Recent Pontas Deals | Film & TV projects under development
Audiovisual rights sold. Producer to be announced.
Film rights sold to Milena Busquets' debut novel. Producer to be announced.
Screen rights sold. Producer to be announced.
Rijula Das' debut novel has been optioned by Prithwish Barman at Drishyam Films, to be developed as a TV-series.
TV rights optioned of Muerte contrarreloj (The Black Jersey) by Jorge Zepeda, for development as a 6-episode TV series. Producer to be announced.
Screen rights sold to Filmax.
TV-series rights sold to Secuoya Films, for all three Inspector Caldas books.
Screen rights sold for The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon to Blondini Brothers Ltd.
Heyday Television Options Dolores Redondo’s The North Face of the Heart & Baztan Trilogy to be developed as a TV series. David Heyman will oversee the projects together with Tom Winchester.
Rights to The Eldest Cousin by Laura Gost optioned by A Contracorriente Films, to develop a feature-length film.
Film rights optioned of Kopano Matlwa’s audacious and compassionate novel Coconut. Producer to be announced.
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.
TV rights optioned by Gato Grande Productions (a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios company).
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.
Film rights optioned. Producer to be announced.
Audiovisual rights sold to develop a TV-series, to Xabi Puerta at El Estudio Filmmakers.
TV series rights for Elisa Vazquez de Gey’s La princesa de Kapurthala (The Princess of Kapurthala) optioned by POK Production Limited.
The Virgin & the Whale by Carl Nixon to South Pacific Pictures.
Film rights to Rocking Horse Road by Carl Nixon optioned by South Pacific Pictures.
Some Pontas Deals | Completed film & TV adaptations
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.
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.
Legado en los huesos (The Legacy of the Bones) by Dolores Redondo to Nadcon Films coproducing with Atresmedia and Nostromo.
El guardián invisible (The Invisible Guardian) by Dolores Redondo to Nadcon Films coproducing with Atresmedia and Nostromo.