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The real story surrounding Netflix's latest true crime offering is tailor-made for tabloid fodder. Directed by Jorge Torregrossa and starring Úrsula Corberó ("Money Heist"), "Burning Body" serves as yet another cautionary tale about the tangled web we weave when secret love affairs, ghastly intrigue, and unthinkable acts of violence collide.

Based on one of Spain's most chilling murder cases referred to by the local press as "el Crimen de la Guardia Urbana" (the crime of the Urban Guard), the brutal killing of a police officer caused a media frenzy. On May 4, 2017, the remains of Officer Pedro Rodriguez were found among the ash of a torched automobile that had been completely engulfed in flames. It looked like someone had gone to great lengths to ensure that there was no physical evidence, a clear sign that the person or persons in question knew what they were doing. The only identifying signs...

The streamer has also launched two reality TV projects.

Netflix Spain has unveiled a slate of seven new film and TV projects, including a romantic feature directed by Marçal Fores.

A Través De Mi Ventana (which translates as ‘Through My Window’) is an adaptation of Venezuelan author Ariana Godoy’s novel of the same name.

The novel was written via online story creation website Wattpad, which has previously been home to adaptations including Netflix hit The Kissing Booth and the successful After series.

The story centres on a young woman who is madly in love with her mysterious neighbour and...

Netflix has announced a crop of upcoming projects in Spain, including three new drama series, two original films, and a pair of reality shows.

The series are:

Intimacy (Intimidad), which has been created by Verónica Fernández and Laura Sarmiento, directed by Jorge Torregrossa, Ben Gutteridge, Marta Font, Koldo Almandoz and stars Itziar Ituño, Patricia López Arnaiz, Verónica Echegui, Ana Wagener and Emma Suárez. The show follows four women who are forced to walk the thin line that separates public life from private life after sexual video of a politician with a promising future is released.

Baruca is a six-part action series created by Victor Sierra and Xosé Morais, directed by Óscar Pedraza, and starring Alberto Ammann and Luis Callejo. It is set in the psychiatric prison Monte Baruca on December 24, when a group of armed men surround the complex and cut of all communication with the outside world.

Trans-Atlantic Spanish-language production powerhouse El Estudio and Mexico’s Morbido Group have joined forces in the largest genre, horror and fantasy production initiative in the Spanish-speaking world.

Feature films, series, remakes and reboots of classic IP and even unscripted programming are all part of the plan going forward for El Estudio and Morbido. Already, the companies have one series, three films and a talk show in development which they will announce in the coming months.

Production is hardly the endgame for the two companies, however, as they will look to change the genre industry on a fundamental level. Other initiatives include consolidating theatrical distribution circuits across South and Central America, supporting industry acceleration hubs, producing local events in major Latin American countries, talent management, a comic book/graphic novel division and expanding the Morbido brand into Spain and the U.S.

Pablo Guisa’s Morbido Group, based in Mexico City,...

Madrid — On Nov 1 Netflix will drop its fifth Spanish original series, 1960’s-set drug smuggling drama “Hache,” produced by Madrid’s Weekend Studio for the platform.

Created by Verónica Fernández and directed by Jorge Torregrossa, “Hache” tells the story of Helena (Adriana Ugarte), a prostitute who ends up the favorite of powerful organized crime head Malpica (Javier Rey), a violent man with a bad leg and a morphine addiction to numb the pain.

Ambitious, headstrong and uncompromising, Helena – frequently called Hache, the Spanish pronunciation of the letter H – quickly rises to the very top of the vicious organization which oversees the Barcelona ports for heroin smuggling routes between Africa to the U.S.

Variety was given early access to the series’ first two episodes, and conducted a spoiler-free interview with Fernández and Torregrossa in Barcelona.

The series is said to be based on real events. Can you talk about the historical influences of the series?...

Dennis Lee is set to direct an adaptation of "The Ice Storm" author Rick Moody's 1998 best-selling novel "Purple America" for Mulberry Films.

The story follows a fortysomething who returns to Long Island to visit his invalid mom, and discovers her husband has bailed. He has to learn to face up to responsibilities.

Lee is co-writing the adaptation with Daniel Ragussis. Spanish commercials director Jorge Torregrossa was previously attached.

Source: Deadline...

