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The 36th edition of Ireland’s Galway Film Fleadh has come to an end with Best Irish Film going to breakout hit Kneecap, which played at Sundance earlier this year and was picked up by Sony Classics. Scroll down for a full list of winners.

Written and directed by Rich Peppiat and produced by Trevor Birney, Jack Tarling, Patrick O’Neill, the film is the story of the eponymous Belfast hip-hop trio, played in the movie by group members Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí. Michael Fassbender also stars. The film also won the Audience Award and the Irish Language Feature Film Award, a feat that has never happened at the Fleadh in 36 years.

Best Irish First Feature was Fidil Ghorm directed by Anne McCabe, written by Patricia Forde and produced by Pierce Boyce and Bríd Seoighe. Pic tells the story of 10-year-old Molly, who believes that if she learns...

Former Netflix executive Juan Mayne’s recently launched N&l Films and Beatriz Bodegas’ hugely influential indie La Canica Films are teaming on a new Spanish true-crime-inspired thriller, “Lo que los ojos esconden,” working title “Behind His Eyes” in English, which is now in development with director Lluís Quílez and screenwriter Fernando Navarro.

Between August 1989 and April 1996, in the southern Spanish province of Almería, a dozen murdered sex workers’ bodies were found naked in ravines and on the sides of roads. Each victim fit into a similar profile, and a pattern quickly emerged. “Behind His Eyes” will tell a fictionalized version of the story of the ensuing investigation to find one of Spain’s most notorious serial killers. Dubbed Jack the Ripper of Almería by Spanish media, the Spanish killer’s first victim was discovered on the 100th anniversary of the Whitechapel killer’s similar crimes.

According to producers, the film...

Spain’s film and TV industries are in their second wave as standout content providers for global streamers. Some of the country’s most intriguing titles will take the international stage this weekend at MipTV in Cannes.

Built on a foundation of hits such as “The Red Band Society,” “Grand Hotel,” “Velvet” and “Locked Up,” a new era of internationally renowned content creation in Spain kicked off in 2018 with Alex Pina’s blockbuster series “Money Heist,” picked up by Netflix.

Since then, Spain has enjoyed a place among the steadiest content suppliers for major players worldwide, taking advantage of its often character-driven dramas, high-quality creators and producers, and a language spoken by more than 600 million people around the globe.

Although the market is continuously evolving, local industry has adapted to different new business models, entering bigger and more ambitious productions, often via co-production. Spanish fiction’s global popularity continues to grow to accommodate audience appetites.

Joaquín Manchado, the king of one of Spain’s biggest drug empires, has worked 40 years for his stellar reputation — one that instills fear and undying commitment in all of his workers. He owns a terminal at the Port of Barcelona, where his men receive concealed shipments of cocaine to sell across Europe. But when some extra-precious cargo goes missing, the Manchado family enter into a dangerous gang war with their biggest rivals. From director Lluís Quílez (Below Zero), the gritty crime series Iron Reign (Mano de Hierro) stars Eduard Fernández, Chino Darín, and Jaime Lorente.

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The boss of Barcelona’s seaport, Joaquín (Fernández), runs a tight ship. The port is stacked with shipments and receives more and more every day. So it’s no wonder Joaquín runs a drug empire from his end of the shipping yard. How...

There have been many shows in the crime drama genre on Spanish Netflix, and many from the Latin American region as well. Most of them are campy and over the top, and borderline seems like telenovelas. Thankfully, the brand-new Spanish drama Iron Reign in the crime genre comes as a breath of fresh air and talks about various crime families navigating their businesses, which converge in the city of Barcelona in Spain. Created and directed by Lluís Quílez, the show was released on March 15, 2024, on Netflix.

Iron Reign is an eight-episode-long show, with each episode having a runtime ranging from forty minutes to more than an hour. The show is a family saga involving the Manchados, who are the reigning mafia kingpins in the city of Barcelona. Brothers Joaquin and Roman Manchado began the narcotics import and supply business, and currently, their family helps them run the empire. His claim...

Former Netflix exec Juan Mayne has hung his own shingle, Madrid-based N&l Films, which is bulwarked by strong talent relationships, a strategic alliance with Exile Content and a sure sense of market opportunities for Spain-based independent producers.

