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Miami – Telemundo Internacional will be presenting their screening for the first time at Natpe Europe, one of the most prestigious television events in the region for Central and Eastern European market. With this presentation, clients will be able to enjoy from the company's exclusive listing.

“This screening in Prague marks a historic milestone for Telemundo Internacional in Europe. We're one of the few distributors that have maintained an important presence in the region, despite the challenges the industry has faced in the past few years. With this event we hope to recognise our clients that have always trusted in our product,” said Marcos Santana, President of Telemundo Internacional.

Telemundo Internacional's listing is headlined with its most recent production from Telemundo Studios, Under The Same Sky, a love story which depicts the pursuit of happiness millions of immigrants face when they arrive to the United States in hopes of a better life. Starring Gabriel Porras and María Elisa Camargo, this telenovela brings to the screen a contemporary take on the classic story of an impossible love that has to overcome many obstacles for its happiness.

As part of the Super Series listing, Telemundo Internacional will be presenting the third season of the successful and Emmy International winning series, The Lord of The Skies. This season has broken records in the United States since its premiere, maintaining its number one position for Spanish shows in the nation during its 10 p.m. time slot. During the screening, they will announce upcoming Super Series premieres.

For the romance genre, Telemundo Internacional will present Land of Honor, the newest adaptation of Telemundo's successful telenovela, Hidden Passions, currently on air in the United States.

Among the other titles being promoted by Telemundo Internacional at Napte Europe is the suspenseful drama Alicia's Maze, a Vista Productions' production and winner of 7 distinctions at TVyNovelas Colombia 2015, including Best Telenovela and Best Female Lead Role in a Telenovela. This production is an adaptation of the original story by TVN Chile, which tells the story of Alicia Vega, a psychologist who begins her own investigation in a case and discovers that her closest group of friends and family are involved.

2015.06.22 | ORF Enterprise (Austria) apuesta en Natpe Europe en su catálogo de ficciones y contenido factual encabezado por la comedia Suburbia-Women on the Edge (10x’48).

Marion Camus Oberdorfer, Head of International Content Sales, ORF (Austria)

Marion Camus Oberdorfer, Head of International Content Sales: ‘Como uno de los principales mercados para nosotros como distribuidores europeos, Natpe Europe siempre es muy especial y esperamos poder presentar nuestras nuevas series como los thrillers Four Women and a Funeral y Tatort - Scene of the Crime’.

Otro producto destacado es el documental factual 150 years of splendor - Vienna’s Ringstrasse (3x’50) que muestra las impresionantes edificaciones de la capital austríaca, influenciada por la cultura imperial y la "Belle Epoque".

En Four Women and a Funeral (50x’45) cuantro mujeres comparten un particular pasatiempo, y Tatort  - Scene of the Crime (12x’90) muestra a un equipo en sus más peligrosas investigaciones. Para la audiencia infantil, Yummy - Cooking With Kids (48x’15) enseña a los chicos y sus padres a cocinar platos saludables, mientras que Cracker Snap (16x’15) es un formato que mezcla entretenimiento con conocimiento.

Finalmente destaca cuatro formatos factual: Where to, Mr. President? (’45), presenta al ser humano detrás de la “máscara” de la política, y Newton (26x’20) va dirigido a todos aquellos que desean descubrir nuevas cosas y que se esconde detrás de ellas.

2015.06.22 | Telemundo Internacional organiza hoy, 22 de junio, a las 18 horas un Screening & Cocktail en Natpe Europe para los compradores de Europa Central y del Este, similar a lo que hace para la comunidad latina durante Natpe Miami.

Marcos Santana, presidente de Telemundo Internacional

Encabezan la oferta el drama Bajo el Mismo Cielo, la tercera temporada de la serie El Señor de los Cielos, y la telenovela Tierra de Reyes, adaptación de la exitosa Pasión de Gavilanes. Finalmente ofrecerá a los buyers presentes el drama El Laberinto de Alicia, y los formatos de Los Herederos del Monte y La Patrona, que cuenta con adaptaciones en Portugal y Ucrania.

