International sales house Latido Films and Portuguese pubcaster Rtp are boarding high-end TV series project “South,” a Lisbon-set noir crime drama by Portugal’s Ivo M.
Ferreira (“Letters From War”).Selected for pitching on Feb.
21 at the CoPro Series, part of the 2018 Berlinale Co-Production Market, “South” is set up at Portugal’s Arquipélago Filmes, founded by series’ producer Edgar Medina.One of the biggest names in current Portuguese Cinema, director Ivo M.
Ferreira returns to Berlin with “South” after his third feature film, “Letters From War,” competed in 2016 at the festival, becoming Portugal’s entry in the race for the 2017 Academy Awards.Scheduled to roll in Portuguese-language in Lisbon, from April to June, the one season TV skein would be concluded by September-October and available in two formats: as a 10 45-minute episodes and a five 90-minute segs.The TV drama is set over a long hot summer in Lisbon, during the present-day economic and social crisis, where
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