‘Fairy Queen,’ Inspired by Oscar-Shortlisted ‘Paris 70,’ in Prep at Spain’s Morena, A Contracorriente and France’s Noodles (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Leading Spanish production house Morena Films is teaming with A Contracorriente Films, one of Spain’s top indie distributors, and “The Beasts” French co-producer Noodle Productions to produce “Fairy Queen” (“Reina de las Hadas,” “Reina de les fades” in Catalan), a feature inspired by “Paris 70” which was shortlisted on Dec.

17 for the 97th Oscars. A Contracorriente Films will handle theatrical distribution in Spain. One of 15 films in the live-action short category and reckoned by Variety to be one of the category’s frontrunners, “Paris 70” is directed by Dani Feixas, a short film and doc feature helmer (“Rejovenir,” “Catalan Liverpool”).

It is written by Nach Solis and Freixas, turning on Jan (Alain Hernández) as he takes care of his mother, Angela (Luisa Gavasa), who suffers from advanced Alzheimer’s disease.

Every day, his mother asks about his father. Jan’s answer plunges her into deep sadness and confusion. Exhausted and distraught at his mother’s distress, one day Jan tells her a white lie: His father is on a trip to Paris, where his parents spent their honeymoon in 1970.