Rio de Janeiro-based Habanero Film Sales has licensed U.S. rights to political thriller “Pseudo” to the HBO platforms, The pact was negotiated by Leslie Cohen, senior VP content acquisitions HBO/HBO Max, and Habanero CEO Alfredo Calvino.
Habanero has also sold the linear and streaming rights to 2019 Argentine horror-thriller “Rock, Paper and Scissors” to HBO Central Europe.
Co-written and helmed by Bolivian Gory Patiño and Spain’s Luis Reneo, “Pseudo” turns on a taxi driver who gets caught up in an operation fraught with danger when he steals the identity of a passenger.
The thriller will be theatrically released in Bolivia this year, given that its initial release dates were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
“Pseudo” is Patiño’s second feature, his debut feature “Muralla,” (“The Goalkeeper”), also acquired by HBO back in 2019, was the highest-grossing Bolivian film in 15 years.
Both ‘Muralla’ and ‘Pseudo’ were picked up by Somos TV,...
Habanero has also sold the linear and streaming rights to 2019 Argentine horror-thriller “Rock, Paper and Scissors” to HBO Central Europe.
Co-written and helmed by Bolivian Gory Patiño and Spain’s Luis Reneo, “Pseudo” turns on a taxi driver who gets caught up in an operation fraught with danger when he steals the identity of a passenger.
The thriller will be theatrically released in Bolivia this year, given that its initial release dates were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
“Pseudo” is Patiño’s second feature, his debut feature “Muralla,” (“The Goalkeeper”), also acquired by HBO back in 2019, was the highest-grossing Bolivian film in 15 years.
Both ‘Muralla’ and ‘Pseudo’ were picked up by Somos TV,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
In its continued bid to provide a diverse range of films from Latin America, HBO Latino has acquired U.S. pay TV rights to Bolivian Gory Patiño’s thriller “Muralla” from Alfredo Calviño of Habanero Film Sales.
“Muralla” was Bolivia’s official entry to the 2019 Oscars and Golden Globes. Back home, where it had a 10-week theatrical run, it became the highest-grossing Bolivian film in 15 years.
Its Spanish title “Muralla,” (‘wall’ in English) is the titular nickname of the lead character who has earned it for his blocking skills as a goalkeeper. With his soccer career behind him, he is scraping out a living as a taxi driver. Desperate to save his gravely sick child, he is drawn into the underworld of human trafficking to make some serious cash.
After a festival run that has included Guadalajara, the Sydney Latin American fest, Vancouver Latino, and Brazil’s Gramado, “Muralla” will...
“Muralla” was Bolivia’s official entry to the 2019 Oscars and Golden Globes. Back home, where it had a 10-week theatrical run, it became the highest-grossing Bolivian film in 15 years.
Its Spanish title “Muralla,” (‘wall’ in English) is the titular nickname of the lead character who has earned it for his blocking skills as a goalkeeper. With his soccer career behind him, he is scraping out a living as a taxi driver. Desperate to save his gravely sick child, he is drawn into the underworld of human trafficking to make some serious cash.
After a festival run that has included Guadalajara, the Sydney Latin American fest, Vancouver Latino, and Brazil’s Gramado, “Muralla” will...
- 8/20/2019
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Director Gory Patino debuts with ‘The Goalkeeper’ (‘Muralla’) now screening in Los Angeles.
Did you know that approximately eight children a day disappear from the streets of La Paz in Bolivia as human trafficking becomes a serious international business? This story is not about that but about a man who seeks redemption after his one brush with this as he does the unthinkable to save his desperately ill son. Racked with guilt and haunted by ghosts, Jorge seeks to rescue the young girl he sold, even if it means his own downfall.
This fiction feature is actually a spin-off of a 10 episode TV series called La Entrega that Patino has created about a missing girl sold to the human trafficking network. Muralla, a broken man who was a former soccer star, an incidental character in the series becomes a fully developed character in this movie, Bolivia’s Official Submission for...
Did you know that approximately eight children a day disappear from the streets of La Paz in Bolivia as human trafficking becomes a serious international business? This story is not about that but about a man who seeks redemption after his one brush with this as he does the unthinkable to save his desperately ill son. Racked with guilt and haunted by ghosts, Jorge seeks to rescue the young girl he sold, even if it means his own downfall.
This fiction feature is actually a spin-off of a 10 episode TV series called La Entrega that Patino has created about a missing girl sold to the human trafficking network. Muralla, a broken man who was a former soccer star, an incidental character in the series becomes a fully developed character in this movie, Bolivia’s Official Submission for...
- 11/27/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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