EXCLUSIVE: HarbourView Fairness Companions, the funding firm that purchased into Charles D. King’s Macro final yr, is placing more cash into the movie and tv enterprise.
The corporate, which was based by Sherrese Clarke Soares, has invested in LatinX-focused firm Mucho Mas Media.
This comes forward of the discharge of Mucho Mas’ movie The Lengthy Recreation, which earned the SXSW Narrative Highlight Viewers Award in 2023.
Clarke Soares has been added as an exec producer of the movie, which was directed by Julio Quintana and opens in theaters nationwide on April 12.
Monetary particulars weren’t disclosed however HarbourView joins Texas-based actual property funding and enterprise capital agency Barshop Enterprise and the household workplace of NBA Corridor of Famer David Robinson and Henry Cisneros as traders.
Mucho Mas Media contains two firms: Inclusion Administration, a expertise administration enterprise representing various movie and TV creators and CHiSPA Comics, producing Latino-focused comedian books for international comedian e book followers. Its slate contains Prime Video’s The Black Demon starring Josh Lucas, Netflix’s Blue Miracle starring Dennis Quaid, Rosario starring Emeraude Toubia and David Dastmalchian, Jenni Rivera biopic Jenni and Eric Nazarian’s Die Like A Man.
It’s subsequent movie is The Lengthy Recreation, which screened on the White Home over the weekend.
The Lengthy Recreation, impressed by the e book Mustang Miracle written by Humberto G. Garcia, follows the true story of 5 younger Mexican American caddies in 1955 who created their very own golf course in the course of the South Texas brush nation. Regardless of outdated and inferior tools and no skilled instruction to start with, they’d go on to compete towards rich, all-white groups and win the 1957 Texas State Excessive Faculty Golf Championship.
It stars Jay Hernandez, Dennis Quaid, Cheech Marin, Julian Works, Paulina Chavez, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Brett Cullen and Oscar Nuñez. Quintana penned the script alongside Jennifer C. Stetson and Paco Farias.
Exec producers embody Hernandez, Phillip Braun, Christian Sosa, Simon Smart, Colleen Barshop and Vincent Cordero and Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in addition to Clarke Soares. Producers embody Javier Chapa, Ben Howard, Dennis Quaid, Marla Quintana and Laura Quaid.
“We’re thrilled to companion with Javier, Vincent, Simon and their staff. We look ahead to working intently with their immensely proficient executives to help their ambitions,” mentioned Sherrese Clarke Soares. “We imagine Mucho Mas possesses the skillful means to drive ROI by centering audiences and delivering compelling tales. We couldn’t consider a greater companion to put money into as we develop our portfolio.”
“We need to emphasize the significance of Sherrese and her staff at HarbourView” added Mucho Mas’ Co-CEO & Chief Content material Officer Javier Chapa and Co-CEO & Chief Enterprise Officer Vincent Cordero. “We’re grateful to all our traders for his or her dedication to take a position and empower Latino founders and startups, for the growth and betterment of the worldwide media trade.”
HarbourView Fairness Companions was represented within the deal by Michael Miller and Alissa Miller at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Mucho Mas Media was represented by Darrel Barros and Kimberly Mann at Shulman Rogers LLP, in addition to Teresa Walsh and Tarek Sadi at Entry Media Advisory.
