World Screen

PARIS: Lic. Amado Boudou, the vice president of Argentina, is set to take part in the MIPCOM 2013 LATAM Global Dealmakers Lunch and lead his country’s delegation as part of the Argentina Country of Honour program. The second annual LATAM Global Dealmakers Lunch is hosted in partnership with Telemundo Internacional, …

MIAMI: Jonathan Blum has been tapped to serve as president of Cisneros Media, a newly formed corporate division that encompasses all of the organization's affiliated media and entertainment companies. Blum will report directly to Adriana Cisneros, the CEO of Cisneros. He will be based in Miami, tasked with heading up …

NEW YORK: Ahead of Jornadas, the cable convention taking place in Buenos Aires from September 25 to 27, TV Latina has launched a digital edition, which includes a feature on the main cable operators in the region, as well as a Spanish-language app delivering information on leading Latin American channels. …

MIAMI: Tr3s has picked up two new titles from Azteca, Pasión Morena and Bellezas Indomables. Bellezas Indomables is a story of love, passion and strength. It stars Claudia Álvarez and Yahir, the breakout star of La Academia. Pasión Morena, which is making its U.S. debut thanks to Tr3s, stars Paola …

LONDON: Passion Distribution has placed more than 200 hours of programming in Latin America in the last three months, including such titles as World Scariest and The Imploders. Construir TV in Argentina picked up Architecture School and The Imploders. In Brazil, Globosat went for two series from OWN, Extreme Clutter …

NEW YORK: Scripps Networks International has named Claudia Clauhs as programming director for Brazil and Edilson Lima as affiliate sales manager for the country. The execs will be responsible for programming strategy and channel distribution for Scripps' channels in the region. Clauhs comes to the role from Fox Latin American …

BOGOTÁ: This year in Cannes Caracol TV Internacional plans to present titles such as The Voice of Freedom, Football Dreams: A World of Passion and The Lord of the Skies, among others. The Voice of Freedom focuses on a female musician trying to overcome sexism during the 1950s. Football Dreams is …

This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2013 issue of World Screen. When you think of Brazil, you think of soccer, samba…and Globo. That’s because Organizações Globo is Brazil’s media behemoth. Owned by the Marinho family, it comprises a TV network, terrestrial stations, radio stations, cable channels, newspapers and more. …

MIAMI: The Best of Caso Cerrado and the second season of Decisiones, two series from Telemundo Internacional, are now available on Netflix in all Latin America territories. The Best of Caso Cerrado, which contains 52 episodes, details court cases that are presented to Ana Maria Polo. Decisiones recreates real-life scenarios …

SÃO PAULO: The 2013 ABTA Expo & Conference is bringing together four international speakers to debate the issue of the fight against piracy in pay TV during a special panel session. Marta Ochoa, the director of the Pay-TV Alliance Against Piracy in the U.S.; Horacio Gennari, the CEO of Business …