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Exclusive: Director Hugo Ruiz has signed with Buchwald.

Ruiz wrote and directed the film One Night With Adela, the Spanish filmmaker’s debut feature which is currently available to stream via Amazon. Laura Galán stars as Adela, a street cleaner in Madrid hellbent on revenge against those who have made her life miserable. The thriller thrives on the concept of a one-shot sequence and belongs to an eventual trilogy currently in development, where all three films take place over the course of one night.

One Night With Adela also stars Gemma Nierga, Jimmy Barnatán, Raudel Raúl, Litus, Rosalía Omil, Fernando Moraleda and Beatriz Morandeira. XYZ is handling North American distribution for the film, with Latido and #ConUnPack are onboard for international sales.

Following the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2023, Ruiz took home the Best New Narrative Director award, making him the first Spanish filmmaker to receive the accolade.

José de la Torre, who played Iván in the Spanish-language Netflix drama “Toy Boy,” has died. He was 37.

Spanish publication Montilla Digital was the first to report that the actor died on Dec. 5 after a long battle with an unknown illness. A funeral service was held in Spain the day after his death.

In June, de la Torre revealed he was diagnosed with what he described as a “serious illness” and had stepped away from acting to receive treatment the same month.

De la Torre was part of Netflix’s “Toy Boy” since its debut in 2019. The show ran for 21 episodes across three seasons until 2021. The series followed Hugo Beltrán, played by Jesús Mosquera, a stripper who “sets out to prove his innocence for a crime he didn’t commit and was unjustly incarcerated for seven years earlier,” according to the official logline.

Additional cast members included Cristina Castaño, María Pedraza,...