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    A Killer Life; Telenovelas

    TV soap operas known as telenovelas are wildly popular all over the world, but how will they play in English here in the States? Plus, making indie films with Christine Vachon, the legendary founder of Killer Films .

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    By Claude Brodesser-Akner • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    TV soap operas known as telenovelas are wildly popular all over the world, but how will they play in English here in the States? Plus, making indie films with Christine Vachon, the legendary founder of Killer Films.

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      Claude Brodesser-Akner

      Star-Ledger / NJ.com

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      Christine Vachon

      Killer Films

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      Paul Buccieri

      President of Programming at Twentieth Television

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      Steve Kent

      Sr Exec VP of International Production at Sony Pictures TV International

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