Italy’s Fandango will be launching sales at the Cannes Marché du Film on “The Sleeper,” a doc directed by Spain’s Alvaro Longoria about a lost Caravaggio painting depicting a thorn-crowned Christ that’s been making global headlines and will soon be displayed at the Prado museum in Madrid.
“The Sleeper” is structured like a thriller in which the viewer is guided by art dealer Jorge Coll on the tortuous journey of this piece of art, titled “Ecce Homo.” After hanging in the living room of an ordinary Spanish home for decades, the painting was attributed to the circle of the 17th-century Spanish artist José de Ribeira when it was offered for sale at a Madrid auction house in April 2021. It almost sold for just €1,500 before something clicked, prompting experts in Spain and Italy to reexamine the work.
“What happens when a painting that has always adorned the living...
“The Sleeper” is structured like a thriller in which the viewer is guided by art dealer Jorge Coll on the tortuous journey of this piece of art, titled “Ecce Homo.” After hanging in the living room of an ordinary Spanish home for decades, the painting was attributed to the circle of the 17th-century Spanish artist José de Ribeira when it was offered for sale at a Madrid auction house in April 2021. It almost sold for just €1,500 before something clicked, prompting experts in Spain and Italy to reexamine the work.
“What happens when a painting that has always adorned the living...
- 5/7/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Spain’s Morena, Mediacrest and Estrategia Audiovisual are joining forces with Italy’s Fandango on “The Sleeper,” a thriller doc following an alleged Caravaggio painting, directed by producer-helmer Álvaro Longoria.
Rome-based Fandango also handles international sales rights. It is attending the EFM.
Based on an original story created by Morena co-founder Longoria, Mediacrest’s Gerardo Olivares and Estrategia Audiovisual’s Ricardo Fernández-Deu, the project started production at the end of 2023, and is being shot in Madrid, London and several cities in Italy.
Guided by art dealer Jorge Coll, “The Sleeper” tells the journey of a piece of art that goes from a house’s living room in Madrid to making headlines worldwide in light of the possibility that it could be a lost painting by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio.
“You can’t ask for a better thriller plot,” Longoria told Variety. “The world of art is fascinating and somewhat obscure.
Rome-based Fandango also handles international sales rights. It is attending the EFM.
Based on an original story created by Morena co-founder Longoria, Mediacrest’s Gerardo Olivares and Estrategia Audiovisual’s Ricardo Fernández-Deu, the project started production at the end of 2023, and is being shot in Madrid, London and several cities in Italy.
Guided by art dealer Jorge Coll, “The Sleeper” tells the journey of a piece of art that goes from a house’s living room in Madrid to making headlines worldwide in light of the possibility that it could be a lost painting by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio.
“You can’t ask for a better thriller plot,” Longoria told Variety. “The world of art is fascinating and somewhat obscure.
- 2/17/2024
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
“17 Khz,” (Mediacrest)
Cut off in a border region, five people from different generations and countries confront Tiamat, a conspiracy of young teens who have ermined that the inly way to stop climate change is to eliminate all adults. That, for Tiamat, however, is not the end of their plan, just a beginning. A three-season fantasy thriller from Mediacrest, a fast-growing production-distribution outfit, multi-prized at September’s Conecta Fiction, partnered in Spain by A Contracorriente Films. ID: Mediacrest.
“The Age of Anger,” (“La edad de la ira,” Atresmedia Televisión, Big Bang Media, Masficción)
Penned by renowned young Spanish playwright Lucía Carballal, a writer on “Locked Up,” a high-school thriller plumbing the social angst assailing today’s youth. Produced by Atresmedia TV and The Mediapro Studio – a fertile production axis – through Tms’s Big Bang Media (“Caronte”) as well as by Masficción (“Hospital Central”). ID: Atresmedia TV International Sales, The Mediapro Studio Distribution
“Cardo,...
Cut off in a border region, five people from different generations and countries confront Tiamat, a conspiracy of young teens who have ermined that the inly way to stop climate change is to eliminate all adults. That, for Tiamat, however, is not the end of their plan, just a beginning. A three-season fantasy thriller from Mediacrest, a fast-growing production-distribution outfit, multi-prized at September’s Conecta Fiction, partnered in Spain by A Contracorriente Films. ID: Mediacrest.
