Madrid-based production and services company Babieka Films is joining forces with Spanish filmmaker Josué Ramos (“Bajo la rosa”) on helmer’s sophomore feature, mystery thriller “La ciudad dormida.”
Ramos made waves on the festival circuit with his first film, psychological thriller “Bajo la rosa,” whose U.S. remake rights were optioned last year by Chris Hemsworth’s outfit Thematic Entertainment.
Written by Ramos, “La ciudad dormida” plot melds mystery, thriller, horror and paranormal elements.
After the hands of a missing child are found, a veteran police inspector, relegated to administrative duties, begins to investigate on his own. He is helped by a disabled girl, who claims to have dreamed of the horrible event that led to the child’s death just the night before.
The project will be produced by Orlando and Denis Pedregosa at Babieka while Ramos and Jordi Roca exec produce with Marta Ferrer García as associate producer.
Ramos made waves on the festival circuit with his first film, psychological thriller “Bajo la rosa,” whose U.S. remake rights were optioned last year by Chris Hemsworth’s outfit Thematic Entertainment.
Written by Ramos, “La ciudad dormida” plot melds mystery, thriller, horror and paranormal elements.
After the hands of a missing child are found, a veteran police inspector, relegated to administrative duties, begins to investigate on his own. He is helped by a disabled girl, who claims to have dreamed of the horrible event that led to the child’s death just the night before.
The project will be produced by Orlando and Denis Pedregosa at Babieka while Ramos and Jordi Roca exec produce with Marta Ferrer García as associate producer.
- 6/25/2020
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Brazilian distribution company Pandora Filmes was founded by André Sturm in 1989 as the country’s first independent distributor of foreign and domestic, classic and contemporary arthouse cinema.
Still pushing the envelope three decades later, Juliana Brito is representing the company at this year’s Lumiere Festival, looking for classic film titles to fill out the catalog of Brazil’s first-of-its-kind classic film streaming platform Belas Artes, which Pandora will launch on Oct. 31.
Over the past three decades the company has worked to grow independent film distribution in Brazil with re-releases of memorable classics as well as premiering award-winning contemporary international cinema.
“When I started Pandora 30 years ago, there were no independent distributors in the country,” Sturm told Variety. “So, we could screen a very limited number of ‘arthouse’ films. Films honored in Cannes, Berlin and other Festivals did not arrive.”
In 2003 Sturm teamed with O2 Filmes on a major renovation...
Still pushing the envelope three decades later, Juliana Brito is representing the company at this year’s Lumiere Festival, looking for classic film titles to fill out the catalog of Brazil’s first-of-its-kind classic film streaming platform Belas Artes, which Pandora will launch on Oct. 31.
Over the past three decades the company has worked to grow independent film distribution in Brazil with re-releases of memorable classics as well as premiering award-winning contemporary international cinema.
“When I started Pandora 30 years ago, there were no independent distributors in the country,” Sturm told Variety. “So, we could screen a very limited number of ‘arthouse’ films. Films honored in Cannes, Berlin and other Festivals did not arrive.”
In 2003 Sturm teamed with O2 Filmes on a major renovation...
- 10/17/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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