Constanza Profeta Soda Producciones
The Italian-Venezuelan film co-production Dirección Opuesta by director Alejandro Bellame, based on the book Blue Label by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles, is being distributed by Spanglish Movies.
El Rumor de las Piedras Producciones, C.A. produced the film in co-production with Producadora Tres Cinematografía (Joe Torres, Marcel Rasquin, Juan Antonio Díaz), Soda Producciones (Constanza Profeta), Capitol.Co (Andrés Figueredo), Mediterranea Productions ( Italy), and in partnership with JEMD Films (José Ernesto Martínez), Film-Austères (Juan Carlos Lossada), Claudia Lepage and Italy Movie Platform (Silvana Monti), had the financial support of the CNAC and the Ibermedia Program.
“Spanglish Movies is designing a strategy that includes theatrical to take the film to US cinemas and then to movie theaters in some Latin American countries. The film has done well at festivals, it has a good level of acting, and the director Bellame has done a great job. Dirección Opuesta deserves to be seen,” said Constanza Profeta, partner and executive producer of Soda Producciones (Miami-Caracas), co-producers of the film.
Dirección Opuesta was screened at the Cinema Venezuela exhibition last year in Miami, where it won the audience award. It was also at Cinequest in California, the Chicago Latino Film Festival, and the New York Latino Film Festival. In Seattle, it was among the official selections where it won several awards and at the San Francisco Latino Film Festival.
In addition to the movie theater circuit, the intention is for the film to reach the platforms “so that many more people can see it,” said Profeta.
The film will reach theaters in Italy in the first quarter of 2024.
“We are extremely proud to distribute Blue Label/Dirección Opuesta, one of the most awarded films in the history of Latin cinema, based on the novel by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles, one of the most beautiful stories about emigration, love, and hope, ever written. It is not only a story that touches the hearts of Venezuelans, but of all emigrants or those who dream of emigrating in search of a better world,” commented Gustavo Aparicio, CEO of Spanglish Movies.
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