‘Este screening en Praga marca un hito histórico para Telemundo en Europa. Somos uno de los pocos distribuidores que han mantenido una importante presencia en la región, a pesar de los desafíos que la industria ha enfrentado en los últimos años. Con este evento esperamos reconocer a nuestros clientes que siempre han confiado en nuestro producto’, destacó Marcos Santana, presidente.

2015.06.23 | Cisneros Media Distribution (CMD) está presente en Natpe Europe con una propuesta de programación adaptada para los mercados de Europa Central y del Este compuesta por telenovelas y las denominadas súper series.

Marcello Coltro, EVP Content Distribution, Cisneros Media

Entre los contenidos más destacados de la compañía en Praga están Ruta 35, La Válvula de Escape, DeMente Criminal, Voltea, Amor Secreto, Corazón Esmeralda y Cosita Linda.  También se destacan XRC, serie de clips de noticias espectaculares; la producción original en inglés sobre viajes y belleza Latin Angels; y la serie de flora y fauna, Animal Atlas, que ya cuenta con 14 temporadas.

‘Cisneros ha creado un portafolio concreto de programación ideal para los compradores y programadores en la región que están conscientes de su presupuesto, ya que nuestras series dramáticas son una alternativa atractiva y rentable al  brindar entretenimiento de calidad que cautiva a su público por un período de tiempo prolongado’, enfatizó Marcello Coltro, EVP de Distribución de Contenido.

‘También tenemos una selección de coproducciones, formatos y libretos, fácilmente adaptables a los mercados europeos, por ejemplo Gritos del Corazón, una historia apasionada de un humilde campesino cuya vida es salvada por un trasplante de corazón y se enamora desesperadamente de la viuda de su donante; y Entre Mi Amor y Tu Amor, una historia clásica en la cual una mujer joven, devastada por los más cercanos a ella, regresa triunfalmente para su dulce revancha, pero no sin sentir el conflicto entre el amor y la venganza que se debate en su corazón’, completó el ejecutivo.

US cable net Lifetime and German free-to-air broadcaster RTL are joining forces to coproduce a TV movie about the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster.

German producer and distributor Beta Film is the third copro partner on Concordia (WT) and is expected to handle international sales.

Beta Film’s outgoing managing director, Eric Welbers, revealed details of the disaster TV movie at a NATPE Europe conference session in Prague.

The Costa Concordia cruise ship was shipwrecked off the Italian coast in early 2012. The subsequent rescue effort attracted international headlines and the TV movie makes particular sense for the German partners as many passengers on board came from the country.

The event TV movie project started out at Lifetime before RTL and Beta came on board and reworked the production model. The bulk of the funding will come from the German partners, with the film being shot in English and dubbed for the German market.

“We turned it around and made it a German production, coproduced with Lifetime,” Welbers said. “We can shoot it in English and it is a very natural project [for the copro partners.”

Shooting is slated to start next year and movie director Roger Spottiswoode (Tomorrow Never Dies) is also attached.

Hoy Telemundo Internacional presentará por primera vez su screening en Natpe Europe. El catálogo que ofrecerán a los clientes estará encabezado por la más reciente producción de Telemundo Studios, “Under The Same Sky”, una historia de amor que describe la búsqueda de la felicidad de millones de inmigrantes llegados a los Estados Unidos con la esperanza de una vida mejor. Protagonizada por Gabriel Porras y María Elisa Camargo, la telenovela da un giro contemporáneo a la clásica historia del amor imposible que atraviesa muchos obstáculos para llegar a la felicidad.

“Este screening en Praga marca un hito histórico para Telemundo Internacional en Europa. Somos uno de los pocos distribuidores que han mantenido una importante presencia en la región, a pesar de los desafíos que la industria ha enfrentado en los últimos años. Con este evento esperamos reconocer a nuestros clientes que siempre han confiado en nuestro producto”, expresó Marcos Santana, Presidente de Telemundo Internacional.

Como parte del catálogo de Súper Series, Telemundo Internacional presentará la tercera temporada de “The Lord of The Skies”, mientras que, en el género de romance, la compañía ofrecerá “Land of Honor”, la última adaptación de la exitosa telenovela de Telemundo “Hidden Passions”, que se emite actualmente en los Estados Unidos.

