2023-05-22 08:56:19
Since 1991, the filmmaker Paco Plaza has been going to Sitges Festivalas he himself remembers, first as a staunch fan and now with a film under his arm with the middle namein 2002. That year, with his debut directing a fiction feature film, he won the Silver Mélies Award for Best European Fantasy Film, a tremendously atmospheric suspense film, based on a novel by the master of storytelling. terror Ramsey Campbell and filmed in English.
In Sitges it also premiered the first two installments of the zombie saga [REC]which he co-directed with Jaume Balagueró. So much so that the sequel opened the festival in 2009. Years later, in 2021, it presented out of competition The grandmotherwhich came after the success of the terrifying Veronica (2017), recognized with the Goya Award for Best Sound and six other nominations, including Best Film.
The news unveiled this week in the Cannes International Film Festival It has been precisely the return of Plaza to Sitges with his new job, sister death, which will be the opening film of the 56th edition of the event, on Thursday, October 5. “It is a very special film in many ways, an expansion of the universe of Veronicawith which it has many connections, but it is a film with its own nature and very different from its predecessor, with a dark light around a character very dear to me”declared the Valencian director, who for the occasion filmed in his native community, in the Monastery of Sant Jeroni de Cotalba, in the municipality of Alfahuir.
sister death is written by Jorge Guerricaechevarriaregular scriptwriter of Alex de la Iglesia and winner of the Goya for the best screenplay adapted for Cell 211 y The laws of the frontsaon both occasions shared with Daniel Monzon. The original idea was already collected in a minicomic that accompanied the special edition on Blu-Ray of Veronica.
In the cast, Aria Bedmar She plays the character of Narcisa, a young novice with supernatural powers who arrives at a convent, now a women’s school, to become a teacher. The actress has participated in series such as acacia 38, The silence o The huntand in this film he shares the bill with Almudena Love (protagonist of Veronica), Maru Valdivielsoregular collaborator of Paco Plazay Luisa Merelas (who kills iron), among others.
Set in post-war Spain, it is produced by The studya company formed by Enrique Lopez Lavignewho has accompanied the director in his latest horror works, along with Paul Cruz y Diego Suarez Chialvo.
Presentation of the SITGES 2023 poster in Cannes
After its presentation in Sitges, sister death will be released directly on Netflix, without going through commercial rooms. This announcement, along with the release of a first preview, coincided with the presentation at the Fantastic Pavilion of the Cannes Film Market of the image of the 2023 edition of the International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, signed by the China agency.
The artistic director of the contest, angel roomand the director of the Sitges Foundation, Monica García Massaguédiscovered the chilling and suggestive image, a photograph by the Barcelona artist happy nachowhich is based on Birds of Alfred Hitchcock, a title that this year celebrates its 60th anniversary, and more generally in everyday terror. It also reminds fans of the genre of the facehugger from Alien, the eighth passengerbathed in blood.
In the Canaries, the fantastic of Paco Plaza It has also left its mark. With his previous film, The grandmothervisited in 2021 the Fantastic Film Festival of the Canary Islands City of La Laguna along with producer Enrique López Lavigne, collecting two Isla Calavera honor awards in recognition of their careers.
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