Carmina Barrios returns in front of her son’s camera
- The filming of Carmina y amén, by actor and director Paco León, will begin on October 21 in Seville and will last four weeks
In slightly more than a month, charismatic Carmina Barrios, one of the great revelation of Spanish cinema in 2012, will return in front of the camera of her son, actor and director Paco León, for the feature film Carmina y amén. The shooting will take place in Seville from October 21 and will last a total of four weeks.
As explained by the film’s producers, this second film as a director “tries to explore the limits between comedy and drama through a very fictional language without losing the authenticity of the characters and situations.”
Barrios will be surrounded by María León and Paco Casaus, who are also part of the León-Barrios family, and trained actors.
The success of his first film enabled León to obtain backing from Telecinco Cinema and Canal+, which are producing with Andy Joke.
Carmina o revienta [+see also:
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film profile], screened at the Malaga Film Festival in 2012, where it won the Prize of the Public and the Special Prize of the Jury, created a real earthquake in Spanish cinema in terms of distribution: it indeed took advantage of a totally multi-platform release simultaneously in theatres, on VoD, DVD and television. Although the distribution strategy for Carmina y amén has not yet been announced, it seems improbable that León will return to traditional methods.
(Translated from Spanish)
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