“Hollywood should be jealous of what Spain is doing,” said Netflix’s VP of Spain, Diego Ávalos, on a panel at the MIA Market last October.
Considering the recent success of Spanish filmmaker J.A. Bayona’s Andes plane-crash survival thriller Society of the Snow — which earned the No. 4 spot among Netflix’s most popular non-english films of all time with nearly 200 million viewing hours — that statement might not be so far-fetched.
