiled in about a of the largest historical occasions of the century together with Franco’s ascent in Spain, the uprising and liberation of Berlin, the upward push of Stalin’s communist U.S.S.R., the barbarity of Warsaw’s ghettos, Rome within the ideal years of Mussolini and the decline of Nazi Germany in occupied Athens.
With a foot in every the past and future, “Advise Me Who I Am” sees Europe’s recent historical past personified in Amelia, a girl constantly facing the results of her hold contradictory actions and want – unprecedented for the age she cherished in – to be a girl who steers her hold future.
Movistar head of new programming Domingo Corral govt, who leads a are residing-feed presentation of the assortment right thru the Beta Summer season Insights, produces with José Manuel Lorenzo of DLO Productions and Marcos Santana from Telemundo Global Studios. Eduard Cortés directed all eight episodes, tailored by screenwriter Piti Español.
As with different recent Movistar Plus assortment, “Advise Me Who I Am” demonstrate Telefonica’s pay/SVOD service increasing the geographic attain of its assortment’ movement. None does this so dramatically, alternatively, as “Advise Me Who I Am.”
A lot of the assortment was as soon as shot at valid historical web sites with some solid and crew touring to as many as 300 areas across nine countries: Spain, Italy, Greece, Argentina, Russia, Germany, Poland, France and England. The assortment boasts a solid of 160 actors and greater than 3,000 extras.
Movistar Plus dropped the foremost trailer for the assortment closing week and announced the demonstrate will head to air this fall.
