Veteran producers Koby Gal Raday (The Band’s Go to, On the Spectrum) and Ilda Santiago (Concrete Jungle) are teaming up with Brazil‘s Mymama Leisure and Germany’s Beta Movie to launch a brand new worldwide manufacturing firm, Janeiro Studios, that goals to supply high-end TV and indie characteristic movies out of the Latin America and past. Koby Gal-Raday will function CEO, and Santiago can be managing director.
The corporate has the backing of Beta Movie, one among Europe’s main indie outfits, producers of Babylon Berlin and interval romancer Sisi. Mayra Faour Auad’s Mymama Leisure, a number one Brazil manufacturing group, and Worldwide Emmy winner for 2018 documentary sequence Hack The Metropolis and doc characteristic Our Blood, Our Physique.
“Brazil is able to broaden its artistic and business boundaries, and the worldwide market expects it from us now,” mentioned Faour Auad.
With workplaces in Brazil and Europe, Janeiro Studios goals to pursue collaborations and co-productions in Brazil and internationally and goals to leverage its founders’ intensive worldwide networks and expertise to supply auteur-driven content material for the world.
Gal-Raday was chief content material officer at Israeli main streaming platform Sure, the place he oversaw the manufacturing of such sequence as Fauda, Your Honor and On the Spectrum. In 2020, he took over as chief content material officer at Beta, the place he helped shepherd high-end TV productions equivalent to Italian-French-German co-production La Storia and the Hungarian interval epic Rise of the Raven.
Santiago is a powerhouse within the Brazilian cinema market, as co-founder of art-house distributor and exhibition firm Estação Group and co-founder, CEO and inventive director at Rio de Janeiro Worldwide Movie Pageant. Her credit as a producer embody Vicente Amorim’s action-thriller Concrete Jungle and Andrucha Waddington’s upcoming crime drama Vitória.
“With over 20 years on the broadcaster, gross sales and co-production aspect, I’m able to return to my ‘roots’ as an impartial producer and concentrate on my eternal ardour: facilitating and enabling the creation of untold tales for movie and cinema, delivered in daring and distinctive methods,” Gal-Raday mentioned.
Added Santiago: “I’ve been ‘preaching’ for co-productions and alliances between Brazil and different nations for a few years. It’s thrilling to dive into this new chapter, which permits my ardour to work with expertise throughout new borders.”