The Filmax Presenta Awards are looking for the next great Spanish horror film project

On its 70th anniversary, Filmax presents the initiative Filmax Presenta Awards, awards that in their first stage will seek the next great Spanish horror film project.

Los Filmax Awards Presents: New Terror they give their starting signal in the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, although the winner will not be announced until Fantastic Pavilion at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. All those interested can present their initiatives (sending the feature film script, a long synopsis and a bio/filmography) from the October 19 to November 16. A committee of experts will make a selection of the proposals received, from which a jury made up of Jaume Balagueró y Carlota Pereda will choose the winner. The prize will be a development contract with Filmax itself.

Carlota Pereda She is a director and screenwriter of films and fiction series. After graduating from ECAM, she began her career as a screenwriter, director and script supervisor on television series such as Journalists, Acacias 38, The secret of Puente Viejo y Eagle Roja, for which she was nominated for the Iris Award from the Television Academy, among others. Her big leap to her feature film was Cerdita (2022), while his second film will be The hermitage, a supernatural drama that seeks to transcend genre cinema.

Jaume Balagueró achieved unanimous applause from the public and critics with his first feature film, the thriller The nameless. Next, he released the blockbuster Darkness, which brought together a luxury international cast led by Ana Paquin and which premiered with great success in the main markets of the world, including the United States (25 million dollars at the box office), achieving a historic milestone. for Spanish cinema in the international market. These three works forged the subsequent success of [REC] y [REC]2, next to Paco Plaza. His latest projects are the film Way Down, one of the chapters of the reboot Stories to keep you from sleeping y Venus, part of The Fear Collection label sponsored by Álex de la Iglesia.

Filmax has established itself as one of the most prolific producers in terms of horror and genre films. In the past, the seal Fantastic Factory led to a large group of milestones in national genre cinema, with titles such as Faust, revenge is in the blood; Dagon, the sect of the sea; Romasanta, the hunt for the beast y Darkness. Later, other films such as the acclaimed saga would arrive. [REC] by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza or While Do you sleep by Jaume Balagueró, among others. More recently, the company has produced you will not kill by David Victori or The hermitage, by Carlota Pereda.

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