The Málaga Festival Industry Zone (Mafiz) wrapped Thursday, March 25 with a slew of awards parceled out to productions from across Spain and Latin America.
Several projects by women filmmakers dominated the event, which kicked off on March 21.
Spanish documentarian Carla Subirana’s fiction feature debut, “Sica” made off with three private-sector plaudits, including the Aracne post-production cash prize of €20,000 as well as the Rec and Abycine awards, comprising participation in their respective industry labs.
Backed by Alba Sotorra’s Cinema Productions, Galician firm Miramira, Spanish pubcaster Tve and Catalonia’s Tvc, the coming-of-age drama turns on 13-year-old Sica who waits by the Costa da Morte, a Galician fishing shoreline, for the sea to give up the body of her fisherman father who perished at sea.
Other Work in Progress (Wip) awards went to documentary “Of Books and Women,” by María Elorza of Spain and “Nothing” (a working title) by Brazil’s Adriana Guimaraes.
Several projects by women filmmakers dominated the event, which kicked off on March 21.
Spanish documentarian Carla Subirana’s fiction feature debut, “Sica” made off with three private-sector plaudits, including the Aracne post-production cash prize of €20,000 as well as the Rec and Abycine awards, comprising participation in their respective industry labs.
Backed by Alba Sotorra’s Cinema Productions, Galician firm Miramira, Spanish pubcaster Tve and Catalonia’s Tvc, the coming-of-age drama turns on 13-year-old Sica who waits by the Costa da Morte, a Galician fishing shoreline, for the sea to give up the body of her fisherman father who perished at sea.
Other Work in Progress (Wip) awards went to documentary “Of Books and Women,” by María Elorza of Spain and “Nothing” (a working title) by Brazil’s Adriana Guimaraes.
- 3/25/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Selected at TIFF’s Filmmaker Lab, Cannes’ Sources 2 program and Madrid’s Ecam Incubator, “Still Life with Ghosts” marks the first feature from Spain’s Enrique Buleo, director of shorts such as “Decorosa” and “Hell and Such,” which played Clermont-Ferrand and Palm Springs, Slamdance, Nashville and many other events, garnering praise and plaudits.
A five-part black comedy, “Still Life with Ghosts” is set in a Spanish village where ghosts and live people come to each other’s aid, trying to find a solution to the problems that are haunting them.
“Ghosts” is produced by Alejandra Mora at Valencia-based Quatre Films which co-produced Javier Tolentino’s “Blues for Tehran” alongside Luis Miñarro’s Eddie Saeta.
How would you introduce your debut to industry players who could be potentially interested?
I’d underscore the rural and hostile atmosphere that the film exudes, the everyday nature of its fantastic elements and its macabre...
A five-part black comedy, “Still Life with Ghosts” is set in a Spanish village where ghosts and live people come to each other’s aid, trying to find a solution to the problems that are haunting them.
“Ghosts” is produced by Alejandra Mora at Valencia-based Quatre Films which co-produced Javier Tolentino’s “Blues for Tehran” alongside Luis Miñarro’s Eddie Saeta.
How would you introduce your debut to industry players who could be potentially interested?
I’d underscore the rural and hostile atmosphere that the film exudes, the everyday nature of its fantastic elements and its macabre...
- 9/23/2021
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Un blues para Teherán –financed by a successful crowdfunding campaign– will be the directorial debut for the film journalist. During the last Abycine festival, where Lluís Miñarro received the festival’s special award, filming began of a documentary directed by Sebastián Arabia about the lively Catalan producer, who has been behind works by –among many other distinguished filmmakers– Albert Serra, Javier Rebollo and Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of the Palme d’Or in Cannes. Miñarro, always chatty and enthusiastic, was accompanied at the festival by Javier Tolentino, radio journalist for Radio Nacional de España, Spain’s national public radio service: together they are preparing filming of the reporter’s directorial debut, Un blues para Teherán, which is in the pre-production phase. The film has been defined by its director as a special tribute –between love, poetry and tragicomedy– to the people of Iran: “I want to tell the story of their everyday lives,...
- 12/19/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
San Sebastian — “Lobster Soup” scooped a €3,000 cash prize for best project at San Sebastian’s Lau Haizetara‘s Documentary Co-production Forum. It also won a second award for distribution.
Produced by Valencia’s Suica Films, Basque Country’s Rec Grabaketa Estudioa and Iceland’s Axfilms, “Lobster Soup” portrays a small community around Iceland’s Bryggjan café, where each morning its famous lobster soup is prepared. José Andreu and Rafael Molés will direct.
Other buzzed titles among the 14 projects pitched on Thursday were “Matrioskas, las niñas de la guerra,” “The Mystery of Pink Flamingos,” “There Was and There Wasn’t,” and “Niño de Elche”.
A Basque production from Haruru Filmak and Sincro Producción, “Matrioskas” plumbs into the lives of five seemingly ordinary 90-something women who hide their extraordinary lives. Fleeing northern Spain during the Civil War, they lived in exile in the Ussr and finally Cuba.
Produced by growing Basque company Sr.
Produced by Valencia’s Suica Films, Basque Country’s Rec Grabaketa Estudioa and Iceland’s Axfilms, “Lobster Soup” portrays a small community around Iceland’s Bryggjan café, where each morning its famous lobster soup is prepared. José Andreu and Rafael Molés will direct.
Other buzzed titles among the 14 projects pitched on Thursday were “Matrioskas, las niñas de la guerra,” “The Mystery of Pink Flamingos,” “There Was and There Wasn’t,” and “Niño de Elche”.
A Basque production from Haruru Filmak and Sincro Producción, “Matrioskas” plumbs into the lives of five seemingly ordinary 90-something women who hide their extraordinary lives. Fleeing northern Spain during the Civil War, they lived in exile in the Ussr and finally Cuba.
Produced by growing Basque company Sr.
- 9/28/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
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