Global production, sales and distribution outfit Filmsharks has picked up international sales rights to the Spanish dramedy “Samana Sunrise,” starring box office mega-draw Luis Tosar.
FilmSharks wooed exhibitors at last week’s Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid and will now take it to RioMarket, the AFM and Film Baazar. Universal Pictures will release the film in Spain on Nov. 8, with Movistar Plus+ taking second window pay TV and SVOD rights.
Directed by Rafa Cortés (“Yo”) and based on a play by Jordi Galcerán, the comedy stars Spanish actors Tosar, Luisa Mayol, Luis Zahera and Bárbara Santa-Cruz alongside international performers including Charles Dance and Alfredo Castro.
In the film, two couples head off on a Caribbean vacation to celebrate their parallel 20-year anniversaries. As the friends reconnect over perhaps too many drinks, old truths come out that their pairings were almost very different on the night the four of them first met.
FilmSharks wooed exhibitors at last week’s Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid and will now take it to RioMarket, the AFM and Film Baazar. Universal Pictures will release the film in Spain on Nov. 8, with Movistar Plus+ taking second window pay TV and SVOD rights.
Directed by Rafa Cortés (“Yo”) and based on a play by Jordi Galcerán, the comedy stars Spanish actors Tosar, Luisa Mayol, Luis Zahera and Bárbara Santa-Cruz alongside international performers including Charles Dance and Alfredo Castro.
In the film, two couples head off on a Caribbean vacation to celebrate their parallel 20-year anniversaries. As the friends reconnect over perhaps too many drinks, old truths come out that their pairings were almost very different on the night the four of them first met.
- 10/7/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Following a two-month shoot in Melilla, Seville and other Andalusian locations, this début film has won the backing of La Claqueta and Powehi Films. Alegría (Violeta Samala’s feature-length début) is a feel-good tale that invites us to witness an exotic Jewish wedding in the characterful city of Melilla, which we explore in the company of four women, portrayed by small-screen stars Cecilia Suárez (who you may have seen recently in the Amazon Prime series 3 Caminos), Laia Manzanares (Merlí), Sarah Perles (El Cid) and Mara Guill (Caronte). Also in town for the celebrations are Leonardo Sbaraglia (star of the recent Pain and Glory), Adelfa Calvo (The Motive), Emilio Palacios, Zohar Liba, Joe Manjón and María Luisa Mayol. After shooting in Melilla, Seville and other Andalusian locations in February and March, the film is now in post-production. The screenplay, written by Samala in collaboration with Isa Sánchez (321 días en Michigan...
The Panama Film Festival (Iff Panama), with support from the Inter-American Development Bank, is unspooling a five-day online festival, running May 22-26, which includes film screenings and round tables.
Held on May 22, 23 and 24, three online round-tables – two moderated by festival director Pituka Ortega Heilbron and one by Tiff’s senior director, film, Diana Sanchez – questioned leading international talent, based in Latin America and Europe, about what film festivals and film production and distribution will look like after Covid-19.
The panelists were Jayro Bustamante (“Ixcanul”), Nicolás Celis (“Roma”), Cristina Gallegos (“Embrace of the Serpent”) Elena Manrique (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), production designer Enrique Caballero (“Roma”), and actors Yalitza Aparicio (“Roma”), Luis Tosar (“Cell 211”), Ricardo Darín (“The Secret in Their Eyes”), Geraldine Chaplin (“Talk to Her”), Daniela Vega (“A Fantastic Woman”) and Marina de Tavira (“Roma”).
Several innovative new projects adapted to the lockdown period were discussed. For example, Spanish actor Luis Tosar...
Held on May 22, 23 and 24, three online round-tables – two moderated by festival director Pituka Ortega Heilbron and one by Tiff’s senior director, film, Diana Sanchez – questioned leading international talent, based in Latin America and Europe, about what film festivals and film production and distribution will look like after Covid-19.
The panelists were Jayro Bustamante (“Ixcanul”), Nicolás Celis (“Roma”), Cristina Gallegos (“Embrace of the Serpent”) Elena Manrique (“Pan’s Labyrinth”), production designer Enrique Caballero (“Roma”), and actors Yalitza Aparicio (“Roma”), Luis Tosar (“Cell 211”), Ricardo Darín (“The Secret in Their Eyes”), Geraldine Chaplin (“Talk to Her”), Daniela Vega (“A Fantastic Woman”) and Marina de Tavira (“Roma”).
Several innovative new projects adapted to the lockdown period were discussed. For example, Spanish actor Luis Tosar...
- 5/26/2020
- by Martin Dale and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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