“The Age of Anger,” (“La edad de la ira,” Atresmedia Televisión, Big Bang Media, Masficción)
Penned by renowned young Spanish playwright Lucía Carballal, a writer on “Locked Up,” a high-school thriller plumbing the social angst assailing today’s youth. Produced by Atresmedia TV and The Mediapro Studio – a fertile production axis – through Tms’s Big Bang Media (“Caronte”) as well as by Masficción (“Hospital Central”). ID: Atresmedia TV International Sales, The Mediapro Studio Distribution
“Cardo,...
- 1/19/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
First projects under CineMater label include thriller Dxm from Gallowwalkers director Andrew Goth and previously announced The Way of the Eagle, starring Jean Reno.
Terra Mater Factual Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of Red Bull Media House that produces high-end TV documentaries, has announced the creation of a dedicated film production label, CineMater.
A statement from the company said that the Austria-based outfit will create content for international cinema audiences across a diverse range of genres - “but all of its storytelling will be rooted in fact”.
Its first projects will be thriller Dxm and the previously announced The Way of the Eagle, starring Jean Reno.
CineMater’s product will be divided under three brands: Terra Magna, Wild Drama and Real Fear.
Terra Magna will produce documentaries for the big screen; Wild Drama focuses on movies where nature takes a key role; and Real Fear will concentrate on films inspired by real events.
Walter Koehler, CEO CineMater...
Terra Mater Factual Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of Red Bull Media House that produces high-end TV documentaries, has announced the creation of a dedicated film production label, CineMater.
A statement from the company said that the Austria-based outfit will create content for international cinema audiences across a diverse range of genres - “but all of its storytelling will be rooted in fact”.
Its first projects will be thriller Dxm and the previously announced The Way of the Eagle, starring Jean Reno.
CineMater’s product will be divided under three brands: Terra Magna, Wild Drama and Real Fear.
Terra Magna will produce documentaries for the big screen; Wild Drama focuses on movies where nature takes a key role; and Real Fear will concentrate on films inspired by real events.
Walter Koehler, CEO CineMater...
- 4/9/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Take Down
Jeremy Sumpter, Phoebe Tonkin and Sebastian Koch are in talks to star in Jim Gillespie's young adult thriller "Take Down". Filming is scheduled to start in April.
Alexander Ignon wrote the screenplay about a colony of spoiled brats who fight back when armed invaders take over their remote boot camp. [Source: Screen]
Tell
Katee Sackhoff, Milo Ventimiglia, Jason Lee, Alan Tudyk, Robert Patrick and John Michael Higgins will star in Jmr Luna's crime thriller "Tell" for Arclight Films.
Ventimiglia plays a small-time crim who pulls of a complex $1 million heist. His riches are soon the target of his ex-wife (Sackhoff), a partner he betrayed, his parole officer and two corrupt detectives. [Source: Digital Spy]
Gridlocked
Cuba Gooding Jr. has joined Allan Ungar's action thriller "Gridlocked" at Hackybox Pictures. Filming begins this Spring in Toronto and London, Ontario.
The actor plays play a former Swat leader who is being shadowed by an arrogant movie star.
Jeremy Sumpter, Phoebe Tonkin and Sebastian Koch are in talks to star in Jim Gillespie's young adult thriller "Take Down". Filming is scheduled to start in April.
Alexander Ignon wrote the screenplay about a colony of spoiled brats who fight back when armed invaders take over their remote boot camp. [Source: Screen]
Tell
Katee Sackhoff, Milo Ventimiglia, Jason Lee, Alan Tudyk, Robert Patrick and John Michael Higgins will star in Jmr Luna's crime thriller "Tell" for Arclight Films.
Ventimiglia plays a small-time crim who pulls of a complex $1 million heist. His riches are soon the target of his ex-wife (Sackhoff), a partner he betrayed, his parole officer and two corrupt detectives. [Source: Digital Spy]
Gridlocked
Cuba Gooding Jr. has joined Allan Ungar's action thriller "Gridlocked" at Hackybox Pictures. Filming begins this Spring in Toronto and London, Ontario.
The actor plays play a former Swat leader who is being shadowed by an arrogant movie star.
- 2/7/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Berlin — Jean Reno has joined the cast for Gerardo Olivares’ The Way of The Eagle, a movie that combines scripted narrative with wildlife footage.Reno joins Spain’s Manuel Camacho, the star of the 2012 Spanish box office hit Among Wolves, in the English-language drama. Billed as a “powerful tale of hope and discovery,” the script tells the story of a troubled boy called Lukas (Camacho) and an abandoned eagle chick. Lukas finds the chick, which has been thrown out of the nest by his older brother. Lukas names the eagle Abel and, together, they struggle to
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- 2/6/2014
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Toronto -- Montreal's Festival du Nouveau Cinema on Tuesday unveiled a competition lineup that highlights indie U.S. cinema, Canadian and European productions.
