‘Sacred Spirit’ Producer La Fabrica Nocturna Boards Buzzy ‘Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes’ (EXCLUSIVE)

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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Paris-based La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma, producer of Chema García Ibarra’s 2021 Locarno winner “Sacred Spirit,” has boarded Gabriel Azorin’s “Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes,” marking another financing milestone for his buzzy, poetic and time blending Spanish project.

A Locarno Match Me! hit. “Thebes” has been put through both San Sebastián’s Ikusmira Berriak and Madrid’s ECAM Incubator, rapidly consolidating as Spain’s foremost development labs which each attract about 270 applications a year.

La Fabrica Nocturna, whose credits also take in “The Heiresses,” joins Madrid’s Dvein Films, A Coruña’s Filmika Galaika (“They Carry Death”) and Lisbon’s Primeira Idade (“The Metamorphosis of Birds”) as a producer partner on “Thebes,” which won a RTP Award, consisting of the pre-buy of rights from the Portuguese public broadcaster, at late 2020’s Seville European Film Festival.   “We’ve known Gabriel for a very long time and we have always appreciated the originality and integrity of his work,” said La Fabrica Nocturna’s Marina Perales.

She added: “‘Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes’ matches perfectly with La Fabrica Nocturna Cinéma’s author-driven, international editorial line, and we are delighted to join the film as the French producers.