Little Ashes Finds Distribution in Spain

Good news for Spain! Variety reports :

Sorolla scoops up 'Little Ashes'

MALAGA, Spain -- Producer-distributor Sorolla Films has acquired Spanish rights to U.K.-Spain co-production "Little Ashes," toplining Robert Pattinson ("Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," "Twilight").

A portrait of the early life and loves of three Spanish artists -- painter Salvador Dali, filmmaker Luis Bunuel and writer Federico Garcia Lorca, "Ashes" bows in Spain May 8, on about 60 screens.

Launching 2004 as a largely low-profile distrib, Sorolla aims to acquire some four pics a year for the Spanish market.

"We look for social issue film titles with fest profile," Sorolla general manager Antonio Mansilla said at the 12th Malaga Spanish Film Festival.

Like many Spanish distrib outfits, Sorolla has reduced exposure to a depressed local distribution market through entry into pic production, a diversification that has become all the more necessary in the recession.

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