Onza Sells Thriller Sequence ‘Motel Valkirias’ to Brazil’s Globoplay

Globoplay, the streaming platform of Latin American TV large Globo, has picked up Brazilian rights to police noir thriller sequence “Motel Valkirias,” a Spain-Portugal co-production dealt with by Onza Distribution. 

Created by Ghaleb Jaber Martínez, writer-producer of Netflix’s Galician TV drama hit “O Sabor das Margaridas,” the sequence is directed by Álex Sampaio (Schibare”) and Jorge Quiroga (“Atras das Nuvens”).

In post-production, the eight episode 50-minute “Motel Valkirias” is ready in a cross-border motel between Galicia and Portugal, following three girls with monetary and private issues who get in severe hazard after becoming a member of forces to get their palms on some worthwhile merchandise from a visitor within the motel.

The skein toplines Lisbon-born Maria João Bastos (“The Casanova Variations”), Goya Award successful actor Chechu Salgado (“Las leyes de la frontera”) and “O Sabor das Margaridas’” Maria Mera. 

Jaleb Martinez’s Galician outfit CTV co-produces “Motel Valkirias” with SPi, the Portuguese companion behind HBO’s sequence “Auga Seca,” teaming with pubcasters TVG in Galicia and Portugal’s RTP.

Onza Distribution snagged final yr worldwide gross sales rights exterior Spain and Portugal to the sequence and is kicking-off the pre-sales course of in some European and Latin American territories.

The gross sales arm of Madrid-based Onza Leisure, the corporate behind such hit sequence as TVE-Netflix’s “The Division of Time” and a collaborator on Dopamine’s historic drama “Hernán,” Onza Distribution is presenting at Mipcom a number of new productions.

“We goal for our novelties to characterize the biggest doable variety of genres and codecs so that every one our shoppers can discover the manufacturing they’re on the lookout for: Documentaries, fiction sequence, cleaning soap operas and leisure codecs,” mentioned Carlos Garde, Onza Distribution normal director. 

Amongst Onza’s market premieres at Mipcom 2022 is the documentary “Younger Addictions,” which portraits the causes and penalties of non-substance addictions consumed by youngsters by way of their cell telephones’ screens: social media, porn and on-line gaming.

The three episode 45 minute documentary sequence is produced by Onza and Alejandro G. Roemmers in collaboration with Capa, Producciones Imposibles and Methos Media. 

“We’re very excited to current ‘Younger Addictions,’ which has not but been launched, however we imagine that it’s going to have a powerful worldwide projection because of the downside it offers with that sadly impacts younger folks all around the world,” Garde added.

Launched in 2014, Onza handles its personal productions together with quite a few third-party exhibits, encompassing telenovelas by Portuguese broadcaster TVI. Among the many latest are “Para siempre,” a two season, 100 chapters every telenovela toplining Diogo Morgado, the star of Worldwide Emmy Award winner “Ouro Verde”, and “Festa é Festa,” a Plural Leisure cleaning soap for TVI, which just lately gained a Venice TV Award.