The robust slate at Onza Distribution features something for everyone, with its balanced selection of scripted titles, documentaries and entertainment formats. The company\u2019s biggest drivers, however, are telenovelas and fiction series, says B\u00e9atrice Nouh, head of sales.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started off the year with some very strong titles, especially with our telenovela Cacao<\/em>, which premiered in January,\u201d Nouh explains. The drama tells the story of a young Portuguese girl who grew up on a cocoa farm in Brazil and later finds out that her real father is the farm\u2019s owner.<\/p>\n Another major highlight on the upcoming Onza Distribution slate is Heartless<\/em>, which Nouh is \u201cpositive\u2026will be the other big driver of the year\u2019s incomes.\u201d The thriller, produced in-house, sees an unknown criminal threaten the lives of Madrid\u2019s elite businessmen. Judge Luc\u00eda Vergara has no other choice than to team up with a man she imprisoned ten years prior to solve the case, but little does she know, he is plotting his revenge against her.<\/p>\n The topics explored in the series are universal, Nouh says, giving it a broad appeal. \u201cPassion is the central theme in this thriller. And really all kinds of passion: the thirst for revenge, the most heartrending sexual impulses, the blind passion for money, the obsessive pursuit of justice, the anxious need to feel accepted and loved. It\u2019s interesting to see that all these passions are in contradiction, and they clash with each other, which will create fascinating conflicts between the characters while we try to untie the thriller plot.\u201d<\/p>\n Nouh ultimately describes it as \u201ca premium European thriller with all the successful elements\u2014universality, originality and tension\u2014to travel to other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n A unique part of the thriller \u201cis that it shows a Madrid that is almost never seen: the Madrid of the \u2018Latin aristocracy,\u2019\u201d Nouh notes. \u201cThere is an increasingly [large] community of rich Latin American expats in Madrid. It\u2019s a new reality, and I think it\u2019s great that this topic is being explored in a series.\u201d<\/p>\n The international appeal of Heartless<\/em> comes in part from the fact that it is produced for both Spanish and Mexican broadcasters (Prime Video and RTVE in Spain and ViX+ in Mexico). As such, its cast features a mix of familiar faces from both territories. \u201cThe cast of Heartless<\/em> is full of top talents and top faces from different Spanish-speaking series, and they bring talent, glamor and credibility to the series,\u201d Nouh says.<\/p>\n This includes Ivan Massagu\u00e9 (Parot<\/em>, The Platform<\/em>), Kira Mir\u00f3 (Machos Alfa<\/em>, Headless Chickens<\/em>), Esmeralda Pimentel (Montecristo<\/em>, A Good Divorce<\/em>, High Heat<\/em>), Jan Cornet (Estoy vivo<\/em>, El barco<\/em>, The Skin I Live In<\/em>) and Carlos Ponce (Perro Amor<\/em>, Luis Miguel<\/em>, Devious Maids<\/em>), many of whom have starred in titles that found global success on platforms such as Netflix, Prime Video, HBO and more.<\/p>\n Heartless<\/em> is showrun by Alonso Laporta and Gustavo Ron, who both worked with Onza previously on its hit legal drama Parot<\/em>. \u201cThey bring the needed spark to create a great series,\u201d Nouh says. \u201cThey bring all their talent and experience working together to make Heartless<\/em> one of the most [anticipated] Spanish series of 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n The series is part of a genre \u201cthat travels particularly easily abroad, as [thrillers] are usually centered on human, universal topics and real facts that can happen anywhere,\u201d Nouh points out.<\/p>\n It complements the slew of other thrillers in Onza Distribution\u2019s catalog, including Parot<\/em>, about criminals released after the annulment of the Parot<\/em> legal doctrine, and Flowers Over the Inferno<\/em>, in which a criminologist battling Alzheimer\u2019s leads a team to confront a child-protecting killer. These titles continue to find sales in a variety of countries, Nouh notes, pointing to the continued popularity of the genre and the ease with which it\u2014and titles such as Heartless<\/em>\u2014can find a home anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" B\u00e9atrice Nouh, head of sales at Onza Distribution, highlights the thriller Heartless and other titles on the company\u2019s slate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":20520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[6513,6103],"class_list":["post-20518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-beatrice-nouh","tag-onza-distribution","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n