Pepe Huertas Launches New Spanish TV Content Company Tres Vacas

In a bid to faucet into the extraordinary demand for premium Spanish-language content material, veteran Spanish leisure government Pepe Huertas has launched TV manufacturing firm, Tres Vacas. He’s joined by seasoned showrunners Pilar Nadal and Felipe Mellizo, creators of such prime promoting dramatic collection as “Águila Roja” (“Crimson Eagle”) and “Un Paso Adelante” (“One Step Ahead”).

The corporate will give attention to creating scripted content material for the worldwide viewers, drawing on their mixed abilities, experience and a long time of expertise.

“Our purpose is to conceive relatable tales able to participating with the viewers from the primary minute, based mostly on in-depth character improvement that permits us to assemble lengthy and robust narrative arcs,” mentioned Huertas, founding accomplice and managing director of Tres Vacas.

Given the worldwide success of Netflix’s Spanish-language initiatives, led by “La Casa de Papel” (“Cash Heist”) and “Elite,” the Spanish-language market is now not thought-about area of interest and has confirmed to enchantment past the practically 600 million Spanish audio system worldwide.

The corporate identify Tres Vacas (translated to “Three Cows” in English) alludes to the acronym, TV, but it surely additionally refers back to the alliance of those three leisure professionals.

Huertas’ storied 30-year profession in tv consists of stints at Spanish broadcasters Antena 3 and Canal Plus, in addition to at one in all Europe’s main scripted content material studios, Globomedia, now a part of The Mediapro Studio. He served as COO of Globomedia China and, previous to that, was co-executive director of Globomedia Brazil.

Nadal and Mellizo are creators of a few of the most profitable Spanish fiction collection by way of each scores and worldwide gross sales, with credit together with “Médico de Familia” (“Household Physician,” 1995-1999), “Compañeros” (1998-2002), “Periodistas” (1998-2002) and, extra lately, police thriller “Parot,” which snagged the very best screenplay award on the 2021 Berlin Sequence Competition, and historic motion drama “El Cid.”

A few of these drama collection have ranked among the many prime spots in complete viewing on main Spanish networks and have efficiently aired in over 70 nations worldwide. Recognitions have included the Affiliation of Latin Leisure Critics of New York’s ACE Awards, eight Ondas awards and greater than 40 Iris Awards from the Spanish Academy of Tv.

Tres Vacas is a part of Prime Plot, a manufacturing group established in October 2021 by Huertas. Prime Plot is the mum or dad firm to a bunch of corporations devoted to the creation, improvement and manufacturing of content material together with scripted leisure and documentaries.