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Boutique Producer Señor y Señora Preps Aritz Moreno Karate Biopic, Samurai Series, Irati Gorostidi’s ‘Anekumen’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The biopic about karate queen and Olympic gold medal winner Sandra Sánchez will be released in Spain by Warner Bros.
In a clear move toward commercial fare, Spain’s boutique production house Señor y Señora, present this week at Madrid’s ECAM Forum with Pedro Hernando’s work in progress “A Whale,” is lining up its biggest slate ever. Heading the outfit’s scripted lineup is “Karateka,” Señor y Señora co-founder Aritz Moreno ’s third feature after his EFA nominated breakthrough debut “Advantages of Travelling by Train” and dark thriller “Moscas” which bowed at Sitges and Rotterdam. Sandra [Sánchez] is super fan of David B Gil’s novels, many of them set in feudal Japan,” adds Moreno who will tell the karate queen’s heroic journey “in a classic chronological order, from aged four to her triumph at the Olympics, but with an awe-inspiring visual style, “he told Variety.
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