U.S. director Antonio Campos' "Afterthought," Steve McQueen's "Hunger" and Spanish director Gerardo Olivares' "14 Kilometros" are to compete next month for the Louve d'Or, organizers said Tuesday.
They will join 16 other competition films, including "A l'Ouest de Pluton," by Canadian directors Henry Bernadet and Myriam Verreault, "Cap Nord," by French director Sandrine Rinaldi, and Justin Simms' "Down to the Dirt," also from Canada.
The Montreal festival will showcase 250 films from 69 countries during its 37th edition, set for Oct. 8-19.
The 11-day festival booked for its Special Presentation sidebar Abel Ferrara's "Chelsea on the Rocks," Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married," "12" from Russia's Nikita Mikhalkov and, from France, Claire Simon's "God's Offices" and Robert Guediguian's "Lady Jane."
U.S. indie films bound...
U.S. director Antonio Campos' "Afterthought," Steve McQueen's "Hunger" and Spanish director Gerardo Olivares' "14 Kilometros" are to compete next month for the Louve d'Or, organizers said Tuesday.
They will join 16 other competition films, including "A l'Ouest de Pluton," by Canadian directors Henry Bernadet and Myriam Verreault, "Cap Nord," by French director Sandrine Rinaldi, and Justin Simms' "Down to the Dirt," also from Canada.
The Montreal festival will showcase 250 films from 69 countries during its 37th edition, set for Oct. 8-19.
The 11-day festival booked for its Special Presentation sidebar Abel Ferrara's "Chelsea on the Rocks," Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married," "12" from Russia's Nikita Mikhalkov and, from France, Claire Simon's "God's Offices" and Robert Guediguian's "Lady Jane."
U.S. indie films bound...
- 9/23/2008
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Edinburgh International Film Festival
EDINBURGH -- The "14 Kilometers" in Gerardo Olivares' ambitious tale of African refugees seeking a better life in Europe is the stretch of water that separates the northern tip of Africa from Spain. To reach it, the central characters of two brothers from Niger and a young woman from Mail must traverse the enormous and pitiless Tenere Desert, often at the mercy of people interested only in their money.
Their desperate plight is often at odds with and not informed by the gorgeous desert scenery, which is photographed in all its contoured glory. A winner at the Valladolid film festival in Spain, the film will continue to entertain festival audiences but is unlikely to go much beyond that.
Olivares wrote the screenplay and is one of the cinematographers along with Alberto Moro, but the two elements of the film clash in ways that undermine the story's power. Adoum Moussa, as a talented soccer player, Illiassou Mahamadou Alzouma as his doting brother and Aminata Kanta as a young woman desperate to flee an unwanted marriage, are appealing but the script doesn't get under their skin.
Production: Wanda Vision, Explora Films, with participation of TVE. Cast: Adoum Moussa, Aminata Kanta, Illiassou Mahamadou Alzouma. Screenwriter/Director: Gerardo Olivares. Producer: Jose Maria Morales. Directors of Photography: Alberto Moro, Gerardo Olivares. Music: Santi Vega. Editor: Raquel Torres. Sales Agent: Wanda Vision. No rating, 95 minutes.
EDINBURGH -- The "14 Kilometers" in Gerardo Olivares' ambitious tale of African refugees seeking a better life in Europe is the stretch of water that separates the northern tip of Africa from Spain. To reach it, the central characters of two brothers from Niger and a young woman from Mail must traverse the enormous and pitiless Tenere Desert, often at the mercy of people interested only in their money.
Their desperate plight is often at odds with and not informed by the gorgeous desert scenery, which is photographed in all its contoured glory. A winner at the Valladolid film festival in Spain, the film will continue to entertain festival audiences but is unlikely to go much beyond that.
Olivares wrote the screenplay and is one of the cinematographers along with Alberto Moro, but the two elements of the film clash in ways that undermine the story's power. Adoum Moussa, as a talented soccer player, Illiassou Mahamadou Alzouma as his doting brother and Aminata Kanta as a young woman desperate to flee an unwanted marriage, are appealing but the script doesn't get under their skin.
