Filmax has boarded “The Monster of Many Noses,” which marks yet another feature debut of a Barcelona-based female director, Abigail Schaaff, here in a movie which blends fantasy genre and local lore to large social point.
Filmax, which also handles distribution in Spain, will show first images of the film at the American Film Market.
Connecting 1960s Spain to its 1930s, the decade of Spain’s Civil War whose atrocities were silenced as the price of transition to democracy in 1970s Spain, “The Monster of Many Noses” (“L’home dels lassos”) is set in 1968 in a small village in the mountains.
Three children try to escape the so-called Man of Many Noses, a figure in Catalan lore who hunts down children who have told too many lies on the last day of the year. “But the children aren’t the only ones who fear him. Lies from the past can also be smelled,...
Filmax, which also handles distribution in Spain, will show first images of the film at the American Film Market.
Connecting 1960s Spain to its 1930s, the decade of Spain’s Civil War whose atrocities were silenced as the price of transition to democracy in 1970s Spain, “The Monster of Many Noses” (“L’home dels lassos”) is set in 1968 in a small village in the mountains.
Three children try to escape the so-called Man of Many Noses, a figure in Catalan lore who hunts down children who have told too many lies on the last day of the year. “But the children aren’t the only ones who fear him. Lies from the past can also be smelled,...
- 11/2/2023
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
“20,000 Species of Bees,” (Estibaliz Urresola)
One of the big winners at Berlin, taking Leading Performance, and now racking up healthy sales, the story of a family off for a village summer holiday which builds to a moving ode to women’s freedoms. Sales: Luxbox
“21 Paraíso,” (Nestor Ruiz Medina)
Living in an idyllic Andalusia, a couple in love grapples with the realities of making a living through OnlyFans. Screened at Seville and Tallinn. Sales: Begin Again Films.
“All the Names of God,” (Daniel Calparsoro)
One of the big Spanish action-thrillers hitting this Cannes market, from a specialist (“Sky High”). Pre-sold to France (Kinovista), Germany and Italy (Koch Media) with Tripictures releasing in Spain. Sales: Latido
“Un amor,” (Isabel Coixet)
The multi-prized Coixet (“The Secret Life of Words”).
directs Goya winner Laia Costa (“Lullaby”) in a village-set study of an isolated woman’s succumbing to devouring passion. Sales: Film Constellation.
“Ashes in the Sky,...
One of the big winners at Berlin, taking Leading Performance, and now racking up healthy sales, the story of a family off for a village summer holiday which builds to a moving ode to women’s freedoms. Sales: Luxbox
“21 Paraíso,” (Nestor Ruiz Medina)
Living in an idyllic Andalusia, a couple in love grapples with the realities of making a living through OnlyFans. Screened at Seville and Tallinn. Sales: Begin Again Films.
“All the Names of God,” (Daniel Calparsoro)
One of the big Spanish action-thrillers hitting this Cannes market, from a specialist (“Sky High”). Pre-sold to France (Kinovista), Germany and Italy (Koch Media) with Tripictures releasing in Spain. Sales: Latido
“Un amor,” (Isabel Coixet)
The multi-prized Coixet (“The Secret Life of Words”).
directs Goya winner Laia Costa (“Lullaby”) in a village-set study of an isolated woman’s succumbing to devouring passion. Sales: Film Constellation.
“Ashes in the Sky,...
- 5/19/2023
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Spain’s Turanga Films and Sintagma Films are set to co-produce “Sleepless City,” the first fiction feature from award-winning documentary filmmaker Guillermo García López. A coming-of-age social drama, the project is being presented at the Berlinale Talents Project Market this year.
“Sleepless City” follows 13-year-old Ramón, a Romani boy living in a shantytown at La Cañada Real in Madrid, one of the biggest illegal settlements in Europe where the young man films the harsh environment with his cell phone, as if it were a mysterious sci-fi set.
