MIPCOM 2016
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MIPCOM 2016
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
STAND P4.C14
Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France
October 17-20
La Doña, starring renowned Mexican actress Aracely Arámbula, is a story of revenge, betrayal and ambition, but also of redemption, justice and love, which follows the life of Altagracia, a woman of striking beauty who lost her parents to a fatal car accident, and who at a young age suffered the abuse of a group of young men. These rich depraves known as the Porquis violated her innocence while being protected by the impunity that their high social position gives them. Since then, Altagracia becomes a ruthless and ambitious woman, an unfeeling mother who abandoned her daughter at a young age and uses her charms to amass an empire that allows her to impose law and take justice into her own hands. Despite her considerable success, Altagracia is missing something: love. And, she discovers it for the first time when she meets Saul, an attorney who defends the victims of gender violence and young women fighting for a way out of unemployment, poverty and overpopulation. But Saul has already captivated Monica, a lovely young woman of humble beginnings, with a compassionate and optimistic attitude toward life. She is Altagracia’s estranged daughter. Altagracia will now be confronted by the two feelings she had previously avoided: love for her daughter and love for a man.
Cast: Aracely Arámbula, David Chocarro, Rebecca Jones, Danna Paola
Silvana "Chivis" Rivapalacios de Villaseñor is the mother of three young girls and the wife of one of the most influential businessmen in the city. His bad business decisions and shady practices have left him in ruins, and he in turn has disappeared without announcement, leaving his family homeless. This is why Chivis, her mother and her three daughters have to rebuild their lives in a middle-class neighborhood where they will, for the first time, learn what it really means to work to survive. They’ll also learn how to enjoy life with all its good and bad.
When searching for their new home, Chivis accidentally meets Manuel Gallardo – their new neighbor, a widower, father of four children and leader of the fishing market. After several mishaps and setbacks, time will show them that neither prejudice nor social status will get in the way when true love prevails. They will learn that it’s not money that brings happiness but love, solidarity and unity. After all, the rich are not those who have more, but those who need the least.
Cast: Maritza Rodriguez, Carlos Ponce, Adriana Barraza
The beautiful and tough tempered Vicenta Rigores is one of the most respected and feared “coyotes” of the border between Mexico and the United States. While U.S. officials have a warrant for her arrest, the other coyotes competing against her for business want her dead. One Homeland Security official in particular is following her path very closely. His name is Daniel Roberts. This honest, noble and rigorous man has one thing is common with the notorious coyote who risks her life daily to guard the individuals she helps across; he too defends his territory and fulfills his duty to those he protects.
Vicenta despises drug traffickers, never suspecting that she belongs to one of the most powerful drug-trafficking families of northern Mexico. She is the illegitimate daughter of the deceased Vicente Acero and half-sister of Salvador Acero, who keeps the family business alive following in the steps of his late mother Sara Aguilar de Acero. Vicenta will join his business in order to avenge the death of her mother. Her dominion of the lands and her ways make her invaluable to the trade. Her last name could be a salvation or a death sentence, but all that is clear now is that she is the new, and only, Señora Acero.
Cast: Sergio Goyri, Carolina Miranda, Luis Ernesto Franco, Adrián Di Monte, Laura Flores, José María Torre y Alejandro Speitzer
This story, the continuation of Without Breasts There is No Paradise (Sin Senos No Hay Paraíso), begins with the news of Catalina’s death. Her pregnant mother, Hilda, is so devastated that it causes her to give premature birth to the baby girl she is expecting, who she names Catalina after her deceased half-sister. The baby’s father, Albeiro, mourns the fact that she is a girl, knowing the suffering life has in store for women. He refuses to see her at first and meets his new daughter for the first time four months later, when he and Hilda come to an agreement on a set of rules for raising the child.
Without Breasts There Is Paradise (Sin Senos Sí Hay Paraíso) reflects the reality of a new generation of women determined to succeed in life without resorting to plastic surgery or falling for the lure of easy money. Carolina Gaitán plays young Catalina, an innocent girl who grows up sheltered by her loving parents until the jealousy and envy of her enemy turns her purity and moral values into hatred and a thirst for revenge. Along the way she meets Hernán Darío, played by Juan Pablo Urrego, a young neighborhood courier with whom she finds true love as he fights against a world of drugs and violence to defend his family.
Cast: Carolina Gaitan, Juan Pablo Urrego, Catherine Siachoque, Fabián Rios
After living 10 years in the Middle East, Salvador Pereyra, a doctor in philosophy, returns to Mexico with a discovery that can change the history of the world: the Tomb of Marduk, the creator of the concept of God and human spirituality, whose teachings were catalysts for all religions, and the Tables of Knowledge.
When he attempts to publish his work and recover his family, whom he left behind when her embarked on his journey of discovery, he learns that his work has been plagiarized and manipulated by Adolfo Heredia, the owner of an old printing press, who now goes by the name of Askar Hyrum, and is the leader a sect called "The Sons of Indra".
Together with his teacher’s grandson, Salvador will do what he can to unmask this cult, before it is declared an official religion and spread throughout the country, with the approval of the State.
Psy is a dramatic series that follows the adventures of Carlo Antonini, both in and out of his consulting office as a psychiatrist, psychologist and psychoanalyst interested in unusual cases that defy him and even put him and his family in danger. Psy not only explores the complexity of the clinical enigmas but also brings to light the existential issues of modern life, police investigations and passionate relationships. Violence can take many forms and desires which are often hard to confess to.
Eres Mi Tesoro is the story of Julieta, an ordinary woman who, after her father’s death, finds herself taking on the role of main provider for her family, all while ensuring her daughter, who is confined to a wheelchair, has everything she needs. To do so, she becomes a cab driver just like her father. Julieta’s future seems clear; she expects to marry her boyfriend Juan, the ideal man. But fate will have a different plan for her when she meets Alvaro, an attractive and affluent man who is emotionally destroyed after he discovers his wife has been unfaithful to him. During Alvaro’s cab ride he breaks down in a cardiac arrest and Julieta does what she knows best, drive fast and well to get him to the emergency room quickly. Thanks to that Alvaro’s was stabilized and saved, for this he is completely grateful to Julieta.
After learning Julieta’s taxi has been stolen, Alvaro finds that the best way to repay her is by offering her a replacement. In turn, as a way of paying her debt, Julieta agrees to become Alvaro’s personal driver. With time, feelings they never expected begin to flourish and their former lives become more and more difficult to conform to. Because, love has a way of knocking us off of our course when it’s there to stay.