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Netflix’s latest Mexican shoot-’em-up, Counterstrike, directed by Chava Cartas, is as straightforward and entertaining an outdoor action movie as can be. With a fairly simplistic plot that sees a small band of special agents surviving against great odds while taking down waves of cartel militia, Counterstrike utilizes a compact, streamlined narrative style that never lets viewers feel the weight of successive action sequences throughout its 80 minute runtime. When it comes to characterization, despite being nothing extraordinary, it does the job of making viewers relate to the key characters and establishes the basic emotional connection that is needed to heighten the tension and balance the action spectacles. Although it would have been better if the Murcielagos unit members, whose interpersonal relations are the heart of the movie, were fleshed out a bit more, and I don’t think it would have hampered the flow of the narrative in any way either.

Eze Olzanski’s Buenos Aires-based Eo Media has confirmed the Jan. 27 A&e Latin America debut for Argentine-Brazil series “Sumergidos” as it descends on Content Americas.

This follows a raft of various new movie deals that the production and distribution company sealed at Mip Cancun with the likes of Paramount, NBC Universal, Globo and Mvs. It also closed free TV pacts in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Mexico, Brazil and Uruguay as well as inflight deals for several movies in its slate at the Mexico event.

“Sumergidos”is one of the latest additions to A&e’s catalog of crime drama series alongside titles led by “Narcos,” “Narcos: Mexico,” “El Chapo,” “Rosario Tijeras,” “El Patrón del Mal” and “Sobreviviendo a Escobar: Alias JJ.”

“When we sold ‘Narcos,’ ‘Narcos: Mexico’ and ‘El Chapo’ to A&e, not many believed that they could play on both a pay TV network and Netflix simultaneously. We proved...

Dominican filmmaker Leticia Tonos’ sci-fi drama “Aire” has won the inaugural Fantastic Latido Award at the Cannes Film Market’s new Fantastic Pavilion genre hub.

Presented by Madrid-based Latido Films, the Fantastic Latido Award offers international sales representation for the winning film.

“Aire” centers on Tania, a conservation biologist living in a future dystopian world where the human race has been reduced to extinction level by pollution and disease. In an effort to keep her species from disappearing completely, she tries with the help of Vida, an artificial intelligence system, to self-inseminate herself.

Her life with the AI system is disrupted, however, when Azarias, a mysterious traveler, arrives, creating a tense and dangerously toxic three-way relationship.

“Aire” stars Sophie Gaelle Gomez (“Rosario Tijeras”), Dominican actor Jalsen Santana and Spain’s Paz Vega as the voice of Vida.

Produced by Tonos’ Producciones Línea Espiral Srl and Lantica Media along with Dominican...