Eugeni Sallent, appointed Head of LATAM at The Mediapro Studio

After having served as CEO of the group's headquarters Mediapro In Colombia and Italy, Eugeni Sallent begins a new stage as Head of LATAM of The Mediapro Studio.

With extensive experience in international content management and extensive background in the audiovisual sector, salient will be in charge of all offices and production projects in Latin America and will report to Marta Ezpeleta, responsible for international offices, distribution, co-productions and acquisitions of The Mediapro Studio.

salient is incorporated into a consolidated project that has noticeably increased the number of productions, in collaboration with partners very relevant, both local and large international platforms. Among them are titles such as Little Victory (Telefe), nominated for an Emmy and winner of the Rose D'Or Award, and its second season Little Victoria, lost on Earth (Amazon Prime Video); series like It was always me (Disney+) and Club 57 (Nickelodeon); upcoming releases like Relentless code (co-produced with Sony Pictures Television for Claro Video), The Braves (WarnerMedia) and Iosi, the repentant spy (Amazon Prime Video), successful formats such as The chef's disciple (VIS, Chilevisión), which has broken audience records and is preparing its third season.

Computer engineer and MBA, Sallent has been CEO of Mediapro Colombia y Mediapro Italy (with responsibility for the delegations of Greece, Türkiye and Slovenia), and previously director of Television of Catalonia (TV3) and RAC1. The new head of The Mediapro Studio in Latin America acquired experience in managing audiovisual content for this market after his time at Mediapro Colombia (Televideo), a company that has been operating in the country for more than 30 years. During his management, Sallent promoted an audiovisual production center with more than 4,000 m2 equipped for the production of entertainment programs and fiction projects and established strategic agreements with operators in the region such as and ESPN in their programming produced from Colombia.

A new stage

Laura Fernandez Espeso, general director of The Mediapro Studio, highlights the value of Eugene Sallent as a professional “very recognized in the sector, with great relationships in the creative community and an excellent bond with our partners and clients.” “With Eugeni, we continue our expansion and growth in all these territories, especially in Mexico, with important Production objectives in fiction (television and film) and non-fiction,” adds Fernández. Marta Ezpeleta He also wanted to recognize Sallent's experience, which "will encourage the activity" of The Mediapro Studio in the region, "as well as the cooperation between the group's different headquarters in Latin America."

Finally, in his first statements salient comments: "Returning to Latin America is returning home. I am excited about this new stage in which I am going to meet again with an even more mature market, with enormous growth possibilities for our productions."