“Official Competition”, nominated for Best Ibero-American Comedy Fiction
Two THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO productions, the film “Official Competition” and the series “Iosi, el espía arrepentido” have recently picked up nominations for the 10th edition of the Platino Awards.“Utama”, the film directed by Alejandro Loayza and distributed internationally by The Mediapro Studio Distribution, is also up for five awards.
“Official Competition”, directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn, has been nominated for the Platino Award for Best Ibero-American Comedy Fiction. Further recognition for the movie starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez, which was included among the favourites of the year by international review sites such as RottenTomatoes.com and Rolling Stone, as well as having had an excellent run at the box office worldwide since its presentation at the Venice Film Festival in 2021. Recent awards include the Feroz 2023 award for Best Comedy Film.
The series “Iosi, el espía arrepentido” also featured in the list of nominees for the 10th edition of the Platino awards. The Argentine production picked up three nominations: Best Mini-series or Film series, Best Series Creator (Daniel Burman) and Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Mini-series or TV series (Alejandro Awada). Created by Daniel Burman, “Iosi, el espía arrepentido” is an Amazon Original Argentina production premiered in 240 countries around the world. Presented for the first time at the Berlinale Series, the fiction series won six Silver Condor awards as well as earning rave reviews from both critics and audiences alike.and it has quickly become one of the most watched series on the platform in Argentina with a second season currently in production.
The film “Utama” has also picked up a total of 5 nominations: Best Debut Fiction work, Best Original Score (Cergio Prudencio), Best Photography Director (Bárbara Álvarez), Best Sound Director (Federico Moreira) and the nomination for Best Film Values Award. THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO is the holder of the international distribution rights for “Utama”, a film directed by Alejandro Loayza, who previously won the Jury Award at the Sundance Festival 2022 and four awards at the Malaga Film Festival (Best Ibero-American Film, Best Director, Best Music and the Critics’ Award). “Utama” was also nominated in the Best Ibero-American Film category at the last Goya awards and was on the shortlist for the 2023 Oscars.
The award ceremony for the 10th Platino awards is set to take place on Saturday April 22nd in Madrid.
The team won with more than 166,000 unique viewers online
The VALORANT Challengers Spain: Rising Mediamarkt Intel, the official competition in Spain of the Riot Games game organised by LVP (GRUP MEDIAPRO), recently crowned a new spring champion: CASE Esports. The team founded by the footballer Casemiro beat Team Queso 3-1 in the grand finale held in the Municipal Theatre in Torrevieja (Alicante). The final was watched online by more than 166,000 total unique users on the LVP Twitch channel and the co-streamings (“Mixwell”, “Blackespañolito” and “Hitbox”), making it the most watched competition to date.
The clash between the top two teams in the regular season was finally decided in favour of CASE Esports, despite not starting as favourites at the bookies. CASE came charging out of the blocks and won the Icebox map despite a spirited fight back from Team Queso eventually running out winners (13-5). Far from giving up after going down in the first map, Team Queso came out fighting in the Haven map tying the match 1-1. The match was decided across the Ascent maps and the recently premiered Lotus map, where the CASE Esports players demonstrated their quality with some excellent performances from players such as Povilas "Roxie" Krivelis and Dominykas "MiniBoo" LukaševiÄius, with the latter picking up the MVP awards for the final.
CASE Esports made it two VALORANT Challengers Spain: Rising Mediamarkt and Intel crowns in a row after winning the summer season 2022, in the final held at the Ubeat Live (Barcelona).
The final took place in the Municipal Theatre in Torrevieja, where more than 600 fans provided the atmosphere for what proved to be a hard-fought battle. In addition, LVP premiered a new outdoor fan zone where the spectators were able to take part in a series of free activities with team members and sponsors before the match kicked off, in addition to the traditional meet&greets with competition casters and with the players post-match
This season saw the competition sponsored by MediaMarkt, Intel, Domino’s and OMEN, in addition to the Torrevieja City Council.
MrKeroro10 and Baptistao provided commentary on ubeat
Ubeat, the multi-platform entertainment hub, part of GRUP MEDIAPRO specializing in Generation Z, is broadcasting live the new edition of the electric 4x4 Extreme E championship which kicked off last Saturday in Neom (Saudi Arabia).
Extreme E is the electric 4x4 championship that promotes values such as gender equality, sustainability and the fight against climate change. 10 mixed gender teams are competing for the title with the favorites being Nasser Al Attiyah and Klara Andersson (ABT CUPRA XE). The Spanish drivers Laia Sanz, Christine GZ and Cristina Gutierrez will all be fighting it out for the top spot in the overall standings.
