Netflix Spain unveiled two new film projects at the San Sebastian International Film Festival that it is producing with Spanish filmmakers and production companies.
Carlos Sedes’ La Viuda Negra (which translates as The Black Widow) is being produced by Ramon Campos’ film and TV outfit Bambu Producciones, whose credits include Cable Girls and Isaki Lacuesta’s One Year, One Night.
The race-against-time thriller is about a body found in a parking lot in Valencia and the unexpected suspect the investigation digs up. It is currently in pre-production.
Sedes is best known for TV series Farina and, more recently, The Asunta Case.
Netflix is also backing David Victori’s Cortafuego (literally Firebreak) a psychological thriller produced by Anxo Rodriguez and Ferran Tomas at Espotlight Media, that will start shooting on October 14.
Joaquin Furriel, Belen Cuesta, and Enric Auquer star in the film about a family devastated by their father’s death who go to their summer house to prepare it for sale. However, their grief is soon disturbed by a series of unexpected events.
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Netflix Spain’s film slate also includes Eva Vives’ La Desconocida, to be produced by K&S Films, the Argentinian-Spanish company behind Pablo Trapero’s El Clan.
Fernando Gonzalez Molina‘s Mi Querida Senorita is a remake of the 1973 Spanish film My Dearest Senorita, produced by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi of Suma Content.
Meanwhile Cesc Gay is directing the comedy drama 53 Domingos, about three brothers who gather to discuss what to do with their father, who is beginning to show signs of mental decline, while Agustin Diaz Yanes’s political thriller Un Fantasma En La Batalla brings together producers Sandra Hermida, Belen Atienza, and J.A. Bayona, the team behind Society of the Snow.
The cast includes Susana Abaitua, Andres Gertrudix, Iraia Elias, Raul Arevalo, and Ariadna Gil.
At San Sebastian, Galder Gaztelu Urrutia’s The Platform 2 for Netflix is closing the non-competitive Culinary showcase.
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San Sebastian’s lively industry programme brings together the Spanish and LatAm industries with Europe and the US
