“Amores Perros”And “Instructions Not Included”Monica Lozano, producer at AFM, is promoting mambo and soccer projects. Both will be featured on Prime Video in November.
The soccer documentary about one of Mexico’s greatest players, “Hugo Sanchez, el Gol y la Gloria,”The launch takes place on November 18, “Mambo Dreams, el sueño de ayer” drops Nov. 30.
Described as the definitive chronicle of Mexico’s greatest athlete, “Hugo Sanchez” traces his early start as a university team player to his stellar time at Spain’s Real Madrid, and eventual fall from grace.
Lozano said that Prime Video Original will go live worldwide via the streaming platform. After a holdback it will also be available on linear TV.
“Hugo Sanchez”Francisco Javier Padilla is the director and co-producer of this film. He is best known for his career-launching feature-debut. “Suave Patria, starring Karla Souza, Omar Chaparro and Hector Suarez. He’s currently developing docu series “Los ascendidos”Here’s a quick overview of Eric Clapton. “Eric Clapton’s Crossroads: the Generosity of the Blues.”
Padilla’s Pandilla Films co-produces with Lozano’s Alebrije Producciones.
“Mambo Dreams,”Lozano said that Prime Video for the Americas was licensed for international distribution.
In the musical drama, mambo king Dámaso Pérez Prado, wakes up in the year 2020 in desperate search for Magdalena, the woman he loved and lost.
Directed by Emilio Maillé (“Rosario Tijeras”), “Mambo Dreams”El Caiman and Alebrije produced the film along with North Films and Cluster Studio as co-producers.
According to director Emilio Maillé (“Rosario Tijeras”), who co-wrote the drama with Javier Peñalosa, the film is not a biopic but “more a reflection on memory and nostalgia, on getting in touch with the past but in the present.”
Gustavo Angel (“Bolivar, soy yo”), Lozano and Alebrije partner Eamon O’Farrill serve as producers.
Hugo Sanchez, el Gol y la Gloria
Image Credits: Fernando Aceves