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Spanish Cinema Embraces Opportunity with Co-Production
As Spanish movies overperform on Netflix, and then some, companies plunge into international co-production. Variety explains why.
Now, in the run-up to Berlin, London-based Film Constellation has acquired most world sales rights to “The Captive,” from Oscar winner Alejandro Amenábar(“The Sea Inside”) and Mod Producciones, a $15 million period adventure epic on the literary makings of “Quixote”author Miguel de Cervantes, held to ransom in a Moorish corsair jail. will take to market Iciar Bollain’s “I Am Nevenka,” about a feminist pioneer in Spain, and an untitled project from “Prison 77’s” Alberto Rodriguez, two fruit of the first movie slate from Movistar Plus+, the biggest Spanish pay TV/SVOD player, announced in January. Two prominent Berlin titles, for instance, – Sundance hit “Reinas,” in Generation Kplus; Panorama Player “Memories Of A Burning Body” – tap Catalonia’s highly successful Minority Co-Production Fund.
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