Turanga, Sintagma to Co-Produce Guillermo Garcia Lopez’s Berlinale Talent Project ‘Sleepless City’
Emilio Mayorga Spain’s Turanga Films and Sintagma Films are set to co-produce “Sleepless City,” the first fiction feature from award-winning documentary filmmaker Guillermo García López. A coming-of-age social drama, the project is being presented at the Berlinale Talents Project Market this year.“Sleepless City” follows 13-year-old Ramón, a Romani boy living in a shantytown at La Cañada Real in Madrid, one of the biggest illegal settlements in Europe where the young man films the harsh environment with his cell phone, as if it were a mysterious sci-fi set.“On one hand, the film is built around Ramón’s teenage awakening.