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Wild Sheep Content, the high-flying L.A.-based production-distribution house of former Netflix international chief Erik Barmack, is teaming with International Emmy winner Hernán Caffiero on “Raza Brava,” a fiction series described as diving into the dark underworld of the barra brava – a ferocious fan gang – of Colo-Colo, Chile’s most popular football team.

Backed by The Mediapro Studio, Wild Sheep is also handling international sales. Now in production, “Raza Brava” is produced by Wild Sheep Latin America and Caffiero’s Trini Films.

A four-episode series, “Raza Brava” follows on the Wild Sheep-produced hit “Cromosoma 21,” an original crime mystery thriller sold to Netflix for Latin America and Spain and to local broadcasters around the globe.

Created and directed by Caffiero, renowned for International Emmy winner “The Suspended Mourning,” “Raza Brava” will be ready for delivery in Spring 2025; First-run rights are open worldwide, noted former Netflix Head of International Originals Barmack,...

Santiago De Chile — Chile’s leading broadcaster Mega TV is heading to Mipcom with its new sales and distribution company, Mega Global Entertainment (Mge), launched this year. Led by former Telemundo Int’l exec Esperanza Garay as its new CEO, Mge is taking Mega’s original programming, built up over the past three years, to the Cannes confab. These include the 14 telenovelas it has produced as well as hit reality shows such as “Volverias Con Tu Ex?” (“Would You Go Back to Your Ex?”) where estranged couples are put together in a house and forced to reassess why they split up in the first place.

Mega TV has also ventured into its first co-production, an estimated 60-episode Super Series with Argentina’s Telefe, currently in development, said Juan Ignacio Vicente, Mega’s head of content and international business. “We’re hoping to participate in more co-productions that would appeal across Latin America,...