Entre otros contenidos que se presentarán en Napte Europe figura el drama “Alicia’s Maze”. En el catálogo de formatos, Telemundo Internacional ofrecerá guiones originales para títulos como “The Del Monte Dynasty” y el clásico formato “The Return”, que fue vendido en tiempo record para adaptaciones locales en Portugal y Ucrania.

Eric Welbers will leave Beta Film in the next few weeks, after almost twenty years at the Munich-based producer and distributor.

Welbers was speaking at NATPE yesterday on a coproduction panel moderated by TBI. He confirmed he is leaving Beta, where he is managing director.

The seasoned TV exec will remain in the international business and Welbers told TBI he will still work on various projects set up at Beta, including the upcoming Concordia RTL-Lifetime TV movie.

His next move will be confirmed within a couple of months, he added.

As managing director of Beta, Welbers has worked on numerous high-profile European drama series including, recently, German series Generation War, Italian mafia drama Gomorrah and Spanish scripted offerings including Grand Hotel and Velvet, which Beta distributes.

Monday at NATPE Europe was a hybrid day — part business (Warner Bros. screenings), part seminars (three in total) and part meetings (with some participants jumping on the opportunity to connect with buyers at the bars in the Hilton Prague lobby).

But the biggest event of this “unofficial day” had to be the screenings/cocktail party presented by Telemundo International, which was in town in full force with top-level sales executives having traveled from Miami and Madrid for the company’s first CEE screening, amid a renewed push to win the region over.

Officially, the market started on Tuesday morning, but not before CBS Studios International kicked off its traditional NATPE Europe Screenings followed by NBCUniversal. Over 60 buyers attended the 8 a.m. CBSSI screenings conducted by Michelle Payne at the Atlas Cinema, a movie theater around the corner from the Hilton Prague, NATPE Europe’s headquarters.

Then at 10 a.m. the market floor opened to 140 exhibitors, scattered among suites on two floors, tables, stands and viewing boxes.

(The market is over on Thursday, but some exhibitors left a day early, on Wednesday, confused by the Monday’s start.)

The Latin Americans are back in full force with 10 companies — possibly to reclaim their CEE territories from the encroaching Turks who, with their telenovelas, are becoming formidable competitors.

Naturally, Turkish distributors are also present in a big way with all their major companies — ITV Inter Medya, Global Agency, Kanal D and TRT — present.

But out of the 250 registered buyers, 200 actually showed up. The studio screenings represent a magnet for buyers, but in order to keep them in town after the screenings, NATPE Europe organizers contribute to their hotel room and other services.

In terms of appointments, buyers clearly showed preference to U.S. studios, followed by mini-majors, such as Starz, and smaller indies.

For next year, NATPE organizers are seriously considering incentivizing smaller buyers who in turn tend to patronize smaller distributors (who make up the bulk of the 140 total exhibitors).

In the past, some exhibitors have complained that many buyers leave just after the studio screenings.

This year, buyers from both Russia and the Ukraine are in attendance, if only in small numbers. Given the current political climate, sellers and market organizers are careful not to keep them in the same room.

But the tension between the two countries is still being felt, even at a trade show such as NATPE Europe, especially when television reports in Russia sound like a war with the U.S. seems inevitable and young people are filmed in the Russian streets wearing military uniforms in solidarity.

On Tuesday afternoon traffic on the basement floor –– where stands, viewing boxes and tables are located ––- started to pick up; the suites on the first floor were busy from the morning on, even though the corridors were not.

2015.05.26 | Por segundo año consecutivo en Praga, República Checa, Natpe Europe se desarrolla del 22 al 25 de junio en el Hilton Prague Hotel. Rod Perth, CEO, confirmó a Prensario la participación de 120 exhibidores de 25 países, de los cuales 20 asisten por primera vez.

Perth aseveró que confía en tener una edición similar a la primera del año pasado en cuanto a asistencia de compradores. A algo menos de un mes del evento, Prensario recibió confirmación de unos 250 buyers de 30 países de la región, pero se esperan más.

