GKIDS TO RELEASE

BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES

IN LOS ANGELES ON AUGUST 16 AT THE LANDMARK NUART

Film Won Special Jury Prize-Winner At Animation Is Film Festival

RELEASE DATE: August 16 in Los Angeles

SCREENPLAY BY: Salvador Simó,Eligio Montero

DIRECTOR: Salvador Simó

PRODUCER: Manuel Cristóbal

RUNNING TIME: 77 mins

DISTRIBUTOR: GKIDS

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SYNOPSIS: In a stranger-than-fiction tale befitting the master surrealist filmmaker, BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES tells the true story of how Luis Buñuel made his second movie. Paris, 1930. Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel are main figures of the Surrealist movement, but Buñuel is left penniless after a scandal surrounding his film L’Age d’Or. However, his good friend, the sculptor Ramón Acín, buys a lottery ticket with the promise that, if he wins, he will pay for his next film. Incredibly, luck is on their side, and so they set out to make the movie, an ambitious documentary on the Las Hurdes region in Spain. Both a buddy adventure and fascinating episode of cinematic history, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles presents a deeply affecting and humanistic portrait of an artist hunting for his purpose.

ADDED 7/01/19 – Official US Trailer BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES

GKIDS’ BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES Official Trailer

The film will be screening in competition at Annecy this year.

GKIDS will release BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE TURTLES on August 16 in Los Angeles at the Landmark Nuart, 11272 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025.

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ABOUT SALVADOR SIMÓ DIRECTOR – SCRIPTWRITER

Salvador Simó is a film director and scriptwriter. He started studying animation at the American Animation Institute of Los Angeles in 1991 while also working at the Bill Melendez Prod Studio on a special Charlie Brown feature. When he returned to Spain he worked in the field of traditional animation for several companies, including Disney in Paris, where he lived for two years.

Subsequently, he returned to Barcelona where he continued working for Disney and set up a studio that worked exclusively for that same company (Disney), during three years, while studying Film Directing at the CECC.

Thereafter, Salvador moved to London to work in MPC’s department of pre-visualization & layout, in projects like Narnia, Prince Caspian, The Werewolf, The Prince of Persia and the James Bond’s movie Skyfall, where his knowledge on cinematography & animation opened many doors for him.

In 2008 he began directing an animation series in Asia, eventually shooting over 500 minutes of film. Then, in 2014 MPC again offered him a job. This time as head of film sequences in the animation feature movie The Jungle Book, produced by Disney, as well as in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men tell no Tales.

In 2016 he moved back to Spain to direct the Buñuel feature film project: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles which premiered in October 2018 at the Animation Film Festival of Los Angeles, where he was awarded the Jury Prize.

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ABOUT ELIGIO MONTERO – SCRIPTWRITER

A professional scriptwriter. He obtained a university degree in Psychology from the USC and a title in Audiovisual Filmmaking & Production from the EIS in La Coruña. Subsequently, he obtained a master’s degree in Intellectual Property Rights Management from SGAE, took various courses of the MEDIA Program and did a master’s in Screenplay Editing (Artist-Media II Program), apart from attending many seminars under the preceptorship of prestigious national and international scriptwriters.

He started working in the film industry as executive producer in Eloy Lozano Producciones and Continental in the areas of advertising/commercials, cinema and television, his role being to seek co-productions and international funding (Berlin, London, Cannes, etc).

In 1999 he started working as a professional scriptwriter, first in multimedia applications, videogames, commercials and documentaries, then as from 2001 in the field of fiction. To begin with, in TV de Galicia, where he worked in several of the most successful series of that station: “Galicia Express”, “Pequeno Hotel”, “Mareas Vivas”, “Pratos Combinados”, “Rías Baixas”, “Terra de Miranda”, “A Vida por Diante”, “El Show de los Tonechos”, etc and was also the co-creator of two of the most outstanding, award-winning series in Spain and abroad: “Las Leyes de Celavella” and “Padre Casares”.

Although he had already ventured occasionally into the realm of national fiction (as dialogist for “Al Salir de Clase”), in 2007 he moved to Madrid and began working in national series like: “Desaparecida”, “UCO”, “Guante Blanco”, “Gran Reserva”, “Hispania”, “Gran Hotel”, “Bajo Sospecha”, “Seis Hermanas”, fulfilling all sorts of tasks related to creation, coordination, plots, dialogues, etc.

Eligio has also been a member of the development teams for IJV and Voz Audiovisual projects, and several years ago wrote a novel (“La Viña Vieja” published by Planeta).

The series in which he has worked have won many national prizes (Mestre Mateo, Iris, Alma, TP, etc.) and international awards (TV festivals of New York, Seoul, Montecarlo, etc.) and been successful in quite a few countries: France, Mexico, USA, Russia, Argentina, Italy, Chile… At the personal level he has received the Mestre Mateo Prize from la Academia Galega do Audiovisual for the best script on three different occasions and the Alma Prize for the best Spanish TV script once.

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