“On one hand, the film is built around Ramón’s teenage awakening. There is a dull roaring inside him, almost unfathomable,” García López told Variety. “On the other hand, the film is a portrait of the universe that surrounds Ramón. I want to compose this portrait by playing with the perspectives found in the aesthetic of the area as well as the images that Ramon captures.
“Sleepless City” follows 13-year-old Ramón, a Romani boy living in a shantytown at La Cañada Real in Madrid, one of the biggest illegal settlements in Europe where the young man films the harsh environment with his cell phone, as if it were a mysterious sci-fi set.
“On one hand, the film is built around Ramón’s teenage awakening. There is a dull roaring inside him, almost unfathomable,” García López told Variety. “On the other hand, the film is a portrait of the universe that surrounds Ramón. I want to compose this portrait by playing with the perspectives found in the aesthetic of the area as well as the images that Ramon captures.
- 3/4/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
The helmer has wrapped the shoot for this tense Movistar+ series, the cast of which includes Natalia Verbeke, Ernesto Alterio, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Juan Diego Botto. Todos mienten (lit. “They’re All Lying”) is a thriller written and directed by Barcelona-born Pau Freixas (Deadly Cargo), toplined by Irene Arcos, Natalia Verbeke, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Ernesto Alterio, who are flanked by Juan Diego Botto, Miren Ibarguren, Eva Santolaria (who previously worked with the filmmaker on Héroes), Amaia Salamanca, Jorge Bosch and Carmen Arrufat, the big revelation from Lucía Alemany’s feature debut, The Innocence. Principal photography – which began in October and took place on location in Barcelona, Tarragona and Girona – is just wrapping now, after a shoot that was forced to adhere to the requisite health-and-safety measures to ensure that it could go ahead while halting the spread of the coronavirus. The synopsis tells of how the peaceful life of the.
Spanish pay TV operator Movistar Plus and HBO Max have joined forces on the upcoming second season of Leticia Dolera’s “Perfect Life,” which recently wrapped shooting under strict Covid-19 restrictions. HBO Max will also pick-up U.S. streaming rights for the first season of the highly rated Spanish series, making it available to U.S. audiences from Jan. 21.
Season 2 of “Perfect Life” is co-produced by Movistar Plus and HBO Max in collaboration with Barcelona’s Corte y Confección de Películas and in partnership with the series’ sales agent, Jan Mojto’s Munich-based Beta Film, a powerful player on the Spanish drama series scene handling, just among recent hits, series such as “Tell Me Who I Am” and “Alive and Kicking” from “Red Band Society” creator Albert Espinosa.
The first season of the series was a hit for Movistar Plus, receiving strong domestic ratings and selling to Germany’s Rtl and France’s M6 Group,...
Season 2 of “Perfect Life” is co-produced by Movistar Plus and HBO Max in collaboration with Barcelona’s Corte y Confección de Películas and in partnership with the series’ sales agent, Jan Mojto’s Munich-based Beta Film, a powerful player on the Spanish drama series scene handling, just among recent hits, series such as “Tell Me Who I Am” and “Alive and Kicking” from “Red Band Society” creator Albert Espinosa.
The first season of the series was a hit for Movistar Plus, receiving strong domestic ratings and selling to Germany’s Rtl and France’s M6 Group,...
- 1/11/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Palme d’Or winning producer Luis Miñarro (“Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”) is set to direct his fifth feature, ”Impalpable” (a working title), produced by Miñarro’s label, Barcelona-based Eddie Saeta, one of Spain’s most prominent arthouse shingles.
Written by Miñarro, “Impalpable” follows a series of characters who take a bus to an unspecified destination. The situation becomes gradually
stranger as the bus make no stops. Nor can the passengers descend.
“Impalpable”‘s cast will include Naomi Kawase, Geraldine Chaplin and Spain’s Lola Dueñas (“The Sea Inside”) and Francesc Orella (“Julia’s Eyes”), among others.
By chance, though with foresight, ”I first thought of this project before the pandemic. It’s a homage to Luis Buñuel’s ‘The Exterminating Angel,’” Miñarro told Variety. Over three days and two nights, its characters get to know one another, as the audience enters the minds of main characters, unleashing...
