Completed author, director and editor Diana Toucedo’s upcoming characteristic “To Reside in a Shout” is at present in improvement and has acquired a big enhance with the addition of “20,000 Species of Bees” filmmaker Estibaliz Urresola as co-writer.
The venture is among the hottest set to take part within the upcoming Malaga Competition’s MAFIZ trade sidebar the place it pitches at MAFF, the occasion’s co-production and financing platform.
Described by its producers as a gripping drama, the movie tells the story of Lola, a U.N. human rights activist whose life unravels when her Syrian pal Fariya disappears whereas trying to enter Europe. Consumed by an obsessive search, Lola dangers her profession, relationships and private security to uncover the reality, finally confronting the brutal realities of the migration system she as soon as believed in.
Toucedo has in depth expertise in modifying over 30 options, together with San Sebastian and SXSW participant “Tobacco Barns,” Catalan Academy Gaudi Award nominee “Julia Is” and the hit Movistar Plus+ collection “Hierro.” As a director, she has helmed a number of documentary and experimental quick movies, together with her first characteristic movie, “Thirty Souls,” premiering on the Berlinale in 2018.
Becoming a member of Toucedo as co-writer is “20,000 Species of Bees” filmmaker Urresola, whose debut characteristic gained a Berlin Silver Bear in 2023 . She beforehand impressed together with her Cannes Critics’ Week Rails d’Or-winning quick “Cuerdas” – which anticipated her massive capacity to floor common points in native collectives. She stands out as one in all Spain’s main up-and-coming auteur filmmakers.
Produced by main Catalan producer Alba Sotorra, Miramemira and Home made Movies, taking pictures is deliberate for 2026.
The mixture of Toucedo and Urresola makes “To Reside in a Shout” one of the vital intriguing Spanish initiatives of the close to future, and Sotorra’s involvement is much more engaging. Barcelona-based and now established as one in all Spain’s main co-production specialists, Sotorra has produced the Worldwide Emmy nominated “The Return: Life After Isis,” “Sima’s Tune” and “Upon Entry,” nominated for an Impartial Spirit Award.
Sotorra produces, furthermore, with Andrea Vásquez at Galicia-based social-issue cinema targeted Miramemira, behind San Sebastian Golden Shell winner “The Rye Horn.”
