Looking ever more to Spain, a natural partner, Portuguese public broadcaster Rtp has boarded “Millennial Mal,” a series created by actor, screenwriter and stand-up comic Lorena Iglesias who co-directs with Andrea Jaurrieta, who made a splash with her second feature, “Nina.”
The series is produced by Oscar winner Tornasol Media (“The Secret in Their Eyes”), Ukbar Filmes, behind Netflix smash hit “Turn of the Tide,” and Spanish SVOD platform Filmin which also has Spain’s first TV window. Rtp now serves as the show’s anchor broadcaster in Portugal.
Written by Iglesias, “Millennial Mal” turns on Judith, 42, an out-of-work debt-drowning librarian, who receives a university grant in a bureaucratic error. To access it, however, she has to attend the university and pass herself off as under 30. Aided by two younger women, has a Gen Z makeover. Trouble is, she ends up believing her facade.
“On social networks, we see every day how 20-year-old girls live,...
The series is produced by Oscar winner Tornasol Media (“The Secret in Their Eyes”), Ukbar Filmes, behind Netflix smash hit “Turn of the Tide,” and Spanish SVOD platform Filmin which also has Spain’s first TV window. Rtp now serves as the show’s anchor broadcaster in Portugal.
Written by Iglesias, “Millennial Mal” turns on Judith, 42, an out-of-work debt-drowning librarian, who receives a university grant in a bureaucratic error. To access it, however, she has to attend the university and pass herself off as under 30. Aided by two younger women, has a Gen Z makeover. Trouble is, she ends up believing her facade.
“On social networks, we see every day how 20-year-old girls live,...
- 6/20/2025
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Indie Spanish film studio Filmax has picked up international sales rights to “Alumbramiento” (‘Birth’), the sophomore feature by Pau Teixidor (“Purgatorio”), set up at Aquí y Allí Films, the production house run by Pedro Hernández Santos and behind “Something is About to Happen,” and “Life and Nothing More.”
Co-written by Teixidor and Lorena Iglesias (“Towards Bruce Lee’s Tomb”), and inspired by real events, the feature narrates the moving story of Lucia, a teenager sent to a centre for young, pregnant girls in Spain, in 1982.
In her feature length debut, Spanish actress Sofía Milán (“Love in Difficult Times”) plays Lucía, who’s been taken to Madrid by her mother Marisa to find a solution for an unwanted pregnancy.
Lucía ends up in Peñagrande, a reformatory for teen mothers-to-be where she will forge strong friendships with the other girls and discover the awful truth that her not yet born child is...
Co-written by Teixidor and Lorena Iglesias (“Towards Bruce Lee’s Tomb”), and inspired by real events, the feature narrates the moving story of Lucia, a teenager sent to a centre for young, pregnant girls in Spain, in 1982.
In her feature length debut, Spanish actress Sofía Milán (“Love in Difficult Times”) plays Lucía, who’s been taken to Madrid by her mother Marisa to find a solution for an unwanted pregnancy.
Lucía ends up in Peñagrande, a reformatory for teen mothers-to-be where she will forge strong friendships with the other girls and discover the awful truth that her not yet born child is...
- 3/4/2024
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
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