Exile Content and N&l Films have struck a first-look development deal. Jeff Glaser, who oversaw Netflix production finance in Mexico City and Madrid, has joined the company.

N&l’s first slate includes a Mexican remake of “Miracle in Cell No. 7,” co-produced by Rock & Ruz and Mexico’s Corazón Films, which will handle distribution in the country, and “Aristides: A Righteous Life,” the true-life account of a Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands from the Nazis in WWII, from Seanne Winslow.

N&l is also in conversations with with Lluis Quilez and Fernando Navarro – director and writer of Netflix Top 10 non-English movie “Below Zero” – to develop a true crime film based...

Post-covid, Spanish sales companies look poised for a comeback to the global scene. Although, as Berlin’s EFM has gone virtual once again, their long-awaited physical reunion with the international industry will have to wait until Cannes… hopefully.

An argument for optimism: Spanish-language films continue gaining ground on the global market, especially as platforms boom. Standout examples include Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s “The Platform” and Lluís Quílez’s “Below Zero,” which both breach the top 10 most watched non-English language Netflix films of all time, per Variety’s estimations. Other Spanish films such as “The Paramedic,” “Sky High” and “Xtreme” have also performed well for the streamer.

Measuring with another analytic – Spain’s presence at landmark film events – the year kicked-off with good news from Berlin.

For the first time in the last quarter-century, two Spanish titles: “Alcarrás,” from “Summer 1993” director Carla Simon, and “One Year, One Night,” by two-time San...

Morena Films, one of Spain’s biggest movie production forces, has closed Spanish distribution on “On the Fringe,” starring Penelope Cruz and Luis Tosar (“The Minions of Midas”).

The feature debut of actor-turned-director Juan Diego Botto, “On the Fringe” (“En las margenes”) will be released in Spain by Vértice Cine.

Scheduled to shoot in Madrid from October and sold by the U.K.’s Bankside Films, “On the Fringe” is produced by Morena’s Alvaro Longoria and Cruz and co-produced by André Logie at Belgium’s Panache Productions and by Spanish public broadcaster Rtve. Amazon Prime Video handles Spanish SVOD rights.

“On the Fringe” interweaves three stories, which unspool over 24 hours: of Rafael (Tosar), an activist lawyer; of Azucena (Cruz), a woman battling to save her son from a new wave of economic crisis, which has destroyed her life; and of Teodora, a grandmother wishing to say goodbye to her son.

Madrid — A new order of global streamers is powering the biggest revolution in film-tv business models in the last 100 years. Covid-19 merely accelerated that seismic change, which cannot but wreak a disruptive effect on sales agents’ traditional business.

Spain’s top sales companies are adapting their strategies to a more competitive and complex market, in which a massive closure of theaters, a consequent bottleneck in film releases and the reformulation of festivals have multiplied challenges.

In the best of cases, indie distributors are cherry picking, waiting for larger visibility on a post-pandemic landscape.

For some Spanish agents, standout deals with global streamers takes up much of the slack. “We’ve sold many important titles to Netflix, which has given us a certain peace of mind,” attests Vicente Canales, CEO of Film Factory Entertainment.

Released on Jan. 29, Lluís Quílez’s action thriller “Below Zero,” a Morena Films and Amorós production, participated by Rtve,...

Photo: 'Below Zero'/Netflix Violence and suspense are the name of the game in the new Spanish Netflix original film ‘Below Zero’, or ‘Bajocero’, the second feature-length directorial outing from co-scriptwriter Lluís Quílez. In the film, a National Police Corps officer named Martín (Javier Gutiérrez) transfers to a new precinct and his first assignment is to drive a prisoner transport truck in the dead of night. Gutiérrez’s starring role in ‘Below Zero’ marks his fourth Netflix film, after ‘The Motive’, ‘Mirage’, and ‘The Occupant’. Martín’s new partner Montesinos (Isak Férriz), a rule-bender, who for instance likes wearing an earring even though it’s not allowed, explains to Martín that the time of the transfer is random and last minute so that everything is safer and more discreet. For the same reasons, they can’t take their cellphones with them. A prisoner transfer in the middle of the night?...

