Telefónica Studios, Telefónica's global audiovisual content production company, is born

It will centralize all the company's projects under this brand and will produce 25 feature films and television series over the next three years for its Movistar TV service.

Telefónica has presented within the framework of the San Sebastián Festival, Telefónica Studios, its global audiovisual content producer, which will now centralize under this brand all the projects produced by the company, which in the next three years will be 25 feature films and several television series.

Telefónica Studios was born with the firm purpose of consolidating as a weight player in the international market, a source of quality projects first in Europe and Latin America and later also in Anglo -Saxon markets. Currently Telefónica Studios generates a production that ranges between ten and twelve annual films, almost the same number of projects that generate several of the great Hollywood studies.

Telefónica's producer vocation has been a constant for a long time. And proof of this is that in the last five years three divisions of the company have produced films and TV series: Telefé, Telefónica Producciones Media Networks and Telefónica Spain.

Among those projects are successes such as The secret of his eyes, The Adventures of Tadeo Jones and A Chinese story, all of them international repercussion feature films that have been released in almost half a hundred countries with more than 14 million tickets sold worldwide.

Telefónica Studios mantiene fructíferos vínculos con personalidades de reconocido prestigio dentro del mundo del cine como Juan José Campanella, Pedro Almodóvar, Viggo Mortensen, John Cusack, Ricardo Darín, Gael García Bernal, Jorge Drexler, Alejandro González-Iñárritu, Alberto Amman o Rodrigo Cortés entre muchos otros. Asimismo, coproduce con algunos de los principales partners de cada región, como Telecinco, TVE, Antena 3, El Deseo, 100 Bares, Plural, Nostromo Films y K&S, Historias y Tornasol, entre muchos otros.

But the new company cannot and want to limit its collaborations to consecrated filmmakers and will continue to intervene as until now in projects of novel and second and third works of young directors.

Since 2009 Telefónica has produced The secret of your eyes, the Widows on Thursdays, without return, a Chinese story, my first wedding, luck in your hands, robbery!, The fight of my life, thesis on a homicide, reconstruction, Bruc: the challenge, Lope, in offside, the adventures of Tadeo Jones Jones, among others.

Likewise, it will soon premiere Foosball, Lionheart, Seventh, Wakolda, Grand piano, Mariah mundi and the Midas Box, The food guide to love, The mystery of happiness, Betibú, A night in old Mexico, Wild stories and The burning.

Regarding television series, the company, which has already participated in the production of Isabel, which is now premiering its second season, and Loving in troubled times, plans to make series for Telefónica's pay TV (Movistar TV and Movistar Play) starting in 2014.