Uruguay-based director Federico Veiroj, a fixture at the Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals, has launched a new company, Keen Tales, which aims to create English-language stories and content for cinema and streaming platforms.
Keen Tales’ intended customers are U.S.-based production companies, and topics will be “thought strategically considering their distribution capacity in the global market,” Veiroj, whose five features have played both Toronto and San Sebastian, told Variety.
U.S. and Uruguay-based, Keen Tales has been co-founded with Martín Molinaro, founding partner of creative agency Kozó, with offices in Argentina, Uruguay and the U.S., and also a newspaper comic strip writer.
Keen Tales’ first slate is called ‘4 + 4,’ a group of eight projects, including four movies and four series, marked by a diversity of genres, formats and audiences, ranging from literary adaptations — strong stories with character-driven content, the partners said — to original, present-day dramatic comedies.
First up is “The Plot,...
Keen Tales’ intended customers are U.S.-based production companies, and topics will be “thought strategically considering their distribution capacity in the global market,” Veiroj, whose five features have played both Toronto and San Sebastian, told Variety.
U.S. and Uruguay-based, Keen Tales has been co-founded with Martín Molinaro, founding partner of creative agency Kozó, with offices in Argentina, Uruguay and the U.S., and also a newspaper comic strip writer.
Keen Tales’ first slate is called ‘4 + 4,’ a group of eight projects, including four movies and four series, marked by a diversity of genres, formats and audiences, ranging from literary adaptations — strong stories with character-driven content, the partners said — to original, present-day dramatic comedies.
First up is “The Plot,...
- 9/16/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Thailand is famous for having a tourist industry that repeatedly bounces back from military coups, natural disasters, and unfortunate man-made incidents. Its video industry may similarly be Teflon-coated.
Industry executives, speaking on Tuesday at an online conference organized by trade association The Asia Video Industry Association described fundamental problems, including “breathtaking” levels of online piracy, an oversupply of shelf space for advertising that has driven down rates, and insufficient government enforcement that has weakened free- and pay-tv sectors and forced streamers into contortions.
The onset of the coronavirus in 2020 has made things worse: Gdp fell by 12% in the second quarter, advertisers slashed their spending by 14%, and a segment of consumers has cut the cord that previously connected them to legal Ott services, switching instead to torrents and easily-available hardware decoders.
Yet, the South East Asian nation is considered a video industry bright spot. Its population is considered digitally-savvy, Thai-produced content is well-received,...
Industry executives, speaking on Tuesday at an online conference organized by trade association The Asia Video Industry Association described fundamental problems, including “breathtaking” levels of online piracy, an oversupply of shelf space for advertising that has driven down rates, and insufficient government enforcement that has weakened free- and pay-tv sectors and forced streamers into contortions.
The onset of the coronavirus in 2020 has made things worse: Gdp fell by 12% in the second quarter, advertisers slashed their spending by 14%, and a segment of consumers has cut the cord that previously connected them to legal Ott services, switching instead to torrents and easily-available hardware decoders.
Yet, the South East Asian nation is considered a video industry bright spot. Its population is considered digitally-savvy, Thai-produced content is well-received,...
- 8/18/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
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