Nuevamente, habrá screenings majors el día previo al mercado, lunes 22. Son cinco en total: CBS, NBC, Lionsgate, Warner y Dreamworks, además del de Telemundo Internacional el lunes 22 de junio a las 6pm en el hotel. ‘Vemos un potencial de crecimiento del mercado de Europa Central y del Este por lo que Natpe Europe nos posicionará a futuro en la región. Para esta edición pusimos todos los recursos de Natpe para mejorar el mercado en varios segmentos’, indicó Perth.

Y enumeró: ‘En principio queremos establecer un día académico con tres conferencias destacadas el lunes 22, comenzando con la presentación Global TV Formats - What's Hot and What's Not? por parte de Keri Lewis Brown, managing director, K7 Media, y miembro del board de FRAPA’.

‘Seguido, el panel Buying or Selling? Creating or Adapting? con Luci Burnley, Small World IFT; Pascal Dalton, Endemol Shine Group; Jennifer Ebell, ITV Studios Global Entertainment; Nathan Gibbs, Zodiak Media; y Jerome Pichot, French TV. Y finalmente International Co-Productions: Partnerships That Are Taking Center Stage con la participación de Claude Chelli, Zodiak; Ben Donald, BBC Worldwide; Simon Maxwell, Channel 4; y Anne Mensah, Sky’.

Además se confirmó la presencia del escritor Adrian Hodges (creador de The Musketeers, BBC) en el desayuno inaugural el miércoles 23 a las 8.30am. ‘Este año hemos invertido más en las conferencias para brindar a los participantes los conceptos más relevantes mercado regional. Queremos replicar la estrategia de Natpe Miami en Praga’, añadió el ejecutivo.

No es tarea sencilla en una región golpeada hace años por distintas crisis: hace unos años en Europa Central (Hungría, República Checa), que no han terminado de recuperarse del todo, y ahora por la crisis del petróleo de Rusia y la guerra en Ucrania. ‘Las estrategias para seguir creciendo son el marketing directo en la región y las facilidades de pago e incentivos a los buyers’, señaló.

Prensario quiso saber cuáles será las mejoras frente a la edición 2014. Perth contestó: ‘Tendremos más screenings majors, al tiempo que incrementamos los paneles académicos. Además, están los eventos sociales como el cóctel del martes 23 a la noche en el Sky Bar & Lounge del hotel, auspiciada por los broadcasters checos NOVA TV y TV Barrandov y la asociación de productores locales, APA; y la fiesta inaugural el miércoles 24, auspiciada por AXN’.

2015.06.22 | For second year in a row, Natpe Europe is taking place at the Hilton Prague Hotel, Czech Republic, on June 23-25. Rod Perth, president & CEO of Natpe, is pleased with the move from Budapest (Hungary, and has confirmed to Prensario the attendance of more than 120 exhibitors from 25 countries, of which 20+ are in Prague for the first time.

Rod Perth, CEO, Natpe

In terms of buyers, there are close to 250 executives from 30 countries of the region, a similar figure compared to last year. Again, there are Major screenings at the show: the previous day, today Monday 22, with Warner Bros. during the morning, and the first day of the market, tomorrow Tuesday 23, CBS and NBCUniversal in the morning and at midday, respectively. Also, Latin distributor Telemundo International provides a main screening & cocktail in the evening of today Monday 22, at Hilton hotel.

‘We continue to see a great potential of growth in Central and Eastern Europe, that’s why we are so excited for this second edition. All Natpe resources have been located in Prague to offer our exhibitors the best experience and business tools. This year we have increased the number of panels, following what we do in Miami’, says Perth.

‘We’d like to establish the previous market day as a reference of key information about the CEE region. Three conferences have been confirmed. First, Global TV Formats - What's Hot and What's Not?, presented by format veteran Keri Lewis Brown, managing director, K7 Media, and member of the FRAPA board’.

‘Second, the panel Buying or Selling? Creating or Adapting? with Luci Burnley, SVP, formats, Small World IFT (UK), Pascal Dalton, regional sales director, TV formats & new media, Endemol Shine Group (UK), Jennifer Ebell, VP, SE EMEA, ITV Studios Global Entertainment (UK), Nathan Gibbs, group head of format acquisitions, Zodiak Media (UK), and Jerome Pichot, SVP formats, sales and acquisitions, French TV (France)’.