The Guadalajara International Film Festival (Ficg) is taking part in the year’s first celebration of the seventh art—the Palm Springs International Film Festival—where it is slated to present the Cine Latino Award to the best Iberoamerican film screened at the 24th edition of the California festival, which will run from January 3rd to 14th, 2013.

The award is accompanied by a cash prize of Us$5,000 contributed by the Guadalajara International Film Festival and the University of Guadalajara Foundation/USA located in Los Angeles, California.

The Cine Latino Award highlights the enormous creativity of new talents in the world of Iberoamerican cinema, at the same time underlining the commitment of the Ficg and the University of Guadalajara Foundation/USA to the consolidation of culture and the arts in the region and to the wider interchange of ideas within a global context.

I will have the pleasure of being on the jury along with Juan Carlos Arciniegas (Ccn en Español), a journalist with an established career in the area of motion picture and entertainment criticism and analysis—and Iván Trujillo Bolio, director of the Guadalajara International Film Festival.

Listed below are the 22 films eligible for the award. They include some of the productions from Iberoamerican countries nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the Foreign Language Film category of the 85th Academy Awards, to be held on February 24th, 2013.

7 Boxes (Paraguay), (Isa:Shoreline Entertainment)

Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schémbori

After Lucia (Mexico), (Isa: Bac Films)

Director: Michel Franco

Beauty (Argentina), (Isa: Campo Cine)

Director: Daniela Seggiaro

Blancanieves (Spain/France) (Dreamcatchers)

Director: Pablo Berger

Checkmate (Dominican Republic)

Director: José María Cabral

Clandestine Childhood (Argentina/Brazil/Spain)

Director: Benjamín Ávil

The Cleaner (Peru) (Isa: Flamingo Films)

Director: Adrian Saba

The Clown (Brazil)

Director: Selton Mellobr

The Dead Man and Being Happy (Spain) (Isa: Udi)

Director: Javier Rebollo

Drought (Mexico) (Isa:imcine)

Director: Everardo González

The Girl (USA/Mexico) (Isa: Goldcrest Fims)

Director: David Riker

Here and There (Spain/USA/Mexico) (Isa: Alpha Violet)

Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza

La Playa D.C. (Colombia/Brazil/France) (Isa: Cineplex)

Director: Juan Andrés Arango García

Multiple Visions (The Crazy Machine) (Mexico/France/Spain)

Director: Emilio Maillé

The Passion of Michelangelo (Chile/France)

Director: Esteban Larraín

Sadourni’s Butterflies (Argentina)

Director: Darío Nardi

The Sleeping Voice (Spain) (Isa: The Match Factory)

Director: Benito Zambrano

The Snitch Cartel (Colombia)

Director: Carlos Moreno

Tabu (Portugal/Brazil/France/Germany)

Director: Miguel Gomes

The End (Spain)

Director: Jorge Torregrossa

Una Noche (Cuba/UK/USA)

Director: Lucy Mulloy

White Elephant (Argentina/Spain/France)

Director: Pablo Trapero

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A few months ago a trailer emerged for Jorge Torregrossa's The End (Fin). It's not that the trailer was bad, quite the contrary it suggested some good things, a mix of drama, adventure and end of world doom and gloom, but it seems that one of the major reasons the project, from a little known director best known in his native country as a TV director, was garnering so much attention from international sites, is the fact that it's written by Jorge Guerricaechevarria of Cell 211 fame and The Orphanage's Sergio G. Sanchez. That's some solid DNA. [Continued ...]...

Above: Ernie Gehr's Auto-Collider Xv.

The vast bulk of Tiff's 2012 has been announced and listed here, below. We'll be updating the lineup with the previous films announced, as well as updating links to specific films for more information on them in the coming days. Of particular note is that the Wavelengths and Visions programs have been combined to create what is undoubtedly the most interesting section of the festival. Stay tuned, too, for our own on the ground coverage of Tiff.

Galas

A Royal Affair (Nikolai Arcel, Demark/Sweden/Czech Republic/Germany)

Argo (Ben Affleck, USA)

The Company You Keep (Robert Redford, USA)

Dangerous Liaisons (Hur Jin-ho, China)

Emperor (Peter Webber, Japan/USA)

English Vinglish (Gauri Shinde, India)

Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch)

Great Expectations (Mike Newell, UK)

Hyde Park on Hudson (Roger Michell, UK)

Inescapable (Ruba Nadda, Canada)

Jayne Mansfield's Car (Billy Bob Thorton, USA/Russia)

Looper (Rian Johnson,...

