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Brazil’s Spcine, the city of São Paulo’s film-tv body, is delivering tangible results with its cash rebate program as it prepares for its third edition later this year. Four projects have advanced under the second rebate, including dark medical thriller “Suture,” created by Fabio Montanari and produced by Boutique Filmes for Amazon Prime Video, which secured R$3 million.

The series follows Ícaro (Humberto Morais), a debt-ridden doctor and Dr. Mancini (Cláudia Abreu), a top surgeon battling trauma-induced tremors, as they lead a double life performing illegal procedures.

Other partially funded projects include a Portuguese-language remake of Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis starrer “Friends with Benefits”, the telenovela “Scars of Beauty”, and “Maníaco do Parque”, a dramatization of Brazil’s most infamous serial killer.

Launched in 2021, the initiative stood alone in Brazil as the country’s first and at the time, only, production incentive.

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Exclusive: Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company is heading to Brazil for its latest international co-pro.

The company is teaming with Spiral International and Boutique Films on medical thriller series Suture, which has landed at Prime Video in Latin America and Portugal and will be unveiled at MIPCOM next week. North Road retains the rights to produce an English-language version.

From International Emmy winner Zasha Robles, Suture tells the story of Ícaro, an upstanding medical student barred from his residency program due to college debts, and Dr. Mancini, a brilliant surgeon plagued by hand tremors who yearns to return to the operating table. Left with no other recourse, the two must become doctors for a criminal organization, leading them down a treacherous path of double lives from which escape may prove impossible.

North Road said the series will feature “several of Brazil’s most prominent actors” including Cláudia Abreu,...