Lois Patiño handed an award at the third Abycine Lanza
- The new film by the Galician filmmaker, Tempo vertical, has come out on top in the Work in Progress forum of the industry section at the 20th Albacete Film Festival, which unspooled last week
After its three very successful editions held to date, the Abycine Lanza audiovisual market has established itself as a highly reputed and unmissable rendezvous for the Spanish independent film industry, as demonstrated by the immense number of projects that were presented at its latest edition, which unspooled on 18, 19 and 20 October, during the 20th Abycine – Albacete Film Festival. In the Work in Progress sidebar, which grants a €7,000 prize to help finalise a film already in post-production, the winner was Tempo vertical, the second feature by Galician director Lois Patiño, produced by Zeitun Films and Amanita Films (click here to read more about the shoot).
Other finalists that were in the running for this same trophy were 7 Reasons to Run Away [+see also:
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On the other hand, a total of 18 projects took part in the third Abycine Lanza – CCM Production Support Forum, including Desconocida, a production by Spain (courtesy of Aquí y Allí Films) and India set to be directed by Bauddhayan Mukherji, based on the Sachidanad Hiranand Vatsyayan novel To Each His Stranger; the documentary Destrucción creativa de una ciudad by Carles Boyer (El Retorno Producciones); the Spanish-Dutch co-production (via Tourmalet Films and IJswater Films) El azul bajo sus pies by Isabel Lamberti; Espíritu sagrado, the feature debut by cult short-film director Chema García Ibarra, staged by Apellaniz y De Sosa; Karen, the second movie by Extremaduran filmmaker María Pérez (Malpartida Fluxux Village [+see also:
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The list of participants was rounded off by Tobacco Barns [+see also:
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(Translated from Spanish)
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