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Spain’s NextGen Producers Takes Center Stage at Berlin’s Country in Focus
From established producers – Morena, Avalon Escándalo and Inicia – the EFM’s Spain in Focus also spotlights multiple emerging prodcos.
By then Avalon had moved into TV, producing Manolo Caro’s Spain-made Netflix series, such as 2020’s notable “Somebody Has to Die.” It has continued to foster new talent, such as Elena Martín Gimeno’s “Creatura,” a Cannes Directors’ Fortnight winner, and now, to be pitched at the Focus, Ian de la Rosa’s “Iván & Hadoum,” María Herrera’s “Since You’ve Been Gone,” Salvador Sunyer’s doc-feature “Who We Are” (“Qui Som”) and narrative movie “Basarda.” Launched in 2016, Barcelona and Madrid-based, La Cima has produced two of the singular and acclaimed of Spanish films of late: Luis López Carrasco’s large-scope, innovative and heterodox hybrid doc feature “The Year Of The Discovery” (2020) and Albert Serra’s 2024 San Sebastian Golden Shell winner “Afternoons of Solitude,” an “extraordinary documentary,” says Variety. Launched in 2005, Solita has found success co-producing broader audience, first-time Latin American auteurs – Berlin winner “The Awakening of the Ants,” Sundance-selected “The Fishbowl.” It is now driving into diversity in Spain, producing Catalan Jiajie Yu Wan’s “Three Ages” cross-generational study of immigration, while backing yet more new directors such as Albert Gross (“March 14th”) and now Guillermo Benet (“Yesterday I Will Love You”).
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