This talk focuses on the Latin American films coproduced by Das kleine Fernsehspiel, the legendary German department created within ZDF which began its transmissions in 1963. Best known for being instrumental in the development of the New German Cinema, by the early 1980s DkF was coproducing films from Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. At the time, the contested category of the “Amphibischer” film was coined to describe German films suitable both for television and cinema. In this presentation, I shift the focus to the “other” filmmakers that benefited from the policies of convergence between the film and television industries developed in Germany in the 1970s. If during the late 1960s German television mainly documented the development of the “new cinemas” emerging in Latin American countries after the triumph of the Cuban revolution, from the mid-seventies onward the DkF starts to actively promote and fund filmmakers from the region. After military regimes rapidly engulfed their countries, numerous Latin American directors associated with the radical movement known as New Latin American Cinema turned to the DkF and similar public television units to continue filming. Focusing on the German case, I argue that although the exchanges between Latin Americans and their European counterparts were not without friction, these marginalized filmmakers found these peripheral departments to be significant allies, transforming European television into one of the main producers of Latin American cinemas. This presentation derives from the book I am currently working on, titled Unruly Bedfellows: Latin American Filmmakers and European Television during the Cold War.