Stars: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero, Ana Torrent, Consuelo Trujillo, Ángela Fabián, Carla Campra, Chema Adeva | Written by Paco Plaza, Fernando Navarro, Coral Cruz | Directed by Paco Plaza
Opening the film on 15th June 1991, [Rec] co-director Paco Plaza sets the scene with a distressing phone call where a panicked girl tells the police that someone is inside her home. As officers pass a crying family outside, they enter the house to find it in disarray. The story then cuts to 3-days-earlier, as 15-year-old Verónica (Sandra Escacena) helps to look after her younger siblings while their mother works long shifts.
Using a Ouija board to try speaking with the dead during an eclipse, Verónica becomes possessed during the séance. As strange occurrences unfold around the schoolgirl, she is harassed by dangerous supernatural presences which threatens her family.
Plaza and co-writer Fernando Navarro loosely based this story on a...
Opening the film on 15th June 1991, [Rec] co-director Paco Plaza sets the scene with a distressing phone call where a panicked girl tells the police that someone is inside her home. As officers pass a crying family outside, they enter the house to find it in disarray. The story then cuts to 3-days-earlier, as 15-year-old Verónica (Sandra Escacena) helps to look after her younger siblings while their mother works long shifts.
Using a Ouija board to try speaking with the dead during an eclipse, Verónica becomes possessed during the séance. As strange occurrences unfold around the schoolgirl, she is harassed by dangerous supernatural presences which threatens her family.
Plaza and co-writer Fernando Navarro loosely based this story on a...
- 11/1/2023
- by James Rodrigues
- Nerdly
Tenerife-based Bendita Film Sales, headed by Luis Renart, has acquired Matías Bize’s “The Punishment,”, ahead of its international premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival this Saturday.
Produced by Ceneca Producciones and Leyenda Films, it is the second film to see the light in 2022 for the multi-prized director of “In the Bed,” “The Life of Fish,” and “The Memory of Water,” having won at Malaga with lockdown inspired “Private Messages.” Bendita’s buy signifies confidence in this latest title, which heads to Ventana Sur for its market premiere on Dec 1.
In the film, a couple’s seven year old son is missing, having been left momentarily by the side of the road as punishment. Set in a forest and played out in real time, the boy’s parents search for him. Helmer Matias Bize dissects the subtle shifts in the couple’s reactions to this crisis as questions...
Produced by Ceneca Producciones and Leyenda Films, it is the second film to see the light in 2022 for the multi-prized director of “In the Bed,” “The Life of Fish,” and “The Memory of Water,” having won at Malaga with lockdown inspired “Private Messages.” Bendita’s buy signifies confidence in this latest title, which heads to Ventana Sur for its market premiere on Dec 1.
In the film, a couple’s seven year old son is missing, having been left momentarily by the side of the road as punishment. Set in a forest and played out in real time, the boy’s parents search for him. Helmer Matias Bize dissects the subtle shifts in the couple’s reactions to this crisis as questions...
- 11/17/2022
- by Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
Barcelona – Agustina Macri’s feature debut “Soledad” (Solitude) won Best Feature award at the 3rd Barcelona Film Festival, which ran April 22-30.
Produced by Italy’s 39Films and Argentina’s Cinema 7 Films, and inspired by true events, the film follows titular Soledad Rosas who moved to Italy in 1997 to a squatters community. There she met a militant anarchist with whom she had a brief and intense love affair. A year later the couple was arrested and accused of terroristic acts meant to halt the construction of a railway.
The screenplay was penned by Paolo Logli and Macri –the daughter of Argentine president Mauricio Macri. “Soledad” world-premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival and will be released in Argentina and Italy through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Walt Disney Company Italia respectively.
The Acec Critic’s Award went to another debut, this time from actress-turned-director Laura Jou. Produced by longtime...
Produced by Italy’s 39Films and Argentina’s Cinema 7 Films, and inspired by true events, the film follows titular Soledad Rosas who moved to Italy in 1997 to a squatters community. There she met a militant anarchist with whom she had a brief and intense love affair. A year later the couple was arrested and accused of terroristic acts meant to halt the construction of a railway.
The screenplay was penned by Paolo Logli and Macri –the daughter of Argentine president Mauricio Macri. “Soledad” world-premiered at the Warsaw Film Festival and will be released in Argentina and Italy through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and Walt Disney Company Italia respectively.
The Acec Critic’s Award went to another debut, this time from actress-turned-director Laura Jou. Produced by longtime...
- 5/3/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
The Accident
(Mediaset-Globomedia)
Starring Inma Cuesta (“Julieta”), a thriller about a wife discovering the truth about her husband.
Sales Agent: Eccho Rights
Arde Madrid
(Movistar Plus, Andy Joke)
Warmly received at San Sebastian, a B&W comedy-thriller half-hour set in 1961 Madrid’s Dolce Vita, featuring Ava Gardner.
A Different View
(Boomerang, Rtve)
A suspense dramedy portrait of the Spanish society in the ’20s, via a traditionalist Lycee in the provinces.
