Paco Cabezas will develop projects for Paramount exclusively

VIS, international study of Paramount, has signed an exclusive agreement with Paco Cabezas, showrunner and director of films and series (Penny Dreadful, Umbrella Academy, American Gods, The Alienist, Bye…) to lead and direct a variety of non-English speaking television and film projects.

Paco Cabezas has worked between the United States and Spain during the last ten years in multiple films and television series, one of them being Mr. Right (with Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick), the closing night film at the 2015 Toronto Film Fest. Heads will create, direct and produce exclusive non-English speaking projects outside the United States for Paramount studios, such as The Gypsy Bride, the adaptation of the successful novel of the same name by Carmen Mola already in development, with the participation of Atresmedia Television and in collaboration with Diagonal TV (Banijay Iberia), and which can be seen exclusively in Spain in Atresplayer Premium.

This agreement is one of many that the study of Paramount has been working and closing as part of the constant strategy that VIS is developing with various talents such as Juan José Campanella, Santiago Segura, Frida Torresblanco, Marc Anthony, Diego Boneta, Manolo Cardona, and Luis Gerardo Méndez; as well as with prestigious international production companies such as Gaumont, El Deseo, Cattleya, 100 Bares Productions, 11:11 Films & TV e Indigo, among many others.

Laura April, Senior VP and head of VIS EMEA and Asia, considers Cabezas “one of the most prestigious directors in our country”, while stating that “this agreement opens up great opportunities by combining the extraordinary creativity of Cabezas with the global reach of VIS, creator of content for Paramount brands.” On the other hand, his own heads He has stated: "The most important thing for me as an artist and storyteller is creative freedom, this is what really makes a television series special, taking the risk of creating a world that the public has never seen. And VIS and Paramount have become the perfect partner, it is a long-awaited and great alliance."