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Paz Lázaro’s Madrid-based Amore Cine and Basque producer Txintxua Films, one driving force behind the Basque Country’s robust growth, have boarded Quijote Films’ wry psychological drama “Morir de Pie” (“To Die on Your Feet”) by María Paz Gonzalez (“Lina de Lima”).

They join Argentina’s Gema Films, which joined the production earlier this year and also co-produced “Lina de Lima” with Santiago and LA-based Quijote Films.

The new pact, announced at Madrid confab Iberseries & Platino Industria, signals the ever-growing collaborative efforts among filmmakers from Spain and Latin America. Spain’s generous incentives and national and regional subsidies have drawn more producers from Latin America and elsewhere to partner with Spanish players. The launch of up-to-70% tax credits in the Basque Country has made it even more enticing to work with such companies as Txintxua Films, known for hit series “Intimacy” which shot to No. 1 on Netflix’s global...

Ben Lobato, co-showrunner of Alice Braga-starrer “Queen of the South,” a top-three Nielsen ratings performer for USA Network, has boarded “Hot Sur,” a fast-moving thriller set up at Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fabula and at Fremantle Mexico, the burgeoning Mexican production hub of the global production-distribution giant.

Lobato will showrun the TV series, which will be helmed by Gabriel Ripstein, writer-director of acclaimed Mexican Amazon Original “An Unknown Enemy.”

Shaping up as one of the biggest new projects being brought on the market at Content Americas, “Hot Sur” will be presented at Content Americas Copro Pitch on Tuesday, one of the TV market and forum’s industry centerpieces.

In it, Maria Paz, an undocumented Mexican immigrant looking after her bipolar sister, becomes a fugitive after being falsely accused of murder. Hunted by a determined U.S. Marshal – also Latinx – and María Paz’s vengeful former lover,...