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Miguel Ángel Vivas about to wrap Asedio

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- The shoot for the new film by the Spanish helmer has finished in Madrid; the Natalia de Molina-starrer is being produced by Enrique López Lavigne

Miguel Ángel Vivas about to wrap Asedio
Natalia de Molina in Asedio

After it got under way on 11 October, 18 November marked the end of the shoot in the Spanish capital for Asedio [+see also:
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, the new film by Miguel Ángel Vivas (the director of titles such as Kidnapped [+see also:
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and Inside [+see also:
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, both of which were premiered at Sitges), which is being produced by Enrique López Lavigne for Apache Films, and is toplined by Natalia de Molina.

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After filming Your Son [+see also:
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, a movie also staged by Apache Films and starring José Coronado (who earned himself a nomination for the Goya Award for Best Lead Actor in 2018 for that same film), and the TV series Unauthorized Living, Desaparecidos and Locked Up – which has become an international smash hit – Vivas now delves into the story of Dani, a woman who wishes to survive in a male-dominated environment, which means she has to be even more of a man than the others. She gets embroiled in an underworld that was unknown to her, where the government’s neglect has created a parallel reality on the fringes of the law.

Basing her work on an original idea by Vivas and José Rodrigo, and inspired by real events, Valladolid-born Marta Medina (a screenwriter and film critic, who trained at the ECAM and whose project Laponia, about the desertion of Spain’s rural areas, has been selected for the third Residency organised by the Spanish Film Academy) has been entrusted to pen the script for Asedio. The winner of two Goya Awards (for Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed [+see also:
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by David Trueba and Food and Shelter [+see also:
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by Juan Miguel del Castillo, with whom she has recently shot another film, La maniobra de la tortuga [+see also:
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 – see the news), Natalia de Molina steps into the shoes of Dani. She is joined by Bella Agossou (Adú [+see also:
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, Sara’s Notebook [+see also:
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), first-timer Óscar Eribo, Francisco Reyes, Fran Cantos, Chani Martin, Jorge Kent, Efraín Rodríguez, Lucas Nabor, Federico Pérez Rey, Luis Hacha, Fernando Valdivielso, Karlos Aurrekoetxea and Alejandro Casaseca.

The synopsis describes how, during an eviction, Dani gets caught up in a plot involving police corruption, and she subsequently realises that the only person who can help her is Nasha, the illegal immigrant she has just thrown out of her house, as well as her son, Little. Both women will have to join forces to overcome their differences, facing a corrupt system head-on, when they are besieged in the building that the police have come to clear. And so, as they try to survive, they will have to reevaluate who they are and who they would actually like to be in reality.

Asedio is an Apache Films production with the involvement of RTVE and Prime Video, in conjunction with Sony Pictures International Productions, and it is being co-produced by México City Project. Its release in Spanish theatres is slated for 2022, distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia. After that, the movie will be available to view on the Prime Video platform.

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(Translated from Spanish)

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