“FANTASTIC FACTORY: EL CINE DE LOS CONDENADOS” IS THE TITLE OF THE FIRST ESSAY DEDICATED TO THE CATALAN CINEMATIC COMPANY FANTASTIC FACTORY.
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Writer Juan Luis Daza is about to release his new essay about the catalan cinematic company Fantastic Factory.
The company, which was created in 2001 by Filmax and was closed down in May 2007, produced a total of nine movies during that period of time. Among them we might recall 2003 Romasanta. La caza de la bestia directed by Paco Plaza and 2004 Rottweiler by Brian Yuzna since Ivana Baquero was in both of them.
In Romasanta, which was Ivana's first role (she was just nine!), she played Ana. While in the following year she starred in Rottweiler and in that one she had the role of Esperanza.
“Fantastic Factory: El cine de los condenados” is the title of the essay by Juan Luis Daza which will go through all the works, the story of the company and provide brand new material about the nine films. Other than that it will contain new interviews to some actors, producers and directors and among these, an interview with Ivana.
By Juan Luis Daza
Cover: Carmen Lopez
In 2000, Spanish producer Julio Fernández and American filmmaker Brian Yuzna joined forces to create a genre film production company based in Barcelona. Over the course of five years and nine films, the Fantastic Factory tried to awaken from the lethargy the dormant Spanish fantaterror ousted by those prejudiced incapable of understanding that cinema should above all be fun and escapism. From "Faust: La venganza está en la sangre” to “Bajo aguas tranquilas”, Fernández and Yuzna fought for a sector of the Spanish industry in need of new productions that would recover the legacy of those cult works of the 60s and 70s that they went through borders and made authors such as Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Jesús Franco or Paul Naschy known internationally.
“Fantastic Factory: The Cinema of the Damned”, by Juan Luis Daza, is the first worldwide essay dedicated exclusively to the Catalan company. Through exclusive first-person statements by one of the two founders of the production company, Brian Yuzna himself, "Fantastic Factory: The Cinema of the Damned" is a detailed journey through the origins of the production company, each and every one of its nine films and the original material (literature, comics, previous film sagas, real events from the Spanish black chronicle) on which they were inspired, the disappearance of the label and its legacy. To all this we must add more than a dozen interviews with personalities related to the production company, including directors, performers or screenwriters who will help us unravel and vindicate that madness that made us see that another type of cinema was possible in Spain.
Here's a tweet from the writer that confirms the existence of Ivana's interview. Ivana herself liked the tweet.
If you want to pre-order the book (which is in Spanish!) you can do it down here.
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