Sony Pictures, Ikiru and 4Cats co-produce director David Victori's debut feature

World winner of the YouTube Short Film Festival in 2012, Victori consolidates his international projection with 'The Pact' thanks to his award-winning short film 'Zero', produced by Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender.

Sony Pictures International Productions, Ikiru Films, 4Cats Pictures and El Pacto La Movie AIE have closed an international agreement to co-produce the first feature film by director David Victori, The pact, a disturbing horror thriller starring Belén Rueda whose filming is taking place on locations in Barcelona.

World winner of the Short Film Festival YouTube In 2012, David Victori consolidates his international projection thanks to his award-winning short film Zero, produced by Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender, after which the global film industry magazines Variety and Screen International point him out as one of the directors to follow in the coming years.

In this his first feature, David Victori has Belén Rueda as the protagonist, accompanied by Mireia Oriol and Darío Grandinetti, among others.

With doses of supernatural elements, this thriller, The pact, in the words of David Victori himself, “has as its starting point a very essential premise: What would you not be able to do to prevent the death of a loved one?” and adds a disturbing idea, “What happens to those who try to avoid the natural course of life?”

Para los productores Edmon Roch y Jordi Gasull, “el universo de David tiene un componente espiritual muy fuerte, para él hay algo de misterio en la vida, y ese Misterio, en mayúsculas, nos atrapó. Es una película que habla del Mal según la cual, de algún modo, el Mal o el Diablo o como queramos llamarlo siempre aparece cuando nos resistimos a aceptar las cosas tal como son”. Y recuerdan como “la incorporación de Belén Rueda al papel protagonista y de Jordi Vallejo como coescritor del guion terminaron de dar forma al proyecto”. Añaden que “era necesario un compañero de viaje que comprendiese el proyecto, y lo encontramos en Laine Klaine, de Sony Pictures International Productions, e Iván Losada, de Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia, quienes han sido fundamentales para poder llegar a este maravilloso día en el que David Victori finalmente se estrena en el largometraje y nos transporta a todos a un universo único, lleno de misterio”.

Iván Losada, general director of Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia, comments that "we had been talking to Jordi and Edmon for some time to try to find an ambitious and promising project that we could embark on together and we are excited to have found it. Both Edmon and Jordi are top-notch producers, but in addition, Jordi is an old friend and colleague in the house. On the other hand, David Victori is one of those young directors with a unique personality and creative vision and it is an honor to be able to produce his first feature. be the first of many.”