The group’s sales executive spoke to ttvnews about the new products they are presenting at Mipcom, including the new BBC 1 crime series and the docureality A New Life in the Sun.
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In a busy edition for Cineflix Rights, with several sales announcements for its wide catalogue of content, the group is present at Mipcom displaying the new products in its offer for the international market.
“We are presenting a new series called Virdee, which was made for BBC 1 and will be released next year,” Daniel Rodríguez, sales consultant for Latin America and the Hispanic US for Cineflix Rights, began in a conversation with ttvnews.
“It is based on a best-selling book in the UK and the US, which tells the story of a detective who must catch a serial killer. But the killer has his marks and a style that prevents the police from working in a regular way. So the policeman must enter the mafia in order to use unorthodox tools and be able to catch him,” explained the executive, summarizing the plot as “a moral dilemma of how far the law and justice can go.”
Even though it has not been released, the six-episode series is already arousing the interest of several buyers at the event. “All the clients who have come have shown interest in the series,” revealed the executive.
From the factual side, the executive highlighted the docu-reality A New Life in the Sun, “where people, couples, families from different countries in Europe move to the areas closest to the Mediterranean to develop a new life from a commercial point of view. They set up Airbnbs, hotels, and that process is shown. It is a factual reality of the daily life of these people,” he explained.
Finally, the executive highlighted the good moment that its catalog is experiencing on new screens, extending for the first time to the open TV universe thanks to the acquisition of large properties with international potential.
“At the level of clients and agreements that we have made recently, I am happy because after many years we have generated a catalog in Spanish that we can put together for broadcast TV,” said Rodríguez.
“Cineflix has been a distributor whose content was aimed at pay TV, platforms and streamers. But this year we have added two large properties such as Property Brothers and Mayday. We have already made agreements with Costa Rica, Uruguay, TVN in Chile and now we are closing a new agreement in Panama that I hope we can announce for Mipcancun and we are in negotiations with other countries for Property Brothers that will surely materialize,” he concluded.
