19/09/2024 - The Spanish institution is handing out €30.3 million in its first round of grants for the 2024 tax year, with Pedro Almodóvar and Maryam Touzani among the directors being backed

Director Maryam Touzani, who has been selected with Calle Málaga (© Ali n' Productions)

Spain’s ICAA (Ministry of Culture) has published the provisional draft resolution (as appeals could still be made) for the first 2024 procedure awarding general support for the production of feature-length film projects. As a result, 31 films are receiving grants, all of which get €1 million apart from five: one of them is getting an additional €20,000 (the animated flick Agent 203, directed by Jo Daris); two others are receiving €900,000 (the El Deseo-produced The Room Next Door [+see also:
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2024’s first selection procedure for the general support of the production of feature-film projects allocates €22,916,826.70 from the Film and Audiovisual Arts Institute’s Fund for Film Protection, plus €7,399,902.30 from the Programme for the Promotion, Modernisation and Digitalisation of the Audiovisual Sector, with 3.36% destined for animated projects and 31.51% earmarked for movies directed exclusively by women filmmakers.

The remainder of the beneficiaries in this first round of 2024 are: El Secreto del Orfebre, an adaptation of the original novel by Elia Barceló, directed by Olga Osorio (¡Salta!) and starring Mario Casas and Michelle Jenner; Cronos by Fernando González Molina; También esto pasará by María Ripoll, based on the novel of the same name by Milena Busquets, starring Susi Sánchez, Marina Saura and Carlos Cuevas; Los Futbolísimos 2 – El Misterio del Tesoro Pirata by Miguel Ángel Lamata, which continues the titular saga; Gaua Gauekoentzat by Paul Urkijo; Un funeral de locos, a comedy currently being shot by Manuel Gómez Pereira, toplined by Ernesto Alterio, Quim Gutiérrez and Inma Cuesta; The Gentleman, the feature debut by Luis Gabriel Beristáin (see the news); Voy a pasármelo mejor, the sequel to the 2022 commercial hit Voy a pasármelo bien [+see also:
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The batch of recipients getting €1 million is rounded off by Sin cobertura (Lazona Producciones), La maleta (Zeta Cinema), Caballé, Ama, La cena, Vírgenes, 9 Lunas, El nido and El búnker.

(Translated from Spanish)