In an early market deal at this week’s Málaga Movie Competition, Guido Rud’s gross sales home FilmSharks has nabbed worldwide gross sales rights to Spanish interval thriller “Olvido” (“The Forgotten Killings”).
Directed by Inés París (“A mi madre le gustan las mujeres,” “La noche que mi madre mató a mi padre”) and written by Fermín P. Pina, “The Forgotten Killings” is produced by José Luis Rancaño at Madrid-based La Dalia Movies.
Inés París’ “La noche que mi madre mató a mi padre,” additionally produced by Rancaño at La Dalia and starring Spain’s Belén Rueda and Argentina’s Diego Peretti, snagged the viewers prize on the 2016 Málaga Movie Competition.
In post-production, “The Forgotten Killings” is ready within the Mediterranean metropolis of Valencia in Oct. 1957. After the Turia River overflows its banks, journalist Olvido Granell and police sergeant Fermín Capilliure examine the looks of six our bodies. However the our bodies, which haven’t been victims of the fury of the river, seem with unusual scars that time to a darkish conspiracy.
When the our bodies disappear from the morgue, Granell and Caplliure embark on the pursuit of a serial killer with an unsuspected motivation.
Spanish actors María Caballero, of Netflix sequence “Alma” and “La noche más larga,” and Morgan Blasco (“Fishbone,” “27 minutos”) play key roles in “The Forgotten Killings.”
“A movie with these excessive manufacturing values, so artistically cared for, with parts of a thriller and whodunnit, with a glocal style, from a director of such expertise as Inés París – we’re clear that’s the kind of movie that the worldwide market is on the lookout for,” mentioned Buenos Aires-based Guido Rud at Málaga’s Spanish Screenings-Mafiz trade zone.
He added: “Worldwide gross sales will go very effectively, together with for film theaters and digital exploitation. I’d not be stunned if an A category pageant takes the film for its worldwide premiere.”
“We consider that FilmSharks shall be an necessary ally to have the ability to discover the suitable companions, particularly in Latin America, the place the movie can have an excellent run. We hope to make the most of the pull of this Málaga market to shut some territories,” producer José Luis Rancaño mentioned.
