Latido Films Turns 20
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Few European arthouse-crossover film sales agents have better weathered the ebb and flow of international market dynamics than Madrid’s Latido Films, which turns 20 in 2023.
Proof of that came at April’s Platino Awards, where Latido scored six statuettes, split between an acting double for Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s “Lullaby” and four for Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” which has already swept Spain’s Goya Awards and scored a French Cesar for foreign film.
Scoring €6.8 million ($7.5 million) in Spain, and 327,000 admissions in France, “The Beasts” also rates as one of the top-performing recent Spanish-language movies.
If Latido has survived for so long, insists director general Antonio Saura, it’s because of a core strategy of “working with talent, our search for talent.” Beyond that, other keys have been “collaboration with production companies that understand long-term relationships, and well-established relationships with clients.” Companies with which Latido has held or holds multi-pic relationships include prime movers of the Spanish-language movie scene: Latido founding partner Tornasol, Sorogoyen (from his first solo feature, 2016’s “May God Save Us” through “The Kingdom” and “The Beasts”), A Contracorriente Films (an international sales-Spanish distribution alliance), Arantxa Echeverría (“Carmen & Lola,” now “Chinas”), La Claqueta (“Alegría,” “Tobacco Barns”) and Morena Films (some seven pics, including “Campeones” and now Latido’s Cannes 2023 highlight “ChampioNext”).
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