Laura Ferrés’ “The Permanent Picture” has been acquired by Be For Films. The deal is introduced a fortnight earlier than the movie screens at Malaga WIP the place it ranks as probably the most buzzed of the part’s titles.
The debut follows Ferrés success with quick “The Disinherited,” which received the 2017 Cannes Critics’ Week Leica Cine Discovery Prize, along with grabbing Goya and Gaudi gongs. It depicts the director’s personal father reluctantly going through the tip of the household enterprise.
“The Permanent Picture” is produced by Spain’s Fasten Films, in co-production with Le Bureau (France), and Volta Production (Spain).
Selected by Variety as a Spanish expertise to trace, Ferrés studied at Barcelona’s prestigious Escac movie faculty. Part of the inspiration for this movie, although it’s not autobiographical, stems from the director’s years working as a casting director within the promoting sector.
Ferrés wrote the movie in collaboration with celebrated Spanish creator Carlos Vermut, whose “Magical Girl” received a 2014 San Sebastian Golden Shell, and Ulises Porra, winner of San Sebastian’s prestigious New Directors Award in 2021 with “Carajita.”
“The Permanent Picture” units the scene in rural Southern Spain, the place Antonia, a teenage mom, disappears in the midst of the evening, leaving her child behind. Fifty years later and far farther North, Carmen, an introverted casting director, seeks individuals to share their experiences when arriving in a brand new metropolis. It’s by way of this search that Carmen meets Antonia, whose impulsiveness will intrude into her loneliness. The Catalan filmmaker describes the movie as a “miserable comedy,”.
Her debut has benefited from growth on the Next Step Program, a workshop created by Cannes’ Critics’ Week, the TorinoFilmLab and the Moulin d’Ande screenwriting assist program.
Pamela Leu of the Brussels-based Be For Films stated of the acquisition: “We are very proud to welcome a primary time director from Spain beneath our umbrella. We have discovered a promising, bold script with a specific tone and humorousness we fell in love with. We’re desperate to convey it together with the producers to festivals within the coming months.”
Credit: Agnes Pique Corbera
