Calladita, presented by Steven Soderbergh, is set to debut exclusively on July 23, 2024 in North America on the new film and television platform, Bingeable. Calladita is a Spanish-language feature film produced by Calladita Films, Potenza Producciones, and Decentralized Pictures, the Blockchain studio co-founded by Roman Coppola.
Calladitais the first feature film to debut on Bingeable, a platform that enables anyone, including stars, influencers, charities, and fans, to market and sell rentals and downloads of premium entertainment projects directly to their social media followers and get paid on every sale they generate. Calladita will be available for rental on July 23, 2024 on the filmmaker’s own Bingeable-powered Individual Video on Demand (iVOD) channel at bingeable.net/calladita, and through iVOD channel owners across the country.
With Hollywood at a crossroads, Bingeable aims to offer filmmakers and producers an alternative way to market and sell their films. “Calladita is the perfect project to show what can happen when you harness the power of community,” said Bingeable Founder and Co-CEO Stephen Murray. “By empowering individuals to sell the film directly to their followers on social media, we reduce the cost of marketing and eliminate the complex network of middlemen who take the majority of the revenue. The traditional model tends to make it virtually impossible for films like this to be profitable. But filmmakers and producers are screaming for a change. We want to be a part of that.”
Calladita is the debut feature film from Miguel Faus, who was named by Variety as one of the top 10 Spanish Director to Watchby Variety in 2021. (https://variety.com/2021/film/global/10-cineastes-from-spain-berlin-efm-1234919275/) Faus explains his film tackles “issues related to class differences and injustices from a satirical portrait of the Catalan upper middle class. The bitterness of immigration injustice and the sweetness of class revenge is universal and I hope the film’s rebellious energy resonates with the North American audience.”
Thesatirical drama, written and directed by Faus, stars Paula Grimaldo, in a star-making turn, and features Ariadna Gil (Pan’s Labyrinth), Luis Bermejo, Pol Hermoso, Violeta Rodriguez, and Nany Tovar. In the film, under the promise of receiving immigration papers, Ana works tirelessly for a wealthy family at their luxurious vacation home in the Spanish Costa Brava. After learning they have no intention of fulfilling their promise, Ana plots her escape… and her own form of revenge.
Decentralized Pictures connected Faus with Academy Award-winning director and producer Steven Soderbergh as part of their mission to discover and empower new talent.
The company’s co-founder Roman Coppola comments, “We are excited for North American audiences to discover Miguel Faus’s unique film, Calladita, one of the first feature films supported by Decentralized Pictures and a departure from the traditional way movies are financed, produced, marketed and sold. We hope that it will be the blueprint of an alternative path for independent filmmakers around the world.”
Calladita premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) in November 2023 as an official selection. Its festival run also included screenings at the 27th Málaga Film Festival and the Riviera International Film Festival where it won for Best Film. The film was released theatrically in Spain on May 17, 2024. The official Los Angeles premiere will take place at the iconic Harmony Gold Theatre on July 15th with an invite-only celebration to follow.
Calladita was financed by a crowdfunding campaign through the sale of NFTs, created by Faus himself, which raised more than 750,000 €. Calladita is the first film to be released that was financed in this way. It was then selected as a finalist for the Andrews/Bernard Financing Award on the DCP platform, a post-production award backed by Steven Soderbergh. Soderbergh selected Calladita as the winner and presented the award to Faus himself at Film3 On The Mountain, which took place during the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Jim Cummings (The Beta Test, The Last Stop in Yuma County) serves as executive producer on the film.
The new film and television platform Bingeable enables anyone – including stars, influencers, charities, and fans – to market and sell rentals and downloads of premium entertainment projects directly to their social media followers and get paid on every sale they generate.
About Decentralized Pictures (DCP) – An American foundation whose mission is to discover new filmmaking talent. They have created a fund to finance films democratically, so that decisions are made based on the votes and criticisms of their open community of moviegoers, creators and industry professionals. DCP was co-founded by Roman Coppola, Leo Matchett and Mike Musante the former head of production at American Zoetrope (“The Godfather”, “Lost in Translation”), the independent studio created by Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas in 1969 and now headed by Roman, Sofia and Gia Coppola, who are also on the Board of Directors of Decentralized Pictures. DCP is a co-producer on “Calladita” as a result of the award given by Steven Soderbergh through the foundation.
About Potenza Producciones – Founded in 2004 by Goya-nominated producer, actor and director Carlo D’Ursi. Among its 25 titles produced, highlights include “La memoria del agua” (Venice Film Festival), “Diamantes Negros (Malaga Film Festival Audience Awards), “Jefe” (Netflix original and Goya nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay). His latest film, “Portrait of a white woman with gray hair and wrinkles”, starring Blanca Portillo, premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival and his latest short film “Yalla”, directed by Carlo D’Ursi himself, won the Forqué Award for Best Short Film and was nominated for a Goya for Best Fiction Short Film. In 2022 he is producing the documentaries “La revolución de las musas” and “Contigo, contigo, sin mi”, a Film Academy Resident project.
About Calladita Films – A production company founded by Miguel Faus in 2022 to finance and produce his debut feature, Calladita. In March 2022 it launched a pioneering campaign to finance the film through the sale of stills from the original short film, in NFT format. In a few months the funding goals were achieved, raising more than 750,000€, and in September 2022 Calladita was shot for 5 weeks on location on the Costa Brava. Having become a leading production company at the crossroads of cinema and Web 3.0, after producing the first European film financed through NFTs, Calladita Films intends to continue exploring this innovative way of financing independent films.
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