‘On the Go,’ Featuring ‘Elite’ Star Omar Ayuso in His First Movie Lead Role, Clinches Early Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent “On the Go,” a spirited, freewheeling road movie capturing the first lead performance in a movie of ‘Elite’ star Omar Ayuso, has clinched its first major sales, selling to Salzgeber for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and to Cineplex for Taiwan.
Paris-based MPM Premium picked up world sales rights to “On the Go” in the run-up to the Locarno Festival where it world premiered in its Filmmakers of the Present section.
The feature debut of directors Maria Gisèle Royo and Julia de Castro, “On the Go” is set against a contemporary Andalusia of music, dance, sex and sensuality against which Ayuso playing a role far from his Elite persona as a Grindr addict with vengeance in his heart, Ayuso is caught in opening scenes setting fire to a night club before being collected Milagros (De Castro), set on motherhood but unemployed and arriving in Seville in her father’s ’67 Corvair to persuade Jonathan to be her sperm donor.
They escape to Andalusia’s stunning southern coast and towns in the hills, picking up on the way a cookie young woman (Chacha Huang), called Triana’s Queen, who claims she’s a mermaid and has to get to the sea. “On the Go” is also written by Royo, a Student Oscar winner (“Rediscovering Pape”) and also art director on “H,” a Film Independent Spirit Awards winner, and De Castro, singer-actress founder of De la Puríssima, and co-star of quirky comedy “De poquita fe,” a breakout new Movistar Plus+ hit.
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