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‘Year of the Discovery’s’ LaCima Preps ‘Elena Gave Birth to a Beautiful Child,’ Sold by Begin Again (EXCLUSIVE)
Emiliano De Pablos LaCima Producciones, the company behind Luis López Carrasco multi-prize winner doc “The Year of the Discovery,” is joining forces with Colombia’s Sandelion on archive film project “Elena Gave Birth to a Beautiful Child.”Madrid-based Begin Again Films handles international sales and has also taken Spanish distribution rights.Co-directed by Chiara Marañón, head of content at streaming service Mubi, and Colombia’s Juan Soto Taborda, “Elena Gave Birth” taps the domestic archive of Miquelina Fiter, made up of cans of film and video tapes spanning six decades of the 20th century.The doc will explore the traces of time in the history of a family from the Catalan city of Vic and Spain under Franco’s dictatorship.
