EXCLUSIVE: Two of Brazil‘s key manufacturing homes are teaming for true crime.
Diosual Leisure and Medialand Manufacturing have struck a strategic partnership to co-produce a number of true crime doc collection. The pact will embrace function movies, and collection aimed toward pay-TV suppliers, free-to-air channels and pay-TV.
A second component to the deal will see Diosual’s gross sales arm, Diosual Distribution, purchasing Medialand’s content material on the nationwide and worldwide markets.
The true crime market is booming in Brazil, with titles comparable to Brazil: Elize Matsunaga, Killer Scores and A Life Too Brief: The Isabella Nardoni Case reducing by means of. Internationally, the style continues to dominate schedules and play a key function for international streamers.
Led by investigative journalist and showrunner Carla Alburquerque, Medialand is one in every of Brazil’s key true crime producers. It created the Operação Policial and Investigação Prison YouTube channels, which have a mixed 1.79 million subscribers, and has made exhibits for the likes of Netflix, Prime Video, PlutoTV, Warner Bros Discovery (WBD), A+E and Brazilian free-to-air channels.
Alburquerque has labored on the likes of Viacom (now Paramount International), Time Warner (now WBD) and TV Globo, and he or she runs Medialand alongside Luis Guilherme de Sá, an investigative content material specialist who’s the corporate’s Director and govt producer.
Diosual, which was fashioned in 2017 by CEO Guto Colunga, is behind function movies such because the Alexandre Avancini-directed Blood Mission and Succession-style drama collection Whose Cash Is It?, additionally from Avancini. Moreover manufacturing, the corporate has theatrical, expertise administration and distribution divisons.
“Securing this partnership is extremely significant for the Medialand Manufacturing staff,” stated Alberqueque. “Diosual Leisure brings a strategic benefit and invaluable industrial market perception, permitting us to additional broaden the attain of our investigative documentary collection, which stay on the coronary heart of our work. Delivering high quality info is our mission, and this collaboration with Guto and his staff will solely amplify our impression on audiences.
“We firmly imagine that this union will elevate the style, providing the general public productions that mix in-depth investigative storytelling with top-tier narrative high quality. Moreover, it should broaden the manufacturing of true crime fiction and the event of scripts for movies and collection primarily based on actual circumstances.”
Colunga added: “This partnership represents a serious strategic step for each manufacturing corporations, bringing collectively Medialand Manufacturing’s excellence in true crime with Diosual Leisure experience in fiction and the broader audiovisual market. Medialand Manufacturing is absolutely the reference within the style, and our collaboration extends past the event and manufacturing of recent true-crime documentary collection in Brazil. We’re additionally engaged on the creation of fictional collection and movies impressed by actual crimes.
“Moreover, our expertise pool at Diosual Skills, consisting of award-winning screenwriters and skilled administrators, will probably be instrumental in delivering impactful and high-quality productions. We’re assured that this alliance will unlock new alternatives and additional strengthen the style, each in Brazil and internationally.”