Neo Art, Pupkin Co-Produce Gay Drama ‘If Walls Had Ears’

Antonia Nava’s Barcelona-based mostly Neo Artwork Producciones has teamed with Rome’s Pupkin Creation to co-create homosexual passionate drama “Si las paredes hablasen” (“If Walls Experienced Ears”), the aspect debut of Spanish femme director, Ceres Machado.

Scheduled to roll by this yr-conclusion or the 1st quarter of 2023 in Barcelona and Rome, the film will be produced by Nava and Pupkin’s Rita Rognoni.

Spanish actor Fernando Tejero (“La que se avecina,” “My Heart Goes Growth!”) is connected to star in a solid that will combine Spanish and Italian actors.

Co-published by Machado and scribe Salva Martos Cortés (“Maniac Tales”), “If Partitions experienced Ears” will narrate, in 10 sequences, a Barcelona and Rome-set tale of powerful love, passion and pain between two males.

They are Juan, a 50 calendar year-previous married person who hides his homosexuality, and Leonardo, a 23-year Italian who comes in Barcelona to try his luck as a soccer participant.

In excess of a decade, they will reside their romance, but it continues to be burdened by Juan’s incapacity to acknowledge his sexuality and the conflicts that it generates with Leonardo, who in spite of doing the job in a homophobic atmosphere, is open up about his sexual orientation as he tries to crack social barriers and stereotypes.

“The thought is common and, regrettably, a hugely topical concern. Coming out of the closet is still complicated at periods and even far more so in homophobic contexts and in specified professions. In the conclusion, this is a intimate drama with implicit emotional suspense,” explained Nava, who’s attending the 5th Málaga Do the job in Progress, part of the Málaga Pageant Marketplace Zone (MAFIZ).

Introduced in 2011, Neo Art Producciones has developed, in latest a long time, powerful interactions with the Italian film manufacturing sector, co-producing this sort of movies as “Lasciarsi un giorno a Roma,” directed by “Perfetti sconosciuti’s” Edoardo Leo, who also toplines along with Spain’s Marta Nieto, and Federico Moccia’s “Mamma qui comando io,” with Aida Folch, at present in submit in Barcelona.

Neo Art also partnered on Stefano Cipani’s “My Brother Chases Dinosaurs,” a European Film Academy Younger Viewers Award winner in 2019, acquired by Disney Additionally.

Co-established in 1994 by Rognoni and helmer Gianni Zanasi, Pupkin Production’s credits consist of Zanasi’s “Non pensarci,” a 2008 Venice out of levels of competition participant co-created with Beppe Caschetto’s IBC Motion pictures, which Pupkin later on tailored as a Television set series for Fox and La7. Additional modern productions are Zanesi’s “The Complexity of Joy,” teaming up with IBC and RAI Cinema, and Claudio Giovannesi’s “Fiore,” selected by Cannes’ Directors Fortnight in 2016.

For decades, Nava headed international co-productions at Barcelona mini-big Filmax, generating these kinds of films as Brad Anderson’s “The Machinist” and “Transsiberian,” Jaume Balaguero’s “Fragile” and Gary Oldman starrer “The Backwoods.” She beforehand labored at Sony-BMG as head of acquisitions and promoting for Spain and Latin The usa.