Stories that become businesses, content, and culture.
The publishing-to-screen model has already built some of television's biggest franchises in English. Its equivalent for the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American market has yet to be built.
That is the company we are building. ALMA Media Lab is a publishing-to-screen studio headquartered in Miami: we create our own original stories and develop books and series together from day one, with their authors at the center of both.
WHO WE ARE
ALMA Media Lab develops Hispanic storytellers for the global stage, and creates original stories of its own.
Our craft covers the full life of a story: we find it or we invent it, refine it on the page, publish it as a book, and carry it to the screen with its author leading the way.
What sets us apart is the method: a discipline of strategic storytelling, born of 25 years of television and a foundation in philosophy, that treats every story as an asset to be built, protected and proven before it meets the market.
Writers keep their voice and their rights. Buyers receive IP that arrives ready.
WHAT WE ARE BUILDING
ALMA's first slate was signed in the company's first months of life.
Every project follows the same path: conceived on the page, published as a book, developed for the screen with its own author. Each will be announced in its own time.
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An original drama series created together with two of the most acclaimed showrunners working in Spanish-language television today, developed with ALMA from the very first page.
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An original drama series created together with two of the most acclaimed showrunners working in Spanish-language television today, developed with ALMA from the very first page.
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Exclusive rights to adapt two novels by an award-winning, internationally bestselling Latin American author, developed hand in hand with the writer.
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Exclusive rights to adapt two novels by an award-winning, internationally bestselling Latin American author, developed hand in hand with the writer.
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The first title from Alma Publishing: a true story of one man's pursuit of justice across more than three decades, connected to one of the most infamous crimes in Latin American memory. ALMA holds the exclusive rights; book and premium series are in parallel development.
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The first title from Alma Publishing: a true story of one man's pursuit of justice across more than three decades, connected to one of the most infamous crimes in Latin American memory. ALMA holds the exclusive rights; book and premium series are in parallel development.
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An audio trilogy reimagining one of the most iconic telenovelas in the history of Spanish-language television, in partnership with leading international audio and production companies.
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An audio trilogy reimagining one of the most iconic telenovelas in the history of Spanish-language television, in partnership with leading international audio and production companies.
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A children's IP with generational weight across Latin America, reborn for publishing and animation.
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A children's IP with generational weight across Latin America, reborn for publishing and animation.
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Una trilogía en audio que reimagina una de las telenovelas más icónicas de la historia de la televisión en español, en alianza con compañías internacionales líderes de audio y producción.
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Una trilogía en audio que reimagina una de las telenovelas más icónicas de la historia de la televisión en español, en alianza con compañías internacionales líderes de audio y producción.
The stories have names.
You will hear them soon.
OUR STORY
ALMA is built on the foundation of Mega Global Entertainment (MGE), the Miami company founded by Esperanza Garay, an iconic executive and entrepreneur of the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets and a pioneer in building bridges between the content markets of Turkey and Korea and Spanish-speaking audiences. Esperanza was Coca's agent and mentor, and the person who first brought her to the United States. After her passing, her son Andrés Arango Garay and Coca Gómez built ALMA to carry her vision into a new chapter: that stories in Spanish deserve the world stage.
WHAT WE DO
FOR CREATORS WITH PURPOSE
We take your idea, manuscript, or concept and develop it into a project ready to be published, adapted, or produced. From first instinct to finished property — structure, voice, market fit, and the strategy to place it in the right hands.
IF YOU HAVE A STORY
FOR PRODUCERS, STUDIOS, AND PLATFORMS
We originate, develop, and supply IP for film, television, and emerging formats — including vertical and short-form. Book adaptations with editorial weight. Original projects from established authors and screenwriters. Bibles, pitches, scripts, doctoring, and rewrites, delivered by a roster of top-tier creators.
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A STORY
ALMA PUBLISHING
A publishing house built for stories with an audiovisual life ahead of them.
Led by literary editor Amanda Garay, Alma Publishing develops and releases books that work first as literature, and are designed, from the page up, to travel into film, television and other formats, always together with their authors. It is both a home for writers and the engine room of ALMA's original IP.
OUR
ALLIANCES
A story that travels is built in good company.
ALMA works in a network of publishers, producers, platforms and agents across the Americas and Europe.
SENTIPENSANTE PHILOSOPHY
The ALMA Seal
Stories that think and feel at the same time.
We call our approach sentipensante — a word that means feeling-thinking, the refusal to separate the two.
Stories built only from craft are precise but hollow. Stories built only from emotion are powerful but unshaped. The ones that endure — and travel, and matter — do both at once. That is the standard we hold every project to, regardless of language, market, or format.
ABOUT US
At ALMA we believe that every good story can multiply its impact if it is worked on with passion and guidance.
A team of experts with deep credentials across writing, editorial, business, and rights — working internationally, building stories that are made to cross borders.
COCA GÓMEZ - Founder and Chief Content Officer
Carolina "Coca" Gómez is a Chilean-British author, producer and script doctor with 25 years in Spanish-language television (Canal 13, Televisa, Telemundo, Fábula). She co-created the iconic telenovela "Machos" (Canal 13, 2003), sold to more than 40 countries, as well as "Cerro Alegre" and "Mujeres de Lujo", among other original formats. In recent years she has worked on the executive side of the craft, creating formats, doctoring scripts and guiding companies and creators through the development of their stories, and distilled that experience, together with her training in philosophy, into the story-development method at the core of ALMA: a discipline of strategic storytelling that refines every story before it reaches the market. She is currently head writer, with powerhouse Fábula, of a major international biographical series for a global streaming giant. At ALMA, she leads content curation and development.
Andrés Arango Garay - Founder and CEO
Andrés Arango Garay brings a decade in sports and entertainment media, with roles in content licensing and media distribution at Concacaf and, previously, at NBCUniversal. His experience spans how intellectual properties are positioned, negotiated and scaled across territories. He is the son of the late Esperanza Garay, an iconic executive and entrepreneur of the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets and founder of Mega Global Entertainment (MGE), the company on whose foundation ALMA is built. At ALMA, he leads business strategy and international expansion.
AMANDA GARAY - DIRECTOR OF ALMA PUBLISHING
A literary editor with extensive experience in Latin American literature, she is a content curator and expert in the audiovisual and literary rights management business. Throughout her career, she has worked on the development, selection, and positioning of works, with a profound editorial vision and a clear understanding of the value of a story both in the world of books and in its projection into other formats. Her work intersects two key areas: the editorial development of a work and the strategic management of its rights and adaptation possibilities. She leads Alma Publishing, the company's publishing arm, and guides stories from the written word toward new opportunities for growth.
In a world saturated with stories, only the ones that connect stand out.
That is what we build.
If you write, ALMA is a home where your story is published, protected and taken to the screen.
If you buy, ALMA is a source of Spanish-language IP that arrives developed, proven and ready.
If you lead a company, ALMA turns what you do into a story worth telling.
A story told with purpose changes everything.
Start a conversation.
CONTACT
IF YOU HAVE A STORY, WE WANT TO HEAR IT.
IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR STORIES, WE WANT TO FIND THEM WITH YOU.
IF YOU NEED TO COMMUNICATE BETTER WHAT YOU DO, WE CAN HELP YOU DO IT WITH CLARITY AND FORCE.
GOOD STORIES START WITH A CONVERSATION.