1 month ago
Brendan Fitzgerald has near his domiciled arsenic CEO of Secuoya Studios, which is astatine nan aforesaid clip handing complete independency to its Latin American arm.
There’s been nary general confirmation of Fitzgerald’s exit from Secuoya Content Group, nan genitor of nan workplace section but we understand he is segueing to a domiciled moving connected contented sales. A spokesperson told america “further updates related to nan workplace and adjacent steps will beryllium communicated successful owed course.”
The U.S.-born Fitzgerald has been pinch Secuoya Studios since January 2024, hired arsenic CEO to create and building caller projects and partnerships. He has antecedently been Senior Vice President of English Language Co-Productions astatine Sony Pictures Television, and was besides nan laminitis of indie Pomodoro Stories. C21Media was first pinch nan news of his exit.
Secuoya is known for Spanish-language shows specified arsenic Zorro and El Homenajes, but Fitzgerald utilized his clip arsenic CEO to found Secuoya Studios successful non-Spanish-language contented arsenic portion of a strategical scheme to internationalize. As specified was a regular astatine world co-production markets, and struck galore pacts pinch nan likes of Act4 successful Iceland, nan UK’s BlackBox Multimedia and U.S. doc shaper Chris Moukarbel’s Permanent Wave Productions.
Act4 successful Iceland, BlackBox Multimedia successful nan UK, shaper and imaginative Sydney Gallonde successful France, Permanent Wave Productions of US documentary filmmaker Chris Moukarbel and 3Pas Studios successful Mexico, arsenic good arsenic partnerships pinch Argentine screenwriter Juan Carballo, Black Sheep Productions laminitis Mónica Aguirre and shaper and head Sergio Cánovas, leader of Stellarmedia.
His exit comes arsenic Secuoya Studios grants its Latin American limb “full operational independency successful nan region.” This will spot development, accumulation and business affairs being integrated, pinch execs having afloat autonomy to make decisions connected projects, talent and content. It will support coordination pinch nan wider group connected different functions.
The Latin American limb is focused connected markets specified arsenic Mexico, Colombia and nan Hispanic U.S., and location are plans to make imaginative pods that are led by exec producers and section creatives.
Daniel Hernández Bocanegra, Secuoya’s elder executive successful nan region, will lead nan Latin American operation. Former Paramount exec Pierluigi Gazzolo will counsel connected nan push done his Farniente Media imprint. Already a Secuoya Studios advisory committee member, Gazzolo will supply study and determination support for improvement and contented projects, while besides bringing successful talent and strengthening commercialized connections successful nan region.
“This exemplary reflects a clear strategical vision: to beryllium person to stories, talent and section audiences,” said Raúl Berdonés, Executive Chairman of Secuoya Content Group. “We are committed to an cognition successful Latin America pinch afloat operational independence, wherever decision-making, improvement and accumulation return spot wrong nan territory itself – rooted successful a section position pinch a world ambition.”
“Latin America is now 1 of nan studio’s main maturation engines and 1 of nan astir move regions successful nan audiovisual industry,” added Bocanegra, General Manager for Lat Am. “This exemplary allows america to consolidate a genuinely section measurement of working, pinch teams that run independently and pinch end-to-end capabilities connected nan crushed – strengthening our competitiveness and our expertise to make relevant, exportable contented aligned pinch world demand.”
