Madrid-based producer José Alba of Pecado Films gets the Cannes Close-Up treatment, revealing his plans for finding international co-production partners, and an “amazing moment” at last year’s Cannes.
Alba is in Cannes selling May I Speak With The Enemy, a biopic of stand-up comedian Miguel Gila based on an original idea by Alba.
Pecado Films was a producer on Victor Erice’s 2023 Cannes competition title Close Your Eyes and 2016 romantic war drama Guernica, distributed by Sony.
This year Alba is on the lookout for new international partners at Cannes: “We are going to meet, above all, Japanese and Indian...
Alba is in Cannes selling May I Speak With The Enemy, a biopic of stand-up comedian Miguel Gila based on an original idea by Alba.
Pecado Films was a producer on Victor Erice’s 2023 Cannes competition title Close Your Eyes and 2016 romantic war drama Guernica, distributed by Sony.
This year Alba is on the lookout for new international partners at Cannes: “We are going to meet, above all, Japanese and Indian...
- 5/20/2024
- ScreenDaily
Filmax has nabbed sales rights to “May I Speak With the Enemy,” a biopic focusing on the Spanish Civil War years of Miguel Gila, who went on to pioneer stand-up in Spain. Gila developed a comedy of the absurd informed by his experiences in the conflict.
“May I Speak With the Enemy” is produced by Pecado Films, a producer on Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes,” and Arcadia Motion Pictures, behind Oscar-nominated “Robot Dreams” and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts.”
Co-written by Alexis Morante from an original idea by Pecado producer José Alba, “May I Speak” stars newcomer Oscar Lasarte, a comedian and magician, as a young Gila, just 17 when he heads for the trenches, to suffer through battles, hunger and a botched execution by a drunken firing squad.
The experiences inspired one of his most famous sketches, where he phones up the enemy to ask them to stop the war and,...
“May I Speak With the Enemy” is produced by Pecado Films, a producer on Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes,” and Arcadia Motion Pictures, behind Oscar-nominated “Robot Dreams” and Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts.”
Co-written by Alexis Morante from an original idea by Pecado producer José Alba, “May I Speak” stars newcomer Oscar Lasarte, a comedian and magician, as a young Gila, just 17 when he heads for the trenches, to suffer through battles, hunger and a botched execution by a drunken firing squad.
The experiences inspired one of his most famous sketches, where he phones up the enemy to ask them to stop the war and,...
- 5/15/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The film will be directed by Alexis Morante, a music video director and short filmmaker.
Spain’s Pecado Films and Arcadia Motion Pictures, the producers respectively of Víctor Erice’s Cannes Premiere Close Your Eyes and Pablo Berger’s Special Screening Robot Dreams, are teaming for Is This The Enemy Speaking?, a tragi-comedy about celebrated Spanish comedian Miguel Gila.
Portugal’s Nu Boyana is co-producing the film that plans to shoot later this year in Bizkaia
The film will be directed by Alexis Morante, a music video director and short filmmaker. It will be his second feature following coming-of-age tale Oliver’s Universe.
Spain’s Pecado Films and Arcadia Motion Pictures, the producers respectively of Víctor Erice’s Cannes Premiere Close Your Eyes and Pablo Berger’s Special Screening Robot Dreams, are teaming for Is This The Enemy Speaking?, a tragi-comedy about celebrated Spanish comedian Miguel Gila.
Portugal’s Nu Boyana is co-producing the film that plans to shoot later this year in Bizkaia
The film will be directed by Alexis Morante, a music video director and short filmmaker. It will be his second feature following coming-of-age tale Oliver’s Universe.
- 5/20/2023
- by Emilio Mayorga
- ScreenDaily
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