Written by Miñarro, “Impalpable” follows a series of characters who take a bus to an unspecified destination. The situation becomes gradually
stranger as the bus make no stops. Nor can the passengers descend.
“Impalpable”‘s cast will include Naomi Kawase, Geraldine Chaplin and Spain’s Lola Dueñas (“The Sea Inside”) and Francesc Orella (“Julia’s Eyes”), among others.
By chance, though with foresight, ”I first thought of this project before the pandemic. It’s a homage to Luis Buñuel’s ‘The Exterminating Angel,’” Miñarro told Variety. Over three days and two nights, its characters get to know one another, as the audience enters the minds of main characters, unleashing...
- 9/20/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
The 60th-anniversary edition will unspool from 4-10 September while complying with stricter hygiene measures. The postponed 60th-anniversary edition of the International Film Festival for Children and Youth (Zlín Film Fest), the oldest and largest film festival for children, is bracing for a physical edition from 4-10 September. In addition to the previously announced titles in the International Competition of Feature Films for Children and the International Competition of Feature Films for Youth (see the news), the International Competition of European First Feature Films will introduce the local audience to the Belgian drama Cleo by Eva Cools, Hungarian helmer Attila Hartung’s Fomo – Fear of Missing Out, Małgorzata Imielska’s Used Up and Lucía Alemany’s drama The Innocence. Selected European documentary films for a young audience will vie for a prize in a separate competition, which will screen the Polish observational doc Underage Engineers by Aleksandra Skowron and Hanna Polak; Rozálie Kohoutová.
Participating in this year’s Marché du Film Speed Meetings for Spanish projects, La Claqueta’s highly-anticipated project “Tobacco Barns” has picked up a new co-producer in Belén Sánchez, one of Variety’s Catalan producers on the rise for 2020 as announced earlier this week, and a top independent sales agency in Spain’s Latido Films.
Sánchez comes to the production from Un Capricho Producciones, a company which has proven itself among the best at backing female filmmakers, including Lucia Alemany’s 2019 breakout San Sebastian hit “La Inocencia.”
Several films from Latido’s Spanish industry-leading catalog are hosting market screenings at this year’s Marché du Film, including Morena Films’ “Tales of the Lockdown,” featured in a Cinema from Spain pitching platform held at the Marché du Film on Wednesday, Agustí Villaronga’s “Born a King,” starring Ed Skrein and Hermione Corfield, “La Noche Mágica,” “The Sea Beyond,” “My Heart Goes Boom,...
Sánchez comes to the production from Un Capricho Producciones, a company which has proven itself among the best at backing female filmmakers, including Lucia Alemany’s 2019 breakout San Sebastian hit “La Inocencia.”
Several films from Latido’s Spanish industry-leading catalog are hosting market screenings at this year’s Marché du Film, including Morena Films’ “Tales of the Lockdown,” featured in a Cinema from Spain pitching platform held at the Marché du Film on Wednesday, Agustí Villaronga’s “Born a King,” starring Ed Skrein and Hermione Corfield, “La Noche Mágica,” “The Sea Beyond,” “My Heart Goes Boom,...
- 6/25/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — Producer of Academy Award nominated “7.35 in the Morning” and “One Two Many” and then signature features by Nacho Vigalondo, Borja Cobeaga and Koldo Serra, Basque cinema driving force Sayaka Producciones has boarded Alauda Ruíz de Azúa’s “Five Little Wolves” as a producer.
Etb, the Basque Country’s public broadcaster, is also backing the project, pre-buying rights in March 2020.
Sayaka joins Madrid-based Encanta Films, producer of “The Wound,” a San Sebastian Special Jury Prize and best actress winner, on one of the most awaited of Spanish feature debuts, and also one of five projects selected from more than 200 submissions for the Ecam Madrid Film School’s second edition in 2019 of its Screen Incubator.
