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LB Entertainment, Behind Netflix Smash Hit ‘Sintonia,’ Pact With Brazilian Internet Giant UOL for Factual, True Crime Production (EXCLUSIVE)


Announced on the eve of Rio2C, the partnership takes in the production of docs, true crime and fiction entertainment.

(formerly Los Bragas) launching this January Facto8, a brand new arm for documentary/factual production, with the release of “Linha de Frente”, a doc feature produced alongside Globo Filmes and GloboNews. But our main motivation here is storytelling: Stories “based on true events” not only arouse the audience’s curiosity in a powerful way now, but bring at their core the type of human idiosyncrasy from which originality is born. Assis: In fact, we understand that previous responses that we have got – and measured with proper data – from our audiences to some articles that were already published are valuable assets for us and our partners to decide whether to dive deeper or not and turn them into film projects or series.

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