“Still Life With Ghost” by Enrique Buleo, “The Goat Girl” by Ana Asensio, “The Remnants of You” by Gala Gracia, Esteban Alenda Bros. “There is Evil” are some of the film projects presented at the event highlighting Spanish cinema at the Producers Network in Cannes on Friday 20 May.
Five Spanish production companies – Un Capricho de Producciones, Quatre Films Audiovisuales, Potenza Producciones, Aquí y Allí Films and Solita Films – have been selected by the Spanish Trade Promotion Council ICEX and the ICAA Film Institute to present their production slates at the Marché du Film event.
As part of the production day, which began with the Producers Network, the five Spanish producers presented a video presentation of their projects – the main part of which is in the development stage – to encourage international partnerships with co-producers and sales agents.
Comedy is the dominant genre among the selected featured projects.
In the evening, 25 Spanish producers with more than 100 international producers gather at the event with the aim of promoting professional meetings and strengthening co-production relationships.
“It’s a great opportunity for independent Spanish production companies to have an exclusive event to present our projects, not only to the French but also to the international market, also in a version that was very exciting like this,” said Pedro of Aquí y Allí. Hernandez.
“By participating in such an important initiative, I want to strengthen my network, meet with co-producers and other industry professionals, exchange experiences and ideas, discover work from other producers, and find potential partners for our company’s list of projects in development,” added Jose Esteban Allenda of Solita Films. .
According to producer Belén Sánchez at Un Capricho de Producciones in Barcelona, being part of the network of producers in Cannes under the ICEX umbrella “definitely gives us a better position to close our negotiations with co-producers and international financiers.”
Quatre movies
Alejandra Mora, a producer at the Valencia-based company, performed a performance of Enrique Pollio’s black comedy “Bodegón con fantasmas” (“Still Life With Ghost”). It tells five different interwoven stories about ghosts and surviving residents of a small town in rural Spain, all facing their own problems in different and unique situations.
The project contains Cuidado con el perro from Juan Cavestany, the production company behind the Movistar Plus series “Sentimos las molestias” and features “Un efecto óptico”.
French film Ikki Films, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2018 for the animated short Ru Kuwahata & Max Porter “Negative Space” and a partner in Buleo’s previous film “Women Visiting a City”, were paired in co-production.
“The film combines all of Beaulieu’s obsessions with his quirky style, which he gradually refined, until he reached artistic and cinematic maturity,” said Mora.
The project was selected by the incubator ECAM where it received guidance from Cavestany. It also underwent Media’s Sources 2 and was awarded the I Albacete Audiovisual Award at Abycine Lanza. Last July, I participated in Focus Copro in the Cannes Film Market Short Film Corner for first films looking for international partners.
“Our passage through different laboratories and markets has strengthened the project. We are looking for foreign production companies that give it more power, as well as sales agents.
“From our production company, we want to encourage Enrique’s intentions, sense of humor and references that we share in full. His project is a hallucinatory idea but at the same time very realistic and committed to the human and aesthetic landscape of what we know today as empty Spain, which is virtually linked to the legacy of our best cinema.”
Still life with ghost
Credit: Quatre Films
Un Capricho de Producciones
One of the Catalan Variety producers to watch in 2020, Belén Sánchez has produced high-profile films such as Lucía Alemany’s The Innocence in San Sebastián and María Ripoll’s We Won’t Kill Each Other with Guns.
Her project “I Choose My Name” was produced in collaboration with Lina Badenes at Valencia-based Turanga Films, and she is looking for potential co-producers in France, Switzerland, Luxembourg and sales agents.
Based on real facts, the comedy-drama is about Fernande Olivier, muse and lover of Picasso, who taught young girls to read and write, unleashing the wrath of conservative women, while the men around her suffered from an uncontrollable love.
“The film explores important themes such as inclusive education, the origins of modern art, the consequences of extreme traditions and the ways that led to women’s liberation,” Sanchez said.
Potenza products
Potenza, founded by Carlo Dorsey in 2004, presents two projects at the meeting: Gala Gracia’s “Remains of You” and Amaya Villar’s “With You, With You and Without Me” project.
A co-production with Portugal’s Fado Films and Italy’s Sajama Films, formerly Palosanto, “The Remnants” will be distributed in Spain by Karma Films.
With 90% of the budget – “we’re just missing an international sales deal,” Dorsey said – the project has garnered strong support from Spanish broadcasters: from the country’s national network RTVE to regional operators Aragon TV, Castilla La Mancha Media and Catalonia TV3. Acting by Irene Roquet (“Summer 1993”) has already begun.
“The country jazz drama will carry out the NFT mining of jazz that will be marketed in Opensea,” Dorsey, director of “Yalla”, nominated for this year’s Goya Award for Best Short Film, noted.
A documentary that combines animation and fantasy is currently in production, scheduled for delivery by the end of the year.
With 70% funding, the project has the support of the Madrid City Council and the Regional Government of Madrid, and was selected by the Residency Program of the Spanish Film Academy.
“This is the writer’s childhood in the last 20 years of her life,” Dorsey said, “and her benchmark is Leon Semenani’s 2012 documentary ‘Mapa’.”
Aquí Y Allí . Movies
The credits of the 2010 company founded by Pedro Hernandez have taken “Here and There,” Antonio Mendes Esparza’s first film, which won the Cannes Major Critics’ Week Award in 2012.
At Cannes 2022, Hernandez is presenting two projects, both in solid development: “The Goat” by Ana Asensio and “Golem” by Burnin’ Percebes.
For the allegorical drama “The Goat,” Aquí y Allí collaborates with “Alcarràs” producer and distributor Avalon. The Romanian company Avanpost is involved in the production of the project, which will be sold internationally by Alpha Violet.
Set in the suburbs of Madrid in the late 1980s, the film is scheduled to be released by the summer of 2023.
Aquí y Allí also teamed up with Elamedia Producer and Distributor Roberto Butragueno on Burnin ‘Percebes’ sci-fi comedy “Golem,” which paired Spanish actor Luis Tosar (“Maixabel”) with the cast, led by Brice Effie, star of Netflix hit series Paqueta Salas. “. Plans will roll out from August in Madrid.
One of Spain’s top independent cinemas, Aquí y Allí’s previous productions also include Carlos Vermott’s “Magical Girl”, which won the San Sebastian Golden Shell in 2016, and Mendez Esparza’s “Life and Nothing More”, the John Award-winning Cassavetes Spirit in 2017.
Solita movies
Brothers Cesar and José Esteban Alenda made their 2018 debut with “Sin Fin”, which earned him a nomination for the Goya Award for Best New Director, and a Silver Biznaga Award at the Malaga Film Festival.
Arthouse Outfit Solita Films is looking at Marché du Film 2022 for international partnerships on two author-driven genre projects: “Líbranos del mal” (“There Is Evil”) and “Waka Waka”.
Spanish Paco Leon (“House of Flowers”, “Arde Madrid”) is linked to star in “There is Evil”, scheduled to run for six weeks in Madrid from January 2024, directed by Alendas. Film Factory will sell the film.
They will also write and direct the psychological horror project Waka Waka, a co-production with Mexican producer Martha Orozco at MartFilm (“Pornomelancolía”), which will be distributed by Elamedia in Spain, and internationally handled by Latido Films.
there is evil
Credit: Solita Films
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