The globe-trotting section of this year’s Contemporary World Cinema programme has your Sundance (in a pair of excellent titles in Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere and James Ponsoldt’s Smashed) and has select items from several sections from this year’s Cannes ranging from Pablo Stoll Ward’s 3, Yousry Nasrallah’s After the Battle, Aida Begic’s Children of Sarajevo, Catherine Corsini’s Three Worlds, Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Love, and they must see In The Fog a masterwork from Sergei Loznitsa and will be padded by world premiere items such as Annemarie Jacir’s When I Saw You, Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did and Sion Sono’s The Land of Hope (see pic above). Here’s the entire list of items that make up this year’s section:

3 Pablo Stoll Ward, Uruguay/Germany/Argentina North American Premiere For Rodolfo (Humberto de Vargas), life at home feels empty and cold,...

The End Trailer, Fin Trailer, Fin Poster. Jorge Torregrossa‘s The End / Fin (2012) teaser trailer, movie poster stars Maribel Verdú, Clara Lago, Daniel Grao, Blanca Romero, and Antonio Garrido. The End‘s plot synopsis: “A group of old friends gets together for a weekend in a mountain cabin. Years have gone by and yet nothing seems [...]

Continue reading: The End / Fin (2012) Teaser Trailer, Movie Poster: Jorge Torregrossa...

Time to add some red hot spice to your horror news as the trailer has come for the latest Latin tale of lunacy, Fin, or The End for you few out there who don't know a single bit of Spanish.

Jorge Torregrosa directs from a script written by Cell 211's Jorge Guerricaechevarría and The Orphanage's Sergio García Sánchez. Maribel Verdú, Clara Lago and Daniel Grao star.

Synopsis

A group of old friends get together for a weekend in a mountain cabin. Years have gone by and yet nothing seems to have changed between them. But lurking behind the laughter and stories is a murky episode from the past that continues to haunt them. A strange, sudden incident alters their plans, leaving them stranded and with no line of communication to the outside world. On their way for help, the group starts to disintegrate, just as a new natural order is unveiled before their astonished eyes.

This has been intriguing us for some time and now there’s word on a release date -and a few new pics have surfaced - we thought it time for a mention of upcoming Spanish supernatural thriller Fin (aka The End). Fin marks Jorge Torregrossa’s debut feature as a director, but more important (to us anyhow) the screenplay was penned by Sergio G. Sánchez, writer of the superb 2007 horror flick The Orphanage. Add to that a really excellent cast, and like we said...“intriguing.” The End opens in Spain August 31, so expect a trailer soon. Synopsis: A group of old friends gets together for a weekend in a mountain cabin. Years have gone by and yet nothing seems to have changed between them. But lurking behind the laughter and stories is a murky episode from the past that continues to haunt them. A strange, sudden incident alters their plans,...

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CANNES -- U.K. and U.S. financiers Future Films, Pedro Almodovar's production banner El Deseo and Arcadia Capital have united to bring an adaptation of "The Ice Storm" author Rick Moody's best-selling novel "Purple America" to the big screen.

The adaptation will be directed by award-winning Spanish commercials director Jorge Torregrossa and details the story of a freelance publicist who is summoned home to care for his mother who suffers from a neurological disease and demands an assisted suicide.

Future Films and Arcadia Capital are putting together the finance structure for the film, with Future's in-house producer Kwesi Dickson ("Goodbye Bafana") steering the project alongside Almodovar collaborator and producer Esther Garcia, whose credits include 2006 Palme d'Or nominee "Volver".

Film Bridge International, headed by Ellen Wander, is handling worldwide sales on the project. A writer is being lined up for the adaptation, which is still in the early stages.

The deal sees Future Films join forces with the Spanish co-producers that most recently backed Menno Meyjes' "Manolete", starring Penelope Cruz and Adrien Brody, and Antonio Banderas' "El Camino de los Ingleses".

Equity finance provider Arcadia Capital is new on the block.