Ja n u a r y 2 0 1 2 (Continued on Page 8) Caracol’s Santo Domingo Dies Colombia’s billionaire broadcaster and owner of Caracol Televisión Julio Mario Santo Domingo died last October at age 87 in New York. According to VideoAge’s January 2011 Issue, Santo Domingo’s fortune was worth $8.4 billion, making him the first Colombian to achieve world-class wealth. At the zenith, sales from his Santo Domingo group equaled four percent of Colombia’s national output. He met his first wife, to whom he was married for five years, while living in Paris, but returned to Colombia in 1948. In the 1960s, Santo Domingo merged his father’s beer company, Cervecería Águila, with Bavaria, the national beer company. Although it took 40 years to fully execute, eventually the holding led to a controlling 75 percent stake. Bavaria promptly held a monopoly over Colombia’s beer industry, with operations in Peru, Panama and Ecuador as well. Diversification included cars, petrochemicals and telecoms, Aviance (the world’s second oldest airline) and Caracol radio and television. Santo Domingo was also interested in newspapers, and in 1997, he saved El Espectador, Colombia’s second newspaper, from financial ruin. He was educated in Bogotá, Colombia, Europe and the U.S., and he spoke six different languages. In the late 1970s, SantoDomingo served as Colombia’s first ambassador to China, and beginning in the 1980s, he spent more time in New York than in Colombia. His first son, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Braga, died of cancer in 2009. He’s survived by his second wife, Beatrice Davila, and two sons, Alejandro and Andrés. Taking A Stand Against Piracy Creative America — a grassroots organization based in Toluca Lake, California that brings together the entertainment community and others — is taking a stand against content theft, orpiracy, seeking industrywide support through their website (creativeamerica.org) and advertisements placed in consumer publications. According to Creative America, by trafficking stolen film and television, as well as other creative content, content thieves threaten the livelihood of those in the entertainment industry. In addition, such theft undermines the legitimate services that have been created to provide television and film content online. Piracy is a widespread problem. As just one example of content theft, according to the organization, on October 9, NBC Sports’ Sunday Night Football began airing at 8:30p.m. on U.S. television, and by 8:40p.m., it was already being streamed illegally. Creative America unites actors, directors, editors, cinematographers, craft professionals, small businesses that service the industry, studio employees, publications such as VideoAge, and others who work in and are passionate about film, TV and other creative industries. Members of the coalition include: American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, CBS Corporation, the Directors Guild of America, IATSE International, NBC Universal, the Screen Actors Guild, Sony PicturesEntertainment,TwentiethCentury Fox, Viacom, the Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. Entertainment. Additionally, the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), which represents the interests of the independent film sector and organizes the American Film Market, confirmed its support for bipartisan legislation in the U.S. to stop online piracy. The Stop Online Piracy Act would give the U.S. Attorney General the ability to shut down foreign websites that steal American-made films, TV shows and other content. The IFTA sent a letter to House (Congress) Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith and Ranking Member John Conyers, offering to work with them to help pass the legislation. AFM “Loews” Santa Monica Last month, the Los Angelesbased Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) announced that its American Film Market (AFM) will remain in Santa Monica, California through 2017. The IFTA arranged for the AFM to P E Media Services REPRESENTATIVE IN LATIN AMERICA FOR FUN WORLD MEDIA APA FILMS AND CARSEY WERNER DOCUMENTARIES Pepe Echegaray President P E Media Services, LLC 2451 Brickell Avenue Suite 14 J - Miami Florida 33129-2421 Tel:+1-305-299-6060 Email: pepe@pemediaservices.com skype: pemediaservices www.pemediaservices.com VISIT US AT OUR BOOTH IN MARKET FLOOR # 127 NAPTE 2012
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