Ana Ortiz’s White Leaf-Produced ‘Firefly Glades,’ a Málaga MAFF Player, Goes to Boston’s 34T (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEmiliano De Pablos Boston-based sales agent 34T has picked up international sales rights to Spanish writer-director Ana Ortiz’s feature debut, psychological thriller “El claro de las luciérnagas” (“Firefly Glades”).
Produced by Sergy Moreno at Madrid’s White Leaf Producciones, the film is structured as a Spanish regional co-production, teaming with Magnética Cine’s María Barroso in Andalusia and Joaquín Calderón at Navarra-based Melitón Films. “Firefly Glades” figures among the 22 projects selected at Málaga’s 2023 Festival Fund & Co-Production Event (MAFF), which runs March 13-16 as part of Málaga Festival’s growing Mafiz industry area. “Firefly Glades” follows Diana, a school teacher who finds herself lost with her students and a fellow teacher in the middle of a dense forest, after suffering an accident in the bus they were travelling in on their way to a camp.
Looking for a way out, they come across a hunter who offers to help lead them to safety. As the hours pass, Diana begins to suspect that the man may not be telling the whole truth.
She will not hesitate to do whatever it takes to save the children and get out of the forest alive. “There’s a lot of me, a lot of the fears I’ve grown up with, in the character of Diana.
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