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05.03.2024 - 08:23 / variety.com
Ed Meza @edmezavar Eager to move into horror, Spanish director Miguel Martí is partnering with famed actress-producer Macarena Gómez and distributor Carlos Guerrero on an ambitious project to find their perfect hair-raising script. The trio’s respective, Madrid-based companies, Wonder Ficción, Cilantro Films and 39 Escalones, have launched the We Are Looking for Your Horror Script initiative, putting the call out to screenwriters with a penchant for chills, thrills and the macabre to submit their works from March 2 to April 16 via the website buscamostuguiondeterror.com.
The winning script will be announced on July 13 at the Sotogrande Music Festival, one of the initiative’s many partners. The winner will initially receive €4,000 ($4,342) as a four-year option on the script in addition to €3,600 for three months of development work.
The producers will seek to finance the production over the four-year period. A purchase of the script under previously agreed upon terms will be effective once financing is confirmed.
“The idea is a contest to search for a script to make a horror film and provide an opportunity to all the people who have screenplays at home, who write, but who have a difficult time reaching the big production companies,” Martí said, presenting the project at Spain’s Malaga Film Festival on Monday. “So we are going to read those screenplays, select one and make a movie that we hope will be stupendous and seen in theaters soon.” Martí will direct the film, with Gómez set to star, either as the lead or in a secondary role.
“We may suddenly find a formidable screenplay but if the main character is a young 20-year-old woman, I can no longer do that,” said Gómez, . “In that case I can be a secondary protagonist.”
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