01/04/2014 - Pau Teixidor’s debut will be distributed simultaneously in cinemas and through video-on-demand, while a version divided into four parts will be made available for mobile devices

Despite the Ocho apellidos vascos [+see also:
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film profile] phenomenon happening as we speak and the waiting for better times, distribution in cinemas is starting to look like it is falling short for the Spanish production sector.  Because of the crumbling of some institutions and public sector financing, distributing films has become increasingly difficult. A less diffused consequence of this is that some are looking into alternative ways of producing (crowdfunding, low-cost, co-productions) and distributing, like in the case of Purgatorio.

Presented at the Malaga Film Festival, the first film by young Pau Teixidor designed a complex and ingenious distribution structure, which aims to touch the public, no matter what platform it has to go through. 

At the same time as the Malaga festival, the film was also screened on television on March 28 under the form of a short prequel to the film. Starting next April 4, movie theatres will screen the film with Virtual Contenidos and Vod Atresplayer. 

That same day, another cut will be distributed called Purgatorio Redux, which condenses the story into four chapters of five minutes each, which can be watched online through mobile devices. This version will be made available in Spain only, in order to avoid damaging international sales prospects.

This makes Purgatorio a film, which could be seen as a hybrid between feature film and web series. “We wanted to synthesize all sales into one exercise in order to reduce different windows, get them together, closer,” the film’s versatile producer Enrique López Lavigne declared in Malaga. 

Purgatorio is produced by Apaches Entertainment, Atresmedia Cine and CINE365, and has Film Factory as an international sales agent.

(Translated from Spanish)