Director Olivia Delcán
Producer César Esteban Alenda
Spain
Synopsis
Nino Bravo is your father. I don’t know. Maybe. Your mother has died. There’s no doubt about that, yes. You’re 56 years old and live in Menorca. Yes. You work at a car dealership. Yes. You love your life. I don’t know. You think that now that your mother has died, you’re next. Maybe. You’re becoming obsessed with Nino Bravo. Maybe. You feel that all your problems would disappear if you were Nino Bravo. Maybe. But you’re exhausted. I’m exhausted, yes. I’m going to start doing things wrong.
Contact cesar.esteban@solitafilms.com
Director´s Biofilmography
Olivia is an actress and creator with a distinguished career in film and television, featuring projects such as “The Mallorca Files” (BBC), “Warrior Nun” (Netflix), “Doctor Portuondo” (Filmin), “Vis a vis” (Antena 3), and “Los inocentes” (Guillermo Benet, 2020), among many others.
In 2015, she premiered the film “Isla Bonita” at the San Sebastián Film Festival, which she co-wrote with Fernando Colomo and Miguel Ángel Furones. The film received multiple awards at festivals including Tallinn Black Nights and the GOA International Film Festival.
Most recently, following the premiere of “How to Cook a Chicken Underground” at SEMINCI—her first short film co-directed with Nacho Sánchez—she is developing her feature debut, “The Bastard Daughter”.
Links to previous works
Total budget 2.500.000 €
Funds secured 504.000 €
Objectives to be achieved
We aim to strengthen the interest in "The Bastard Daughter" following its participation in the Atlàntida Mallorca Talents Lab, as well as to position its creator, Olivia Delcán, as an emerging talent to watch after her extensive career as an actress. At the same time, we are seeking co-production partners (Switzerland and Belgium in Europe, Mexico or Argentina in Latin America) who can help the project grow and complete its financing.
Co-production´s interesting countries
Since the protagonist, according to the script, travels to Switzerland at the climax of the film—and as a result, one of the six shooting weeks is scheduled to take place there—the project is envisioned as a natural SPAIN–SWITZERLAND co-production (80–20%).
An alternative or even complementary co-production partner could be Belgium, with whom we’ve already worked, contributing half of its share in the form of tax incentives. Curiously, Belgium was also the European country where Nino Bravo was most successful. Other possible secondary European partners include Italy, France, or the Netherlands, through their minority co-production funds.
We also think it would be interesting to start a co-production line with Latin America, given the success that Nino Bravo had in countries such as Mexico and Argentina.
PRODUCER’S BIOFILMOGRAPHY
Although he graduated as an architect, César Esteban Alenda soon redirected his career—together with his brother José—towards filmmaking.
Together, they made eight short films that, in addition to receiving numerous awards at international festivals, earned them a Goya Award and two further nominations.
Their feature debut, Sin Fin, brought them a fourth nomination—this time for Best New Director at the Goya Awards—as well as the Best First Film Award at the 2018 Málaga Film Festival. Together they founded Solita Films, through which they have produced all their own work as well as that of other filmmakers. Their titles include "El despertar de las hormigas" (Costa Rica/Spain, 2019, premiered at Berlinale), "La Pecera" (Puerto Rico/Spain, 2023, premiered at Sundance), and "Alemania" (Argentina/Spain, 2023, premiered at San Sebastián).
