Rising Spanish Cineaste Miguel Angel Blanca Preps New Projects, Premieres Magaluf at Hot Docs (EXCLUSIVE)
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Miguel Ángel Blanca, selected by
Variety earlier this year as one of Spain’s 10 rising talents, has two new projects in development. His latest documentary, “Magaluf Ghost Town,” premieres in the International Spectrum competition at Hot Docs.
Both films will be produced by Barcelona’s Boogaloo Films (“Tolyatti Adrift,” “Nobody’s Home”), the company behind “Magaluf.” “Molón as F ck” is “a documentary trip about the fashion and ideology of urban subcultures and how they dialogue with the current generation of young people,” said the director. Pic is co-produced by Los Hermanos Polo and Japonica Films.
A.rtificial I.mmortality Director Ann Shin Aims for the Horizon (EXCLUSIVE)
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The Toronto-based Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival opens Thursday with the world premiere of “A.rtificial I.mmortality,” which explores advancements in AI, robotics, and biotech through close encounters with neuroscientists, AI developers, transhumanists, robot-creators, and visionaries who are pointing the way toward post-biological life.
Variety about her new film one of 13 features in the festival’s Canadian Spectrum juried competition and chatted up the next projects of Fathom Film Group, the female-led production company she founded in Toronto in 2006, and which is now represented by APA in the U.S.