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MIAMI, Fl., January, 2020 – ViendoMovies, the 24-hours a day SOMOSTV (company chaired by Luis Villanueva and part of SOMOS Group) channel featuring exclusive, commercial free movies, originally produced in Spanish, starts 2021 with a set of successful and modern films that gather great productions and casts of famous artists. Animal (Argentina), Mente Revolver (Mexico), Un Traductor (Cuba), El Piedra (Colombia), and De Pez en Cuando (Dominican Republic) are part of this set of movies, programed ideally in January when ratings and television turn-ons increase significantly.

Animal is the helpless story of Antonio Decoud (Guillermo Francella), a conservative family man who is forced by fate to face an unexpected health situation that changes his life and priorities, pushing him to forget his beliefs and to follow his animal instinct. With a touch of black comedy, the film participated in the Sitges Festival: Official Competition Section and in the Sur Awards: nominated for best photography, music and makeup. The film is directed by Armando Bo, writer, director and Oscar winner for Best Original Screenplay (along with Nicolás Giacobone) for Birdman (2014) and also a writer for Biutiful (2010).

As another exclusive premiere, the channel presents Mente Revolver, nominated for the Ariel Awards for best actor (Beltrán). These are the crossing stories of several unique characters: Chicali has entered the business of murdering for hire, but wishes to leave it knowing that whoever enters it dies. Jenny is an American homeless woman who decides to cross the border into Mexico to change her street condition. Mario, convicted of murdering the presidential candidate, is released from prison after 20 years in jail and returns to the city of Tijuana to rebuild his life. Jenny has fallen in love with the young Chicali, who has been tasked to kill Mario.

Un Traductor, nominated for the Forqué Awards for best Latin American film, at the Fénix Awards in the category of best actor and opera prima, and at the Sundance and Shanghai Festivals, tells the story of Malin who lives in the time of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Malin (a professor of Russian literature at the University of Havana) is separated from his family to work as a translator between Cuban doctors and children who are beginning to arrive from the USSR to receive treatment for the radiation exposure. Malin must find a solution to prevent fall into depression.

El Piedra is a boxing drama starring Reynaldo “El Piedra” Salgado, a Cartagena boxer who makes a living working as the “bait”: he fights without having any chance of winning. One day Breyder appears, a street boy who claims to be his son and who wants to be a boxer like him. Father and presumed son will learn to live together. Reynaldo will find someone who will make him feel valuable again, and Breyder will learn to admire the father who makes sacrifices and not the supposed champion. The film participated at the official selection of the Ibero-American Film Festival of Huelva, Spain, where it won the ‘Key to Freedom’ Award, awarded by the inmates of the Huelva Penitentiary Center, and the ‘Most Supportive Film’ Award. The movie also won the Audience Award at the Bogotá International Film Festival and was selected at the 68th International Film festival Mannheim-Heidelberg in the international competition for the Grand Newcomer Award and the Talent Award, and in the International Panorama section of the International Film Festival in Cairo.  The film received three nominations for the 2019 Macondo Awards; with Manuel Álvarez Valdelamar as Best Leading Actor, and Juan Carlos Pellegrino for Best Music and Best Song.

Finally, ViendoMovies premieres De Pez en Cuando, a film from the popular Dominican cinema that narrates the adventures of Ben, a frustrated writer who is involved in an absurd plot of thugs, a pregnant woman, a jealous husband, a teenage girl in love and a mysterious stewardess. All of them will live a day more than interesting, of course, accompanied by a fish.

ABOUT VIENDOMOVIES: ViendoMovies is a Pay TV channel that broadcasts contemporary, exclusive Spanish-language films 24 hours a day with no commercial breaks, in a premium, culturally relevant on air look. ViendoMovies is produced in the US for the Hispanic and Puerto Rico markets and is part of SOMOSTV LLC. For more information please visit us at www.viendomovies.com and www.somostv.net