Spain’s Mediacrest and Chile’s Maria Wood Productions Team for Mars-set Dystopian Series, ’Humanity’(EXCLUSIVE)
Anna Marie de la Fuente In its continued bid to explore new fiction content, Spain’s Mediacrest has joined forces with Chilean shingle Maria Wood Prods. to co-produce sci-fi series, “Humanity.”This is the fledgling three-year-old company’s first collaboration with a Chilean producer and also its first with a Latin American company.To be presented at Series Mania, the Mars-based series could not be more timely given the growing interest in the Red Planet by space exploration companies led by NASA and billionaires Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos.In July, Branson and Bezos flew to the edge of space nine days apart to much fanfare – and some trepidation – as part of their ambition to ferry passengers to space.