13/03/2023 - From 13 to 16 March, the Malaga Film Festival will host the new edition of the international market aiming to promote and boost sales of Spanish cinema beyond its borders

Directors Mar Coll and Aina Calleja, whose project Welcome Mr. Hollywood has been selected in the Spanish Perspectives section

The second edition of Spanish Screenings Content, one of the main events of Spanish Screenings XXL and part of MAFIZ, the industrial area of  Malaga Festival,  kicked off yesterday, Sunday, at a social event with numerous guests in attendance including the Mayor of Malaga Francisco de la Torre, the director of the ICAA Beatriz Navas and the director of the Malaga festival, Juan Antonio Vigar.

This major market will be held between 13 and 16 March under the slogan "Talent, diversity, opportunities", and will present 195 Spanish productions to international industry professionals in its different sections. For example, in Market Premieres three films not shown at any other international market will be screened, by three female directors: The Enchanted [+see also:
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film profile], an intimate drama directed by Elena Trapé (Distances [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Elena Trapé
film profile]), competing in the event’s official section and presented by her sales agency Latido Films; Good Manners, by Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz (Hopelessly Devout [+see also:
trailer
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trailer
film profile], by Lucía Alemany (The Innocence [+see also:
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interview: Lucía Alemany
film profile]), sold by Filmax and released last Friday in Spanish cinemas.

The Screenings section consists of screenings for international festival buyers and programmers of recently produced Spanish feature films, with priority given to those from the last quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023 and with little exposure in other international markets: 38 titles are included. Neo Screenings will feature screenings of the most innovative Spanish cinema, with 17 titles. In Next From Spain, trailers and film footage of 15 films in post-production can be seen. And in Málaga Festival Films, six films in competition from the Official Selection and ZonaZine of the current festival will be on offer.

Regional Film Hub is a platform for promoting the film industry of the Spanish Autonomous Communities, where their film institutes will present 19 titles whose development they have supported. In the Film Library, 35 titles will be available to accredited international professionals on the website spanishscreenings.online.

Spanish Screenings Content also renews the Book Showcase this year, with case studies on the screen adaptation of La Reina del Sur, the novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, and Zorras, by Noemi Casquet. Remake Day, with 37 films with the potential to market remake rights available on spanishscreenings.online, also includes this year a panel with the agencies Filmax and Latido Films, where they will talk about two of their most successful titles: The People Upstairs [+see also:
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interview: Cesc Gay
film profile] and Champions [+see also:
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film profile], with the presence of the Italian producers of the former (Medusa Film) and the German producers of the latter (Constantin Films).

Time is also given to films in post-production and feature film projects in Malaga Spanish WIP (which we will report on soon) and Spanish Copro Forum (six fiction and non-fiction feature film projects looking for co-production); and following on from the work started in Spanish Screenings On Tour, comes Perspectives (four projects highlighting the gender perspective) and Screamings with five fantastic and horror projects. All titles can be found below.

The projects:

Spanish Copro Forum

Memory Way - Manuel Jiménez Núñez
Production: Yolaperdono

Carousel - Lucía Vassallo
Production: Curuxa Cinema (Spain), Crudo Films (Argentina)

Diary of an Undercover - Samuel León, Saúl Valverde
Production: Vértice 360 (Spain), Bioesférica Filmes (Chile)

My Parents Great Bazar - Rakesh Narwani
Production: Bazar Films

The Nights of the Júas - Javier Gómez Bello
Production: Juan Ezequiel Comesaña

Amira’s Land - Pablo Barce Orellana
Production: La Tierra de Amira AIE, Malas Compañías PC

Spanish Perspectives

Welcome Mr. Hollywood - Mar Coll, Aina Calleja
Production: Funicular Films

La española - Susan Béjar
Production: Capitán Araña

Mapá - Afioco Gneco
Production: Powehi Films

I Won’t Die for Love - Marta Matute
Production: Solita Films

Spanish Screamings

Bloody Mary - Joseph Díaz
Production: Hypnotic VFX
(Sitges Fanpitch Award – Blood Window – Spanish Screenings)

Celestine - Tina Olivares
Production: La Charito Films

Echo - Nacho Solana
Production: Mordisco Films

The Mantises - Dídac Gimeno
Production: El Médano Producciones, La Motoneta Cine

Zombie Meteor The Movie - Alfonso Fulgencio, José Luis Farías
Production: Paramotion Films

(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)