Ventanarosa is a production company

Production company

A production company provides the physical basis for works in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video.- Tasks and functions :...

 formally founded by Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek

Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...

 in 1999. Its Spanish language

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 translation literally means "rose

Rose

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-colored window" or "pink window."

Ventanarosa's first feature film was El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba

No One Writes to the Colonel (film)

No One Writes to the Colonel is a 1999 Spanish-language film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It was an international co-production between France, Spain and Mexico...

based on the Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...

 novel

Novel

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 of the same name. The film was Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

's official selection for submission to the Best Foreign Film category at the Academy Awards

Academy Awards

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 and was directed by Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein y Rosen is a Mexican film director.-Life and career:Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir...

.

In 2001 the Ventanarosa released the Showtime movie In the Time of the Butterflies

In the Time of the Butterflies (film)

In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film, produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso based on the Julia Álvarez book of the same name...

, another adaptation of a Hispanic

Hispanic

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 author

Author

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's work. The next year, Frida

Frida

Frida is a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera....

, a film Hayek had been involved with since 1997, was released in theaters. The biographical film about the life of artist Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo de Rivera was a Mexican painter, born in Coyoacán, and perhaps best known for her self-portraits....

 went on to win two Oscars

Academy Awards

An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

. The success of Frida, coupled with the good reception of In the Time of the Butterflies, was followed by the 2003 Emmy

Emmy Award

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-winning The Maldonado Miracle, also for Showtime.

Ventanrosa became involved with Reveille Productions

Reveille Productions

Reveille Productions is an independently-owned television and motion picture studio and production company based in Los Angeles. The studio was founded by Ben Silverman in March 2002....

' United States

United States

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 adaptation of the Colombia

Colombia

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n telenovela

Telenovela

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, Yo Soy Betty La Fea in 2004. The series — later titled Ugly Betty

Ugly Betty

Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which premiered on ABC on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series revolves around the character Betty Suarez and is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea...

— was picked up by ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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, where it aired from 2006 to 2010.