13/07/2022 - Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas is currently directing the film in Cantabria, which tackles the issue of abuse from a new perspective and is being produced by La Comunidad Imagine

At the end of June, filming began in Cantabria of Lobo, a feature film directed by Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas and written by and starring actress Marian Álvarez, who won an award at the 2007 Locarno Film Festival for Lo mejor de mí [+see also:
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interview: Fernando Franco
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Lobo is a social drama that tells the story of Sara, a woman who manages to escape her abuser with her dog: the film tackles the issue of violence against women with a novel approach, that of the human-animal bond in an environment of abuse. Álvarez is joined by Nora Navas (who has just released Sinjar [+see also:
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interview: Paco Plaza
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This is the fourth film from Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas. In 2012, the Madrid filmmaker presented his debut feature Los días no vividos, which won the award for best film at the Cinemafest Festival in Mexico. In 2018, he directed The (Silent) War [+see also:
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This is also the second feature film produced by La Comunidad Imagine, in collaboration with La Caña Brothers and the Cantabrian production company Montreux Entertainment. Imagine is a community of creators that works as a project accelerator, responsible for films such as Ego, a thriller about mental illness and pandemics, starring María Pedraza; documentaries such as Ucrania. mujeres en la guerra, made in collaboration with Movistar Plus+, and fictional series such as Save, which will premiere next September. Imagine offers creators the change to finance and develop their own projects, as in the case of Marian Álvarez, who presented her original idea and was then able to develop the script with the support of a team of scriptwriters and advisors from the community.

(Translated from Spanish)