Fran Torres makes the leap to feature film with the filming of 'The Boss'

This week filming began The boss, debut film by Fran Torres, starring Aitana Sánchez Gijón and Cumelén Sanz. The film is produced by Feelgood Media (Juan Moreno and Guillermo Sempere), Republican film (Dany Boyero and Fran Torres himself), Kowalski Films (Koldo Zuazua) and Penultima Toma AIE.

Before making this leap to the feature film, Frank Torres He has had a prolific and successful career as an advertising director and has directed short films such as Today for you, tomorrow for me, nominated for the Goya, and Duel.

Aitana Sánchez-Gijón's career spanning more than thirty years in film, theater and television has been recognized with a multitude of awards, including the Silver Shell for the best female performance at the San Sebastián Film Festival for They flew (Bigas Luna, 1999) or the Max Award for best leading actress for Medea in 2015. He has recently participated in Parallel mothers, the last film by Pedro Almodóvar.

Cumelén Sanz, an Argentine actress with a promising career, was nominated for best new actress at the Sur Awards of the Argentine Film Academy for don't forget about me (Fernanda Ramondo, 2016).

The film will be shot for five weeks in locations in the Community of Madrid.

With a script signed by Laura Sarmiento (Crematorium, Isabel, The Zone, Diablero, Intimacy), The boss It is the story of the poisoned relationship between two strong, independent women who are aware of being alone in the world: Beatriz, the boss, who has apparently achieved everything she set out to do in life; and Sofía, his employee, who believes she is willing to do whatever it takes to earn the life she believes she deserves.

Fran Torres acknowledges that “the first thing that immediately seduced me about the script of The boss, was the richness and precision of the portrait of the two protagonists, Beatriz, the Spanish boss, and Sofía, the immigrant employee, and how their relationship condenses many of the tensions present today in our society: classism, ultra-liberalism, feminism, surrogacy... they are present in the film from the first minute. lto throw manages to condense all these tensions present in the current public debate in the relationship between these two women without falling into commonplaces. That is another of the great virtues of the script: both protagonists are unpredictable, they do not fit into any of the predefined patterns in which fiction often encapsulates female characters.”

International sales of the film are handled by Film Factory and will be distributed in Spain by Filmax.