El Continental
(Gossip Events & Productions, Rtve)
One of Rtve’s big plays, a 10-hour, 1920’s set gang war thriller, with Alex Garcia and Michelle Jenner (“Isabel”).
Hierro
(Movistar Plus, Arte, Portocabo, Atlantique)
Movistar Plus’ first international co-production and Portocabo’s calling card, a murder investigation set against spectacular landscapes of the mid-Atlantic Hierro.
Sales Agent: Banijay Rights
Gigantes
(Movistar Plus, Lazona Producciones)
Building buzz before its San Sebastian Fest world premiere, Enrique Urbizu’s brutal Madrid crime family parable on the legacy of violence,...
(Mediaset-Globomedia)
Starring Inma Cuesta (“Julieta”), a thriller about a wife discovering the truth about her husband.
Sales Agent: Eccho Rights
Arde Madrid
(Movistar Plus, Andy Joke)
Warmly received at San Sebastian, a B&W comedy-thriller half-hour set in 1961 Madrid’s Dolce Vita, featuring Ava Gardner.
A Different View
(Boomerang, Rtve)
A suspense dramedy portrait of the Spanish society in the ’20s, via a traditionalist Lycee in the provinces.
El Continental
(Gossip Events & Productions, Rtve)
One of Rtve’s big plays, a 10-hour, 1920’s set gang war thriller, with Alex Garcia and Michelle Jenner (“Isabel”).
Hierro
(Movistar Plus, Arte, Portocabo, Atlantique)
Movistar Plus’ first international co-production and Portocabo’s calling card, a murder investigation set against spectacular landscapes of the mid-Atlantic Hierro.
Sales Agent: Banijay Rights
Gigantes
(Movistar Plus, Lazona Producciones)
Building buzz before its San Sebastian Fest world premiere, Enrique Urbizu’s brutal Madrid crime family parable on the legacy of violence,...
- 10/15/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Uncertain Glory
Director: Agusti Villaronga
Writer: Agusti Villaronga, Coral Cruz
Mallorcan director Agusti Villaronga is perhaps best known amongst cinephiles for his 1986 debut, In a Glass Cage, a provocative melodrama featuring a pedophile in an iron lung.
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Director: Agusti Villaronga
Writer: Agusti Villaronga, Coral Cruz
Mallorcan director Agusti Villaronga is perhaps best known amongst cinephiles for his 1986 debut, In a Glass Cage, a provocative melodrama featuring a pedophile in an iron lung.
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- 1/3/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
To continue with the fast paced array of news and incidents that sparked the Berlinale for us this year, we had our habitual meeting with Barcelona based Anna Soler-Pont, the woman behind Pontas Literary and Film Agency whose blog of her Berlinale experiences is also enlightening and inspires great interest in films based on novels.
We met Anna Soler-Pont years ago when we were thinking of creating a new database on Books-To-Film. Anna Soler-Pont understood the need and created her own business based on this idea. She is an agent for fiction writers selling international publishing rights Plus she packages, writes scripts and finds production financing for the films. She represents only 89 to 100 authors.
Her current project, now finding financing, is Traces of Sandalwood, based on the novel Rastes de sandal (Traces of Sandalwood) by Asha Miro and Anna Soler-Pont. It takes place in Mumbai, India and in Barcelona and spans the 1980s to today, interweaving the stories of Muna and Sita, two Indian orphan sisters with very different fates, although their paths cross and eventually come together in the end. It's mainly in English and Catalan. The co-writer with Anna is Coral Cruz, a script editor fluent in Catalan, Spanish and English. The director is Maria Ripoll (Tortilla Soup), born in Barcelona and educated at UCLA Film School. The stars Nandita Das is a famous Indian star. Christina Brondo (Her film, Penumbra, was acquired by IFC), the Spanish star knows India well and can easily pass for the Indian sister of Naina Daz. Ajay Jethi, the Indian male lead speaks Catalan.
We met Anna Soler-Pont years ago when we were thinking of creating a new database on Books-To-Film. Anna Soler-Pont understood the need and created her own business based on this idea. She is an agent for fiction writers selling international publishing rights Plus she packages, writes scripts and finds production financing for the films. She represents only 89 to 100 authors.
Her current project, now finding financing, is Traces of Sandalwood, based on the novel Rastes de sandal (Traces of Sandalwood) by Asha Miro and Anna Soler-Pont. It takes place in Mumbai, India and in Barcelona and spans the 1980s to today, interweaving the stories of Muna and Sita, two Indian orphan sisters with very different fates, although their paths cross and eventually come together in the end. It's mainly in English and Catalan. The co-writer with Anna is Coral Cruz, a script editor fluent in Catalan, Spanish and English. The director is Maria Ripoll (Tortilla Soup), born in Barcelona and educated at UCLA Film School. The stars Nandita Das is a famous Indian star. Christina Brondo (Her film, Penumbra, was acquired by IFC), the Spanish star knows India well and can easily pass for the Indian sister of Naina Daz. Ajay Jethi, the Indian male lead speaks Catalan.
- 2/24/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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