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Paris-based sales house Charades has sold the Argentinian Western-inspired documentary “Gaucho Gaucho” across much of Europe.

The film — which won a Sundance Jury Prize in January and recently played at Cph:dox — has landed deals with Tandem (France), Filmin (Spain), Selmer Media, M2, Praesens (Switzerland) and Bantam Films (Benelux). Variety understands a U.K. sale is currently under discussion.

Directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, the duo behind the box office hit “The Truffle Hunters,” “Gaucho Gaucho” explores the story of a community of cowboys and cowgirls in Northern Argentina who live outside the modern world.

Produced by Dweck and Kershaw for Beautiful Stories Prods., the film is shot in black-and-white and celebrates the beauty and passion of a group of skilled Argentine cowboys and cowgirls, known as gauchos. It weaves together a mosaic of tales about gauchos confronting the fragility of their world in the face of unprecedented change.

According to a new lawsuit, "Hulu" is Mandarin while "Humu" is short for “humuhumunukunuku apua’a,” the Hawaiian name for a triggerfish. Can Hulu stop a business calling itself Humu? Three former Google employees are suing to find out.

The brainchild of Wayne Crosby, Laszlo Bock and Jessie Wisdom, Humu is a company attempting to apply machine learning to human talent development. Specifically, Humu is looking to sell a product called the "Nudge Engine" to human resource departments nationwide. Supposedly, the product employs psychological research and algorithms to encourage employees to take small personal ...