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Exclusive: Portuguese-based talent agency Hit Management has hired Sara Puro-Steele in the newly created role of Managing Director.

Puro-Steele joins Hit Management after 17 years at the London-based Independent Talent Group. Puro-Steele is a dual Spanish-British national and fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. She has represented actors such as Ariane Labed (September Says), Olga Kurylenko (Thunderbolts*), Jonas Nay (Deutschland 83), and Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso).

Hit Management was co-founded by João Louro in 2011. The Lisbon-based company represents actors across film and television. Some of their clients include Afonso Pimentel, Inês Pires Tavares, Ricardo Pereira, Leonor Silveira, Simão Cayatte, and Laura Dutra. Hit Management also operates alongside its sister PR and advertising agency, mais que uma.

Discussing the move, Puro-Steele said she has “always had a passion for European talent.”

“The exceptional work of my clients in their home countries is precisely what makes them so attractive for international projects casting...

Turn of the Tide (Rabo de Peixe) is a series created by Augusto Fraga starring José Condessa, Helena Caldeira and Rodrigo Tomás.

The Turn of the Tide series draws inspiration from cinema, particularly from Guy Ritchie‘s work. The series begins with a nod to Trainspotting and takes the audience on a delightful journey through a charming landscape and a humorous story.

However, this is just the start. Turn of the Tide’s unique style, which is more relaxed than that of Ritchie or Sky Rojo, allows it to take advantage of its story and characters in a coastal setting. The series includes gangsters and marginalized characters, but it is also full of humanity and hope. If you’re looking for an entertaining weekend, consider giving this series a chance as it is definitely worth it.

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Turn of the Tide is a unique series that stands out...

Exclusive: Stephanie Vogt is set as a lead in Glória, Netflix’s upcoming historical spy thriller drama series from SPi productions and Rtp.

Written by Pedro Lopes and directed by Tiago Guedes, Glória takes place in the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in the small village of Glória do Ribatejo, where Raret is located, an American broadcasting center that broadcasts Western propaganda to the Eastern Bloc. João Vidal, an engineer from families linked to the Estado Novo, but recruited by the Kgb, will take on several high-risk espionage missions that could change the course of Portuguese and world history.

Vogt will play Anne. The wife of James, Anne comes from a wealthy and liberal family. She is a Harvard grad in International Relations, recruited by the CIA.

The ensemble cast includes Portuguese and international actors, including Miguel Nunes, Carolina Amaral, Victoria Guerra, Afonso Pimentel, Adriano Luz, Joana Ribeiro,...

Finally making its way into American theatres on the cusp of its director’s passing, Mistérios de Lisboa [Mysteries of Lisbon] gives us an epic look into the bourgeois dramatics of Portugal’s capital city. The press notes for the film contain a pretty accurate and concise three-word description by Raúl Ruiz—“birth, betrayal, redemption”. That triplet sums up Camilo Castelo Branco’s 1854 novel and the adapted screenplay from Carlos Saboga to perfection, each word a huge piece to the tale surrounding an anonymous orphan named João. But as his mystery is uncovered, the sprawling soap opera turns into a sumptuous visual splendor of the past and fate’s often surprisingly coincidental blueprint. Through the orations of dying men and men raised from the ashes of dead aliases, Lisbon is brought to life through its 19th century aristocratic nobility. With a young boy in search of an identity at its center, his part...