Exclusive: Sky Arts Picks Up Travis Doc ‘Almost Fashionable’
Sky Arts has acquired an award-winning documentary on Scottish band Travis. The Comcast-owned pay-TV channel has added Almost Fashionable: A Film About Travis to its slate of new titles, and is understood to be readying a summer premiere for the 60-minute film about the rock band, which found fame in the ’90s for songs such as ‘Why […]
Limonero Films Expands Sales Team
London and Barcelona-based distributor Limonero Films has expanded its team with the appointment of former HBO Latin America exec Andrea Orellana. Orellana has worked in several marketing agencies across South America, and also served as editorial content producer for Canal Sony, AXN and HBO’s Latin American channel HBO Olé in Caracas, Venezuela. She will serve […]
Asylum Seeker Documentary ‘Stop The Boats’ Gets International Distribution Deal
News Article A feature documentary secretly filmed in off-shore camps in the Pacific that hold asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat will launch internationally at Mipcom. “Stop the Boats” has been acquired by indie distributor Limonero Films, which will take it out to international buyers in Cannes. The film is directed by Simon V. Kurian […]
Limonero Films Strikes Deal With NETFLIX
UK distributor Limonero Films has struck a raft of deals for HIV documentary Lovesick, including BBC Arabic, German channel Planete and Netflix. The streaming giant has picked up the film (1 x 74 minutes; 1 x 52 minutes), which tells the story of the trailblazing doctor who discovered HIV in India, for Southeast Asia and India. […]
Limonero Films announced pre-sales at MIPCOM
News Article Limonero Films has announced a string of sales ahead of MIPCOM. Inside the Storm: Lessons from the Boardroom (4 x 60’) has gone to Radio Television Hong Kong, BBC Arabic, RTL Z in The Netherlands, S.H. Channel 8 in Israel, and ZDF in Germany. BBC Arabic has also picked up the prison-set documentary In the Darkness: Inside […]
MIPCOM 2017 – LIMONERO SHOWCASES NOMAD’S FIGHTING FIT DUBAI
Production company Nomad TV Media has enlisted the support of UK-based Limonero Films in distributing two seasons of its lifestyle reality TV series Fighting Fit Dubai. Limonero will showcase the reality show at the MIPCOM TV market in Cannes. Meanwhile, Nomad will start work on a third season of Fighting Fit Dubai, which has aired across the […]
Happy Birthday to Us!
We Are One Year Old! (And what an incredible year it has been) Thank you for your support, we look forward to continuing working together making great television. Get in touch to make an appointment at MIPCOM, ATF or just to say hi! Best, Pamela Martínez Martínez
Some Highlights from Limonero Films HQ
It has gone extremely fast: the first nine months of life of Limonero Films are almost over. We would like to share with you what we have been up to. Please keep reading! The following are some of the highlights of the past nine months: New Titles and Sales: We have 30 hours of finished programming in our catalogue, and […]
Newbie distributor Limonero snags Seeso series
Limonero Newly-created distributor Limonero Films has come back from its first MIPCOM with a deal for UK rights to The Amazing Gayl Pile. The show was an original for Seeso, the US comedy SVOD service run by NBCUniversal. Limonero was set up by Pamela Martinez Martinez, a former TCB Media Rights and Boulder Creek sales executive, as a […]
Hola Mundo!
Thus it begins; our adventure in the world of independent international distribution. Born out of a desire to champion vibrant projects, Limonero Films strives to put passion into action, and dedication into a distinctive and lasting commercial enterprise. We love seeing people succeed and helping small stories become global ones. With that in mind, we […]