Emilio Mayorga Barcelona-based mini studio Filmax has acquired the international rights to Spanish-Portuguese co-production “The Open Body,” a horror story set in the early 20th century and plumbing Galician folk lore.
The film marks the feature debut of Spanish director Ángeles Huerta.Co-produced by Spain’s Ollovivo and Fasten Films, producer of Jorge Dorado’s “Pastor,” and Portugal’s Cinemate, behind Norberto López-Amado’s “3 Caminos,” the film is currently in post-production.
Buyers will have the opportunity to watch a first promo at this year’s Malaga Festival Spanish Screenings, which run March 21-24.A new genre movie at Malaga, whatever its phase of production, is near bound to be on many buyers radar after Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s “The Platform” (“El Hoyo”) was presented at Málaga’s Work In Progress in 2019, where it was acquired by Latido Films.
Sold to Netflix, it became the most watched non English language film in the U..S streaming giant’s history.“The Open Body” is based on the “Lobosandaus” story, from the book “Arraianos,” written in 1991 by Xosé Luis Méndez Ferrín, a well-known Galician writer influential in the late 1900s and put forward for the Nobel Prize in 1999.
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