‘And third, the International Co-Productions: Partnerships That Are Taking Center Stage panel with Claude Chelli, producer, Versailles, Capa Drama - Zodiak Media, Ben Donald, executive producer, international drama, BBC Worldwide (UK), Simon Maxwell, head of international drama, Channel 4 (UK), and Anne Mensah, head of drama, Sky (UK)’. Moreover, the British writer Adrian Hodges (The Musketeers, BBC) offers a Breakfast Keynote Session on June 23 from 8.30 to 10am.

Natpe Europe has a difficult challenge ahead: to continue being the gateway for Central and Eastern European market. It has now more competitors with trade shows in Russia (World Content Market in May), Croatia (New Europe Market in early June) and Ukraine (Kiev Media Week in September); and, more important, it is organized in a region that it is still not recovered from global 2008-2009 crisis.

2015.06.22 | The second edition of NATPE Europe in Hilton Prague, Czech Republic, starts today, June 23, after a quite good previous conference day, held yesterday in the afternoon. The figures provided by the organization show that the market is stable in terms of attendance, buyers and sellers, compared to last year.

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Prensario - NATPE Europe 2015 Daily Service - June 23

NATPE Europe, a challenging start

2015.06.22 | The second edition of NATPE Europe in Hilton Prague, Czech Republic, starts today, June 23, after a quite good previous conference day, held yesterday in the afternoon. The figures provided by the organization show that the market is stable in terms of attendance, buyers and sellers, compared to last year.

Telemundo Internacional offered its Screening & Cocktails for the first time in Natpe Europe: Marcos Santana, president, surrounded by Karina Etchison, SVP Sales, EMEA (first from the left); Olimpia del Boccio, VP marketing & promotion, Xavier Arsitimuño, SVP of Internacional business development & digital; Melissa Pillow, sales director for Europe, and Rod Perth, CEO & president, NATPE

  Prensario has noticed a better atmosphere for business, with meetings taking place yesterday both during the morning and the afternoon, though Warner Bros screening was held during the morning. There are not only participants from CEE, but also from Western Europe (France, UK, Germany) looking for win-win alliances, that include IP development, co-productions and distribution deals.

Rod Perth, CEO, NATPE: ‘We are very confident about this edition, in which we have invested in many areas about the organization, especially on the panels. But we are also aware about the complex political and economical situation of the region (Russia, Ukraine), which is an external factor that we have to deal with’.

The executive says there are two major challenges: first, to make NATPE a well-known brand outside USA, and second, to understand better the different realities of each CEE country, and response on time with concrete strategies. ‘We listen our clients and have changed some things (US screenings schedules, Wi-Fi, etc.), But we need to generate a marketplace good for everybody, which is not always easy’, he adds.

On the first panel Global TV Formats, Keri Lewis Brown (K7 Media & FRAPA) highlighted the hot global titles from UK (Prized Apart, Sony-BBC1), USA (500 Questions, Warner Bros.-ABC), The Netherland (Super Kids, Talpa-RTL4) and Korea (Love Village, SBS). ‘The main characteristics of a successful format are authenticity and first person immediacy. There are more physical game shows, too’, she said.

Formats Futures, with participants from Small World IFT, Endemol Shine Group, ITV Studios, Zodiak Media and French TV, who agreed that the CEE region is developing a lot of new formats, but still demanding new international ones. ‘There are other opportunities to explore: pitching for distribution or co-developments. We see a huge potential in Poland, Romania and Ukraine’, it was said.

Co-production is a key word, again. In the last panel yesterday, the top producers and distributors from UK, Channel 4, Sky and BBC, remarked that this is a great time for international co-productions: Humans, Channel 4 + AMC (3.2 million of viewers during the premier), Penny Dreadful, Sky + Showtime; and The Refugees, BBC + La Sexta (Spain). Eric Welbers, international producer: ‘The German market is different, as we have Netflix, HBO and TNT on one side, and the 90% of national broadcasters on the other, depending on the US series. Public TV is very active, as well. Even that, the projects for international co-productions continue strong’.

