Spanish streaming platform Filmin and Belgium’s Boucan Movie Manufacturing have boarded the sequence “Theft, Beating & Loss of life” (“El pitjor atracament de la historia”) from “This is Not Sweden” producers, Funicular Movies.
Upscale SVOD service Filmin additionally produces original shows and holds an enormous catalog of traditional movies. It additionally hosts dedicated country channels, like that of Costa Rica.
Based by producers Boris Van Gils and Michaël Goldberg, Boucan describes itself as an organization that makes audience-driven auteur movies with mainstream enchantment. It has workplaces in Brussels, Abidjan and Paris. Amongst their notable credit are Stephan Streker’s “Noces,” nominated for a Greatest International Movie César award in 2018 and Belgian field workplace hit “Les Rayures du Zèbra.”
Collaborating within the Berlinale Co-Professional Sequence occasion, the sequence activates two lifelong pals who’re employed to create a tv sequence centered on a financial institution heist. Longing for the acclaim they’ve at all times been denied, they cling to the daring, excessive philosophy of a mysterious artist they admire. Decided to show themselves, they push their challenge past fiction—selecting to not movie the story, however to hold out an actual financial institution theft as an alternative.
Mentioned Funicular’s Marta Baldó: “Framed as a playful information to pulling off the best heist on the earth, ‘Theft, beating and dying’ makes use of comedy to discover common themes: friendship, household, loyalty, work, artwork, capitalism and the contradictions of our business.”
“Like science fiction or dystopia, its meta layer lets us discuss concerning the current human situation with political and philosophical chew,” she famous.
Marcel Borràs and Nao Albet have written and directed the sequence, through which they may also star. The remainder of the forged has but to be confirmed.
“Theft, Beating & Loss of life” obtained very important assist from Catalan cultural company, ICEC, a pillar of Catalonia’s strong audiovisual manufacturing panorama.
ICEC’s Excessive-Finish TV Manufacturing Fund, launched in 2022, allots as much as €1.5 million ($1.8 million) for Catalan-language sequence with a minimal price range of €4 million ($4.7 million).
“This Is Not Sweden,” first presented at Series Mania 2024, picked up the Greatest Efficiency award for Aina Clotet at Canneseries 2024. It additionally gained the Prix Europa for Greatest European TV Fiction Sequence. Clotet has directed her first function movie, the love triangle drama “Oh Nora!” based mostly on a screenplay she co-wrote with Valentina Viso. It’s co-produced by Funicular and Ikiru Movies and is at present in submit.
Bowing in Spain on Catalonia’s 3Cat and nationwide pubcaster RTVE, “That is Not Sweden” follows a younger couple, Mariana and Samuel who resettle, together with different yuppies, to an elegant, leafy group perched on the western hills overlooking Barcelona, decided to create the very best life for his or her younger kids.
