EXCLUSIVE: During the Cannes Film Festival and market, where JA Bayona presented a preview of Vieja Loca, the film he is producing with Belén Atienza, Ramon Campos and Gabriela Carcova, Shudder acquired rights in North America, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
DeAPlaneta will distribute in Spain with sales handled by Studiocanal.
Vieja loca is the feature debut of Argentine screenwriter and director Martín Mauregui, starring Spanish screen legend Carmen Maura alongside Argentine actor Daniel Hendler.
The Spanish-language film narrates the nightmare a man (Hendler) suffers after receiving a desperate call from his ex-girlfriend to take care of her senile mother (Maura).
In Cannes, JA Bayona received the ‘Golden Key to the Fantastic Pavilion’ for his contribution to genre cinema.
After his worldwide success with Society of the Snow, The Impossible filmmaker Bayona has turned his attention to his work as a producer. In a talk held at the Fantastic Pavilion of the Cannes Film Festival with Ángel Sala, director of the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival, Bayona commented: “When I began my career with The Orphanage, Guillermo del Toro produced it on one condition: that I would sponsor another director in the future. I loved Mauregui’s script and it’s an opportunity to return to genre cinema, which I love. I approached the project to lend a hand, but I ended up producing. It was the first film to be shot in Argentina after Javier Milei’s victory and we are very happy to have been able to make this film a reality at such a complicated time for cinema in Argentina.”
Vieja loca is a Spanish-Argentine co-production between the production companies Películas La Trini, Primo Content, Mr Field and Friends, Bambu Producciones and La Unión De Los Ríos, with the participation of Amazon España.
