Filming is currently underway on Balandrau, a feature film inspired by the true events that took place at the end of December 2000 in the Catalan Pyrenees, which made headlines across Spain. Álvaro Cervantes (twice Goya-nominated, and this year in Deaf [+lire aussi :
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Based on the book Les tres nits del torb i un cap d’any by Jordi Cruz, and with a script by Danielle Schleif (Mediterráneo: The Law of the Sea [+lire aussi :
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To recreate the film’s most striking sequences, firefighters from the Government of Catalonia have been enlisted for their collaboration. The recreation of the storm on a large film set in Barcelona will involve the best professionals in the industry. Filming will take place over a total of seven weeks, including location shots in the Boí Valley and in Camprodón.

Guille Cascante, producer at Goroka and also the director of the documentary Balandrau, Frozen Hell [+lire aussi :
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Fernando Trullols has worked on more than 25 feature films, including A Monster Calls [+lire aussi :
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Balandrau is a production from Goroka, Lastor Media, Vilaüt Films, Balandrau Films AIE and 3Cat, with the participation of Filmin, and support from the ICAA, the ICEC, Audiovisual SGR and the Provincial Council of Girona, and the collaboration of the Directorate General of Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Rescue (Fire Services of the Government of Catalonia) and FGC Tourism. It will be distributed in Spanish cinemas by Filmax.