Actor’s directorial debut plays in San Sebastián’s Perlak section.
Actor Juan Diego Botto’s first feature as a director is On The Fringe, starring Penélope Cruz, which comes to San Sebastián’s Perlak (Pearls) section fresh from its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The social-realist drama about eviction and economic crisis focuses on three central characters: Rafa (Luis Tosar), a lawyer and activist whose altruistic instincts come at the expense of stability in his own life and family; supermarket worker Azucena (Penelope Cruz), a wife and mother who is a day away from eviction from her...
Actor Juan Diego Botto’s first feature as a director is On The Fringe, starring Penélope Cruz, which comes to San Sebastián’s Perlak (Pearls) section fresh from its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The social-realist drama about eviction and economic crisis focuses on three central characters: Rafa (Luis Tosar), a lawyer and activist whose altruistic instincts come at the expense of stability in his own life and family; supermarket worker Azucena (Penelope Cruz), a wife and mother who is a day away from eviction from her...
- 9/19/2022
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
The thriller is being pitched at San Sebastian’s Creative Investors’ Conference.
Spain’s Latido Films has boarded Raqqa, the next project of Oscar-winning producer-director Gerardo Herrero, as international sales agent.
Herrero will direct the film. As a producer he won the best international feature Oscar for Juan Jose Campanella’s The Secret In Their Eyes in 2010.
Herrero is alos producing Raqqa, with Mariela Besuievsky of Tornasol Films as a co-production with Storylines Projects and Entre Chien et Loup.
Raqqa is about two spies, one working for the Russian secret services, the other for Western intelligence, who realise they have...
Spain’s Latido Films has boarded Raqqa, the next project of Oscar-winning producer-director Gerardo Herrero, as international sales agent.
Herrero will direct the film. As a producer he won the best international feature Oscar for Juan Jose Campanella’s The Secret In Their Eyes in 2010.
Herrero is alos producing Raqqa, with Mariela Besuievsky of Tornasol Films as a co-production with Storylines Projects and Entre Chien et Loup.
Raqqa is about two spies, one working for the Russian secret services, the other for Western intelligence, who realise they have...
- 9/19/2022
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
The San Sebastian International Film Festival has long been one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most prominent film festivals and as the 70th edition of the festival is nearly underway, the much-loved European event has looked to beef up its industry components in a bid to attract a wider pool of delegates, notably from North America.
This year will see the launch of the new San Sebastian Festival Creative Investors’ Conference, which is co-organized with CAA Media Finance. The two-day conference, which runs September 19-20, will see a host of top global industry execs from companies such as 30West, A24, Anonymous Content, Focus Features, Mubi, Neon, Netflix and Wild Bunch International among others, touch down in the Basque Country.
“Something we’ve had in mind for some years now is to improve and enlarge our industry activities,” festival director José Luis Rebordinos tells Deadline, who says the initiative was organised...
This year will see the launch of the new San Sebastian Festival Creative Investors’ Conference, which is co-organized with CAA Media Finance. The two-day conference, which runs September 19-20, will see a host of top global industry execs from companies such as 30West, A24, Anonymous Content, Focus Features, Mubi, Neon, Netflix and Wild Bunch International among others, touch down in the Basque Country.
“Something we’ve had in mind for some years now is to improve and enlarge our industry activities,” festival director José Luis Rebordinos tells Deadline, who says the initiative was organised...
- 9/13/2022
- by Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Narrowing down the best Basque projects on the horizon has become increasingly difficult in recent years, as the region is experiencing a boom in both the quality and quantity of local production that has made prognostication more difficult than ever.
Below, Variety has picked 20 projects from that crowded field which we will be tracking in the coming years.
“Almanac” (Jorge Moneo Quintana)
A Berlinale Talents project, “Almanac” challenges the limits of documentary cinema by revisiting the solar eclipse of July 18, 1860 through photos and records, speculating on the truth of the past in collective memory. Currently in development, the feature is backed by Kalakalab and Kleinen Filmak.
“And Thus it Will Go On” (Marina Palacio)
Likely to appear on Basque project lists for some time, production on this exercise somewhere between fiction and reality is scheduled to last five years, following a group of children through their formative years in the...
Below, Variety has picked 20 projects from that crowded field which we will be tracking in the coming years.
“Almanac” (Jorge Moneo Quintana)
A Berlinale Talents project, “Almanac” challenges the limits of documentary cinema by revisiting the solar eclipse of July 18, 1860 through photos and records, speculating on the truth of the past in collective memory. Currently in development, the feature is backed by Kalakalab and Kleinen Filmak.
“And Thus it Will Go On” (Marina Palacio)
Likely to appear on Basque project lists for some time, production on this exercise somewhere between fiction and reality is scheduled to last five years, following a group of children through their formative years in the...
- 9/21/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
After more than a two-year break since its last edition due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Cannes Film Market’s Focus CoPro’ returned on Tuesday at the Palais des Festivals in a lively pitch and networking session between industry professionals and first-time feature-film directors.
The event, launched in 2018, is hosted by Cannes’ Short Film Corner in collaboration with the Cannes Film Market, Pop Up Film Residency and La Incubadora, It aims to highlight the nascent projects of filmmakers in various Cannes selections and participating in the Short Film Corner as they take the path toward making their first feature films.
The early projects are presented by the producer and/or director in the form of a short pitch to the audience of professionals, and the session was followed by one-to-one meetings between the project holders and the decision-makers
Focus CoPro’ is, according to Short Film Corner head Camille Hébert-Bénazet, an “opportunity...
