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6 edition Ventana CineMad 21 | 22 | 23 october 2020 16 feature films projects documentary from tv series Madrid animation Organized by → In collaboration with → Supported by → A FORUM TO FORGE ALLIANCES Ventana CineMad is an international co-production forum created in 2015. Its main objectives are to provide the Madrid audiovisual industry a window to extend their international dimension and to attract audiovisual projects to Madrid for shooting, production and post-production. In the 6th edition of Ventana CineMad, a total of 16 projects from Madrid with great potential for international co-production will be presented, including fiction and documentary feature films as well as fiction and animation TV series. The programme for these three days includes the pitching sessions for the 16 projects as well as professional meetings and various lectures on a selection of topics of special relevance for the audiovisual sector. Ventana CineMad is an event organized by the Madrid Audiovisual Association (AMA), in collaboration with the Regional Government of Madrid and the Madrid City Council, and supported by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport. ASEDIO 04 APACHE FILMS THE SLEEPLESS CITY 06 SINTAGMA FILMS / TURANGA FILMS FEATURE FILMS FEATURE GOLEM 08 AQUÍ Y ALLÍ FILMS MODU MODUA 10 LAPIERNA FILMS SUBSOIL 12 LAZONA PRODUCCIONES THE LAST SHOT 14 MONOFILMS / ACIDMEDIA WAKA WAKA 16 SOLITA FILMS 4 ASEDIO FEATURE FILMS FEATURE Dani wanted to be a police officer to FILMMAKER Miguel Ángel Vivas enforce the rules. Now she’s a riot po- PRODUCER lice and participates in evictions. But Enrique López Lavigne when she crosses the line she will have (Vivasvivas AIE / Apache Films) to sacrifice everything to get justice. SCRIPTWRITERS Miguel Ángel Vivas Riot police officer Dani is just a few weeks away Marta Medina del Valle from being evicted. Everything changes when, in the CATEGORY Feature Film. 100’ middle of the eviction, Dani finds a stash of money that could pay off her bank debt... The money be- GENRE Thriller longs to the rehousing mafia, which extorts destitute immigrants. What Dani does not expect is to discov- ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Spanish er that her own colleagues, riot police officers, have orchestrated such an operation to share out the loot. LOCATIONS Madrid CURRENT STATUS Development MAIN TARGET AUDIENCE Wide potential audience 5 Attendants to Miguel Ángel Vivas Ventana CineMad Enrique López Lavigne FILMMAKER Enrique López Lavigne → APACHE FILMS ← Miguel Ángel Vivas FEATURE FILMS FEATURE He has directed, among other films, Tu hijo FILMMAKER´S NOTE / Asedio is an emo- Apache Films is today the Spanish Produc- PRODUCER´S NOTE / After the gratifying (2018), ASECAN award for Best Director; In- tional action film. There are two kinds of tion Company of reference and its name experience of producing Tu Hijo, released side (2016), opening film at the Sitges Fes- tragedy, the Greek and the Shakespear- is a byword for high-quality cinema, with in 2018, Miguel Ángel has been cherishing tival; Extinción (2015) and Secuestrados, ian. If the latter talks to us about tragedy universal stories that manage to engage this story for some time and we decided Méliès award for Best European Film at the through the protagonists’ decisions, the spectators around the world. Held by Enri- together to make it a thriller, but a hu- Espoo Film Festival and the Gold for Best Greek tells us that decisions don’t matter, que López Lavigne, it supports productions man, humanist thriller that will subject Film and Best Director at the Fantastic Film they are made in advance so your ending by both consolidated directors and new spectators to moral dilemmas. Asedio Fest in Austin. In television he has directed is decided from the minute you are born. talent whom it nourishes with the experi- connects with universal themes: love of the series Vis a Vis el Oasis (for Fox and The film sets out from and moves through ence of its long film career. Films such as one’s children, the need for survival, the Globomedia) or La casa de papel (Vancou- these two ideas. Because this is a story The Impossible or A Monster Calls engaged helplessness of the weakest, honour and ver, for Antena 3 and Netflix), which won about change. About individual and social International Audience. corruption, the matriarchy as opposed to the Emmy for Best International Series. change, so we can reconsider who we are the patriarchy, women in worlds that were and who we want to be. until now just for men… all of that in a very specific reality. CAST GOALS IN VENTANA CINEMAD PRODUCTION BUDGET CONTACT DETAILS Natalia de Molina Showing the potential of Asedio to the Internation- 3.000.000 € [email protected] Antonio de la Torre al Community and creating connections that can +34 689 113 011 help us take the project to the big screen and dis- PERCENTAGE OF FINANCING IN PLACE tribute it in the largest number of countries around 36,88 % the world. 