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.

Coco Fernández, Production Manager of El Trece, together with the talent of the signals Magazine,
Quiero Música en mi Idioma and Volver

In an event led by Gabriela Sobrado and Horacio Cabak, in Puerto Salguero in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Artear presented the programming development for their signals; Magazine, Quiero Música en mi Idioma and Volver.

The Magazine channel is one of the most viewed channels of the 80 that make up the grid of Pay TV. Coco Fernández, Production Manager of El Trece signal artistic director, remarked that ”during year round, the signal generates live programming with their own production and co-productions. Moreover, acquired successful film titles and outstanding national and international telenovelas”.

For its part, the Volver signal, having 19 years on the screen has increased its audience in the last 3 years, it has as a mission to recover the  memory of the Argentine television and ”and for that we are constantly working in the recovery of historical material such as movies and telenovelas, with the intention that children and adults together can enjoy the best of the national production”, spotlighted  Fernández.

Meanwhile, Quiero Música en mi Idioma is Artear’s youngest signal. “We started 5 years ago competing with major regional signals, the channel shows considerable growth, placing it as the absolute leader in the genre”, finalized the executive.