Over the last year and a half, few if any other major Latin American company has expanded as fast as Los Angeles-based MFF & Co.

Just last year alone, Brazil’s Maria Farinha Filmes opened L.A. offices, headed by former Participant Media exec Miura Kite. MFF & Co also took a stake in London’s Velvet Films, the four-time Academy Award-nominated production company founded by Oscar-winning filmmaker Joanna Natasegara (“White Helmets,” “Virunga”).

Last month, it unveiled that MFF & Co is partnering with Globo to develop English-language North American adaptations of the Brazilian TV giant’s smash hit telenovelas.

MFF & Co is hiring A-list writers to adapt three of 10 titles. MFF & Co founders Marcos Nisti and Renner are making soft adaptations of the others in order to be able to go out

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