Mantícora Distribución Boards ‘While the Masters Sleep,’ Set to Bow at Cannes’ Fantastic Pavilion (EXCLUSIVE)

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Marta Balaga Mantícora Distribución has acquired the vampire story “While the Masters Sleep” by Santiago Alvarado Ilarri for international sales.

The film – which will also mark the debut of Spain’s La Mala Compañia, the result of a partnership between Magno Entertainment and MSP –will be presented in Cannes as one of the Gala Screenings at the Fantastic Pavilion, a brand new hub for the genre community at the Marché du Film.

Sula Entertainment and Morbido TV are also on board. “We want ‘While the Masters Sleep’ to introduce this new label. [It will be] focusing on genre films with a big audience potential, but trying to achieve this goal without losing the ideas and virtues of independent films.

All the while shaking up the codes of classic horror films,”  producer Joaquim Vivas said of La Mala Compañía. In the film, Samuel and Lourdes are a humble married couple, going out of their way to take care of their master’s properties: an ancient vampire that only feeds on the blood of bad people.