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 sequence. The pact will embrace characteristic movies, and sequence geared 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 Rankings and A Life Too Brief: The Isabella Nardoni Case chopping by. Internationally, the style continues to dominate schedules and play a key position for international streamers.
Led by investigative journalist and showrunner Carla Alburquerque, Medialand is one among 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 government producer.
Diosual, which was shaped in 2017 by CEO Guto Colunga, is behind characteristic movies such because the Alexandre Avancini-directed Blood Mission and Succession-style drama sequence Whose Cash Is It?, additionally from Avancini. In addition to manufacturing, the corporate has theatrical, expertise administration and distribution divisons.
“Securing this partnership is extremely significant for the Medialand Manufacturing crew,” stated Alberqueque. “Diosual Leisure brings a strategic benefit and invaluable business market perception, permitting us to additional develop the attain of our investigative documentary sequence, which stay on the coronary heart of our work. Delivering high quality info is our mission, and this collaboration with Guto and his crew will solely amplify our influence on audiences.
“We firmly consider 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’s going to develop the manufacturing of true crime fiction and the event of scripts for movies and sequence based mostly on actual instances.”
Colunga added: “This partnership represents a significant strategic step for each manufacturing firms, 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 sequence in Brazil. We’re additionally engaged on the creation of fictional sequence and movies impressed by actual crimes.
“Moreover, our expertise pool at Diosual Abilities, consisting of award-winning screenwriters and skilled administrators, might 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.”
