Mediaproy BBC co-produce the feature film 'The end of it'

Under the direction of María Martínez Bayona, who debuts as a director with her own script, The Mediapro Studio US&Canada y BBC Films They have started filming the feature film 'The end of it' in the Canary Islands.

The cast includes Rebecca Hall (The Listeners, Christine, Vicky Christina Barcelona), Garcia Bernal (Mozart in the Jungle, Time, And Your Mom Too), Noomi Rapace (Lamb, Prometheus, Millennium: The Men Who Didn't Love Women) y Beanie Feldstein (Super Nerds, Lady Bird, The Making of a Girl).

In the film set in a near future where aging is curable and death is optional, Claire (Rebecca Hall), a former provocation artist who is about to turn 250, decides that she has had enough: she wants to die. Her decision will cause conflicts with her husband (Gael García Bernal), her daughter (Noomi Rapace) and her artificial intelligence assistant (Beanie Feldstein), revealing the complexity, not without humor, of their relationships. Claire takes advantage of her imminent death to reclaim her role as an artist, which will force her to confront the meaning of dying, of living, and the crazy absurdity of it all.

"This film raises a question: what would it mean to live forever? And what is more important: what does it mean to feel alive? A deeply human, paradoxical and also absurd question. I am very excited to embark on this journey with such an incredible cast and crew, and with partners who are always by our side," commented the London-based Catalan director, María Martínez Bayona.

The end of it this produced by Emilie Jouffroy and Kamilla Kristiane Hodøl to Elation Pictures (The Damned), Adrià Monés Murlans to Fasting films (Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell) y Laura Fernandez Espeso for The Mediapro Studio. Dyveke Bjørkly Graver and Andrea Ottmar Berentsen They are in charge of co-production tasks for Eye Pictures (The worst person in the world). The film has been made with the support of BBC Film and iFeatures.

Bankside Films will handle international marketing of the film (except in Latin America where it will be distributed by The Mediapro Studio Distribution), and WME Independent is responsible for distribution in North America. Among the executive producers include JC Acosta and Erika Kennair on behalf of The Mediapro Studio, Claudia Yusef representing BBC Film and Ford Corbett, Nathan Klingher and Apur Parikh on behalf of Barreling Wave Pictures.

Among the most prominent creatives of The end of it are found the director of photography Andres Arochi (Longlegs), the production designer Lili Lea Abrahams (artistic director assistant at Poor creatures), he costume designer Pau Aulí (Lonely afternoons), the editor Tania Reddin (My only family [Hard Truths]) and the sound designer Gisle Tveito (The worst person in the world). The casting directors were Ellen Chenoweth and Susanne Scheel (No Country for Old Men, Michael Clayton, Past Lives).