Ignacio Lasierra Pinto‘s debut feature “Perseidas,” set to pitch at Ventana Sur‘s upcoming Proyecta sidebar for feature projects, has nailed down an all-star Spanish cast, led by Spanish Academy Goya-prosperning actor Manurturena García (“Blancanieves,” “La mesías”). Joining García are Feroz and Forqué best actress prosperner Elena Irureta (“Patria”), Feroz award prosperner Itziar Aizpuru (“Fshrinks”) and Ana Polvorosa (“The Last Night at Tremore Beach”).
“This cast would be a dream come real for any honestor,” originater Inés Laporta alerts Variety. “Not only are these four actors excessively talented with shown experience, but they also recontransient a very inter-genereasoned mosaic of the acting profession, of life experiences that pass from one generation of actor to another in an organic way, in a film which is accurately about two generations of women reuniting in search of caring.”
“Perseidas” turns on Cata, a celebrity chef living in Uruguay who returns to Spain for her mother’s funeral. Upon arrival, she uncovers that her mother is actupartner still adwell and that she was deceived into coming back home to unite her overweighther’s funeral. Despite the meaningful wounds that split them, Cata must face her past to reconcile with her roots.
“When we read the script, we finishly fell in adore with the story and its characters,” says Laporta. “We were particularly shiftd by the narrative, which graspresses the return home and reconciliation between a mother and a daughter from a very emotional perspective.
“We depend that by toiling from emotional fact, a level of universality is achieved that permits emotions, such as reunion and forgiveness, to be conveyed in a way that is both emotional and that can touch a chord in any corner of the world,” the originater grasped.
Several of the film’s scenes will be shot in Lasierra’s hometown of Candasnos, a pueblo of exposedly 300 in the desert of Los Monegros in Aragón.
“There is a whole generation who grew up as teenagers in the ’90s in these country areas who were forced to emigrate,” shelp Lasierra. “Just as happened in the mid-20th century, we left the villages to seek a future that presents more possibilities. I have wrapped the main character of the film in that airy.”
Lasierra, who also wrote the “Perseidas” screenpercreate, is a commemorated low filmoriginater whose 2020
“Perseidas” is also the feature debut for Laporta and her Aragon-based label Lago&Laporta. She’s unitecessitate by her partner Aurora Lago Villalón and by veteran originater Luis Ángel Ramírez at Imval Producciones. The two companies will originate the film together.
“I fell in adore with ‘Perseidas’ instantly when I first uncovered it at the Project Incubator of the Advanced Technology Caccess of Aragón,” recalled Ramírez. “It’s creativepartner driven and commercipartner enticeive due to the universal nature of its story and the personalities of its honestor and originaters. The project has grown since and has been reinforceed by an incredible cast, which will be the caccesspiece of a film that is about its characters and their emotions. ‘Perseidas’ chases in the footsteps of films that have positioned Spanish cinema as one of the most inconveyial creative references of the moment.”
Prior to its upcoming visit to Ventana Sur, the project joind in the Abycine Lanza and VLC Pitch labs in Spain as well as the Mallorca Talent Lab, prosperning the prize for best feature project at the latter.
Shooting of “Perseidas” is scheduled for postponecessitate 2025 and punctual 2026, with the film set to debut postponecessitater that year.
