Novel Europe Film Sales Takes Global Rights to Alvaro Gago’s ‘Matria’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based fully mostly Novel Europe Film Sales has picked up world gross sales rights to “Matria,” the awaited feature debut of Spain’s Alvaro Gago, a Worthy Jury Prize winner at Sundance in 2018 for his same-titled rapid.
Produced by Galicia’s Matriuska and Madrid’s Avalon, in co-manufacturing with Catalonia’s Ringo Media, “Matria” has been selected for the loyal lineup at subsequent week’s Berlinale Co-Manufacturing Market.
Expanding on the rapid, the feature additional develops its central personality, Ramona, who in the rapid now now not regularly exchanges a phrase with her husband, however manages her household and her job – a punishing day-to-day routine – and but nonetheless manages to have a existence . afforded by her relationship with her daughter and grandchild which endow her with some emotional dignity.
Factual how the personality is developed in the feature remains to be viewed.
“At its core ’Matria’ has a proper and nuanced female lead that can raise your complete movie. The script has a easy premise, however its characters are rich and relatable,” Naszewski told Diversity, adding: “It’s in Novel Europe’s DNA to acknowledge new skills and make stronger them early on in making their first feature movie. We’re very indignant about this one.”
A director selected by Diversity as a Spanish skills to song, Gago defined: “I mediate it’s important to bag this yarn on the display cowl cowl in consequence of we need folk bask in Ramona to step up.
He added: “We must search for in the fetch, quiz all the pieces that’s established and rethink our most prompt actuality. I mediate it is mandatory to succor an progressive perspective and to hope that, if now now not the engine of speak commerce, a movie will be the seed of something certain. ‘Matria’ carries an implicit desire for liberation.”
An mandatory ingredient of the movie is comedy, due to the Ramona’s affinity for storytelling and her ability to chortle at her hang miseries, Gago argued.
The three manufacturing firms in the succor of “Matria” are all pushing younger, self sustaining, arthouse skills in Spain. Avalon is producing “Alcarrás,” by Carla Simón and co-producing Liliana Torres’ “What Went Execrable?” with Matriuska; Ringo Media is preparing Zeltia Ouiteriño’s “Patarinos.”
“We’ve witnessed Álvaro’s skills grow through his outdated works. It especially shines in his rapid ‘Matria’, where genuine depth will be felt, every in the personality and in the universe of the Rías Baixas in Galicia. Both facets are very conducive to constructing a feature movie.” Mireia Graell at Ringo Media talked about.
“Matria” is currently casting— this can combine knowledgeable and non-knowledgeable actors— and scouting areas. The movie is backed by Spain’s national movie body, the ICAA, as well to Galicia’s Agency of Cultural Industries (Agadic), and Galician regional pubcaster CRTVG.
Director Gago studied theater in Chicago and cinema at the London Film College— where he met Spanish cineastes comparable to Graell, Carla Simón and Mikel Gurrea, the final of whom is ready to shoot his feature debut “Suro.” Gago’s most popular rapid “16 de decembro” (“December 16th”) premiered at Locarno Fest in 2019.
Novel Europe Film Sales’ titles, past and display cowl, soak up Hlynur Pálmason’s D’A Expertise Award winning “A White, White Day,” Carla Simón’s 2017 Berlin’s Technology Kplus winner “Summer 1993” and 2020 Chicago Gold Hugo awarded “Sweat,” directed by Magnus von Horn.