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Miguel Ángel Vivas welcomes us to a snowy Harmony

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- The shooting of the Sevillian director’s new film, Welcome to Harmony, a post-apocalyptic thriller featuring an international cast, is beginning in Budapest

Miguel Ángel Vivas welcomes us to a snowy Harmony
Miguel Ángel Vivas

One of the great hopes of Spanish cinema for the first half of 2015 began shooting on 3 February in Budapest, where filming will continue for around two months. This is for Welcome to Harmony, the highly anticipated second feature film by Sevillian director Miguel Ángel Vivas. With his début, the distressing Kidnapped [+see also:
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(2011), the filmmaker really attracted the attention of the international industry (he won Best Film and Best Director at the prestigious Fantastic Fest in Austin, among many other awards).

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His new work will therefore have strong international potential, as it is being filmed in English and features an international cast comprising Matthew Fox (star of the series Lost), Jeffrey Donovan, Ahna O´Reilly, Clara Lago and Quinn McColgan.

The story, which is based on the novel Y pese a todo (And Despite Everything) by Juan de Dios Garduño and has been adapted for film by Vivas himself and Alberto Marini, unfolds nine years after an infection turned much of humanity into wild and mindless animals. Patrick, Jack and Lu, a nine-year-old girl, manage to survive in the apparently peaceful Harmony, a forgotten place that has a constant covering of snow. However, since something terrible happened between Patrick and Jack, a deep hatred has continued to fester between them. When the creatures make a reappearance, Patrick and Jack must put their resentment behind them in order to protect what they love the most. 

Welcome to Harmony has from its very inception been conceived as an international co-production led by the Galicia-based Vaca Films (the producer of Kidnapped and of the two latest works by Daniel Monzón, the successful Cell 211 [+see also:
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and El Niño, which has not yet been released) together with the US company Ombra Films (managed from the US by the Spanish filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra), the group that is active all over the Spanish-speaking world, Telefónica Studios, and the Hungarian firm Laokoon Film. In addition, it sees the participation of TVE, the French and Spanish divisions of Canal Plus, Maestranza Films and Canal Sur. 

It will be distributed worldwide by Sony Pictures Releasing during 2015.

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(Translated from Spanish)

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