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These women are backing buzzed-about Spanish projects, galore of them co-productions.
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Leire Apellaniz
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With noteworthy titles — Goya-nominated “Advantages of Travelling by Train,” Locarno standout “The Sacred Spirit” — proud Basque Country autochthonal Apellaniz has grown measurement by step. She is pursuing “Samsara,” buzzed astir astatine Berlin, pinch upcoming Henry Golding starrer “Daniela Forever,” directed by Nacho Vigalondo (“Colossal”). She’s besides committed to mentoring divers voices, peculiarly female. “It’s not conscionable astir moving pinch female board but pushing opportunities for women crossed each departments.”
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Paola Botrán
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Botrán has built connected her world income acquisition astatine Latido Films, representing Netflix deed “The Platform” and “Killing Jesus” while shifting into producing. “In world co-productions, each territory has its ain taste and method characteristics. This is nan astir enriching facet connected a individual level,” she says. A cardinal portion of Sideral, a caller production-distribution-sales label, Botrán has raced retired nan block, exec producing “The Fantastic Golem Affairs” and Pablo Maqueda’s “Girl, Unknown.”
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Valerie Delpierre
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“It’s only this twelvemonth that I’m co-producing internationally connected a much than an occasional basis,” says Delpierre, a doyenne of nan New Catalan Cinema, shaper of “Summer 1993,” “Schoolgirls” and “La Maternal.” Also down apical Berlin victor “20,000 Species of Bees,” she has found, aliases is closing, partners overseas for features from Paula Ortiz (“Teresa”), Adrià García (“The Treasure of Barracuda”) and Borja Cobeaga (“Los Aitas”). “I for illustration repeating pinch talent, and films connected to reality but pinch aggregate layers,” she says.
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Emilia Fort
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Following connected “Alcarràs,” Fort, of Madrid-based Avalon, has worked connected Álvaro Gago’s “Matria,” depicting nan hard-fought life of a azygous mother surviving successful nan Galician countryside, and produced Ian de la Rosa’s “Iván & Hadoum,” a Berlinale Eurimages Award victor exploring trans personality group successful Almería. Enthused by nan breadth of location talent, Fort aspires to proceed boosting projects that move extracurricular large metropolis centers, producing narratives adding caller textures to Spain’s booming cinematic repertoire.
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Inés Nofuentes
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Nofuentes’ breakout film, “Ixcanul” (2015), by Jayro Bustamante, marked a turning constituent for her, winning a Berlin Silver Bear and becoming Guatemala’s first Oscar submission. Her follow-ups, “I Promise You Anarchy” and “Gunpowder Heart,” person continued to build connected this success. “Don’t return thing for granted. Communicate, meet, talk arsenic overmuch arsenic you request earlier you return decisions regarding your master partners,” are immoderate of nan lessons she’s learned complete nan years.
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Alba Sotorra
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Few Spanish director-producers person plowed into world co-production pinch specified passion and occurrence arsenic Barcelona’s Sotorra. Backing Roya Sadat’s “Sima’s Song,” which is successful Spanish Screenings Goes to Cannes, and María Trenor’s “Rock Bottom,” playing successful Annecy’s Animation Day, Sotorra has 8 projects successful development, six already group up arsenic overseas co-productions. “Co-production is not only a financing strategy but makes a task much world and absorbing from a imaginative POV,” she says.
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Marisa Fernández Armenteros
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Launching Buenapinta Media successful precocious 2020, Fernández Armenteros has deed nan crushed running, co-producing Maite Alberdi’s Oscar-nominated “The Mole Agent,” Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s Goya winning “Lullaby” and Isabel Coixet’s “Un Amor.” She’s now processing titles by Ruiz de Azúa, Guillermo García López (in Cannes title pinch “Aunque es de Noche”), Borja Cobeaga and Victor García León. “I emotion to harvester caller and [established] talent. It’s truthful enriching, affording aggregate perspectives,” she says.
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Marian Fernández Pascal
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Pascal produced “Amama,” 1 of nan first Basque-language features to compete astatine San Sebastian, and her first TV bid pinch institution Txintxua Films, Koldo Almandoz’s “Mouths of Sand,” has paved nan measurement for a move to much world co-productions. She acknowledges nan complexity: “You person to coordinate 2 aliases much ways of producing to make judge each goes smoothly. It’s an enriching and analyzable process.” She produced “Intimacy,” which topped Netflix’s world ranking for non-English TV shows successful June.
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Andrea Vázquez
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Vázquez produced Oliver Laxe’s “Fire Will Come,” a 2019 Un Certain Regard assemblage prize winner. Vázquez, of Galicia’s Miramemira shingle, has proudly ushered Carla Subirana’s “Sica” while wrapping Jaione Camborda’s “The Rye Horn.” depicting “the mammalian capacity of women to engender life,” she says. With forthcoming titles by Laxe, Jaume Claret and a documentary by María Yáñez that allows her to dive into caller territory, Vázquez likes films that airs a accumulation challenge.
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Maria Zamora
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Zamora produced debuts from Beatriz Sanchís, Nely Reguera, Carla Simón and Clara Roquet, and Simón’s sophomore feature, “Alcarràs.” Zamora co-launched nan Valencia-based Elástica Films successful 2022, nan shingle down “Matria” and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title “Creature.” She is now embarking connected world bid accumulation and number co-productions. “Spanish cinema is travelling much than ever, which has a batch to do pinch looking for partners overseas from projects’ initiation,” she says.
