Lazona launches distribution label and production company with a Basque label: Lazona Pictures and Lazona Zinema

The production company founded in 2003 by Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson, Lazona, celebrates its 20th anniversary with the creation of Lazona Pictures, its debut in national and international film distribution, and Lazona Zinema, a production company based in Vizcaya focused on Basque talent.

Lazona Pictures will be led by Javier Asenjo, an industry veteran with experience as a distributor after participating in the creation of Karma Films, Surtsey Films and Elamedia Studios, and as an exhibitor after helping to build the Zoco Majadahonda cinemas. From his hand, they will reach cinemas between six and eight titles year. At the moment there is already a date for the first three premieres: March 22 will arrive Our last dance, a film directed by Delphine Lehericey, awarded at Locarno and presented at San Sebastián; on April 22, Iris and men, comedy by Caroline Vignal, director of Vacations with you… and your wife, and on June 14, Solo by Sophie Dupuisse, award for best Canadian film at the latest edition of the Toronto festival.

On the other hand, Lazona Cinema It is a branch of the production company that he directs from Vizcaya Paul Barinaga, production director on fifty projects and executive producer of the series The Warrior Nun and the remake of Champions. The producer is already working on three projects with the aim of starting the first production at the end of 2024: one is signed by a renowned Basque director, another is the third feature film by an established filmmaker and the last is a debutant.

Nonetheless, Lazona continues with its machinery at full capacity. It will be released on February 23 politically incorrect, the third collaboration with Arantxa Echevarría, a proposal that tells in a comedic way the political polarization that takes place in a high-tension campaign. You will also see the light A hipster in empty Spain, an adaptation for Prime Video of the novel by Daniel Gascón directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro. Comedy is also the star ingredient of Who is who?, remake of the French film The meaning of family directed by Martín Cuervo. In May of next year, filming will resume. Subsoil, Fernando Franco's fourth film as director and screenwriter, produced by Jorge Castellanos, executive producer of Lazona. The author of The Rite of Spring debuts in the field of adaptations and thrillers with its personal vision of Page jump, novel by Marcelo Luján. Finally, in 2025 filming will begin on two debuts: African, by Nacho Vuelta, and Lapland, a horror proposal by the journalist and screenwriter Marta Medina