Rio de Janeiro-based Habanero Film Sales has licensed U.S. rights to political thriller “Pseudo” to the HBO platforms, The pact was negotiated by Leslie Cohen, senior VP content acquisitions HBO/HBO Max, and Habanero CEO Alfredo Calvino.
Habanero has also sold the linear and streaming rights to 2019 Argentine horror-thriller “Rock, Paper and Scissors” to HBO Central Europe.
Co-written and helmed by Bolivian Gory Patiño and Spain’s Luis Reneo, “Pseudo” turns on a taxi driver who gets caught up in an operation fraught with danger when he steals the identity of a passenger.
The thriller will be theatrically released in Bolivia this year, given that its initial release dates were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
“Pseudo” is Patiño’s second feature, his debut feature “Muralla,” (“The Goalkeeper”), also acquired by HBO back in 2019, was the highest-grossing Bolivian film in 15 years.
Both ‘Muralla’ and ‘Pseudo’ were picked up by Somos TV,...
Habanero has also sold the linear and streaming rights to 2019 Argentine horror-thriller “Rock, Paper and Scissors” to HBO Central Europe.
Co-written and helmed by Bolivian Gory Patiño and Spain’s Luis Reneo, “Pseudo” turns on a taxi driver who gets caught up in an operation fraught with danger when he steals the identity of a passenger.
The thriller will be theatrically released in Bolivia this year, given that its initial release dates were suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
“Pseudo” is Patiño’s second feature, his debut feature “Muralla,” (“The Goalkeeper”), also acquired by HBO back in 2019, was the highest-grossing Bolivian film in 15 years.
Both ‘Muralla’ and ‘Pseudo’ were picked up by Somos TV,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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