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Banijay Rights has teamed with Banijay Iberia label Diagonal TV and Crescendo Media Production on the feature documentary “The Silence of the Earth,” about the assassinations of three environmental activists and the larger impact that climate destruction is having on our world. Banijay will be sharing the film with prospective buyers at Mipcom later this month.

Eulogio Romero directs the film, which takes a close look at the lives and tragic deaths of three fearless environmentalists: Berta Cáceres, Paulo Paulino Guajajara and Aldo Zamora. Each had their lives cut short while fighting the good fight against unchecked corporate greed and environmental destruction.

Thematically, “The Silence of Earth” plays out as an investigative thriller, although its producers say at its core, it’s “a heart-wrenching drama, shining a light on the dark forces behind their deaths and connecting them to global climate change.”

Cáceres was a Honduran activist and Indigenous leader...

Transatlantic production label El Estudio has acquired the rights to author Fernando Gamboa’s hit novel “The Last Crypt,” and will work with powerhouse Spanish showrunner and “The Ministry of Time” creator Javier Olivares to develop the book into a high-end TV series, executive produced by Eulogio Romero (“Mitos y leyendas”).

“The Last Crypt,” the first in a three-book series, kicks off when diver Ulises Vidal discovers a small bronze bell buried in a coral reef near the Honduran island of Utila. With help from medieval history professor Eduardo Castillo, they learn that the bell is a Templar artifact, an impossibility unless all the history books are wrong and the Templars did in fact cross the Atlantic centuries before Columbus set off from the Spanish port of Palos de la Frontera in 1492.

With hopes of finding the fabled Templar’s treasure, the two join forces with Mexican archaeologist Cassandra Brooks...