MADRID -- Oscar-nominated actress Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace) has lined up alongside Sienna Guillory, Hugh Dancy, Bernard Hill and Joaquim de Almeida to star in Antonio Cuadri's The Heart of the Earth, producers announced Thursday. The film boasts a 12 million ($14.3 million) budget and will shoot for 12 weeks in Spain and Portugal beginning March 31. The story, written by Cuadri, is set around the British-owned mines of Rio Tinto in 1888 and depicts the friendship of two women, one Spanish and the other British, against the social upheavals of the time. The tale is based on the true story of the arrival of Cuban anarchist Maximiliano Tornet, which resulted in an organized strike at the mine -- the first ecological demonstration in history -- that ended in a massacre. The Heart of the Earth is a Spanish-British-Portuguese co-production, produced by Juan Carlos Orihuela and Luis Angel Bellaba of Manufacturas Audiovisuales with the support of Jose Portela's Abra Prods. The U.K.'s Heart of the Earth Productions Ltd. and Future Film, and Costa do Castelo Filmes from Portugal, will co-produce. International sales are being handled by Michael Ryan and Guy Collins' London-based Sequence Film/IAC Film.
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