Motion Pictures, S.A.
Motion Pictures, S.A. is a Spanish production and distribution company of audiovisual TV products, founded by Enrique Uviedo and established in Barcelona since 1975. The company has licensed foreign shows in Spain, such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", and co-produced its own animated series, including two with Walt Disney Television Animation Spain, SA. Motion Pictures' logo looks very similar to the classic Motown logo, as well the name of the company. Company history. The company was founded in 1977 by its president Uviedo Enrique Herrera. The first activities of the company were the production of low -budget films while working in the productions of Italian, American, and British filmmakers who came to shoot in Spain. In the early 1980s, Motion Pictures began to buy broadcasting rights, primarily video and television. Coinciding with the end of the video boom in the early 1990s, the company began to buy American film catalogs for television distribution, with titles such as "Star Wars", "The Empire Strikes Back", "", "Apocalypse Now", and "". Alongside this films acquisition policy was resumed the production of Spanish films, including "", sold in over forty countries. In addition a series with the same title was produced for Tele  5, which won the “Ondas” Award in 1995 - Best Fiction Series of the Year. Motion Pictures has had and extended animation catalog series. It has brought notable series to Spain for more than 20 years, such as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Inspector Gadget", "The Smurfs", "Calimero", and "Dennis the Menace". Motion Pictures has heavily invested for the sales of international rights and is now available in international markets such as Natpe, Foorum TV, Los Angeles Screenings, Mip TV, Latin American Screens, and Mipcom. Produced and coproduced series. Since 2001 Motion Pictures is coproducing its own animated series currently being broadcast  around the world: Rainbow Spain. Recently, Motion Pictures and Rainbow S.p.A., an Italian animation producers, announced the agreement reached for the establishment of a joint venture in Spain. The head office of this new company named RAINBOW Spain, will be located at Motion Pictures offices in Barcelona and will also have an office in Madrid. RAINBOW Spain will be responsible for managing the licensing of TV rights and merchandising of the properties of both companies in the Spanish market of the series: "Winx Club" (104 x 26’), "Huntik" (26 x 26’) and "Poppixie" (52x13’), among others being produced right  now.