23/11/2021 - The latest films by Alberto Rodríguez, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Lucía Alemany are among those set to benefit from grants provided by the Spanish Ministry of Culture
23/11/2021 - The latest films by Alberto Rodríguez, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Lucía Alemany are among those set to benefit from grants provided by the Spanish Ministry of Culture
Should I marry someone I don t love? Peccadillo Pictures in the UK has released an official UK trailer for the indie drama
Carmen & Lola, a Spanish love story between two Roma women. This premiered in 2019 in the Directors Fortnight sidebar at the Cannes Film Festival, and it played at the London, Palm Springs, and Santa Barbara Film Festivals, but has never been released in the US yet. Like every other woman she has ever met, Carmen, from a Roma suburb in Madrid, is destined to be married to a man of her parent s choosing. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon Romani woman who dreams about going to university, draws bird graffiti and likes girls. Heaving with the passion and determination of a love denied, filmmaker Arantxa Echevarría s
‘Still Life,’ ‘Fieras,’ ‘Horn’ Selected by Madrid’s ECAM Incubator (EXCLUSIVE) Variety 3 hrs ago
Jaione Camborda’s “The Rye Horn,” Enrique Buleo’s “Still Life with Ghosts” and Eva Saiz’s “Casa de fieras” feature among a bevy of new Spanish film projects to be offered at the 4th Madrid-based Incubator.
A mentorship program hosted by Madrid’s ECAM Film School, the Incubator has fast consolidated as one of the foremost development labs in Spain targeting producers of first and second features.
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The 4th Incubator runs from April through October.
Projects were chosen from a preselection made from over 200 submitted projects led by The Screen program manager Gemma Vidal. All Incubator’s projects receive €10,000 ($11,820) for development. As valuable, however, will be the tutorship led, among directors, by Arantxa Echevarría (“Carmen & Lola”), Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“May God Save Us”), Juan Cavestany (“Spanish Shame”)
film profile]) and recounts how Lucía (played by Rueda) thinks she leads an exemplary life and has everything under control. Ever since she got married, this woman has invested all of her effort in taking care of her family, with the aim of attaining what, for her, is the pinnacle of perfection. However, everything starts to fall apart the day Sara (Yuste), her son’s girlfriend, appears. Along with this young, free-spirited, foul-mouthed girl come some in-laws who are very different to the ones that Lucía had always pictured for her son. From that moment on, Lucía will find out that the perfect family was not exactly what she’d had in mind.