Federation Spain Boards Xavier Rull’s Frontières Platform Player ‘My Stalker’
variety.comEmiliano De Pablos Federation Spain, the Madrid-based arm of top indie European studio Federation Entertainment, has inked to co-produce Xavier Rull’s feature debut “My Stalker,” selected for this year’s Frontières Platform in Cannes.
Structured as a Spain-Mexico-U.S. co-production, “My Stalker” is set up at Monster Box, the horror indie outfit recently launched by Rull with awarded Mexican filmmaker Jack Zagha (“Adiós mundo cruel,” “Sin señas particulares”). “My Stalker” follows a rising young singer in the music industry, stalked by a mysterious dangerous man who can possess people astrally.
As she struggles to compose a new album, deal with the pressures of fame, and evade her stalker, she descends into a dark world where music, nightmares, and the supernatural collide.
The film was co-created and co-scripted by Rull and María Rocher, Federation Spain’s head of co-production and support strategy. “‘My Stalker’ is a psychological thriller with an original high concept,” Rull said. “It explores the gradual descent of a girl into depression.
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