M-Appeal nabs Lacuesta's 'Double Steps'

SAN SEBASTIAN -- Within the first deals to visit lower on the Competition title in the San Sebastian Film Festival, Berlin's M-Appeal has inked world sales outdoors The country and Europe to "The Double Steps. Steps" is directed by Catalan Isaki Lacuesta, who helmed San Sebastian Competition entry "The Damned," which merited a Fipresci Prize last year. M-Appeal has additionally taken world privileges to "The Clay Journals," Lacuesta's documentary on The spanish language artist Miquel Barcelo's African works of art. Deal was sealed Thursday morning between "Steps'" lead-producer Luisa Matienzo, at Barcelona's Tusitala, and M-Appeal mind of purchases Anne Wiedlack. Compiled by Lacuesta and Isa Campo, the Mali-set, genre-shifting "Steps" mixes road movie and Western tropes with docu-portions and insights on story-telling. Starting off with several artists hunting for a bunker colored by 20th century French artist-come-hermit Francois Augieras, it cuts to some boy who sets out for Mali's Town of Saints where he turns into a bandit. Pic includes cutaways of The spanish language artist Miquel Barcelo because he offers. Steps" is co-created by Switzerland's Bord Cadre Films. Avalon Distribution will release it in The country. We wanted a movie that was as chameleonic as Augieras themself," Lacuesta stated. M-Appeal is energetic and passionate -- the perfect company for for example singular film as 'The Double Steps,'" Matienzo stated at San Sebastian. We are very excited to utilize Isaki Lacuesta, who's a part of a brand new wave of The spanish language cinema having a very unique film language and narration," Wiedlack told Variety. In addition, she added, "the artist Miquel Barcelo is getting involved in the flicks, therefore we have two of the very most intriguing and approaching of artists from The country who, together, produced two wonderful films!" Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com