FilmSharks acquires worldwide sales to horror ‘The Convent’

Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has picked up worldwide sales rights to horror film The Convent (El Convento) ahead of its world premiere at Morbido Film festival in Mexico on Saturday (November 1).

Meteor has acquired German-speaking rights to the story that takes place in an 18th century convent in northern Spain where a sect of unholy nuns form a coven to find the ideal womb for the son of the Devil.

Ángel Manuel Chivite and Luis Galindo directed the feature from a screenplay they co-wrote with Jesús Córdoba Acarreta. The cast includes Ana Álvarez, María Mercado, and Nahia Bergasa.

FilmSharks will continue sales at the AFM next month.

Co-directors Chivite and Galindo said: “The story, set in a small town in Navarra, has garnered international recognition, which is extremely important.”

FilmSharks founder Guido Rud said: “The dark nuns sub-genre is evergreen when well directed and produced.”

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