Rafael Blanco

At the L.A. Screenings Independents, Google TV's Hsiwen Lin, OTTera's Jordan Warkol and Grateful's Ariel Tobi participated in a panel moderated by Elizabeth Bowen-Tombari, editor of TV Latina, which examined the impact of advertising on the new FAST and AVOD platforms.

Netflix’s Leonardo Padrón and José Ignacio Valenzuela, Fidelio’s Mauricio Leiva-Cock and The Immigrant’s Silvana Aguirre participated in a panel today at Content Americas speaking about the evolution of narrative models in Latin America, the role of the showrunner and the creative freedom offered by streaming platforms.

At Content Americas today, Pierluigi Gazzolo, who was recently promoted to CEO at ViX, spoke about the importance of culturally relevant stories and the work the company is doing in its search for new partners as it expands into other Latin American countries.

Netflix has partnered with the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC) to create the COVID-19 Support Fund for the Motion Picture and Audiovisual Industry, aimed at supporting more than 1,000 workers in the sector.

During a MIP Cancun panel titled Ficción histórica: Hernán un caso de estudio, which explored the epic series Hernán and was moderated by TV Latina's Elizabeth Bowen-Tombari, Dopamine CEO Fidela Navarro called on the industry to invest more in original productions, in a conversation that also featured showrunners Julián de Tavira and Curro Royo and HISTORY's Miguel Brailovsky.

MIP Cancun will host a case study on the new historical series Hernán featuring Dopamine CEO Fidela Navarro, showrunners Julián de Tavira and Curro Royo and HISTORY Latin America's Miguel Brailovsky, in conversation with Elizabeth Bowen-Tombari, the editor of TV Latina.

Raul Berdonés, the president of Grupo Secuoya, and Epigmenio Ibarra, the CEO of Argos Comunicación, talked about attracting high-end talent in a MIP Cancun panel moderated by TV Latina’s Elizabeth Bowen-Tombari.

TV Azteca has inked a deal with Acun Medya that will see its live entertainment production being expanded to 300 hours this year, reflecting a 10 percent increase over 2017.

A+E Networks Latin America and Mobius.Lab have signed a deal for the creation of exclusive short-form content for A&E, Lifetime, HISTORY and H2.

Cablevisión and BBC Worldwide have signed a multiyear deal for BBC series, including Rillington Place and The Last Post, to launch as exclusives on the Flow platform.