Materia’s Inés Massa Talks Madrid ECAM Incubator Title ‘Mala Gent’

variety.com:

Holly Jones Barcelona-born director Sara Gutiérrez Galve is following up her 2018 Malaga award-winning debut effort, “Yo La Busco,” with forthcoming dramedy “Mala Gent” (“Bad People”), a wry depiction of the disparate stories of three protagonists living in the town of Gironès, who attend the same wedding.

Among five projects selected at Madrid’s 5th ECAM Incubator, the project follows each of its leads 10 days prior to the nuptials as they navigate their inner turmoil, all eventually forced to grin and bear the festivities, their lives intersecting momentarily throughout.

Guitiérrez Galve, a UCLA alum, is teaming once more with co-scribe Núria Roura on the script that’s billed as “a collage that speaks of themes such as childhood, loneliness and work.” Inés Massa (“Farrucas”) and Nadine Rothschild (“The Permanent Picture”), founders at nascent production house Materia Cinema, are producing the project and are currently utilizing their extensive industry ties to build on international co-productions while seeking to offer their expertise to foreign projects aiming to shoot in the region.

Apart from ECAM, “Mala Gent” was selected for the Faberllull residency in 2021 and participated in the 2022-2023 MFI Script 2 Film Workshop and this year’s D’A Lab a Desarrollo.