Beta Fiction Spain, Distributor of ‘Emmanuelle,’ ‘We Live in Time,’ Taps Director Arantxa Echevarría for ‘Dolores’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent SAN SEBASTIAN — Beta Fiction Spain, the distributor of the opening and closing films at this year’s San Sebastian Festival, Audrey Diwan’s “Emmanuelle” and John Crowley’s “We Live in Time,” has tapped Arantxa Echevarría to direct its banner Spanish feature, “Dolores.” Echeverría has already helmed for Beta Fiction “La Infiltrada,” about a police infiltrator in Basque terrorist org ETA, which bows Oct.
11 starring Luis Tosar and Carolina Yuste. “Dolores,” an upcoming fiction film portrait of Dolores Ibarruri, La Pasionaria, a worldwide icon of the workers’ movement and struggle against fascism, was originally announced in 2022 when Beta Fiction Spain launched.
Breaking out with Cannes Directors’ Fortnight title “Carmen & Lola,” Echevarría’s “Chinas” scored four Spanish Academy Goya Award nominations this year.
The screenplay for “Dolores” is penned by two of Spain’s foremost film-TV scribes, Alejandro Hernández, co-writer of Alejandro Amenábar’s “While at War,” and Michel Gaztambide, a writer on Julio Medem’s milestone 1992 debut “Cows,” and Freddy Highmore heist thriller “The Vault,” the second highest-grossing Spanish movie of 2021. “Arantxa is Basque, like Dolores Ibarruri.
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