The event, launched in 2018, is hosted by Cannes’ Short Film Corner in collaboration with the Cannes Film Market, Pop Up Film Residency and La Incubadora, It aims to highlight the nascent projects of filmmakers in various Cannes selections and participating in the Short Film Corner as they take the path toward making their first feature films.
The early projects are presented by the producer and/or director in the form of a short pitch to the audience of professionals, and the session was followed by one-to-one meetings between the project holders and the decision-makers
Focus CoPro’ is, according to Short Film Corner head Camille Hébert-Bénazet, an “opportunity...
- 7/14/2021
- by Alexander Durie
- Variety Film + TV
“The Maus” director Yayo Herrero is preparing a second feature, “Los Quinquis,” a standout at this year’s edition of Madrid’s Ecam film school Incubator program, which he will take to this year’s San Sebastian Festival to pitch in the Meet Them! section for projects.
Apart from its inclusion at Ecam’s Incubator, the film took part in a writing lab organized by Spain’s Sgae authors’ collection society. Herrero himself attended February’s Berlinale Talents.
Himself a twin, Herrero’s project turns on Adan and Lois, twin brothers living on the outskirts of Madrid who share everything. Raised in The Red Tower, a building for rehoused residents controlled by East European organized crime groups, the boys must rely on one another to escapea seemingly endless cycle of crime and poverty.
Herrero discussed the project with Variety ahead of this year’s Meet Me!
In “The Maus,” one...
Apart from its inclusion at Ecam’s Incubator, the film took part in a writing lab organized by Spain’s Sgae authors’ collection society. Herrero himself attended February’s Berlinale Talents.
Himself a twin, Herrero’s project turns on Adan and Lois, twin brothers living on the outskirts of Madrid who share everything. Raised in The Red Tower, a building for rehoused residents controlled by East European organized crime groups, the boys must rely on one another to escapea seemingly endless cycle of crime and poverty.
Herrero discussed the project with Variety ahead of this year’s Meet Me!
In “The Maus,” one...
- 9/20/2020
- by Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Barcelona – “20,000 Species of Bees,” “Something Like Happiness” and “Los quinquis” are among five feature projects that will be put through development at the Ecam Madrid Film School’s pioneering Incubator program.
The Incubator forms part of The Screen, a program at the Ecam Madrid Film School, which is aimed at fostering links between on-the-rise Spain-based talent and Europe’s film and TV industries.
Produced by Gariza Films, “20,000 Species of Bees ” marks the debut feature of Estibaliz Urresola. It weighs in with the logline: “What would you do if your six-year-old son says he is a she?”
“It’s not just a movie about transgender children,” Urresola said, adding: “It is a story about our inner lives and how they interplay with the world outside; about the boundaries between these two worlds— and also about violence committed in family, even in the name of love.”
Director-producer Lara Izagirre directed Basque homecoming drama “An Autumn Without Berlin.
The Incubator forms part of The Screen, a program at the Ecam Madrid Film School, which is aimed at fostering links between on-the-rise Spain-based talent and Europe’s film and TV industries.
Produced by Gariza Films, “20,000 Species of Bees ” marks the debut feature of Estibaliz Urresola. It weighs in with the logline: “What would you do if your six-year-old son says he is a she?”
“It’s not just a movie about transgender children,” Urresola said, adding: “It is a story about our inner lives and how they interplay with the world outside; about the boundaries between these two worlds— and also about violence committed in family, even in the name of love.”
Director-producer Lara Izagirre directed Basque homecoming drama “An Autumn Without Berlin.
- 2/19/2020
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
After playing Sitges and Fantastic Fast this past fall, we now have the official trailer for Yayo Herrero’s The Maus, starring August Wittgenstein, Alma Terzic, and Ella Jazz. In the Serbian film, “Alex and Selma are a couple in love who travels to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina. When their car runs aground in the middle of the […]...
- 10/25/2017
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
This year, Fantastic Fest turned 13, a number that felt apt if you’ve been following the news. Most conversations started like this:
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
“How are you?”
“How are you?”
Exhale. Hug. Repeat.
Eventually, people got around to talking about the films. Even those were emotional.
Tortured Souls
In past years, bringing context into the Alamo Drafthouse theater meant deciding not to chomp chips and queso during a hushed thriller. This time, audiences welled up watching Carla Guigino confront a lifetime of abuse as the emotionally and physically handcuffed wife in Stephen King’s “Gerald’s Game,” a Lifetime movie-looking low budget adaptation whose blockbuster impact at the Fest might not translate to people at home when it premieres on Netflix. (Guigino, however, is terrific in a dual-of-sorts role as the manacled victim and her empowered subconscious.)
Read More:Fantastic Fest Under Fire: Why America’s Preeminent Genre Festival Needs Its Fans...
- 9/29/2017
- by Amy Nicholson
- Indiewire
A captivity thriller set in the long shadow of the mid-1990s Bosnian war, Yayo Herrero's Maus places an injured Bosnian woman in the custody of two mysterious Serbian men and correctly expects things not to go well. The assured feature debut of writer/director Yayo Herrero, it introduces just enough hints of the supernatural and the transgressively political to inspire post-screening conversations — some of which will conclude that the ingredients don't quite add up. Few will argue, though, with the effectiveness of its trapped-in-the-woods tension and the potency of its simmering ethnic hatred.
Lovers Alex (August Wittgenstein) and Selma (Alma Terzic)...
Lovers Alex (August Wittgenstein) and Selma (Alma Terzic)...
- 9/25/2017
- by John DeFore
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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