Books to film

Pontas is a very active literary agency always approaching film producers looking for interesting stories to adapt for the screens.

Recent Pontas Deals | Film & TV projects under development

  • Audiovisual rights to produce a film based on The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti optioned. Producer to be announced.

  • Audiovisual rights to Domingo Villar's posthumously published play Síbaris sold. Producer to be announced.

  • Audiovisual rights to The Sugar Master by Mayte Uceda sold. Producer to be announced.

  • Audiovisual rights to Clea Koff's Silent Evidence sold. Producer to be announced.

  • Peruvian feature film rights optioned. Producer to be announced. 

  • Audiovisual rights to Awaiting the Flood by Dolores Redondo sold to Zebra Producciones/iZen, part of Newen Studios.

  • Screen rights sold. Producer to be announced.

  • Screen rights sold to Filmax.

  • Audiovisual rights sold. Producer to be announced.

  • TV-series rights sold to Secuoya Films, for all three Inspector Caldas books. 

  • Audiovisual rights to Jill Johnson's Devil's Breath optioned by Adil Ray at Cornered Tiger, to be developed as a TV-series.

  • Screen rights sold for The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon to Blondini Brothers Ltd.

  • Dolores Redondo’s The North Face of the Heart optioned to be developed as a TV series by Tom Winchester at Pure Fiction TV.

  • Rights to The Eldest Cousin by Laura Gost optioned by A Contracorriente Films, to develop a feature-length film.

  • Film rights to Kopano Matlwa’s audacious and compassionate novel Coconut optioned by KIWI Films.

  • Masande Ntshanga’s Afrofuturist, genre-bending novel has been optioned to become a TV series by SK Global Entertainment in a joint venture with BlueLight and Black Mic Mac.

  • Audiovisual rights sold. Producer to be announced.

  • Audiovisual rights optioned by Argentinian producers PAN contenidos.

  • Film rights sold to Todo esto te daré (All This I Will Give You) by Dolores Redondo, Planeta Prize Winner 2016. Producer to be announced.

  • Japan-based production company Kowatanda Films has acquired audiovisual rights to Rainbirds, for filmmaker Anshul Chauhan to direct it.

  • Audiovisual rights optioned. Producer to be announced.

  • TV series rights for Elisa Vazquez de Gey’s La princesa de Kapurthala (The Princess of Kapurthala) optioned by POK Production Limited.

  • Rights to The Virgin & the Whale by Carl Nixon sold to South Pacific Pictures.

Some Pontas Deals | Completed film & TV adaptations

  • Adapted into a miniseries by Atresmedia TV and Fonte Films, which premiered at the 2024 San Sebastian Film Festival and which will be available to watch on Atresplayer. The author was attached as scriptwriter and director.

  • Film rights sold to Palari Films. The film directed by Edwin was the winner of the Grand Prize for Best Film at the Locarno Film Festival 2021.

  • La memoria del agua (The Memory of Water) by Teresa Viejo has been adapted into a miniseries by TVE. Watch it here.

  • Film rights for Carme Martí’s Un cel de plom (The Dove Of Ravensbrück) sold to Comando Gandules. Made into a feature film directed by Miquel Romans.

  • Film rights for Ofrenda a la tormenta (Offering to the Storm) by Dolores Redondo sold to Nadcon Films. Available to watch on Netflix.

  • Legado en los huesos (The Legacy of the Bones) by Dolores Redondo to Nadcon Films coproducing with Atresmedia and Nostromo. Available to watch on Netflix.

  • El guardián invisible (The Invisible Guardian) by Dolores Redondo to Nadcon Films coproducing with Atresmedia and Nostromo. Available to watch on Netflix.