Few European arthouse-crossover film sales agents have better weathered the ebb and flow of international market dynamics than Madrid’s Latido Films, which turns 20 in 2023.
Proof of that came at April’s Platino Awards, where Latido scored six statuettes, split between an acting double for Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s “Lullaby” and four for Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” which has already swept Spain’s Goya Awards and scored a French Cesar for foreign film.
Scoring €6.8 million ($7.5 million) in Spain, and 327,000 admissions in France, “The Beasts” also rates as one of the top-performing recent Spanish-language movies.
If Latido has survived for so long, insists director general Antonio Saura, it’s because of a core strategy of “working with talent, our search for talent.” Beyond that, other keys have been “collaboration with production companies that understand long-term relationships, and well-established relationships with clients.”
Companies with which Latido has held or holds...
Proof of that came at April’s Platino Awards, where Latido scored six statuettes, split between an acting double for Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s “Lullaby” and four for Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” which has already swept Spain’s Goya Awards and scored a French Cesar for foreign film.
Scoring €6.8 million ($7.5 million) in Spain, and 327,000 admissions in France, “The Beasts” also rates as one of the top-performing recent Spanish-language movies.
If Latido has survived for so long, insists director general Antonio Saura, it’s because of a core strategy of “working with talent, our search for talent.” Beyond that, other keys have been “collaboration with production companies that understand long-term relationships, and well-established relationships with clients.”
Companies with which Latido has held or holds...
- 5/16/2023
- by John Hopewell and Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Three Scapulars and Sincerely win top prizes; six other titles headed to Locarno and San Sebastian.
The 5th Bogota Audiovisual Market (Bam) (July 14-18) closed on Friday night with awards and referrals to industry events in Locarno and San Sebastian.
The winner of Bam Screenings’ Cinecolour Colombia Prize, worth $10,000 in production services, was Filipe Aljure’s Three Scapulars (Tres Escapularios).
The road movie, produced by Cinempresa.com, focuses on freedom fighters Nico and Lorena who are ordered to assassinate an ex-guerrilla – a heavily pregnant woman named Indira. As the duo develop a romance, they begin to question having to kill the whistle blower and her innocent unborn child.
Special mentions went to Sergio Cabrera’s adaptation of Wendy Guerra’s semi-autobiographic novel Everybody Leaves (Todos se Van) about growing up in 1980s Cuba and Felipe Cano’s crime thriller The Seed of Silence (La Semilla del Silencio).
Bam Project winners
More than 250 applications were submitted for this...
The 5th Bogota Audiovisual Market (Bam) (July 14-18) closed on Friday night with awards and referrals to industry events in Locarno and San Sebastian.
The winner of Bam Screenings’ Cinecolour Colombia Prize, worth $10,000 in production services, was Filipe Aljure’s Three Scapulars (Tres Escapularios).
The road movie, produced by Cinempresa.com, focuses on freedom fighters Nico and Lorena who are ordered to assassinate an ex-guerrilla – a heavily pregnant woman named Indira. As the duo develop a romance, they begin to question having to kill the whistle blower and her innocent unborn child.
Special mentions went to Sergio Cabrera’s adaptation of Wendy Guerra’s semi-autobiographic novel Everybody Leaves (Todos se Van) about growing up in 1980s Cuba and Felipe Cano’s crime thriller The Seed of Silence (La Semilla del Silencio).
Bam Project winners
More than 250 applications were submitted for this...
- 7/21/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Madrid -- The 12th Malaga Spanish Film Festival will stay true to its roots as the premiere showcase for the Spanish film industry, offering a bevy of directorial debuts, when it runs April 17-25, organizers said Tuesday.
But as new festival director Carmelo Romero takes the reins from Solomon Castiel for the first preview of this year’s Spanish film production stressing continuity, he also has added some ingredients to spice things up.
Native son Antonio Banderas will attend the festival for the first time to present the Malaga Award to Juan Diego, whom he directed in his Spanish-language, Malaga-based film “Summer Rain.” The festival will offer a “making of” section dedicated to Banderas’ “Rain.”
Cult director Alex de la Iglesia will preside over the official jury, comprising director Sergio Cabrera; actors Jose Manuel Cervino, Ruben Ochandiano and Emma Suarez; as well as writers Lucia Etxebarria and Juan Madrid.
But the meat of the festival,...
But as new festival director Carmelo Romero takes the reins from Solomon Castiel for the first preview of this year’s Spanish film production stressing continuity, he also has added some ingredients to spice things up.
Native son Antonio Banderas will attend the festival for the first time to present the Malaga Award to Juan Diego, whom he directed in his Spanish-language, Malaga-based film “Summer Rain.” The festival will offer a “making of” section dedicated to Banderas’ “Rain.”
Cult director Alex de la Iglesia will preside over the official jury, comprising director Sergio Cabrera; actors Jose Manuel Cervino, Ruben Ochandiano and Emma Suarez; as well as writers Lucia Etxebarria and Juan Madrid.
But the meat of the festival,...
- 4/1/2009
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
MADRID -- Two weeks after synchronized bombings on four rush-hour commuter trains in Madrid killed 190 people and wounded 1,400, 20 Spanish filmmakers said they plan to make a documentary as a tribute to the victims and the heroes of the March 11 terrorist attack. The docu, titled Madrid 11M: We Were All in That Train and due to be released in May, will comprise 20 three- to five-minute films profiling people who were affected by the attack. Madrid 11M is an independent, nonprofit initiative and will be funded by the individual filmmakers with support from Docus Madrid, which assists the production, distribution and promotion of documentaries, the filmmakers said Friday. The filmmakers include Jaime Chavarri, Jorge Iglesias, Miguel Angel Nieto and Sergio Cabrera.
- 3/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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