The championship is premiering a new format for this upcoming edition which will be doubling the entertainment but with zero impact on the environment. Every competition weekend will feature double programming: race qualifying and the race itself on Saturday and the same format on Sunday. The first race weekend took place last weekend.
The whole competition can be seen free-to-air on ubeat (www.ubeat.tv). The broadcast on ubeat features generation z commentary with popular streamers such as MrKeroro10 and Baptistao, who’ll be providing the voices for the races, with Dani Nistal and Paco Virués providing viewers with all the latest news on the races. The competition will later be shown on the ubeat TV channel.
In addition, ubeat is also creating other content associated with the Extreme E such as Enews special and Ubeat Talks. Both the broadcasts as well as content created around the competition are sponsored by CUPRA. After Saudi Arabia, the upcoming Extreme E events are set to take place in Scotland (May 13th and 14th), Sardinia (July 8th and 9th), Brazil and the USA (16th and 17th September) and Chile (December 2nd and 3rd).
22 international networks broadcast the two races live and 46 provided highlights packages
A total of 22 international TV networks across Europe, Asia and America provided live broadcast coverage from the two host sites for the World Cup Snowboard Cross (SBX) Sierra Nevada 2023 races, which took place on March 11th and 12th.
GRUP MEDIAPRO produced the international broadcast signal in HD of the championship using 13 cameras including two wireless cameras and a crane located at key spots along the snowboard cross course. The preparations began on Saturday March 4th, a week before the event got started and the signal was broadcast via satellite. GRUP MEDIAPRO also provided the feed to the judges, as well as for graphics and network broadcast screens. 30 GRUP MEDIAPRO staff took part in the project (Eumovil and Mediasur) which took place at the ski station in the Sierra Nevada (Granada) with the crew travelling in from Madrid, Valencia, Seville and Granada.
The production company Infront was responsible for the distribution of the international signal of the two World Cup races to networks in Europe, North and South America as well as across Asia. In Spain, the races were broadcast on Teledeporte. In addition, close to 50 TV networks requested highlights packages of the event.
The two World Cup races from Sierra Nevada saw close to 120 people taking part (70 men and 40 women). The competition, organised by Cetursa Sierra Nevada and the Andalusian and Spanish Winter Sports Federation took place just after the recent World Snowboard Championship in Bakuriani (Georgia) and before the final of the World Cup in Veysonnaz (Switzerland).
PodTalks consolidates its position with its fifth edition in Barcelona
Casa Terrat is set to play host to PodTalks, the Podcasting and Networking Festival which has consolidated its position within the market with its fifth edition in Barcelona, organised by NacioÌn Podcast, and with the collaboration of the Acast platform, the audiovisual producer El Terrat (THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO) and the publisher Planeta de Libros.
The PodTalks Festival, which has become a go-to event for the lovers of podcasting, will feature the support and participation of Casa Terrat, a benchmark in the audiovisual, publishing, communication, arts and podcasting worlds both in Spain and internationally. Andreu Buenafuente, Emma Mussoll, Alberto Moreno, Judit MartiÌn, Rafel BarceloÌ and RociÌo Raval, are just some of the big names who’ll be on hand to help JoseÌ David Delpueyo “Sunne” and Ana Reyes, in the talks which will be tackling topics as diverse as the role of fiction series script-writers, the positioning of podcasts in the trans media universe and the sustainability of podcasting projects.
Paying homage to the host venue, the event which takes place on March 31st, this year attendees will also get the chance to enjoy a round-table debate on improv, comedy and podcasting as the event ender for #PodTalks2023.
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New branded content for Mahou as part of the “Five-star meet-up” series
Mediapro Brands created and produced a new branded content project for Mahou as the official sponsor of Real Madrid, as part of the “Five-star meet-up” series. The beer producer brought together Toni Kroos, the German midfielder who plays for Real and the journalist and writer from Galicia Manuel Jabois, the author of the song to commemorate the winning of the Tenth European Cup.
The “Five-star meet-up” series started back in 2015, with a slight change in format in 2021. Although the “Chatting Quietly” series on Twitch has got younger viewers used to consuming longer content pieces, Mahou proposes meet-ups between a player and a personality who have a mutual respect and admiration and chat about topics of interest to them both and help them to get to know each other better.
In this edition, Kroos and Jabois analyze what it is that makes Real Madrid special, the dreams that the German had when he was young as well as talking about topics such as Carlos Alcaraz and the current world of tennis, a sport Kroos is a big fan of. The last topic they discussed was the city of Madrid and its bars and restaurants. Mediapro Brands worked on the project with Mediatem which was responsible for the production and editing of the content.
