Etiqueta: Business
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So Close to Life (Tan cerca de la vida)
What makes a human different from a robot? Production? Thought? Love? When Max, a computer expert, arrives in Tokyo, he has a strange feeling. Perhaps it’s the jet lag. But, for a moment, it seems to him that everybody there –the taxi driver, the people, the bellhop in the hotel- have the exact same…
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The Fourth Sword (La cuarta espada)
An immersion within the mind of the murderer that became a god. Abimael Guzmán was the most dangerous man in Peru, and the most lethal terrorist in Latin America. The day he got in jail, arrived the long-awaited end of the war between the government and the Shining Path, a terrorist group that caused more…
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The Captain’s Daughters (TV Series)
Three sisters, two worlds, one city. New York, 1936. The family restaurant “El Capitán” opens in the 14th Street, one of the colonial Spanish settlements of the city. The unexpected death of its owner forces Victoria, Mona and Luz Arenas, his untamable daughters, to take charge of the business. The Captain's Daughters unfolds the story of…
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Shooting Up The Sky (El cielo a tiros)
The children of drug cartels were the real victims. After twelve years without setting foot on his country, Larry goes back to Colombia, for they have found his father’s body in a common grave. His childhood friend, Pedro, picks him up at the airport and takes him directly to the Alborada celebration, a popular festival…
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Jack, Knight and King (Jota, Caballo y Rey)
A political satire about power, vanity, corruption… and a horse. Set in the Latin American dictatorship landscape of the 50s belonging to tropical tyrants that were corrupt, violent and usually eccentric. With the dictatorial regime of Rojas Pinilla in the Colombia of 1954, this novel is an analysis of power, vanity and corruption with a…
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The Reef (Arrecife) (Serie TV)
Danger is the best aphrodisiac. Climate change empties hotels and money laundering regenerates them as phantom emporiums. At the time of extreme tourism, travelers need other kind of emotions. Former rockstar Mario Müller comes up with a visionary possibility of tourism in the Caribbean: the pleasures of fear. He builds The Pyramid Resort in the…
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The Pilgrim’s Codex (El códice del peregrino)
The Apocalypse at a hands reach. Patricia Veri and Diego Martínez are an Argentinian couple of international art traffickers. Jaques Roan, a French billionaire, hires them to steal the Codex Calixtinus from the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain; the codex is a 12th century manuscript whose content has always been a motive for…
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Monsters (Monstruos)
They were tortured before they were even born. This is the story of the Thalidomide scandal, a drug consumed by dozens of pregnant women to alleviate morning sickness and nausea. Because of this, dozens of children were born with deformities that, in some cases, caused their death. It is estimated that there were 3000 victims…
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Bad Leaf (Mala Hoja)
An introspective look of 19th century Cuba. In February 1874, two Spanish businessmen, a tobacco grower and a sugar farmer, meet at a restaurant in Havana, where they start a conversation while they smoke a cigar. On that dialogue, both characters tell why they abandoned Spain and how they managed to make…
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The Crossover – Original TV Series Project
An original TV Series project by Curro Royo and Vinicio Canton Twelve people, four countries, one murder Every Tuesday morning, thousands of people take off from more than forty different airports with one single destination: Brussels, where the European Parliament is located. They are politicians, interpreters, executives, lobbyists… who have a double life: the professional one,…
