Sony Photos Tv has struck a multi-year, co-development take care of Anxo Rodríguez’s Espotlight.
The primary-look deal will see SPT co-developing and co-producing productions with the Spanish manufacturing home and comes after Sony launched its first Spanish-language scripted sequence filmed in Spain, soccer drama La Academia, which was for Prime Video and Catalan pubcaster 3Cat, earlier this yr.
Espotlightis behind the likes of Prime Video’s The Farad, Atresplayer’s Un Nuevo Amanecer and Disney+’s You Would Do it Too.
“This deal underscores SPT’s intent to be in enterprise domestically in Spain and work with the perfect native gamers,” stated Matthew Justice, EVP, Head of UK and Europe, SPT. “Anxo and the broader Espotlight group are proving that they’ve an unimaginable eye for content material, working with a few of Spain’s high creators, delivering superb reveals, and we’re thrilled to affix forces with a purpose to produce nice reveals collectively for native and worldwide audiences.”
Rodríguez launched Espotlight in 2020 and is at present engaged on Prime Video horror sequence Dime tu Nombre. He additionally owns expertise company Alter Ego Expertise Home, which supplies entry to Spain-based writers, administrators, actors and composers.
His background is in manufacturing, regulation and enterprise affairs specialised within the leisure business. He received a Goya Award for documentary Paco de Lucia: La Búsqueda, which he produced and govt produced, and labored as head of authorized and enterprise affairs for Netflix hit La Casa de Papel, HBO present Foodie Love and Movistar’s Mira lo que has Hecho.
“We’re thrilled to get in enterprise with Sony Photos Tv, this alliance will strengthen our capability to achieve new purchasers and new audiences, SPT is exhibiting an incredible ambition within the Spanish territory with a method very aligned to ours,” stated Rodríguez. “Below this relationship we can amplify the enterprise methods of our reveals, exploit our capability to bundle nice expertise for the upcoming tasks and construct a stronger equipment for bodily manufacturing.”
Marisa Simón-Moore, Director, Scripted Growth for Spain at SPT, added: “Spanish content material is travelling far and large, not simply due to the massive variety of Spanish audio system worldwide, however as a result of Spain is delivering high notch reveals that enchantment to international audiences, past the language scope. We’re delighted to determine a working relationship with Espotlight, whose current monitor report may be very spectacular for a comparatively younger manufacturing firm, working with high expertise in Spain on reveals that resonate each domestically and globally.”
SPT’s first-look take care of Espotlight comes after the studio struck a expertise take care of Alvaro Morte’s 300 Pistolas final yr. It additionally intently follows a take care of Metropolis Soccer Group, the corporate that owns Manchester Metropolis FC, to create applications collectively.
