LaLiga Studios, a partnership between Banijay Iberia and Spain’s prime soccer division, has finalized a take care of Little Spain, the manufacturing firm run by common Spanish recording artist C Tangana, to develop a fiction collection set contained in the La Liga universe. It is going to be the primary drama manufacturing developed with the La Liga IP and, in keeping with the businesses, the primary with “the official seal of approval from a contest of its dimension and scope.”
In a launch, Little Spain provided a couple of early particulars in regards to the venture: “The target is to create a narrative set within the context of Spanish skilled soccer and from the idiosyncrasies of the La Liga groups, the place soccer, tradition and life converge. This venture is the results of a artistic collaboration with actor Josh Hutcherson, a pal and ally of Little Spain in Los Angeles. It is a milestone for Little Spain, because it permits us to inform a narrative positioned between two key factors: Spain and america. With a view to seize the essence of the soccer world and its way of life accessible to only a few, the important thing components will likely be emotion and our signature cinematic model.”
Little Spain started life in 2017 as a collective of artists, largely engaged on music movies. Within the few quick years since, the corporate has expanded quickly, and final month, it gained three Gold Lions on the Cannes Lions Worldwide Competition of Creativity, scoring honors with C Tangana’s anthem for the RC Celta La Liga EA Sports activities group. The label additionally lately produced the feature documentary “Esta ambición desmedida,” (“This Extreme Ambition”), nominated for a 2023 Spanish Academy Goya award, and Tangana’s upcoming directorial debut, “La guitarra flamenca de yerai cortés,” a documentary set to display screen on this 12 months’s New Directors competitors on the San Sebastian Competition.
LaLiga Studios, led by CEO Chalo Bonifacino Cooke, was launched final 12 months as a three way partnership between Banijay Iberia and La Liga, Spain’s prime males’s soccer division. In line with the group, its pact with Little Spain displays Banijay’s dedication to increasing its sports activities leisure enterprise by new partnerships, content material funding, and mergers and acquisitions after the current launch of Banijay Sports.
“We face a singular alternative to supply the primary fiction collection that may exploit in any respect ranges the IP of La Liga, its golf equipment, its expertise, its stadiums, its followers, to realize a level of veracity hardly ever seen in football-related fiction,” mentioned Bonifacino.
Since launching final 12 months, LaLiga Studios has created audiovisual content material for La Liga, its golf equipment, and its main sponsors. This work has been distributed to greater than 100 operators and broadcast in additional than 190 international locations.
Along with its extra conventional productions, the corporate goals to be a pioneer in sports activities leisure. To that finish, LaLiga Studios lately closed a deal to develop soccer-related content material with Hollywood shingle MTP, previously often known as Mandalay Sports activities Media. That venture is helmed by Mike Tollin, an government producer of Netflix’s international hit documentary “The Final Dance.”
Final March, LaLiga Studios, Banijay Iberia and Little Spain teamed to supply the anthem “1voiceVSRACISM,” which was performed in all La Liga EA Sports activities and La Liga Hypermotion stadiums in the course of the week of World Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
