Founded in 1948, Estela Films is the oldest film and television production company to be running in Spain today. Its extensive history demonstrates its ability to adapt and modernize to changing cultural fashions and the market, and it collaborates with a wide range of professionals to develop, produce and co-produce ambitious, innovative and high-quality projects.
Its commitment to talent has seen it work with exceptional directors including Luís Garcia Berlanga (Moros y cristianos, 1987), Fernán Gómez (La vida por delante, 1958), Mario Camus (La forja de un rebelde, 1990), José Maria Forqué (Amanecer en puerta oscura, 1956) and José Luis Cuerda (Pares y nones, 1982; Tiempo después, 2018). Its dedication to quality has led to numerous important awards, including Goyas or the Silver Bear from the Berlin Film Festival, among many other prizes from festivals such as San Sebastian, Venice, New York, New Delhi, Montreal and Moscow. Its full catalogue can be viewed on its website.
Its catalogue features over 60 titles including feature films, short films, animation, and fiction and documentary series. Recent productions by Estela Films and its sister production company, Estela Producciones Cinematográficas, include several short films such as Tótem loba (2021, Verónica Echegui, winner of the Goya for Best Fictional Short Film in 2022), music videos such as Lo niego todo (2017, Joaquín Sabina), the documentaries Video blues (2019, Emma Tusell, Official Selection at the Gijón International Film Festival) and Viaje a alguna parte (2022, Helena de Llanos, Official Selection at Seminci), the series La reina del pueblo (2021, Raúl Navarro, for Flooxer) and Dos años y un día (2022, Raúl Navarro and Ernesto Sevilla, for Atresplayer Premium) and the fictional feature films Los del túnel (2017, Pepón Montero, distributed by eOne), Tiempo después (2018, José Luis Cuerda, Official Selection at the San Sebastián International Film Festival) and Camera café, la película (2022, Ernesto Sevilla, Official Selection at the Malaga Film Festival).
Pólvora Films is a Valencian audiovisual production company that was founded in 2015 by Arturo Valls. Famous for his work as a presenter, comedian and actor, Valls founded the company out of a desire to produce high quality, commercially successful projects of various types, including entertainment, fictional film and television, and documentaries.
The company’s first production, the feature film Los del túnel (2017, Pepón Montero), which also starred Valls, was well-received by critics and its takings placed it among the 15 most-seen films of the year. The second production by Pólvora Films, Tiempo después (2018, José Luis Cuerda), was first screened as part of the Official Selection at San Sebastian International Film Festival and was among the ten most-seen Spanish films of 2018.
Following these successes, Pólvora Films continued in its commitment to producing a variety of projects, ranging from the short film Tótem loba (2021, Verónica Echegui), which won the Goya for the Best Fictional Short Film, and the experimental feature-length documentary Viaje a alguna parte (2022, Helena de Llanos), included in the Official Selection at Seminci, to the fictional series for Atresplayer Dos años y un día (2022, Ernesto Sevilla and Raúl Navarro) and the feature film Camera café, la película (2022, Ernesto Sevilla), first screened as part of the Official Selection at Malaga Film Festival, a commercial comedy starring Valls that adapted the legendary television series of the same name to the big screen.
Pólvora Films is currently producing the entertainment format That’s My Jam (2023), a game show that is an adaptation of the original NBC format hosted by Jimmy Fallon; it is being co-produced by Lacoproductora for Movistar+. It has also recently produced the short film El trono (2023, Lucía Jiménez) and has several projects in development.
Film-Line is a well-established and highly respected production company, located at the Bavaria-Studios Munich, with branches in Vienna and Berlin and member of the German and Austrian Producers Association (VDFP) and (Film-Austria).
CEO & Producer Arno Ortmair has many years of experience as Line Producer of American and European feature and television movies for Columbia Pictures, Paramount Studios, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Productions, Hollywood Pictures. (Moscow on the Hudson, Little Drummer Girl, The Holcroft Covenant, Shining Through, The Return Of I Spy, Homo Faber, The Train, The Traffic, James Bond, etc.)
After founding its own creative production company Film-Line Productions, he has become an expert in developing, financing and producing international projects. The company has excellent business relationships with leading media partners and subsidy funds in Europe and the US. Arno Ortmair was President of the German-Producers-Association “VDFP” over 10 years, and member of the board of the head organization of the German film industry “SPIO”, FIAPF and FFA.
Since 2020, Alexandra Ortmair has been working as a producer at Film-Line, developing feature films and high-profile content for TV and streamers together with young talents and successful writers and directors. These include the feature film projects Black Knight, Saving Mozart and Red Earth, funded by FFF Bayern Subsidy fund.
Film-Line has received many awards like Emmy Award nomination, 2 Bambi Awards, Max Ophüls Award, Hebert Quant Award, Bavarian Film-Award, Moscow Filmfest Award and Romy Award for movies like Troopers (Todfeinde 1998, Oliver Hirschbiegel), Silent Night, Holy Night (Das Ewige Lied 1997, Franz-Xaver Bogner), Swabian Children (Schwabenkinder 2004 Jo Baier) and Against all Odds (Margarete Steiff 2005, Xaver Schwarzenberger), Tabu (2011, Christoph Stark), The beheaded Rooster (2007, Radu Gabrea) , Klimt (2006, Raoul Ruiz).
La Balanza Films is an independent film production company that was created in Seville in 2006. Its main objective is to make films that use their content, originality and technical quality to spread universal cultural values from Spain to the rest of the world. It has the support of a highly acclaimed technical and art team and encourages the inclusion of fresh values from emerging cinema. Its work is supported by Spanish national and regional governmental bodies and has been awarded prizes by prestigious film festivals around the world. Films by La Balanza have been screened at universities, museums and schools thanks to their educational value, and shown on leading public and private television channels and digital platforms. La Balanza believes film-making entails a huge responsibility to society, which is why it carefully selects the projects that it develops, always prioritizing those that have quality, depth and originality, as a hallmark of the company.
Marta Sánchez de Miguel has a degree in Business Administration and Management and received a Goya nomination for 3 bodas de más (2013, Javier Ruiz Caldera). She has twenty years of experience in producing fiction and was a member of the production teams that worked on the films El Orfonato (2007, Juan Antonio Bayona), Los ojos de Julia (2009, Guillem Morales) and Rec 2 (2009, Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza), among many others. She has worked for over ten years in production management on projects including Superlopez (2018, Javier Ruiz Caldera) and the series El Inocente (2021, Oriol Paulo); she also worked as an executive producer on the films Todos están muertos (2013, Beatriz Sanchís), Algo muy Gordo (2017, Carlo Padial) and Hogar (2020, David and Alex Pastor). She recently released the Netflix film Un hombre de acción (2022, Javier Ruiz Caldera) and will shortly release an upcoming feature film by Fernando Frías, again working as executive producer on this project.
In 2022, she created the production company Lo Vi Films to develop and make new audiovisual projects. The company is currently working on the feature film Wolfgang (the new film by Javier Ruiz Caldera, in collaboration with Nostromo Pictures) and Red Earth, the new film by Carlos Violadé (in association with Estela Films, La Balanza Producciones and Film-Line Productions), among other projects currently at the development stage.
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