Madrid-based Aquí y Allí Films, one in all Spain’s most profitable auteur film manufacturing homes, is becoming a member of forces with well-liked Spanish actor turned writer-director Daniel Guzmán (“Nothing in Return,” “Canallas”) to provide drama thriller “La deuda.”
Backed by Spain’s pay TV big Movistar+ and public broadcaster RTVE, “La deuda” shall be produced by Aquí y Allí’s Pedro Hernández and Guzmán at El Niño Producciones.
The movie is scheduled to roll in Madrid by the autumn.
Written by Guzmán, “La deuda” tells the story of Lucas, a 37-year-old man and the 86 year-old girl Antonia, who stay collectively in a metropolis too huge to be alone. Lucas is in search of a job however the job appears to not be in search of him.
Despite the financial difficulties they’re going by means of, and their generational distinction, they stay each day with a sure enthusiasm. Until Lucas’ choice will change the remainder of their lives.
“I share with Pedro a imaginative and prescient and a cinematographic model that’s important to develop and produce a mission as private as this one,” Guzmán mentioned.
“Dani’s managed to carry collectively in ‘La Deuda’ most of the components that make a movie work with the viewers with out shedding auteurship,” Hernández added.
“It is a human story, with fantastic, deep characters. It’s tender, generally laborious, and has lots of rhythm. And most significantly, it has his stamp,” Hernández noticed.
Guzmán’s directorial debut “Nothing in Return” scored finest image, director and a Critics’ Prize at 2015’s Malaga Film Festival, occurring to scoop Spanish Academy Goyas for brand new director and breakout actor (Miguel Herrán).
Its follow-up, “Canallas,” a Movistar+ authentic film manufacturing launched by Universal Pictures, world premiered on the 2022 Málaga Festival.
Launched in 2010, Aquí y Allí first caught consideration with “Here and There,” the debut function of Antonio Méndez Esparza, which received Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize in 2012.
Further Aquí y Allí productions absorb Carlos Vermut’s “Magical Girl,” which snagged San Sebastian’s Golden Shell in 2016, and Méndez Esparza’s “Life and Nothing More,” winner of the John Cassavetes Spirit Award in 2017.
“Berlin is undoubtedly among the best beginning factors to current ‘La deuda,’” Guzmán defined.
“I hope that would be the starting of a collaboration that provides continuity to future initiatives.”
“We goal to shut a European co-production and powerful worldwide gross sales. We are already in superior negotiations with potential journey companions,” Hernández famous.
