Vitagraph Films Like Chances for ‘Even the Rain’

Vitagraph Films, a film distributor that services only one to a trio of titles per year, have made the rare pick-up. Following last year’s purchase of Germany’s The Baader Meinhof Complex, the company have grabbed yet another Foreign Oscar hopeful for a theatrical release sometime next year — as Spain’s Even The Rain will only play in it’s host country in January.

The film had to beat out other hopefuls such as Daniel Monzón’s Celda 211 and Andrucha Waddington’s Lope for the country’s nomination (worth noting, Luis Tosar star of Even the Rain appeared in all three nominated films) and will now have to go through the two step nomination process for the Oscars: where a longlist is made into a shortlist. Icíar Bollaín directed Tosar in the dark relationship drama, Take My Eyes.

Bollaín’s Even The Rain, a.k.a “También la Lluvia” was recently presented at this year’s TIFF and was added to Spain’s SEMINCI (Valladolid Film Festival), written by Ken Loach’s long time collaborator Paul Laverty, this tells the story of Sebastian and Costa, director (Gael García Bernal) and producer (Tosar), who are determined to make a film and upturn the entire conservative myth of Western Civilisation’s arrival in the Americas as a force for good. Rather, their story is about what Columbus set in motion; the obsession with gold and the hunt for slaves. As the shoot progresses in and around the city of Cochabamba so too does civil and political unrest simmer below the surface as the entire water supply of the city is privatised and sold to a British and American multinational until the entire city explodes into the now infamous Bolivian Water War.