The last event of the day was Telemundo International’s Screening & Cocktail, organized in Prague for the first time, with more than 70 CEE buyers. Telemundo showed the evolution of its Latin American product, which now makes focus on Super Series, with about 90 episodes each, more action plots and Hollywood alike, high-end production levels, but keeping traditional telenovela heart. New productions are Under the same sky, La querida de Centauro and Lord of the Sky, a hit already in its four season.

Marcos Santana, president: ‘From the nineties, 10 million CEE people learned Spanish language, due to the success of our telenovelas. Now we are a step ahead, with our Super Series. They have very good potential in CEE, concerning the affinity of our audiences. We are now much more than telenovelas’.

Desde este lunes 22 y hasta el 25 de junio, el Hilton Prague Hotel recibe a Natpe Europe 2015. El evento tiene 120 exhibidores confirmados y una línea expandida de sesiones, concentrando a los más importantes compradores regionales y los principales vendedores globales.

2015.06.24 | Today, June 24, starts the second day of NATPE Europe, and after the US studios screenings are finished, the independents expect to see more buyers at Hilton Hotel. Though most of the distributors have complained about the major screenings the first market day, they have coordinated a good quantity of meetings. And the second day promises to be better, they agree.

The CBS screenings: Noelia Nicolas, formats, and Julie Alleti de Gely, sales, both at CBS (borders), with Mariyana Grozdeva and Vencislava Konova, acquisitions coordinators at FOX International Channels Bulgaria

Regarding the exhibiting spaces, most of the sellers are in the market floor and meeting tables this year, while about 20 of them continue on first floor suites, and some Hollywood studios stay on the 8th-floor suites. Key distributors have moved to the market floor, arguing that suite corridors are ‘narrow’ and make difficult to identify companies.

It is also true that there is a lower traffic of attendees at the first floor suites. ‘In Budapest it was easier to find someone, as from the lobby you were able to localize people in the floors because of the format of the hotel. Here, it seems to be two different markets with no connection. Maybe next year we will move to floor’, remarks an important distributor from Europe.

Yesterday, there were two major screenings: CBS in the morning and NBCUniversal in the afternoon. Though both events have covered all the day, some strategic buyers visited the independents. ‘For us, assisting to the screenings closer to our country is easier and cheaper, and allows us to watch much more content. Nevertheless, the same day we visit some companies at the Hilton’, says a Croatian buyer.

As it happened last May Screenings in LA, buyers consulted by Prensario agreed that from CBS the two top shows were the drama Zoo, ‘very suitable for our audience’, said a leading broadcaster from Czech Republic, and the comedy Angel from Hell. From NBCUniversal, the preferred series were the thriller Mr. Robot, the medical series Heartbreaker (the new Grey’s Anatomy) and The last Kingdom (as Game of Thrones).

Does Crisis bring opportunities? Two global distributors confirmed that Russian market is now more open now for ready-made content, as there is less money to produce. The same does happen in Ukraine? A local source explains: ‘Ukrainian TV market is not only affected by the economical situation, also due to politics: Russian content is not allowed, broadcasters cannot plan their annual acquisitions strategies. But at the same time, the country is becoming a hub for format developments’.

Distributors agree. Can Okan, CEO, and Ahmet Ziyalar, managing director, ITV Inter Medya (Turkey) say the main challenge their business is facing are politics. ‘Several political decisions are affecting the industry, mainly in CIS territories but also in Middle East. Piracy is another big problem, especially when it is related to Internet. We are discussing within Turkish industry to create an entity (broadcasters + distributors) to protect these rights and face the problem, not only local but also internationally’.

Trends? According to a survey by Milward Brown for APA, the Czech producer association, released by NATPE, almost half of the inhabitants (46%) in Czech Republic watch audiovisual content on Internet, being movies and TV series the most popular series.

‘But short YouTube videos and online TV Sream.cz also play a major role. Viewers only search 15% of movies and TV series on specific TV channels websites, and 13% of them access to content through paid-video libraries. About 6% of the Czechs regular pay a service, 3% pay often, 30% occasionally and 62% would never pay’, stresses the report.