Calinos Entertainment announced today the strategic appointment of Jose Luis Gascue as Executive VP, Head of Worldwide Sales. He was previously VP, Latin America Sales for the former 20th Century Fox.

Gascue is a Venezuelan attorney with a Master’s degree in Comparative Law from the University of Miami. He started his career in 1993 at HBO Latin America, where he was Manager of Business Affairs, he then Joined NBCUniversal in 2000 to become Director, Sales and Operations for Latin America; then in 2006 he became VP, Sales for Beverly Hills Entertainment and in 2008 he joined Fox. In his 27-year career, he has worked in a leading Pay TV Channel, two major Hollywood Studios and one independent distributor.

‘‘Jose Luis Gascue brings proven sales experience to Calinos,” stated Fırat Gülgen, Calinos Entertainment’s Founder and CEO. “He is a very successful and experienced leader in TV sales and we are very happy to combine his 27 years of relevant knowledge with our 23 years of experience in the media and entertainment industries. Including 3.000 hours programming to our catalog all produced under the FOX brand, we are also delighted that we have added a large variety of content from BKM to our catalog. BKM is the biggest feature film production house in Turkey and their content has become available worldwide by our distribution with a deal, which covers 58 movies and 5 TV Shows. We already have great success with Medyapım’s productions such as Woman, Forbidden Fruit and Our Story, in addition to these we will also add to our portfolio new TV series Mother Guilt and Firefighters from Limon Yapim. And now with Gascue’s efforts by leading the sales team, we will further strengthen our ability reach more markets.

“I am thrilled to start this new experience with Calinos,” Gascue stated, “Calinos is bringing primetime shows to Latin America and the world with great production value and proven success, shows such as The Girl Named Feriha, Forbidden Fruit, Our Story and Woman are great examples of the catalog’s strengths.”