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Secrets of Summer (Cielo Grande) is a series created by Jorge Edelstein starring Pilar Pascual, Abril Di Yorio, Víctor Varona and Thaís Rippel. After a successful first season, this second one comes to us, with stories for the whole family.

Secrets of Summer is a teen and YA musical comedy that takes place in the antipodes, hence during summer.

The first two seasons have been a massive hit with its stories set by the beach, with its songs and the romance, the jealousy and the rivalries…. But, it has especially won many a teen heart over thanks to its chipper tone that so well counters the winter chill.

Secrets of Summer (2022-)

Amusing, lighthearted and simpatico.

Enjoy the series, an remember to cast your vote! How many stars would you give this series?

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A remote Argentine resort revives its wakeboarding competition, drawing in Mexican athlete Steffi, who is determined to uncover a family secret.

Canary Island studio Koyi Talent has boarded Argentine-Spanish animated series project “GhostBros,” winner of both the Premio Pixelatl and MIFA/Annecy awards at last year’s Ventana Sur. Thanks to the latter, the project is currently pitching virtually at the Annecy Animation Festival’s MIFA marketplace .

In recent years Koyi has been part of a vanguard of production companies which, thanks to industry-leading tax incentives and a disproportionately large local population of creative talent, is enjoying an unprecedented boom in animation production.

Koyi joins series co-developers Yellow Kingdom in Argentina and WeDoo Studio in Spain and will lead animation production for the 52-part series, with WeDoo handling creation and development of the series’ paranormal universe.

Heading Koyi’s work will be Luis Armengol, a 20-year industry veteran and co-producer of the popular Spanish pre-school series “Pocoyó,” available on more than 150 networks worldwide. His first responsibility on “GhostBros” will be to...

“Disposable,” “Ghost Bros” and “Olivia and the Shadows” feature among projects to be pitched from Monday June 14 at at an Ibero-American Animation Focus held at Annecy’s Mifa market and backed by Argentina’s Ventana Sur section Animation!, Spain’s Quirino Awards and Mexico’s Pixelatl festival.

Projects’ slate includes two features, two TV series and a short. In addition, Ventana Sur will this year unveil a special program Animation! Mentoring Program: Female Directors in Focus, which it has created

with the support of Argentina’s French Institute to highlight the work of five women directors.

La Liga projects describe a broad gamut, Animation! head Silvina Cornillon told Variety just before Annecy. Some are clearly auteurist – “Disposable,” “Bring On the Revolution” and “Where Is My Espresso” – while others have far larger commercial potential, such as “Olivia and the Shadows” and “Ghost Bros.” All, however, reflect the Latin DNA of their creators,...

Online market ran from November 30-December 3.

Nico Manzano’s Venezuelan entry Me And The Beasts picked up three out of the six Primer Corte awards at Friday’s (December 4) online awards ceremony marking the conclusion of 2020 Ventana Sur.

Beasts took home the Sofia Films Award, Nmf Y Color Front Award, and La Mayor Cine Award offering various post-production services.

Juan Carve’s Uruguayan project Olivia And The Shadows triumphed in the Animación sidebar, picking up The MIFA / Annecy Award and La Liga de la Animactón Iberoamericana Award.

Sebastian Perillo’s The Nights Belong To The Monsters from Argentina won three...

Debuting in Ventana Sur’s Animation! sidebar for Latin American cartoon projects, “Ghost Bros,” from Argentina’s Yellow Kingdom and Spain’s WeDoo Studio, looks to scare up interest in potential partners and broadcasters.

“Ghost Bros” follows young orphan brother and sister Sigmund and Gretchel, who do everything they can to get adopted, but tragically can’t manage the feat before their premature deaths. On their way to the afterlife, the two discover and invoke afterlife clause 665, which states that orphans who die before being adopted will be granted a second chance at life with an assigned family.

Unfortunately for them, the one doing the assigning is the sinister Warden of the Afterlife, Firehead, who, angered by the bureaucratic loophole, attempts to put them with the most mismatched parents she can find so as to create circumstances for afterlife clause 666: “If, at the end of each day, the family...