SPANISH PREMIERES for the 8th of July

This week there will be three independent premieres of the Spanish film industry including two fiction based movies and one documentary.

The writer/director Borja Manso and co-writer Borja Cobeaga will open "Amigos" (Friends), starring Ernesto Alterio, Diego Martín, Alberto Lozano, Goya Toledo and Manuela Velasco. "Amigos" is a comedy that reveals the story of four buddies who have been friends since they were kids. One of them dies as adult leaving behind him a huge inheritance, and makes a posthumous proposal in which he promeses to leave all his money for one of the three friends. Although there is one condition... the inheritance goes for the one who manages to obtain the best television audiences until the end of the year. The production companies in charge are Películas Pendelton and Telecinco Cinema.

Also will have it's premiere this week the comedy, "Un Mundo Casi Perfecto" (An Almost Perfect World) directed and written by Esteban and José Miguel Ibarretxe, starring Javier Merino, Antonio Dechent, Álex Angulo, Velilla Valbuena, Emilia Uutinen, Mairim Pérez, Jon Ariño and Javivi. "Un Mundo casi Perfecto" tells the story of a scriptwriter who's life isn't going that well. In addition to his poor economical situation and a recent separation from his fiancée, he turns into a witness of a bank robbery. The film is produced by Armonika Entertainment and Silverspace Animation Studios.






The third premiere this week is "La Noche que no Acaba" (All Night Long) by Isaki Lacuesta which is a documentary about Ava Gardner's experiences in Spain. The famous Hollywood star shot for the first time in Spain in the 1950's while she was making "Pandora and the Flying Dutchman", and she fell in love with the country. "All Night Long" begins symbolically in those first shots she made in Spain and ends with the last work she did in Spain in the 1980's: "Harem". Ava Gardner used to say she hated to see her own films for she didn't recognize herself in them. She chose Spain as a "hiding place" because, by her own words, Spain had the same faults as she did.

Spanish premiere for Mateo Gil's BLACKTHORN

The spanish director and scriptwriter Mateo Gil's new movie "Blackthorn" will be opened in Spain today 1st of July. The film already had it's american premiere in the Festival of Tribeca earlier this year and the spanish preview premiere was held on 28th of June.

Sam Shepard as James Blackthorn, alias Butch Cassidy

Gil, who has already directed various films in Spain (“Nobody Knows Anybody", “Spectre”, “Housebreaking”,  ”Say me”) and worked as co-writer with the award nominated film maker Alejandro Amenábar, has made a surprise out of this new project that is actually a european western. The movie recreates the story of the legendary Butch Cassidy (Sam Shepard) who, as the story tells, was supposedly killed by the Bolivian army in 1908, but the truth (in Gil's movie) is that the famous outlaw actually managed to survive and had been hiding in Bolivia for 20 years. Now, as an old man he has adopted the name of James Blakthorn and he wants to return to the US, but a young spanish engineer (Eduardo Noriega) who has robbed a huge bolivian mine pops up in his life.

Starred by Sam Shepard and Eduardo Noriega, the rest of the cast consists of Stephen Rea, Magaly Solier, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Padraic Delaney, Dominique McElligott and Cristian Mercado.

Stephen Rea, Mateo Gil and Eduardo Noriega at the spanish Premiere

The production companies involved in the project are Arcadia Motion Pictures, Aiete-Ariane Films, Quickfire Films, Pegaso Producciones, Noodles Production, Buena Suerte, Eter Pictures and Nix Films, where as the distribution and theatrical release will be in charge of Magnolia Pictures in the U.S. and of Vertice Cine in Spain.