Mexico’s Sula Films Boards Tatiana Huezo’s Anticipated ‘Galerna,’ a Top Industry Award Winner at San Sebastián (EXCLUSIVE)

'Galerna' scored the Egeda Platino Industria Award, announced Wednesday at the Spanish film festival.

By Anna Marie de la Fuente

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Mexico’s Sula Films has boarded Tatiana Huezo’s anticipated fiction feature, “Galerna,” which has also won the coveted Egeda Platino Industria Award at the San Sebastian Festival where it participated in the festival’s WIP Latin America competition showcase.

The award comes with a bounty of $34,466 (€30,000), which is handed to the lead producer of the winning film.

Sula Films joins Pimienta Films (“Roma”) as a co-producer of Huezo’s second fiction feature outing after “Prayers for the Stolen” (“Noche de fuego”).

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