The entertainment license area of Smilehood led by Anita Caratini, company directed by Guillermo Tita Pino, owner also of a 360° contents studio and 3D animation, joins the opening of the fiction contents and distribution area of SMILEHOOD MEDIA guided since March 2013 by Silvana D’Angelo, a professional with extensive experience in this activity.

This area will be responsible for the production of television contents focused on international business and also be a fulcrum for the licensing platform, category Smilehood specialized to date.

Also DAngelo’s experience will position these new productions internationally. This new distribution unit product not only will represent its own products, but also third parties that have the ability to develop all the related business line.

SILVANA D’ANGELO

Among the products that Smilehood will submit at the Los Angeles Screenings; in Suite 1748 highlights the now famous El Payaso Plim Plim, an animated series which airs on Disney Junior successfully to 22 countries, and already has been acquired in several territories for the broad derived business Line created for the famous character, as a theatrical play to be released in Argentina in June and then begin its tour across Latin America. 

Plim Plim is now the face of massive brands in Argentina where it is already an educational benchmark for preschool age children. Another of the top products in this market is the musical teen drama WAKE UP, a Sebastian Mellino production in coproduction with Coca Cola and Warner TV will be available to all of Latin America from September 2013. The series has a wide portfolio of famous themes from the Warner music library for adaptation in each territory, and the Argentina version will feature Colombian Mexican and Argentine talents thus generating an international and neutral series.

Another hallmark of Smilehood Media is the excellent fiction library created especially for the web such asSEGÚN ROXI, sitcom that has shocked the social networks about a mother in absurd situations with which all women identify with and which is now in its second successful season, and YO SOY VIRGEN, musical teen drama now in its  3^rd season and still getting followers on all social networks, it was the first web series awarded in this category, both available.

Mauricio Carrandi, Image and Advertising Director, Grupo Televisa

The program achieved a major change with the introduction of products such as Univision’s, in the morning Despierta America, three Televisa Networks unitaries and productions generated locally by the affiliates of Televisa. Furthermore, premiered in prime time the Telemundo telenovela, La Patrona  establishing high ratings in the United States.

“The channel has two major anchors, national and local newscasts. These last ones we are unifying through the network of correspondents to strengthen them, although this effort has many implications and challenges. The other is the programming of the Telemundo product that has been well accepted in the past four years. The challenge is to supplement this content with something more articulate and coherent with the audience.”

And what is the business strategy? Since the 4TV signal change, which was a local channel to a national landmark as ForoTV, knocked out this window to many advertisers who had these local guidelines. The executive replied, “Part of the strategy is to give back that window and not set them aside.”

Finally, Carrandi stated that the immediate objective is to strengthen local production of news as well as set the audience with the new bar that is complemented by Telemundo. “The idea is to measuring programming that we incorporate either from our partners or give play to the local productions that are part of a great job and deserve more support,” concluded the Image and Advertising Director of Grupo Televisa.

David Guerra, VP Senior Distribution and Marketing, Vivid Tv

“The inauguration of our own offices in a key city for the World of Entertainment in Latin America is a step of enormous importance for our company and underlines the commitment of Vivid TV with their clients in the region,” asserted David Guerra “This is just the first step in a process to establish our presence in Latin America and the Caribbean to meet the needs of our audience and commercial partners.”

Among the contents of Vivid features a linear channel programmed in blocks of 24-hours, World Class quality as well as a wide range of VOD content such as the renowned adult tapes (Vivid-Celeb) with the participation of celebrities as Pamela Anderson, Kendra Wilkinson and Kim Kardashian, their successful parody for adults (Vivid SuperXXXHeroes) among that highlight Superman XXX, Spider-Man XXX, The Avengers XXX and Star Wars XXX: this last one recently awarded by the “AVN” prizes as the film most sold and rented in 2012.

Vivid’s offer includes also a portfolio of adult Film Classics developed over 30 years and that includes leading titles like Ginger, Fade to Black and classic re-makes as Throat and A Cautionary Tale whose popularity contributed to locate the Vivid brand on an international level.

Allen Schwalb

The biggest news announced at the Florida Media Market: A Florida Film Fund has been created and was releases during one of our panels: Casting, Packaging & Funding, to make films with budgets from 2 -10 million dollars for 60% financing, you just have to come up with the 40% up front. The news was released by Juan Carlos Zapata & Ed Arenas. They have partnered with Jack Lenz from Lenz Entertainment to create stronger production in the Sunshine state. Currently they are in development of 2 movies Nocturnal & Sin Cera, for more information, contact us at the FMM.
We had the best quality speakers, filmmakers, judges and presenters. Our Pitching Doctor: Devo Cutler-Rubenstein did a magnificent job in teaching our independent filmmakers how to pitch, grab attention for, and package their projects.
We partnered up with the Sichuan TV Festival (based in China) and the LGMA (based in New York) this to allow people to cross the “Bridge to the World” in this Conference. Attached is a picture of them.
This year, we had our Inaugural GMW Breakfast on Thursday, January 31, 2013. The panel spoke about the importance of women programming from all aspects and points of view. Women from all over the world came to share that there is an urgent need to educate women and help them grow, following the Florida Media Market’s motive to make “Better Entertainment for a Better World”.

Panel

On Friday, Ellen Jacoby was a panelist for a Casting & Acting Workshop. Jacoby explained how to market one’s self for acting opportunities. Plus, how to get a great cast together and why it is imperative for a successful project.
On Saturday, Chris Phillips, Ed Arenas, Juan Carlos Zapata, Ben O’dell, Gabriel Ripstein, and Allen Schwalb were on several panels on Producing, Casting, & Financing Big Budget Films while observing Market Trends, the importance of certain news in the Film Industry and how it affects the Independent Filmmaker.
“I wanted to thank you and your wonderful team for such great effort in having the community, colleagues and friends gathering together to exchange experiences, work and projects during the Florida Media Market. “ –Victor Gomez, Bajo La Luz Productions.
On Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 the The Shift Awards Gala honored those who have made programming that has raised social awareness and made an impact globally.
Winners for domestic and international programming included: A girl in Progress by Pantelion/ Lionsgate, American Idol by Freemantel, La Promesa by Caracol, A donde esta Elisa by Telemundo, Capadocia by HBO, Casos de Familia by Venevision, etc.
Also, The Lifetime Achievement Awards went to Allen Schwalb: Management Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in 007, Superman IV, The Color Purple, Thelma & Louise, Rocky V, and on and on/ Plus, Armando Núñez: Distribution Lifetime Achievement Award for the. Our Visionary Award went to Tom Mohler for being the first to launch 10 HD Networks (UltraPlex) at once in 2012.