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Latam-European co-production, still a flower in the desert

Despite the intensification of efforts, tools and desire in recent years, series co-produced by players on both sides of the Atlantic are still an incipient and scarce creature.

Gabriel García Márquez's book 'Noticia de un secuestro' to be made into series

One of 'Gabo's' sons, Rodrigo García Barcha, will participate in the production of the series.

Gabriel García Márquez's "Noticia de un secuestro" (News of a kidnapping) to the small screen

Prime Video announced at a launch event the inclusion of this production along with other adaptations of the Colombian Nobel Prize winner.

News of an Invercine and Wood hijacking for Amazon Prime entered post-production stage

Noticia de un secuestro (six episodes), a production by Chilean production companies Invercine and Wood for Amazon Prime Video, has finished filming and is now in post-production. The series will be seen in 240 territories around the world, but no release date has yet been announced.

The Life of Fish' Director Matias Bize Boards Chilean Family Drama 'The Stolen Kids' (EXCLUSIVE)

Chile's Matías Bize, the multi-prized director of "In the Bed," "The Life of Fish" and "The Memory of Water," is attached to direct "The Stolen Kids," a family drama straddling Chile and Europe set up at María Wood Producciones and MegaMedia, the latter part-owned by Discovery Networks Latin America.

These were the big winners of Conecta Fiction

The event continued with its busy schedule of panels and debates, and closed with the awards gala, where the projects with the best chances of materialising were recognised. Here, all the details.

Conecta Fiction 2021: Details Of This Year's Projects

The heart of Conecta Fiction is its pitching sessions where producers and creators bring onto the market, looking for partners and sales, projects which have often flown completely under the radar.

Spain's Mediacrest and Chile's Maria Wood Productions Team for Mars-Set Dystopian Series, 'Humanity' (EXCLUSIVE)

In its continued bid to explore new fiction content, Spain's Mediacrest has joined forces with Chilean shingle Maria Wood Prods. to co-produce sci-fi series, "Humanity."

FILMING NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING

Amazon Prime is shooting in Colombia, with the production services of FoxTelecolombia, the series inspired by the book of the same name by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez. It stars a Colombian cast that includes Majida Issa, Cristina Umaña, Carmen Gómez, Julieth Restrepo, Juan Pablo Raba and Constanza Duque.

Dignity - Grimme Preis 2021

Dignity (Story House Pictures, Invercine & Wood für Joyn)

Variety magazine highlights female presence in Chilean Film Academy and choice of Agent Topo

From the United States, Variety magazine highlighted the Chilean Academy of Motion Picture Arts' choice of "El agente topo", the feature film by Maite Alberdi that is competing in the Best Documentary category at the upcoming Oscar Awards.

Women Power Up Chile's Academy of Cinematographic Arts (EXCLUSIVE)

Women's History Month could not be more significant for Chile's fledgling Academy of Cinematographic Arts, which is proud to have selected Maite Alberdi's acclaimed documentary "The Mole Agent" to fly the Chilean flag at the Oscars.

Andrés Wood will bring to streaming Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping

The 1996 book, based on real cases of kidnapping, extortion and murder during the era of Colombian drug lords, will come to Amazon Prime as a series with the signature of the Chilean director. Meanwhile, Rodrigo García Barcha shared details of the adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

"This year, in the midst of these tremendous challenges and difficulties we are experiencing, we want to come up with bright stories."

The MIPCOM 2020 market includes the presence of one of the strongest women in national independent production: María Elena Wood.

Dignity' and its tale of corruption and abuse / Cable Navigators

A look at the powerful Chilean production, inspired by real events, which premiered on Amazon Prime.

Dignity' Executive Producer Maria Elena Wood Powers Up Own Shingle

María Elena Wood, executive producer of "Mary & Mike," "Dignity" and now "News of a Kidnapping" for Amazon Studios, is re-launching her own production house.

Amazon premieres series on Colonia Dignidad in November

Broadcast by HBO in Europe, Dignity will be shown on the streaming platform in Latin America and simultaneously on Mega. In the eight episodes Antonia Zegers plays a policewoman behind the enclave and German actor Götz Otto (The Fall) plays Paul Schäfer.

Documentary filmmaker Paola Castillo and director Andrés Wood invited to join the Hollywood Academy

A total of 819 professionals were called to be part of the organization that delivers the Oscar Awards.

Global Bulletin: HBO Nordic Acquires 'Dignity' For Most of Europe

U.K.-based Red Arrow Studios International has finalized a pay-TV rights deal with HBO Nordic for Invercine & Wood and Story House Productions' Canneseries selection "Dignity,"

Amazon's Latest Latin American Deals: 5 Takeaways

"The only absolute in history is change," said the Victorian historian Lord Acton.

Chilean series Dignity by Invercine & Wood comes to HBO Nordic distributed by Red Arrow

Red Arrow Studios International sold pay TV and SVOD rights to Chilean thriller Dignity ('8x52') to HBO Nordic

AMAZON PRIME VIDEO EXPANDS LOCAL ORIGINAL CONTENT IN LATIN AMERICA

New original series include ``Iosi, The Repentant Spy``, ``The Pack``, ``Colonia Dignidad`` and ``News of a Kidnapping``.

Chile's famous miners thank Chinese crane makers for rescue role in rescue effort

Conecta FICTION was the latest event to showcase the drive of an industry geared towards international co-production.