THE FILM STAGE Link click here Small town rural living tends to instill a sense of malaise in youth and neither Nicole (Maddy Martin) nor Veronica (Jenna Warren) are exceptions to that rule. They’ve already made a pact to eventually get out of here for no other reason than to aspire towards something that didn’t…
Variety Link click here “Walls Can Talk,” the latest film by Spain’s Carlos Saura, director of “Raise Ravens,” “Deprisa, Deprisa” and “Carmen,” has been acquired for intentional sales by Madrid-based Latido. Produced by María del Puy Alvarado at Malvalanda (“Madre,” “The Mole Agent”) and distributed in Spain by José Maria nd Miguel Morales’ Wanda Vision, “Walls Can…
Variety By Mark Schilling Link click here “The Beasts,” Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s psychological thriller about a French couple who come to live a peaceful life in Spain’s Galician countryside, but get a less than warm welcome from the locals, won the Tokyo Grand Prix at the 35th Tokyo International Film Festival at Tuesday night’s closing ceremony. The festival, which…
Variety By John Hopewell Link click here Closing Japan with Medallion and French-speaking Canada with Axiom and fielding offers for the U.S., China and the U.K, “The Beasts” is on track to shortly sell well over half the major territories in the world for sales agent Latido Films. The sales come as Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s rural thriller heads to…
Variety By Callum McLennan Link click here “Rebellion,” from José Luis Rugeles whose “Alias María” competed at Cannes Un Certain Regard and was Colombia’s Oscar entry, has been acquired for international sales by Latido Films. Latido will be bringing the title onto the market at Toronto. In the film, Rugeles takes a non-linear approach to the narrative drifting…
Variety By Holly Jones Link click here Following a successful festival circuit run after its world premiere at San Sebastian, Madrid-based Latido Films is bringing Carlos Saura’s (“Carmen”) inquisitive documentary “Walls Can Talk” (“Las Paredes Hablan”) to Buenos Aires. Screening as a highlight of Ventana’s Sur’s Spanish Screenings On Tour strand, which seeks to capture the country’s extraordinary…
Screendaily By Emilio Mayorga Link click here Antonio Saura’s Latido Films has licensed all US rights on Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s psychological thriller and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection The Beasts – one of the standouts at last week’s Ventana Sur market – to Los Angeles-based Greenwich Entertainment. The film screened in Buenos Aires under the auspices of Spanish Screenings on…
Variety Link: https://variety.com/2022/film/festivals/latido-malaga-unfinished-affairs-del-castillo-1235195041/ Latido Films, one of Spain’s biggest vendors of Spanish-language arthouse and crossover movies, has swooped on international sales rights to “Unfinished Affairs” (“La Maniobra de la Tortuga”). Domestic distribution in Spain is handled by A Contracorriente Films, one of Spain’s top independent producer-distributors. World premiering in main competition at this year’s Malaga…
CINEUROPA BY Alfonso Rivera Link click here If there is one word that defines Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s films –and series (see the magnificent Riot Police [+]) – it is tension. This feeling of angst, that upsets the stomach to the point of discomfort, is abundant in Madre [+], The Realm [+] and May God Save Us [+], and of course in The Beasts [+], the film with which the…
Variety By Ed Meza Link: https://acortar.link/7YOrvX In his latest work, which was being singled out for praise on the first day of Malaga’s Spanish Screenings, Imanol Uribe recounts the fateful story of Lucia Cerna, the only witness to the 1989 massacre in El Salvador of six Jesuit priests and two other people by a U.S.-trained death squad…
Screen By ELISABET CABEZA Link: https://www.screendaily.com/features/how-the-fight-against-fake-news-fuelled-imanol-uribes-malaga-title-what-lucia-saw/5168886.articlehttps://acortar.link/7YOrvX The Spanish thriller is being sold by Latido Films. Spanish thriller What Lucia Saw is playing in competition at the Madrid Film Festival this week and being showcased in the Market Premiere section of the Spanish Screenings by sales outfit Latido Films. Directed by Imanol Uribe, the film tells the story…
Screen By ELISABET CABEZA Link: https://www.screendaily.com/features/spanish-sales-agent-latido-the-fastest-growing-market-for-films-is-the-platforms/5168845.article Still from film THE BEASTS by Rodrigo Sorogoyen As the world increasingly tunes in to Spanish-language content, Madrid-based sales agent Latido is at the forefront of bringing films from Spain. Europe and Latin America to market. Led by Antonio Saura, managing director, Juan Torres, head of international sales, and…
CINEYTELE Link: https://www.cineytele.com/2022/03/22/jordi-oliva-ma-luisa-gutierrez-antonio-saura-agus-jimenez-y-cristina-andreu-comentan-el-aniversario-del-festival-de-malaga/Cineytele Tras comenzar ayer con las opiniones y felicitaciones de Beatriz Navas, Mercedes Gamero, Carlos Rosado e Isona Admetlla con motivo de las bodas de plata del Festival de Málaga, continuamos ofreciendo los testimonios de representantes de la industria. Hoy es el turno de los presidentes de PROA, de la Asociación Estatal de Cine, de…
Variety Link: https://acortar.link/O3t0gq Spanish director Ángeles Reiné celebrates family, neighborhood friendships and soccer in her a feel-good comedy “Héroes de Barrio” (“Football Heroes of the Block”). The film, Reiné’s sophomore feature following 2019’s “Salir del ropero” (“So My Grandma’s a Lesbian!”), which screens at the Malaga Festival, follows financially-strapped Seville bar owner Luis, who seeks to…
Screen Daily By ELISABET CABEZA Link click here Madrid-based Latido Films has scored a slew of deals on Berlin Panorama title Lullaby at the Spanish Screenings in Malaga this week. The film has been bought for China (Huanxi Media), Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia (Film Stop), Scandinavia (Lucky Dogs) and Latido said it is in talks for…
Screen Daily By JONATHAN HOLLAND Link click here Juan Miguel del Castillo’s second feature is a Spanish thriller that critiques the male violence of its genre A hard-boiled thriller that also represents a critique of the machista assumptions underlying hard-boiled thrillers, Juan Miguel del Castillo’s second feature Unfinished Affairs sees two lost souls – a victim of domestic…
Screen Daily BY ELISABET CABEZA Link click here Spanish thriller Unfinished Affairs premieres in competition at the Malaga Film Festival this week, marking the second feature of director Juan Miguel del Castillo. It is also one of three titles receiving special ‘market premieres’ in the festival’s Spanish Screenings industry event by sales outfit Latido Films. The film stars…
Variety By John Hopewell, Pablo Sandoval Link click here Two hotly-favored competition frontrunners, Spain’s motherhood-focused “Lullaby” and “Utama,” shot on an awe-inspiring Bolivian Altiplano, swept the board at a historic, 25th Málaga Film Festival which said a lot about the current state of the Spanish film industry. Running March 18-26, the Festival proved a vibrant affair,…
vía PRODU By Liz Unamo Link click here Juan Torres, responsable de Ventas Internacionales de Latido Films, una distribuidora de cine y TV de habla hispana, está en MAFIZ con un paquete de películas españolas y latinoamericanas. Los thrillers La maniobra de la tortuga (dirigida por Juan Miguel de Castillo) y Llegaron de noche (dirigida por Imanol Uribe), el…
Screendaily BY JONATHAN HOLLAND Link click here Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s debut is an absorbing mother-daughter drama set on the Basque coast Tender-hearted and acutely observed, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s debut Lullaby is an absorbing if flawed mother-daughter drama. Lullaby is about a woman who, after having a child of her own, reaches a new affinity with her mother: hardly a…
