Etiqueta: Education
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Love in Lower Case (Amor en minúscula)
Love in capital letters, hidden in the smallest characters. Samuel is a lonely university professor who is devoted body and soul to German linguistics. He lives a solitary life, which he seems to have decided to be content with. He wakes up on New Year's Day convinced that the year ahead will bring…
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Saga Little Niño Discovers… (Saga Little niño descubre a…)
Little Niño descubre a Los Beatles | Little Niño descubre a Los Rolling Stones | Little Niño descubre a Aretha Franklin | Little Niño descubre a David Bowie | Little Niño descubre a Elvis Presley Viaja por las discografías de los cantantes más legendarios de la historia de la música. Little Niño tiene…
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How to Survive… Saga (Saga Cómo sobrevivir a…)
How to Survive Ancient Rome | How to Survive Prehistory | How to Survive the Middle Ages Could you survive in past era? This is the ultimate guide. Life in the past could be very complicated. Danger was always afoot. It was imperative to know what places to avoid in the Middle Ages, or how to make a tool in Prehistory to be able to eat lunch. Ancient Rome may seem like a lot of fun too: temples, armies and gladiators, chariot races, hilarious comedies… but it was also plagued by battles, conspiracies, and fires. The cities were very different from today, and dressing inappropriately or even drinking from the wrong cup could lead to death. Knowing how to survive these episodes of history is key. Luckily, there is this fun and educational survival manual, which will solve all your doubts and help you live in the Middle Ages, Ancient Rome, Prehistory… without dying in the process! RELEVANT DATA: Each installment of the saga How to Survive… focuses on a different historical period that, with a lot of humor, allows the reader to have fun while learning about history. This children's saga, reminiscent of the successful Érase una vez… or Horrible Histories series, contains all the necessary ingredients to become a great success and to be adapted into an animated series for a contemporary children's audience. The first and second installments will be published in spring 2022 and the third in autumn of the same year. It's author, nicknamed “The Nosy Historian”, is passionate about history. He has more than 77K followers on social networks, where he shares curiosities and little-known facts about universal history. In the saga How to Survive… he unravels history with a mixture of accuracy and entertainment that makes the reader feel like the protagonist. AUDIOVISUAL POTENTIAL: TV Series, Miniseries, Film, TV Movie. LANGUAGES AVAILABLE: Spanish, Catalan. Sample in English available. THEMES: History, Middle Age, Ancient Rome, Prehistoric, Gladiators, Hunting, Struggle, Danger, Discovery, Overcoming. GENRE: Adventure, Comedy, Children’s.
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My Right-Hand Brother (Mi hermano derecha)
Success does not come to those who have the best hand, but to those who know how to play well with the hand they have been dealt. Beto is a twelve-year-old boy with an incredible talent for playing baseball. He is considered the great national pitching prodigy in his age category. Toño, his…
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Favaloro: The Great Operator (Favaloro: El gran operador)
The Argentine doctor who transformed and democratized surgery worldwide. René Favaloro is the most transcendental Argentinean doctor of the 20th century for his contribution to humanity and the lives that have been saved as a result of the surgical procedure he systematized in 1967; a procedure that would transform world medicine forever with his bypass technique. This is a journey through his life, from his origins, his training, his influences and his experiences that shows the process that delineated his way of thinking and understanding the country where he lived. It is a journey through the ups and downs that marked the life of the heart surgeon committed to guaranteeing access to highly complex medical procedures even for those who could not afford it. Since his arrival to his country of origin (Italy) to the tragic afternoon of his suicide. Along the way, he deals with his childhood; the fanaticism he inherited from his uncle for gymnastics; his time at the Rafael Hernández National School, where he received a humanistic education from teachers such as the essayist Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, the Dominican writer Pedro Henríquez Ureña or the art critic Jorge Romero Brest; or at the University of La Plata in Argentina. There was also his ideological distance from Peronism; his time as a rural doctor in the Argentiean town of Jacinto Arauz; his settlement in the United States, where he perfected his skills as a surgeon specializing in coronary diseases at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic and established the definitive procedure for the coronary bypass, which since 1968 has saved millions of lives around the world. And, of course, his return to Argentina, where he created the foundation that bears his name and from which he tried to provide high quality medicine for all. Like no other figure in the medical field in Argentina, the surgeon René Gerónimo Favaloro managed to exceed his academic prestige to become a public figure of the highest profile and an ethical reference for millions of people. RELEVANT DATA: Pablo Morosi, a researcher and author of Favaloro. The Great Operator, spent two years conducting an in-depth research and more than 140 interviews that immersed him in the world of one of the most important doctors in the history of Argentina. What the critics have said: “A complete, detailed…
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The Four M’s Club (El club de las cuatro emes)
Four entertaining little detectives. Madame Golosín (Candy), the evil owner of the neighborhood knick-knack store, seems to hate both her job and children. She always dreamed of something more, like living in Paris and knowing how to speak French. Matilde, Manuel and the two Marias are ten years old, and they get into all…
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The Miss Bubble Saga (Saga La señorita Bubble)
The First Adventure | Adventure Below Zero She uses her ingenuity to spread happiness around the world. Miss Bubble is an extravagant inventor who always wears her hands sheathed in gloves and a patch over her left eye. The inventor showed up in the village one sunny morning, driving a steam-powered convertible, and took…
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My Crazy Grandmother (Mi abuela, la loca)
An eccentric grandmother and her poet grandson. Vicente's parents have a new job, and since he is only 10 years old, they must drop him off from time to time at his grandmother Petunia's house after school, or as Vicente would say, his crazy grandmother Petunia. Grandma Petunia is a bit quirky. She…
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Dani and Family(s) (Dani y familia(s)) – Original TV Series project
Two families, two worlds… and Dani smack-dab in the middle. Dani is ten years old and, since he can remember (when his parents separated and decided to share custody), he lives one week at his father's house and another at his mother's house. Two radically opposite worlds. His father's house is very conservative, where order…
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A Thief Among Us (Un ladrón entre nosotros)
Who is the classroom thief? Room A is much like any other classroom in the world: there are students who are goody-two-shoes, some that are true trouble makers, some that are quite shy… all in all, a hodgepodge of personalities among the students. However, a series of thefts has interrupted the classroom’s normalcy. The teacher,…