A leading Spanish development initiative, the Incubator is supported by Netflix, Movistar Plus, Tve and Atresmedia which all sent representatives to talk to the producers and directors.
“Five Little Wolves” also won the first prize for...
Etb, the Basque Country’s public broadcaster, is also backing the project, pre-buying rights in March 2020.
Sayaka joins Madrid-based Encanta Films, producer of “The Wound,” a San Sebastian Special Jury Prize and best actress winner, on one of the most awaited of Spanish feature debuts, and also one of five projects selected from more than 200 submissions for the Ecam Madrid Film School’s second edition in 2019 of its Screen Incubator.
A leading Spanish development initiative, the Incubator is supported by Netflix, Movistar Plus, Tve and Atresmedia which all sent representatives to talk to the producers and directors.
“Five Little Wolves” also won the first prize for...
- 4/23/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Thirty years ago, Levon Brooks was accused of sexually assaulting and murdering a three-year old girl in Mississippi. Despite having an alibi, he was sentenced to life in prison based on bite mark analysis. A few months, later a second young girl was raped and murdered and Kennedy Brewer, the boyfriend of the victim’s mother was arrested and sentenced death for the crime, based on similar bite mark analysis.
Brewer subsequently wrote to The Innocence Project, which was able to get the pair exonerated and freed after having DNA evidence at the crime scene tested.
These cases form the first three episodes of Netflix’s The Innocence Files and were directed by American Jail director Roger Ross Williams,...
Brewer subsequently wrote to The Innocence Project, which was able to get the pair exonerated and freed after having DNA evidence at the crime scene tested.
These cases form the first three episodes of Netflix’s The Innocence Files and were directed by American Jail director Roger Ross Williams,...
- 4/14/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Film FestivalThe Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes) will be held at four venues across the city.Tnm StaffThe much-awaited Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFes) is here. The 12th edition of the annual affair, where movie buffs of all age groups gather to binge-watch on acclaimed national and international films for an entire week, is set to take place from February 27 to March 4. A total of 220 films will be screen across four different venues in the city: Orion Mall, Rajajinagar; Dr Raj Bhavan, Chamrajpete; Navarang Theatre, Rajajinagar; and Suchitra Film Society, Banashankari. Many of the films being screen at the festival will be adjudged under three award categories: Chitrabharati (Indian Cinema) Competition, Kannada Cinema Competition and Asian Cinema Competition. Incidentally, the Kannada Cinema Competition segment was embroiled in a controversy, as director Roopa Rao’s critically acclaimed film Gantumoote was excluded from the final list of films under this section. Instead,...
- 2/26/2020
- by alitheasm
- The News Minute
The Spanish company also boards sales on The Barcelona Vampiress.
After a buyer’s-only market screening premiere at the Efm, Barcelona-based company Filmax has already closed several sales on the thriller Cross The Line, including France (Wild Bunch), Cis (Russian Report), Taiwan (Cai Chang) and Former Yugoslavia (Dexin).
The film is a Filmax production directed by David Victori (The Pact) and starring Mario Casas, one of Spain’s top stars, playing an all-round good guy who buys a round-the world-ticket to start a new chapter in his life after his father’s death and ends up in a hellish journey.
After a buyer’s-only market screening premiere at the Efm, Barcelona-based company Filmax has already closed several sales on the thriller Cross The Line, including France (Wild Bunch), Cis (Russian Report), Taiwan (Cai Chang) and Former Yugoslavia (Dexin).
The film is a Filmax production directed by David Victori (The Pact) and starring Mario Casas, one of Spain’s top stars, playing an all-round good guy who buys a round-the world-ticket to start a new chapter in his life after his father’s death and ends up in a hellish journey.
- 2/24/2020
- by 1101324¦Elisabet Cabeza¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Madrid — The Incubator feature film development program at Madrid’s prestigious Ecam film school has announced a new agreement with Cannes’ Focus CoPro’, which will see one of The Incubator’s five feature film projects participate at the Cannes Court Métrage – Short Film Corner event in 2020.
