Mexican Cinema Classics Restored in HD for U.S. Hispanic Market

By Latin America Tribune

MIAMI – U.S.-based media and entertainment company Olympusat Inc. is working with independent film libraries to restore classic Mexican films and bring them to Spanish-speaking TV audiences in the United States.

Olympusat Holdings Inc.’s founder and CEO, Tom Mohler, told Efe the restored films sometimes “are better than when they were screened for the first time” and hailed the “historic significance” of this effort to preserve Mexican culture.

Olympusat, the leading distributor of Hispanic TV networks in the United States, is following in the footsteps of U.S. billionaire Ted Turner, founder of CNN, who in 1986 purchased MGM/United Artists’ vast film library to feed his cable television channels.

The idea is the same but with a focus on Mexican cinema, Mohler said, noting that in the mid-20th century that country produced more films of “great quality” and in higher quantities than the rest of Latin America combined.

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