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Paula Martel’s Buzzy Malaga-Bound Teen Western ‘First We Take Anillaco’ Builds Eye-Catching Four-Way Co-Production Alliance (EXCLUSIVE)
Set up at Argentina’s Colectivo Rutemberg, Color Haus, Filmes Sem Sapato, Circular Media
Subject of a bold pitch by writer-director Paula Martel at Mar del Plata’s Film.Ar in 2017 where she pulled out a (mock) revolver to illustrate the film’s climax, “First We Take Anillaco” will now hit this week’s 2025 Malaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event ( MAFF) as one of its buzz projects. “Blending magical realism with raw, female gaze and punk energy, the film is a cinematic act of resistance: a fable about youth, disillusionment, and the eternal cycle of deception in Latin America,” Martel told Variety. Nicolas Valdes’ Circular Media co-produced Paul Vega’s “The Astronaut” and Salvador del Solar’s San Sebastian Horizontes Latinos player “Ramon & Ramón,” partnering with Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar’s El Deseo and top Peruvian outfit Tondero.
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