Focus CoPro is one of the year’s top showcases dedicated to promoting the international production and co-production of first features. Few events offer better international exposure.
Ecam’s The Incubator is a feature film development program which targets emerging producers, directors and screenwriters from Spain and provides five months of mentoring, individual guidance, workshops and financing of five feature film projects with international potential.
The window for feature film submissions to apply for The Incubator opens Tuesday, Oct 1 and runs through to Oct. 27.
Eligible projects must be submitted by an emerging Spanish producer and have a confirmed Spanish director making their first, second or third feature film.
Focus CoPro is one of the year’s top showcases dedicated to promoting the international production and co-production of first features. Few events offer better international exposure.
Ecam’s The Incubator is a feature film development program which targets emerging producers, directors and screenwriters from Spain and provides five months of mentoring, individual guidance, workshops and financing of five feature film projects with international potential.
The window for feature film submissions to apply for The Incubator opens Tuesday, Oct 1 and runs through to Oct. 27.
Eligible projects must be submitted by an emerging Spanish producer and have a confirmed Spanish director making their first, second or third feature film.
- 9/30/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian — Lucía Alemany’s “The Innocence” could be called coming of age, a knowing portrait of Lis, 15, hanging out with her friends and carrying in with her older boyfriend in Traigera, a village perched on the Castellón plains of Eastern Spain.
Come fall, one of the last full summers she may spend in the village over, Lis is back at school, grayer weather tooling up, and she’s pregnant.
But “The Innocence” is also “American Graffiti” meets “The Pillars of Wisdom,” the story of Lis’ attempt to forge her own life – she wants to study at a circus academy in Barcelona,- and her identity, despite the hugely conformist pressures of village life.
Some village traditions date back centuries. may seem barbaric, such as toro embolat: Tying balls of tar to a bull’s horns, lighting them, and setting the beast loose, so that the village’s mensfolk can...
Come fall, one of the last full summers she may spend in the village over, Lis is back at school, grayer weather tooling up, and she’s pregnant.
But “The Innocence” is also “American Graffiti” meets “The Pillars of Wisdom,” the story of Lis’ attempt to forge her own life – she wants to study at a circus academy in Barcelona,- and her identity, despite the hugely conformist pressures of village life.
Some village traditions date back centuries. may seem barbaric, such as toro embolat: Tying balls of tar to a bull’s horns, lighting them, and setting the beast loose, so that the village’s mensfolk can...
- 9/24/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Opening on Sept. 20 with Roger Michell’s “Blackbird,” starring Kate Winslet and Susan Sarandon, and set at a stunning Basque resort, the San Sebastián Film Festival marks the highest-profile film event in the Spanish-speaking world. Here are 10 early takes on 2019’s edition.
A Festival of Discoveries
“Every festival has its own personality. Venice is now mainly a platform for big star-driven U.S. movies, Cannes for very high-quality cinema,” says festival director José Luis Rebordinos. “We search for new talent, and if you want to know what’s going on now in Latin America, come to San Sebastián.”
Five of its main competition movies are first or second features, with some very good word-of-mouth: David Zonana’s pointedly elegant Mexican class-gulf drama “Workforce,” and Belen Funes’ “A Thief’s Daughter,” a vision of low-income youth juggling love, broken families and bills. New Directors is now firmly established as the festival’s major sidebar.
A Festival of Discoveries
“Every festival has its own personality. Venice is now mainly a platform for big star-driven U.S. movies, Cannes for very high-quality cinema,” says festival director José Luis Rebordinos. “We search for new talent, and if you want to know what’s going on now in Latin America, come to San Sebastián.”
Five of its main competition movies are first or second features, with some very good word-of-mouth: David Zonana’s pointedly elegant Mexican class-gulf drama “Workforce,” and Belen Funes’ “A Thief’s Daughter,” a vision of low-income youth juggling love, broken families and bills. New Directors is now firmly established as the festival’s major sidebar.
- 9/13/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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