Abacus, Evening Prepare. Pre-Gross sales on ‘Conquistadors: The Rise and Fall’ 

Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Leisure Firm, and Herbert L. Kloiber’s Munich-based Evening Prepare Media (NTM) are launching pre-sales this week on the darkish truths collection “Conquistadors: The Rise and Fall” as Content material Americas and Realscreen raise off in respectively in Miami and Austin. 

The launch comes after AMR took on world distribution rights in affiliation with NTM on the six-part factual collection, produced by Emmy-nominated Sprint Photos and NTM. It sheds mild on the cruel truths surrounding Europe’s dramatic wave of growth from 1492 after Colombus landed within the Caribbean. 

Through reportedly lavish reconstructions, framed by in-depth evaluation by historic consultants from the Americas and Spain, the collection will raise the lid on the truth of the almost century-long Conquest. 

The Conquistadores noticed themselves as Christian warriors, bringing God’s phrase to the world. The fact is that the Conquest, fuelled by Conquistadors’ obsessions with gold, energy and glory not solely overturned the Aztec and Inca empires, themselves bloody regimes. In addition they decimated Indigenous populations by means of typically brutal homicide and all of the extra enslavement and the unfold of lethal illness.  

At the moment filming in Spain and South America and  directed by Sharp and narrated by actor Christian Camargo (“See,” “The Damage Locker,” “Twilight”), “Conquistadors” is govt produced for Sprint Photos by Daniel Sharp (“Vikings: The Rise & Fall,” “Implausible Mates”) and Anna O’Malley (“Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story,” “Vikings: The Rise & Fall”) and for NTM by Herbert L. Kloiber (“Vikings: The Rise and Fall,” “Rogue Agent”), and James Copp.

“Our analysis crew has peeled again layer upon layer of untruths to disclose a lot that has both been misplaced or hidden by historical past,” mentioned Sharp. “From the broadly lauded names of Columbus, Pizarro, Cortés and the myths behind the defeat of the Incas and the Aztecs. So many Indigenous individuals had been crushed by the ability of Europeans, lives and entire societies gone ceaselessly due to the willpower and greed of countries relentlessly in search of an increasing number of,” he mentioned, drawing a parallel with the current.  

Kloiber, NTM CEO and proprietor, added: “After the success of the thrilling documentary collection on the Vikings [“Vikings: The Rise & Fall”], we’re delighted to accomplice once more with the proficient crew at Sprint Photos to uncover the reality of this unimaginable story.”

Jonathan Ford, managing director at AMR mentioned: “We’re delighted as soon as once more to be collaborating with our associates at Evening Prepare Media, this time on the truth of the Conquistadors who rampaged by means of North and Latin America underneath the guise of Christianity.”