"You did something, and we're not going to pay for it." Netflix has revealed an official US trailer for Below Zero, an action thriller from Catalonian filmmaker Lluís Quílez (Out of the Dark). In the middle of a foggy, cold night, a prison van carrying convicts is assaulted. The driver, Martin, will need to defend himself from those inside and those outside if he wants to make it out alive. This reminded me of Con Air at first glance, but with a big prison bus driving through winter in Spain. The film's cast includes Javier Gutiérrez, Àlex Monner, Patrick Criado, Édgar Vittorino, Karra Elejalde, Florin Opritescu, Luis Callejo, and Isak Férriz. This actually looks like an intense, chilly thriller to enjoy at home this winter. Fire it up below. Here's the official trailer (+ two Spanish posters) for Lluís Quílez's Below Zero, direct from YouTube: On a lonely road, a prison transport is brutally assaulted.

Three or so years ago, a new generation of directors, many women, were beginning to break out in Catalonia. That was no flash in the pan.

Following on Nely Reguera’s “María (and Everybody Else)” and Carla Simón’s Berlinale Generation Kplus pic “Summer 1993,” first features by Diana Toucedo (“Thirty Souls”), Meritxell Colell (“Facing the Wind”), Neus Ballús (“The Plague”) and Celia Rico (“Journey to a Mother’s Room”) have set the film festival circuit alight, garnering bullish reviews and a slew of prizes. Many of these women are now on to their second or third features: Simón with “Alcarrás,” Ballús (“The Odd-Job Men”), Colell, Rico (“The Little Loves”), Pilar Palomero (“La maternal”) and Reguera (“The Grandson”), among others.

Now, women producers are taking center stage: Belén Sánchez at Un Capricho Producciones (Lucía Alemeny’s “The Innocence”), Patricia Franquesa at Gadea Films (Laura Herrero’s “La Mami”) are succeeding. Many...

Stars: Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, Stephen Rea, Alejandro Furth, Frank Cuervo, Pixie Davies, Vanesa Tamayo | Written by Alex & David Pastor, Javier Gullón | Directed by Lluís Quílez

Two words for you. Killer kids. Ok, make it three: killer ghost kids!

Out of the Dark is the latest film from brothers Alex and David Pastor, the duo behind the 2013 Frightfest flick The Last Days, which was a post-apocalyptic story that ended with a bittersweet coda that featured children going forth into the world to kick start the population. And here the Pastor brothers once again weave children into their tale, this time with director Lluís Quílez at the helm, who himself – a 2nd unit director on another Frightfest flick, Painless – has dealt with his fair share of children in horror.

This time round the Spanish trio weave a horrific ghost story that sees Sara (Stiles) travels with her husband Paul (Speedman) and...

We're back with another video round-up, this time featuring clips from HBO's Game of Thrones Season 5 and the Julia Stiles-starring horror film, Out of the Dark (now in theaters), as well as two videos featuring renowned filmmaker Joe Dante discussing a pair of Roger Corman titles that Kino Lorber is releasing to Blu-ray this May: X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes and The Premature Burial (we also have a look at the final cover art and details on the bonus features for both Ray Milland-starring movies).

Game of Thrones Season 5: “Game of Thrones follows kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and noblemen who are engaged in a deadly cat-and-mouse game for control of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. As betrayal, lust, intrigue and supernatural forces shake the four corners of the Kingdoms, their bloody struggle for the Iron Throne will have unforeseen and far-reaching consequences.

South America was a fresh start for the Harrimans, but their new home stands on cursed ground, and the visitors coming to see them won't be bringing welcome baskets. Starring Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman, Out of the Dark hits theaters today from Vertical Entertainment, and we have an exclusive clip that takes place on a dark and stormy night.

"Starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea, Out Of The Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts, and a haunting family secret."

Directed by Lluís Quílez off a screenplay by Alex Pastor, David Pastor, and Javier Gullón, Out of the Dark stars Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea.

