SAN SEBASTIAN – Barcelona-based Lastor Media and Malmo Pictures have teamed with San Sebastian’s Irusoin to produce “Suro” (The Cork), the feature debut of Mikel Gurrea and a product of San Sebasti…
and Malmo Pictures have teamed with San Sebastian’s Irusoin to produce “Suro” , the feature debut of Mikel Gurrea and a product of San Sebastian’s Ikusmira Berriak program., who broke through with Sebastian Schipper’s “Victoria” and also serves as executive producer, and Pol López . “Suro” is scheduled to start shooting next year.
The news comes as Irusoin, producers of “Loreak,” Spain’s international Oscar entry in 2015, world premieres in main competition section “,” directed by Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga. Another Irusoin production, Asier Altuna and Telmo Esnal’s “Agur Etxebeste,” a sequel of “Aupa Etxebeste!,” a New Directors Audience Award in 2005. bows at the Basque Film Gala competing for the Irizar Basque Film Award.
Lastor is behind the latest installment— “The Days to Come”— of Carlos Marques-Marcet’s trilogy which began with SXSW Special Jury prize winner “10,000 Km.” “Days” participates at this current San Sebastian festival edition on its Made in Spain showcase. “The script is a compact and forceful work, very knowing in playing with the tension between what is shown and what isn’t, between the image we show towards others and what we really are. This creates a suffocating atmosphere that creates a modern film with a classic air,”said Sergi Moreno at Lastor Media. Script is written by Gurrea.
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