NOTICE OF SHOOTING START
A THOUSAND FOOLS (MIL CRETINS)

ELS FILMS DE LA RAMBLA is pleased to announce that last May 10th has started in Barcelona the shooting of the new VENTURA PONS film, A THOUSAND FOOLS (MIL CRETINS), with an screenplay writen by the own director based on short stories by QUIM MONZÓ. A THOUSAND FOOLS (MIL CRETINS), is the second VENTURA PONS adaptation of texts by famous writer QUIM MONZÓ after the international success achieved with  WHAT IS ALL ABOUT (EL PERQUÈ DE TOT PLEGAT).

A THOUSAND FOOLS (MIL CRETINS), explains fifteen stories, some contemporary and some historical, where through humour, sarcasm and bravery accounts pain, old age, death and love but above all the human stupidity, without concessions, looking straight in the eyes of the difficult balance between life and human misery. .

A  great catalan cast will be seen in A THOUSAND FOOLS (MIL CRETINS),  FRANCESC ORELLA, JULIETA SERRANO, SANTI MILLAN, JORDI BOSCH, CLARA SEGURA, EDU SOTO, JOAN CROSAS, ROGER PRÍNCEP, MAR ULLDEMOLLINS, TONI ALBÀ, JOEL JOAN, JOAN BORRAS, CARME MOLINA, MARC CLOTET, DAFNIS BALDUZ…

Produced by VENTURA PONS for ELS FILMS DE LA RAMBLA, the film has the collaboration of TVE (Televisión Española) and TV3 (Televisió de Catalunya). JOAN MINGUELL signs the photography with the RED ONE camera, the music is being composed by CARLES CASES, line director is MAITE FONTANET, art director is BEL·LO TORRAS and PERE ABADAL will take care of the editing.

International distribution will be held by LATIDO and Spanish by BADITRI.

Please consult the production company web for further news: www.venturapons.cat .

Els Films de la Rambla / Daniel Ferrer / 93 265 3026 / E: oficina@venturapons.cat

WAW / Núria Costa / 93 2955970 / E: ncosta@workingatweekend.com

A LA DERIVA
(DRIFTING)
WILL COMETE AT MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIAL OFFICIAL 
SELECTION

ELS FILMS DE LA RAMBLA is proud to announce that VENTURA PONS’ new film, A LA DERIVA (DRIFTING), with a screenplay writen by the director, based on Lluís-Antón Baulenas' book Àrea de Servei, has been officialy selected to compete al the 32nd MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIAL OFFICIAL
SELECTION at the Russian capital.

Main actors Maria Molins and Roger Coma, will travel to Moscow from June 23rd to 26th with the director, writer and producer Ventura Pons. A la deriva (Drifting) will follow a tour by a selected bunch of Festivals: Seattle, Haifa, Melbourne, Santo Domingo, Bogotá, Santa Cruz etc.

In A LA DERIVA (DRIFTING), Anna has recently returned from Africa, where she has been working as a nurse in an NGO on the front lines of an area of conflict. She takes a job as a guard in an exclusive health center. There she meets a troubled young man with whom she establishes a co-dependent relationship, while she cannot forget her experiences in in Africa.

A great cast performs A LA DERIVA (DRIFTING): Maria Molins, Roger Coma, Fernando Guillén, Marc Cartes, Albert Pérez, Anna Azcona, Rosa Vila, Mercè Pons, Pere Eugeni Font, Òscar Rabadán, Oriol Tramvia, Miquel Sitjar and Boris Izaguirre.

Latido / Oscar Alonso / 91 548 8877 / E: oalonso@latidofilms.com

FORASTERS’ INTERNATIONAL AWARDS FOR ANNA LIZARAN AND VENTURA PONS

Anna Lizarán (Best Actress winner at Gaudí Awards) has received this week two new Awards as Best Actress, at Santo Domingo Festival (Dominican Republic) and at Toulouse Cinespaña Festival (France).

Ventura Pons will receive this year his third Honor Award, after the ones from Torino G&L Film Festival (Italy) and Lima Film Festival (Perú), at the Madrid Lesgai Festival on november 3rd and will be Honorary President of the Osaka European Film Festival (Japan) that starts on november 20th.

LesGai Cinema Award - Ventura Pons

If there’s a director who needs no introduction is our beloved Ventura Pons. In the fifth edition of LesGaiCineMad, back in November 2000, the Festival had a retrospective of his most significant work, open up the door for a warm and cordial relationship that is alive nowadays.
Is not enough to say that his work is indispensable or necessary; Ventura Pons’ movies speak like few others about affective diversity, understood as another brush in a character and never its defining characteristic. Maybe that’s why, when evaluating his wide cinematography, some make the mistake to think that he’s “not gay enough”, when in fact that amount of greys, shades and china box games look a lot, but a lot, like life itself.
Since “Ocaña, retrat intermitent” (1978) until the recently released “A la deriva” (2009), his more than twenty feature films go trough Spanish contemporary life like no other director has achieved so far. The more than a hundredth awards received in his more than 30 years of filming career are witnesses of this succession of celluloid hits.
Many of us, the generation that today directs the Festival, have grown enjoying films such as “Amic Amat” or “Caricies” and they have filled us with answers (and questions, of course) about what is really to feel a different love, outside any canon.
Trough this award we want to show our audience one of the crowning jewels of Spanish film directing, and those who already know him don’t stop revisiting his wonderful portraits.
Dear Ventura, happy first thirty years next to the movies.