Variety Link click here In a coup for the Madrid-based sales agency, Latido Films has cliched a two picture deal with David Pérez Sañudo whose debut feature, “Ane,” repped by Latido, swept three Spanish Academy Goya Awards in 2021. Latido will take world sales rights on both titles. The move comes as Spanish sales companies battle…
Variety Link click here Upscale crossover sales agent Latido Films has acquired international sales rights to “Re-creation,” directed by legendary Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan, whose “In the Name of the Father” won a Berlin Golden Bear in 1994. Starring Vicky Krieps, a Cannes’ Un Certain Regard winner for “Corsage,” the docu-drama is co-written and co-directed by Irish artist…
Cineuropa Link click here The Irish filmmaker is currently shooting Re-creation, starring Vicky Krieps, and the Basque director will soon orchestrate 8, with Javier Rey and Ana Rujas. The Spanish agency Latido Films will start to manage the international (pre-)sales of Re-creation at the European Film Market of the 74th Berlinale (15-25 February). A co-production between Ireland and Luxembourg by the companies Hell’s Kitchen and Joli…
Cineytele Link click here La película producida por Morena Films cuenta con la participación de RTVE y Prime Video, y con el apoyo del ICAA. ‘Cuerpo escombro’ será distribuida en cines por Buena Vista International y las ventas internacionales correrán a cargo de Latido Films. ‘Cuerpo escombro’ es una comedia con un gran mensaje…
Screendaily Link click here As the Spanish film industry comes together at Valladolid International Film Week (known locally as the Seminici), one of the big talking points will be how to make independent films stand out at the local box office. Although Spain’s box office in the year to mid-October has grossed €400m, 35% higher than the…
Variety Link click here Cementing its reputation as a harbinger of emerging talent, Madrid-based Latido Films has acquired the international sales rights to “Tras el Verano,” the debut film from Yolanda Centeno picked out as one of Variety’s 10 Women Directors to Watch from Spain, compiled in 2021. Alfa Pictures is handling distribution in Spain. Following on hits…
Variety Link click here In times of dramatic change for the film-TV industry, Spanish auteur cinema is booming, goosed by multiple significant and high-quality titles, reaping prizes, critical praise and profile at international festivals. Beyond the preeminent interest in established auteurs such as Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar, J.A. Bayona, Isabel Coixet and Rodrigo Sorogoyen,…
Screendaily Link click here Rome’s Audiovisual International Market (MIA) will host the second edition of Spanish Screenings on Tour, the international showcase of Spain’s audiovisual industry (October 9-13). Under the motto “Talent and Future”, Spanish Screenings on Tour will showcase a diverse range of feature works at varying stages of production. There will be…
Variety Link click here Latido Films is venturing yet more into the inspiring world of e-sports and viral fame with Goya Award winning producer-helmer Alvaro Longoria’s new doc-feature, “La vida de Brianeitor.” The film serves as a spin-off from Javier Fesser’s Spanish box office smash hit, “Championext,” which Latido is also selling. The doc follows Brian Albacete, better…
Variety Link click here Madrid-based Latido Films has unveiled a slew of sales during the summer, led by standout deals reached on Daniel Calparsoro’s thriller “All the Names of God” and Gerardo Herrero’s comedy “Under Therapy.” The announcement comes as the 20 year-old company Latido disclosed early sales deals to Javier Fesser’s “Championext,” the…
Madrid Film Office Link click here LATIDO FILMS, agencia de ventas líder con sede en Madrid, celebra este año sus dos décadas de existencia vendiendo buen cine por todo el mundo, promocionando a grandes directores internacionales y logrando éxitos importantes. Especializados en películas de habla hispana y europeas, pero abiertos a otras creaciones internacionales, posee…
Variety Link click here Dominican filmmaker Leticia Tonos’ sci-fi drama “Aire” has won the inaugural Fantastic Latido Award at the Cannes Film Market’s new Fantastic Pavilion genre hub. Presented by Madrid-based Latido Films, the Fantastic Latido Award offers international sales representation for the winning film. “Aire” centers on Tania, a conservation biologist living in a future dystopian world…
Variety Link click here Few European arthouse-crossover film sales agents have better weathered the ebb and flow of international market dynamics than Madrid’s Latido Films, which turns 20 in 2023. Proof of that came at April’s Platino Awards, where Latido scored six statuettes, split between an acting double for Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s “Lullaby” and four…
Variety Link click here Madrid-based Latido Films has snagged international sales rights to Isaki Lacuesta’s “Saturn Return” (“Segundo premio”) and plans to kick off pre-sales at the Cannes market. Currently shooting in Granada, the musical drama is set during the ‘90s when the Andalusian city was ground zero for an outburst of cultural effervescence, with the pioneering rock…
Variety Link click here “Chinas,” the third feature from Spanish writer-director Arantxa Echevarria, who won the Goya for best new director in 2018 for her debut, “Carmen & Lola,” has been acquired for international sales by Latido Films (“The Platform,” “Lullaby,” “The Beasts”). “Arantxa Echevarria is an exceptional filmmaker with a unique sense of capturing the essence…
Screendaily By Elisabeth Cabeza Link click here The Berlin film festival honoured the legacy of legendary Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura, who died aged 91 earlier this month, with a special screening of his last film, documentary Walls Can Talk yesterday (Feb 20). The attendees included Berlinale’s director Carlo Chatrian, the president of the European Film Academy…
Berlinale Link click here Awards of the Generation Kplus International Jury Special Mention: L’Amour du monde by Jenna Hasse, Switzerland The jury was struck by this film’s quiet and rich portrayal of its protagonist’s evolving desires. It depicts a constellation of lost characters stuck in states of transition, and offers a surprising, poetic, multigenerational take on the…
OPENING FILM SOMEONE WHO TAKES CARE (Alguien que cuide de mí) by Daniela Fejerman, Elvira Lindo. Mar 10 | 22:30 | Teatro Cervantes Mar 10 | 22:30 | Cine Albéniz – Sala 1 Mar 10 | 11:00 | Cine Albéniz – Sala 1 OFFICIAL COMPETITION SICA (Sica) by Carla Subirana. Mar 14 | 19:00 |…
Variety By Ed Meza Link here Madrid-based Latido Films is partnering with the organizers of the new genre-focused Fantastic Pavilion at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film on a new award that will offer international distribution to selected Spanish-language Iberoamerican films. The prize will also provide theatrical release in Latin America for winning titles….
Screen International By JONATHAN HOLLAN Link here A young girl searches for her missing father in this impressive debut set on the stormy Galician coast. A melancholy, stormy film about a teenager’s melancholy, stormy relationship with the ocean that claimed her father, Carla Subirana’s Galician-language first feature Sica is many things at once: a coming-of-age tale, a…