6 THE SLEEPLESS CITY FEATURE FILMS FEATURE The puzzling images Ramón records FILMMAKER Guillermo García López with his mobile phone could change the PRODUCER fate of his family, which is about to be Lina Badenes (Turanga Films) subject to an eviction. But first, he will Marina García López & David have to face his own dreams. Casas Riesco (Sintagma Films) SCRIPTWRITER Ramón (13) lives in La Cañada, an illegal settlement Guillermo García López on the outskirts of Madrid. A universe half urban, CATEGORY half rural and somewhere between nature and mag- Feature Film ic, which Ramón films with his mobile phone as if it GENRE were an enigmatic science-fiction set. But Ramón is Social drama with a hint growing and so are his images. They will evolve from of magical realism being a dystopian fiction to an observation of his ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Spanish current reality: with appearances from his past and with an opportunity to redirect the fate of his family, LOCATIONS La Cañada Real, Madrid under the threat of eviction. CURRENT STATUS Script development MAIN TARGET AUDIENCE Teenagers, young adults, adults General art-house film audiences 7 Attendants to Guillermo García López Ventana CineMad FILMMAKER Lina Badenes → David Casas Riesco → Marina García López → ← Guillermo García López FEATURE FILMS FEATURE He was born in Madrid in 1985. His first FILMMAKER´S NOTE / Ciudad Sin Sueño Lina Badenes is the producer and found- PRODUCER´S NOTE / Ciudad sin Sueño feature film, Frágil Equilibrio (2016), had is a transition from documentary to fiction, er of TURANGA FILMS, based in Madrid was conceived with the clear vocation of its international premiere at the IDFA, won dwelling a blurred space between the two. and Valencia and with 15 titles of different being an authorial film with the very per- the Doc Spain Award at its national pre- Under the same film universe, two per- formats that have travelled to hundreds of sonal viewpoint of its director, Guillermo miere in the SEMINCI and won the Goya spectives coexist: mine and the charac- national and international film festivals, García López. For this reason, we have Award for Best Documentary Film, among ter’s. The film is constructed, on the one received a number of awards, and sold to participated in development programmes many other awards at national and inter- hand, through the story of Ramón’s adoles- dozens of countries. Currently, she is pre- such as The Residences of the Film Acad- national festivals. In 2019 he premiered cent awakening, and on the other, through paring the shooting of Pistolas, by María emy (2019-2020), Cinéfondation at the the series Atlánticas on RTVE, as creator, the portrait of the universe that surrounds Ripoll and has two films on the cinema and Cannes Festival (2020) and Script Station scriptwriter and co-director. He is current- him. The resignification he does through festival circuits, La boda de Rosa, by Iciar at the Berlinale (2020), among others, ly establishing a film school for young peo- his imaginary using his mobile phone Bollain and Rol & Rol, by Chus Gutiérrez. because our ultimate goal is to premiere at ple in La Cañada Real, Madrid. In 2020, camera as a medium is a possible escape an International A Category Film Festival, he has been awarded with the Princess of route in La Cañada, which offers many set- showcasing its director as one of the new Girona Prize for Arts. tings for dystopian science fiction. voices of our filmaking. GOALS IN VENTANA CINEMAD PRODUCTION BUDGET CONTACT DETAILS To create alliances between the national and Eu- 1.470.222 € [email protected] ropean audiovisual industries. Since Madrid is the location our film, for us attending the networking PERCENTAGE OF FINANCING IN PLACE activities, round tables and meetings with produc- 23,03 % tion companies is a great opportunity. 8 GOLEM FEATURE FILMS FEATURE What would you do if your friend broke FILMMAKERS Burnin’ Percebes into a thousand pieces? PRODUCER In a drunken stupor, David falls from a rooftop be- Pedro Hernández Santos (Aquí y Allí Films) fore the helpless gaze of his friend Juan. When he hits the hood of a car, his body shatters into a thou- SCRIPTWRITER Burnin’ Percebes sand pieces of clay. Juan sets out to discover what CATEGORY has happened. A maze of incongruities, pianos that Feature Film. 100’ fall from the sky, and a persecution complex that GENRE will lead up to a love affair derived from his duty to Science Fiction write the death of his own father. Comedy ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Spanish LOCATIONS Madrid CURRENT STATUS Development MAIN TARGET AUDIENCE 25 - 45 years old Urban audience 9 Attendants to Burnin’ Percebes Ventana CineMad Pedro Hernández Santos FILMMAKERS Pedro Hernández Santos → AQUÍ Y ALLÍ FILMS ← Juan González ← Fernando Martínez FEATURE FILMS FEATURE Burnin’ Percebes is the pseudonym behind FILMMAKERS´S NOTE / Inspired by Aquí y Allí Films is a Spanish production PRODUCER´S NOTE / Golem is pure Fernando Martínez and Juan González.