Beta unveils sales deals for Spanish drama series
Beta Film has signed a number of major deals across Europe for its range of premium Spanish drama series.
The German-French public broadcaster ARTE and the German public broadcaster SWR have acquired two beta drama series from writer/director/actress Leticia Dolera: drama ‘Pubertat – Secrets, Lies, and Human Castles’ and the comedy drama ‘Perfect Life’.
ONE, the free-to-air channel of German public broadcaster ARD, has acquired the rights to the long-running Spanish hit series ‘Velvet’ and its spin-off ‘The Velvet Collection’, while AXN White has acquired the Spanish thriller series ‘Shades’ for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Dolera’s “Pubertat – Secret, Lies and Human Castles” will be broadcast early this year on ARTE, and later this year on SWR. The series was presented at the San Sebastian Film Festival last year and recently won Spain’s Ondas Award for best fiction series.
In the show, which spans six one-hour episodes, Dolera takes a warm look at the lost love between parents and their teenage children and how it can be rediscovered, against the backdrop of the Catalan tradition of ‘human towers’.
The series is produced by Distinto Films, Corte y Confección de Películas, Uri Films, Altres Films and AT-Prod in co-production with 3Cat and with the participation of HBO Max Spain.
ARTE has also acquired Dolera’s drama ‘Perfect Life’, consisting of 14 episodes of 30 minutes, produced by Movistar Plus+ and Corte y Confección de Pelíuculas. The show is a witty and fun look at adult relationships. It revolves around María, Cristina and Esther, three very different women in their thirties and forties. Just when they think their adult lives are all but assured, they discover how wrong they are when they all find themselves at an unexpected turning point.
The exciting crime thriller series ‘Shades’, consisting of six one-hour episodes, was praised as ‘cinematic’ by Focus magazine. [and] first class.” It follows six troubled patients who attend a remote therapy retreat in a picturesque vineyard, but become entangled in a murder investigation when their famous psychiatrist is found dead.
Featuring a stellar cast including Elsa Pataky (“Fast & Furious,” “Furiosa – A Mad Max Saga”), Enrique Arce (“Money Heist”) and Maxi Iglesias (“Valeria”), “Shades” is produced by Secuoya Studios and Stellarmedia for SkyShowtime.
“Velvet” (91 one-hour episodes) is set in Madrid in the late 1950s and delves into the romance between haute couture seamstress Ana and Alberto, heir to the fashion house Galerías Velvet. The series is a long-lasting success and is produced by Bambú Producciones for Atresmedia Televisión. The popular spin-off, “The Velvet Collection” (20 one-hour episodes), is produced by Movistar Plus+ with Bambú Producciones in collaboration with Beta Film, and continues the saga in 1960s New York, expanding the world of fashion, ambition and passionate relationships.
