WANDA FILMS
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COMPANY PROFILE
WANDA FILMS was founded by José María Morales in 1992. His brother Miguel Morales became partner of the company later on.
Wanda Films it is a company specialized in production and distribution of Spanish, European and Latin-American films. In 1997 WANDA VISION was created, participated 50/50 between Wanda Films and Rem Vision.
In these 32 years the company has become a benchmark for high-quality films.
Wanda has produced and co-produced more than 85 feature films by Directors such as Antonio Chavarrías (THE ABBESS), Carlota Nelson (CRISTINA GARCÍA RODERO - EYES OF THE SOUL), Antonio Méndez Esparza (SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN), Andoni Canela (PANTERAS, LIVING AMONG WILD CATS), Unai Canela (AMONG MOUNTAINS), Álex Galán (SALVAJES), Fernando Perez (LA VIDA ES SILBAR, SUITE HABANA, MADRIGAL, ÚLTIMOS DÍAS EN LA HABANA), Arturo Ripstein (PROFUNDO CARMESÍ, ASÍ ES LA VIDA, LAS RAZONES DEL CORAZÓN, MANO A MANO,LA CALLE DE LA AMARGURA), Lucrecia Martel (LA CIENAGA), Carlos Sorín (HISTORIAS MÍNIMAS, BOMBÓN – EL PERRO, EL CAMINO DE SAN DIEGO, LA VENTANA), Luis Puenzo (LA PUTA Y LA BALLENA), Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll (WHISKY), Goran Paskaljevic (MIDWINTER NIGHT’S DREAM, OPTIMISTS), Costa Gavras (LE COUPERET), Daniel Burman (TODAS LAS AZAFATAS VAN AL CIELO, EL ABRAZO PARTIDO, DERECHO DE FAMILIA, EL NIDO VACIO), Joaquín Gutiérrez Acha (GUADALQUIVIR, CANTÁBRICO, DEHESA), Lucía Puenzo (XXY, EL NIÑO PEZ, THE GERMAN DOCTOR – WAKOLDA), Claudia Llosa (MADEINUSA, LA TETA ASUSTADA, ALOFT), Gerardo Olivares (LA GRAN FINAL, 14 KILÓMETROS, ENTRELOBOS, EL FARO DE LAS ORCAS, 4 LATAS), Jaime Rosales (LA SOLEDAD, TIRO EN LA CABEZA, SUEÑO Y SILENCIO, HERMOSA JUVENTUD, PETRA).
COMPANY HIGHLIGHTS
THE ABBESS (La Abadesa) 2024
Format: Feature Film
Director: Antonio Chavarrías
Screenplay: Antonio Chavarrías
Cast: Daniela Brown, Blanca Romero, Carlos Cuevas
In the 9th century, Emma, a 17-year-old girl, is named Abbess with the mission of repopulating and Christianizing territories in conflict with the Moriscos. When she arrives at the Abbey, she will have to overcome the mistrust aroused by a woman determined to fulfill her mission, which will lead her to confront nobles, peasants, and the nuns themselves. However, Emma will prove that, with determination and will it is possible to challenge the established power structures. Although she will pay a high price ...
Malaga Film Festival Offical Section 2024
CRISTINA GARCÍA RODERO - EYES OF THE SOUL (La Mirada Oculta) 2023
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Documentary
Director: Carlota Nelson
Screenplay: Carlota Nelson, Clara Martínez Malagelada
The documentary follows one of the greatest photographers in the world, one of the few women part of the Magnum Agency. Cristina García Rodero revolutionized this world through her explorations of cultural rites. She captures how we celebrate, suffer, and operate. Tirelessly, she continues to work at 73 and this everlasting passion is what brought her to the Burning Man Festival in Nevada where she met the filmmaker.
Sunny Side of the Doc 2022 - Best Arts & Culture Pitch
SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN (Aquí Nadie Duerma) 2020
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Director: Antonio Méndez Esparza
Screenplay: Antonio Méndez Esparza, Clara Roquet
Cast: Malena Alterio, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, José Luis Torrijo, Rodrigo Posión
Lucia lives an uneventful life as an IT specialist in Madrid. When the company goes bankrupt due to embezzlement, she decides to make a radical change in her life and become a taxi driver. In the taxi, she meets a series of colorful people, including Roberta, a theatre producer with whom she forms a great friendship, and Ricardo, a journalist who hits on her at the slightest opportunity. Yet, Lucía secretly hopes that one day, Braulio, an actor with whom she had a fleeting fling and to whom she owes her obsession with the Turandot aria "Nessun Dorma", will jump in her taxi and finally become her prince charming. But reality can be stubborn and people might not be who they seem to be ...
Goya Award 2024 for Best Actress Malena Alterio
DOÑANA, EUROPE'S WILDLIFE RESERVE (Doñana, Reserva Salvaje de Europa) PostProduction
Format: Feature Film
Genre: Nature Documentary
Director: Carmen Rodríguez
Screenplay: Carmen Rodríguez
More than 400 years ago, Doñana was an endless hunting ground for kings and nobles. From then until today, this spectacular landscape has undergone numerous transformations. Doñana was classified by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve in the 1980s. Today the Doñana Nature Area, with more than 54,000 hectares, is the largest wetland on our continent. It is said that Goya painted Las Majas, in the palace of Doñana, that Lawrence of Arabia was filmed in its sands, and that the world's largest nature conservation organization, WWF was born. But, above all, Doñana remains the largest bird reserve in Europe and one of the last bastions of the Iberian lynx. Its different ecosystems with the mobile dune formations on the coast, river marshes, and pine forests dotted with large mastic trees, harbor a biodiversity that places Doñana as one of the largest and best-known national parks in the world.