Barcelona-based Filmax has acquired the world sales rights to “The Art of Return” – a Spanish production by first-time director Pedro Collantes nurtured through Venice’s renowned Biennale College film workshop initiative.
The boutique distributor will also handle the Spanish distribution for this coming-of-age drama, which focuses on a young actress (“Holy Camp’s” Macarena García) returning home to Madrid after six years in New York.
The action takes place over a 24-hour period in the protagonist’s home city, where she has a series of encounters that cause her to reassess her life.
Set to make its debut Sept. 8 at the Venice Film Festival, the film was co-written by Collantes and the Spanish screenwriter Daniel Remón (“Out in the Open”), who is also making his feature debut as a producer on this production.
Executive producers are Tourmalet Films’ Mayi Gutiérrez Cobo (“Stockholm”) and the producer and line manager Manuel Fernandez-Arango “(Destronados,...
The boutique distributor will also handle the Spanish distribution for this coming-of-age drama, which focuses on a young actress (“Holy Camp’s” Macarena García) returning home to Madrid after six years in New York.
The action takes place over a 24-hour period in the protagonist’s home city, where she has a series of encounters that cause her to reassess her life.
Set to make its debut Sept. 8 at the Venice Film Festival, the film was co-written by Collantes and the Spanish screenwriter Daniel Remón (“Out in the Open”), who is also making his feature debut as a producer on this production.
Executive producers are Tourmalet Films’ Mayi Gutiérrez Cobo (“Stockholm”) and the producer and line manager Manuel Fernandez-Arango “(Destronados,...
- 9/2/2020
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Laurent Danielou’s Paris-based sales agent Loco Films has swooped on “Last Days of Spring” (“La Ultima Primavera”), a Spain-set first feature from Isabel Lamberti that will world premiere this September at San Sebastian Festival’s New Directors competition, the Festival confirmed Thursday.
The Spanish festival’s main sidebar, New Directors highlights first and second features from helmers in Europe and beyond that often go on to strong festival play and sometimes fulsome sales.
German-born, but raised in Spain and the Netherlands, Lamberti studied film and direction at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and then the Netherlands Film Academy. She developed a love for what she calls “in-betweenness” — movies that inhabit the borderlands between fiction and documentary.
“Last Days of Spring” does so to a tee. Written by Lamberti and Lenina Ungari, and produced by Amsterdam-based IJswater Films with Spain’s high-flying Tourmalet Films, it uses non-professional actors...
The Spanish festival’s main sidebar, New Directors highlights first and second features from helmers in Europe and beyond that often go on to strong festival play and sometimes fulsome sales.
German-born, but raised in Spain and the Netherlands, Lamberti studied film and direction at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts and then the Netherlands Film Academy. She developed a love for what she calls “in-betweenness” — movies that inhabit the borderlands between fiction and documentary.
“Last Days of Spring” does so to a tee. Written by Lamberti and Lenina Ungari, and produced by Amsterdam-based IJswater Films with Spain’s high-flying Tourmalet Films, it uses non-professional actors...
- 7/31/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — A co-producer on Dutch comedy-thriller “El azul bajo sus pies” (“Beyond the Blue Bridge”), Spain’s Tourmalet Films is preparing its biggest feature yet, “Siete Picos,” as it introduces “Killing Crabs” at Locarno’s Match Me! co-production forum.
Launched in 2011, the Madrid and Tenerife-based independent film house Tourmalet broke through two years later co-producing of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s noteworthy feature debut “Stockholm.”
Managed by Mayi Gutiérrez Cobo, Omar Razzak, Manuel Arango and Daniel Remón, Tourmalet has produced eight feature films and nine shorts, which have played in festivals such as Montreal, Málaga, Cartagena de Indias and Visions du Reel.
The company’s production model is evolving towards increasingly larger budget titles. It started producing short-films, then documentaries -the first, Razzak’s 2013 debut “Paradiso,” about the last porn cinema in Madrid, was an hybrid docu-fiction; followed by Samuel Alarcón’s “Oscuro y lucientes,” a docu feature about research into Francisco de Goya’s skull.
Launched in 2011, the Madrid and Tenerife-based independent film house Tourmalet broke through two years later co-producing of Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s noteworthy feature debut “Stockholm.”
Managed by Mayi Gutiérrez Cobo, Omar Razzak, Manuel Arango and Daniel Remón, Tourmalet has produced eight feature films and nine shorts, which have played in festivals such as Montreal, Málaga, Cartagena de Indias and Visions du Reel.
The company’s production model is evolving towards increasingly larger budget titles. It started producing short-films, then documentaries -the first, Razzak’s 2013 debut “Paradiso,” about the last porn cinema in Madrid, was an hybrid docu-fiction; followed by Samuel Alarcón’s “Oscuro y lucientes,” a docu feature about research into Francisco de Goya’s skull.
- 8/9/2019
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
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