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DISTRIBUTION Spain

Nace Surtsey Films, a new independent film distributor

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- Directed by Miguel Ángel Pérez, the company’s first releases include Richard Ayoade’s Submarine and Andrew Haigh’s Weekend from Britain, as well as Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross from Poland

On October 31, Submarine [+see also:
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(photo), a British comedy directed by Richard Ayoade, is to be released in Spain. It will be the first film to be distributed by Surtsey Films, a new distribution company directed by Miguel Ángel Pérez (formerly Karma Films) to release festival-selected independent films in Spain.

European films are to feature heavily in Surtsey’s catalogue. It has already acquired the rights for Weekend [+see also:
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, another British film written and directed by Andrew Haigh, and The Mill and the Cross [+see also:
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, a Polish-Swedish co-production directed by Lech Majewski and starring Rutger Hauer, Michael York, and Charlotte Rampling (November 30). The company is also to release Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [+see also:
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, a Turkish title that won the Jury's Grand Prix in Cannes, Andrés Wood’s Violeta, a Chilean title that was awarded at Sundance, Beto Brant and Renato Ciasca’s Eu receberia as piores notícias dos seus lindos lábios from Brazil (November 16), and Robert B. Weide’s Woody Allen: A documentary, an American documentary soon to be unveiled at the Seminci de Valladolid.

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With what is happening in the Spanish film sector at the moment, because of a drop in the number of cinema-goers and a VAT increase on cinema tickets, the birth of a new distribution company could be a suicidal enterprise, especially as it is to focus on independent films. But Surtsey Films’ strong point, a little like A Contracorriente Films who have a similar philosophy, is precisely that it is to focus on films of great quality that are so far fairly rare in cinemas, with very careful and measured releases (about 15 a year, more or less eight copies each) of films in their original version targeting an urban public, and with great attention to costs.

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(Translated from Spanish)

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