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Sunday, October 1, 2006
A Killer Life; Telenovelas [Listen] [Listen] [Listen]

TV soap operas known as telenovelas are wildly popular all over the world, but how will they play in English here in the States? Plus, making indie films with Christine Vachon, the legendary founder of Killer Films.

Todays Guests:

Christine Vachon

Founder and President of the indie production company Killer Films (Infamous) and co-author of A Killer Life: How an Independent Film Producer Survives Deals and Disasters in Hollywood

Paul Buccieri

President of Programming at Twentieth Television, responsible for myTVnetwork’s huge slate of English-language programs adapted from Spanish-language telenovelas

Steve Kent

Senior Executive Vice President of International Production at Sony Pictures Television International

Tomas Lopez-Pumarejo

Instructor of International Business in the Department of Economics at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and US Coordinator of Ibero-American Television Fiction Observatory, or OBITEL, a group that studies the world's Spanish and Portuguese television fiction industries to foster growth

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