Filmax Acquires Catalan Political Drama ‘Our Father, Our President’

Filmax has secured worldwide rights to “Our Father, Our President,” the most recent film from celebrated Catalan filmmaker Manel Huerga (“Salvador (Puig Antich)”). The Barcelona-based product sales agency will host a market screening for the attribute on the upcoming Spanish Screenings on the Malaga Film Competitors.

Alongside along with his latest political drama, Huerga delves into the rise and fall of Jordi Pujol, one of many influential and controversial figures in updated Catalonia and Spain.

Starring Josep M. Pou (“The Candidate”) as Pujol and Carme Sansa (“El 47”) as his partner Marta Ferrusola, the film portrays the superior legacy of its protagonist, whose confession to tax fraud in 2014 shook Catalonia and sparked debates on the interplay between power, corruption and public image. Alongside them are a gifted supporting solid, along with Pere Arquillué (“Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake”), Eduardo Lloveras (“Smiley”) and Alberto San Juan (“The People Upstairs”).

Directed by Huerga from a script by Toni Soler (“Polonia”), “Our Father, Our President” explores the dramatic penalties of Pujol’s admission of a hidden family fortune in Andorra, which implicated his family in a big corruption scandal. The film captures his transformation from an emblem of Catalan resistance beneath Franco’s dictatorship to the patriarch whose legacy was overshadowed by scandal and betrayal.

The movie was filmed over 4 weeks in Barcelona on a digital manufacturing set that combined chroma key know-how and LED screens.

“This film shows the brutal shock expert by Catalan society only a few years up to now when it was discovered that definitely certainly one of its most well-known politicians was immersed in a case of corruption throughout which his full family was implicated,” enthused Filmax Head of Worldwide Ivan Díaz.

“Larger than an space story, we actually really feel like this film is an thrilling portrayal of human contradictions. The topic materials is frequent and in among the best customized of Italian political thrillers, the story could have viewers gripped correct from the start, even after they’re not acquainted with the real-life story on which the film depends.”

Díaz went on to debate the film’s completely different virtues, explaining: “One different issue that makes this mission so explicit is its progressive use of digital models, to not level out the wonderful effectivity by renowned theatre actor Josep Maria Pou throughout the place of Jordi Pujol. The film will little query arouse quite a bit curiosity from the media proper right here in Spain, as we think about it will on the worldwide stage.”

Filmax will cope with Spanish distribution and worldwide product sales of “Our Father, Our President” after it’s confirmed to potential patrons at this yr’s Malaga Film Competitors.