Adding to the momentum of Chile’s energetic push into upscale TV production, the Santiago Intl. Film Festival (Sanfic) is adding a TV strand, Sanfic Series.

Focusing on drama series and part of the Sanfic Industry forum – after Ventana Sur now one of the biggest of any festival in South America – the section will bow at this August’s festival with the South American premiere of the first two episodes of “Invisible Heroes,” a MipTV and Conecta Fiction hit and flagship title in Chile’s drive into international co-production.

A Yle Original Series produced by Finland’s Kahio Republic and Chile’s Parox, one of Chile’s most established TV production houses, and backed by Finland’s Yle and Chile’s Chilevision, “Invisible Heroes” is a prime example of a series with a highly specific setting, the eve and mostly aftermath of Augusto Pinochet’s bloody 1973 coup in Chile, rendered