CAA-backed Anonymous Content Brazil, a joint venture between Anonymous Content and Rodrigo Teixeira’s RT Features, is teaming up with Oscar-winning screenwriter-producer-director Armando Bo (“Birdman”) and his sister companies, About Entertainment and film-ad production company Rebolucion, to develop and co-produce television series and advertising content for the Latin American market.
The three-year co-development and co-production agreement will call for the sourcing of IP and original content from writers across Latin America to build a strong Spanish-language slate aimed at regional audiences and beyond.
Through their partnership with Rebolucion, Anonymous Content Brazil will also venture into producing advertising commercials out if its Sao Paulo base.
Rebolucion, in Brazil since 2011, will continue running independently while providing strategic and business support to the new ad commercials division, in which it will be a minority partner.
“Partnering with our long-time friend, Armando, a creative visionary who has demonstrated success at the highest levels in the global film and television space, and his companies, About Entertainment and Rebolucion, is a seminal moment in the growth of our Brazilian venture with RT Features and CAA,” said David Davoli, president of international at Anonymous Content.
He added: “We are confident that this pairing of companies, and the leadership teams that will oversee the efforts on the ground, will allow us to achieve tremendous success across the development of Spanish language content in Latin America, and in the commercial space in Brazil.”
In the next few months, they will appoint a managing director and executive producer for the Anonymous Content Brazil commercial division. These individuals will collaborate with the existing AC Brazil team, headed by CEO Barbara Teixeira, and the Anonymous Content Brand Studio in Los Angeles, led by partner and managing director Eric Stern. Their goal is to create opportunities in both the commercial and entertainment sectors.
Expressing his delight at the new partnership, Bo said: “I believe that this alliance could not arrive at a better moment, with About and Rebolucion at a creative peak, producing premium series, motion pictures and commercials. For us, this agreement means the opportunity to join a refined, well-seasoned team in order to step into the big leagues with our unique stories.”
“I have no doubt that our mutual friend Steve Golin, from wherever he might be, must be so very proud of this union,” said Bo in reference to the late founder-CEO of Anonymous Content who died in 2019.
Anonymous Content Brazil was founded in 2019 in keeping with the Oscar and Emmy-winning parent company’s global expansion drive. Since establishing AC Chapter One in 2018, Anonymous Content has set up multiple joint ventures with overseas partners including: Madrid-based Morena Films; Anonymous Federation in partnership with independent European studio Federation Entertainment, and AC Nordic in partnership with Morten Tyldum and Guri Neby of Oslo-based Einar Films and CAA.
Among AC’s acclaimed credits are Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu’s “The Revenant,” which gave Leonardo di Caprio his first Oscar, best picture Academy Award-winning film “Spotlight,” best original screenplay Oscar-winner “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” and three-time Primetime Emmy award-winning “Mr. Robot.”
In 2019 and 2020 About Ent., along with Gaumont, Fabula and Kapow, produced the two-season Emmy-nominated Prime Video series “El Presidente,” with Bo as showrunner and director.
About is currently producing and developing several projects with Prime Video, Paramount and Gaumont, among others.
With offices in the U.K., Spain, Mexico, Brazil, U.S., Chile, Colombia, and Argentina, Rebolucion has produced more than 1,000 films and won more than 40 Cannes Lions among many other awards.
Founded by Teixeira in 2006, RT Features has produced some of the most acclaimed films in and outside of Brazil, including “The Lighthouse” by Robert Eggers, which won the top critics’ prize at the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight; “Call Me By Your Name” by Luca Guadagnino, winner of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and “Frances Ha” by Noah Baumbach, with Greta Gerwig. It also produced “The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmão” by Karim Aïnouz, winner of the best film award at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and Brazil’s submission to the 92nd Academy Awards.