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Out this weekend is Out of the Dark, the Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman-starring South American ghost story. Shock presents a suspenseful exclusive clip, a slowly and eerily composed little scare scene. Directed by Lluís Quílez, Out of the Dark sees ‘a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced…

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Title: Out of the Dark Director: Lluís Quílez Starring: Scott Speedman, Julia Stiles, Stephen Rea and Pixie Davies People’s relentlessly strong determination to never give up hope on realizing their dreams can positively help them achieve the initial superficial steps to their overall goals. But when they delve further into their aspirations, they begin to realize that the way they contend with important moral dilemmas can harrowingly impact all aspects of their lives. That’s certainly the case with the new chilling supernatural thriller, ‘Out of the Dark,’ which marks Lluís Quílez’s feature film directorial debut, and is currently available on VOD and is set to open in theaters on Friday. [ Read More ]

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Tidy, conventional horror stories are all about cause and effect. The scariness derives from not understanding what's happening, and the resolution lies in discovering the causes. With its ghosts, its spooky old house, and the story's roots in the past sins of a town's founders, director Lluís Quílez's Out of the Dark is a horror film as uninterested in rocking that boat as a new hire at an investment bank. Sarah and Paul (Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman) move to Santa Clara, Colombia, with their adorable daughter Hannah, as Sarah is joining the executive staff at her father's company. They settle in to a great big house during the "Festival of the Saint's Children" — a joyous celebration of some kids who once got kidnapped and died in a fir...

In what looks like an eerie feature debut from Spanish director Lluís Quílez, Out of the Dark finds Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman caught in a Colombian town’s dark past. Starring Stiles and Speedman, as well as Stephen Rea, Out of the Dark is a ghost story set in South America, “where a young family’s new life turns…

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We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes release details for Out of the Dark, Travelogue of Horror, and The Hunted, a trailer for The Scribbler and The Pyramid, a look at The Walker Stalkers’s music video Talk Dead to Me, advanced screening details for L.A. Slasher, and much more:

Out of the Dark Release Details and Photos: “Vertical Entertainment and Participant Media today announced that Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Participant’s supernatural thriller Out of the Dark, and slated the film for an early 2015 theatrical release.

Starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea, Out of the Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts, and a haunting family secret.

The distributor has taken Us rights to Participant Media’s supernatural thriller starring Julia Stiles and Scott Speedman and has scheduled an early 2015 theatrical release. Bloom handles international sales.

Out Of The Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family embarking on a new life is forced to confront ancient legends and a family secret. Stephen Rea also stars.

Lluís Quílez shot the Spain-Colombia thriller in Colombia and directed from a screenplay by Alex Pastor, David Pastor and Javier Gullón.

Vertical will present the film in association with Participant Media and Image Nation. Out Of The Dark is produced by Apaches Entertainment, Cactus Flower and Fast Producciones in association with Dynamo and Xyz Films.

Belén Atienza, Cristian Conti, Enrique López Lavigne and Andrés Calderón produced and the executive producers are Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, Roy Azout and Nick Spicer.

Vertical brokered the deal with Nate Bolotin of Xyz Films and Jeff Ivers for Participant...

It's been a long while since last we talked about the new horror flick starring Julia Stiles, Out of the Dark, but with the passage of time have come new stills and more. Read on for the details, and look for more on this one soon!

From the Press Release

Vertical Entertainment and Participant Media announce that Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Participant’s supernatural thriller Out of the Dark and slated the film for an early 2015 theatrical release.

Starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea, Out of the Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts, and a haunting family secret.

Out of the Dark will be presented by Vertical in association with Participant Media and Image Nation. It is a production of Apaches Entertainment,...

By Robert Welkos Name: Jeff Skoll Net Worth: $2.7 billion (TheRichest.com) to $3.8 billion (Forbes) Source Of Wealth: eBay ‘Bio: Born to a middle-class family in Canada, Skoll graduated with honors in electrical engineering program at the University of Toronto, then went backpacking around the world before entering Stanford Business School, where he earned an Mba degree. He was the first full-time employee and first president of eBay, the Internet auction firm. He sold a portion of his company holdings for $2 billion. In 1999. he created the Skoll Foundation, which quickly became the world’s largest foundation for social entrepreneurship. In 2004, he created the movie production company Participant Media. In 2009. he founded the Skoll Global Threats Fund, focusing on issues that could bring the world to its knees: climate change, water scarcity, pandemics, nuclear proliferation and Middle East conflict. Marital Status: Single Hollywood Connections: Participant Media seeks to make films that...