‘Gypsy Bride’ Star Nerea Barros Preps Directorial Feature Debut ‘The Coast,’ Reflecting Her Obsessions: ‘The Legacy of the Elderly, Climate Change’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Winner of a Spanish Academy supporting actress Goya Award for “Marshland” and nominated for a 2023 best doc short Spanish Academy Goya Award for “Memory,” which she also directed, Nerea Barros, star of “The Gypsy Bride” is preparing “The Coast” (“La Costa”) which will mark her directorial feature debut.

Also written by Barros, “The Coast” will make its market debut in March at the 2024 Malaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event (MAFF).

Its news comes little more than a month after the end of the run on Nov. 29 of Atresplayer of “La Red Purpura,” the second part of a crime trilogy begun with “The Gypsy Bride,” which both star Barros and have consolidated her reputation as one of Spain’s finest actors of her generation. “I am an actress, but for years I have felt the need to give shape to my obsessions, the legacy of the elderly, climate change and women, through art.

To transform my anxiety into a cinematographic fact,” Barros told Variety. “‘The Coast’ will be my opera prima, an experimental film that comes after years of work and research in my line of discourse and cinematographic language,” she added, positioning “The Coast” as playing “on that bridge between fiction and non-fiction, both the cinematographic and sound proposal, located in a cinema more of exploration and experimentation and its theme.” All of which “make this film a different, sensitive and international product,” she said. “The Coast’s” Key Cast: the Elderlies and Animals Key cast of “The Coast” cuts two ways.