Pure Flix Familia, the streaming service for Latino audiences recently launched by Great American Media, is expanding its programming with the debut of Novelitas™, a channel dedicated to microdramas with heartfelt stories rooted in faith, family, love and Latino culture. The announcement was made on November 2, 2026, via NOTICIAS NEWSWIRE.
Leading the launch is Alquilé Un Novio Para Navidad (I Rented a Boyfriend for Christmas), an original Spanish-language Christmas romantic comedy. Produced in Ecuador by Minivela in collaboration with Red Minds Films, the series combines romance, Christmas traditions and faith themes in a vertical format designed to be watched on a cell phone. Novelitas™ premieres with three Minivela productions debuting on the Pure Flix Familia streaming service.
The channel brings faith- and family-centered content to the growing microdrama genre. “Novelitas expands our commitment to Latino families with stories that reflect their culture, traditions and faith,” said Bill Abbott, president and CEO of Great American Media. “Through our alliance with Minivela, we bring that commitment to a format designed for the cell phone that offers audiences another way to enjoy uplifting entertainment.”
“Latino culture offers a great wealth of stories about love, family and belonging,” said Manny Ruiz, CEO of Minivela. “With these three productions, we bring those connections to the vertical storytelling format, led by a Christmas romantic comedy that puts faith and family at the center.”
Novelitas™ highlights sincere emotions, authentic relationships and character development. By focusing on faith and family, it allows the pace and duration of the episodes to respond to the emotional needs of each story. The result is a different kind of vertical entertainment: stories that remain captivating and perfect for binge-watching, while also allowing audiences to connect more deeply with themes such as love, forgiveness, cultural identity, family relationships and faith.
Novelitas™ is available on Pure Flix Familia at pureflixfamilia.com. Subscribe for $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year and enjoy heartfelt stories that celebrate faith, family and Latino culture.
The premiere lineup includes Alquilé Un Novio Para Navidad, in which Sofía, facing another Christmas full of awkward questions about her love life, recruits a charming resort waiter to pose as her successful boyfriend. As her elaborate Christmas charade unfolds, unexpected feelings threaten to turn a fake romance into something very real. Produced in Ecuador with Red Minds Films, this heartfelt Spanish-language Christmas romantic comedy combines romance, humor, faith and the importance of family.
Cholita Takes L.A. follows a fearless Bolivian fashionista and lucha libre queen who travels to Los Angeles to reunite with her ailing Mexican-American grandmother. Along the way, she clashes with a feisty group of local Cholas, discovers an unexpected romance and learns that staying true to her roots can be her greatest strength. Created by Manny Ruiz and produced by Minivela in collaboration with Chicano Hollywood, this colorful bilingual story celebrates cultural identity, family and belonging.
Sabrina tells the story of 15-year-old Sabrina, who resists her family’s plans to throw her an elaborate quinceañera and finds herself caught between tradition and her desire to define her own identity. As her mother and sister insist on the celebration they never had, her father struggles to accept that his daughter is growing up. With family tensions rising and a long-held secret about to come to light, Sabrina discovers that becoming a woman is about much more than turning fifteen.
The launch of Novelitas™ marks another milestone in Pure Flix Familia’s mission to offer an ever-growing selection of wholesome, culturally authentic entertainment for Latino audiences, while creating new opportunities for filmmakers and storytellers who want to bring faith- and family-centered stories to a rapidly growing entertainment format. As the channel grows, Novelitas™ seeks to demonstrate that the future of microdramas can include not only romance and suspense, but also uplifting, emotionally resonant stories that celebrate the values, relationships and traditions that matter most to families.