Production: Wanda Vision, Explora Films, with participation of TVE. Cast: Adoum Moussa, Aminata Kanta, Illiassou Mahamadou Alzouma. Screenwriter/Director: Gerardo Olivares. Producer: Jose Maria Morales. Directors of Photography: Alberto Moro, Gerardo Olivares. Music: Santi Vega. Editor: Raquel Torres. Sales Agent: Wanda Vision. No rating, 95 minutes.
- 6/26/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Rodrigo Pla's sophomore feature, "The Desert Within", scorched the competition Friday at the 23rd annual Guadalajara International Film Festival, garnering eight prizes at Mexico's biggest movie event of the year.
The Imcine/Cine Lumiere-produced film won best Mexican picture, screenplay, cinematography and the Audience Award, among other prizes.
Set against the backdrop of Mexico's Cristero War, "Desert" tells the story of a family struggling to overcome divine punishment. It will bow in Mexico later this year.
"(Mexico's) Gussi Artecinema has North American and Latin American distribution rights," producer German Mendez said on the sidelines of a Friday news conference.
Best Ibero-American picture went to Spanish director Gerardo Olivares' immigrant-themed "14 Kilometers", a Wanda Vision/Explora Films production.
"Lake Tahoe", which recently won the FIPRESCI Prize and Alfred Bauer Award at the Berlinale, grabbed the best director nod for Mexican helmer Fernando Eimbcke. Paris-based sales agent Funny Balloons has sold the picture to a dozen territories and is shopping for a U.S. distribution deal.
The Imcine/Cine Lumiere-produced film won best Mexican picture, screenplay, cinematography and the Audience Award, among other prizes.
Set against the backdrop of Mexico's Cristero War, "Desert" tells the story of a family struggling to overcome divine punishment. It will bow in Mexico later this year.
"(Mexico's) Gussi Artecinema has North American and Latin American distribution rights," producer German Mendez said on the sidelines of a Friday news conference.
Best Ibero-American picture went to Spanish director Gerardo Olivares' immigrant-themed "14 Kilometers", a Wanda Vision/Explora Films production.
"Lake Tahoe", which recently won the FIPRESCI Prize and Alfred Bauer Award at the Berlinale, grabbed the best director nod for Mexican helmer Fernando Eimbcke. Paris-based sales agent Funny Balloons has sold the picture to a dozen territories and is shopping for a U.S. distribution deal.
- 3/15/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Ioncinema.com presents: Best of Fests Tromsø International Film Festival When: January 16th to 21st, 2007 Counting Down: updateCountdownClock('January 16, 2007'); Where: Location: Tromsø, NorwayOfficial Website: http://www.tiff.no/What: Tiff is a popular film festival for our audience, and at the same time an important meeting point for Norwegian and international film industry. TIFF07 will be Tromsø's 17th international film festival. Tromsø International Film Festival had in 2006 a total admission of 44 804. This makes Tiff Norway' largest festival.Accredited: No Film Line Up:Opening NightSPANDEXMAN - Bobbie Peers, 2007Winterland - Hisham Zaman, 2006Closing NightONCE In A Lifetime - John Dower, Paul Crowder, 2005Competition ProgramBORDERPOST - Rajko Grlic , 2006Born And Bred - Pablo Trapero , 2006Chronicle Of An Escape - Isreal Adrián Caetano, 2006Colossal Youth - Pedro Costa, 2006Family Ties - Kim Tae-Yong, 2006Glue - Alexis Dos Santos, 2005Gypo - Jan Dunn, 2005Longing - Valeska Grisebach, 2006Lucy - Henner Winckler, 2006Requiem -
- 1/13/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
MADRID -- Spain's premiere showcase of homegrown fare, the Malaga Spanish Film Festival, will feature 14 films in its official competition, offering a balanced dose of new and veteran talent, organizers announced Thursday. Manuel Iborra's period piece The Idiot Maiden, Eliseo Subiela's mid-life reflection Heartlift and Daniel Sanchez Arevalo's coming-of-age tale DarkBlueAlmostBlack are three of the films that will vie for the 60,000 ($72,000) main prize. Other films in competition include: Carlos Iglesias' 14 Coins Till the Border, Raimon Masllorens' Without You, Cesar Martinez Herrada's Sand in the Pockets, Sigfrid Monleon's The Bicycle, Roger Gual's Remake, Gerardo Herrero's Rough Winds, Mireia Ros' The Beat of the Streets, Gerardo Olivares' The Great Match, Chema Rodriguez's The Railroad All-Stars and Rafa Russo's Love in Self Defense.
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