The first season of our debut television show, "Pati's Mexican Table," has garnered some impressive statistics since hitting the airwaves... It's now available in some 108 million homes in the U.S., and has a mind-boggling carriage rate of almost 94% nationwide. We are deeply and deliciously in pre-production on the next season of the popular cooking program.
The Cortez Brothers' Storytelling Department congratulates two projects it had a slight and hopefully mostly-imperceptible hand in on making it into the pages of Variety recently... Metanoia Films' "Little Boy," directed by Alejandro Monteverde, is a family drama set in 1940s America at the start of World War II; director Fede Alvarez's reboot of the cult horror pic "The Evil Dead," co-written by Alvarez and Rodo Sayaguez, was given a touch-up by screenwriter Diablo Cody and will be produced by Sam Raimi (writer/director of the original) of Ghost House Pictures.
More film-related accolades are in order for part of our Doble Nelson directing team; Andres Muschietti expands on his fantastic short film, turning it into the feature-length "Mama," co-written with our equally beloved Barbara Muschietti, which is currently being produced by Guillermo del Toro. The story follows two girls who flee from a ghostly woman they believe to be their mother.
Our company welcomes a new hire, Pilar de Posadas, to head up our brand spankin' new television department. She'll be helping establish a slate of programs, both Latin and non-Latin, reality and fiction, for the Cortez Brothers.
We've shuffled and fine-tuned our roster with some great new directors...
JEANNETTE GODOY started her career as a choreographer, most notably bringing her energetic dance moves to Sir Mix-A-Lot's famous "Baby Got Back" video; fast-forward to 2011, when SHOOT MAGAZINE named her as an Up-And-Coming Director to watch (amongst many, many reasons we're happy to have her for the Hispanic market).
KARIM OUARET brings his own background in music videos and promos to the table, not to mention experience with Fox Studios, multilingual filming and rhythm, fashion and still photography.
FATTY, meanwhile, got a peculiar start in the world of advertising, creating a homemade commercial for a TV show contest; his first place prize led him to a workshop at the New York Film Academy. From there he served as AD under a number of the commercial world's most talented and award-winning Argentine directors (including Lucho Bender), then branched out by becoming a skilled director in his own right -- and a perfect addition to our lineup of great directorial talent.
