Directed by - Alberto Sciamma

Written by - Alberto Sciamma & Harriet Sand

Produced by - Jason Piette, Michael Lionello Cowan & David Ball

Music by - Dan Jones

Director of Photography - Alastair Meux

Executive Producers - David Rogers & Alex Marshall

Associate Producer - Clive Waldron

Editor - Georgre Akers

Costume Designer - Ffion Elinor

Production Designer - Keith Maxwell

Casting - Elaine Fallon & Tania Polentarutti

A Spice Factory (uk) ltd & Great British Films Production
In association with CFI & In association with Enterprise films

Alberto Sciamma – Writer/Director | Director's Statement

Alberto Sciamma (Barcelona, 1961) exploded out of Spain to carve an innovative path in the tradition of Bunuel and Almodovar. As a screenwriter, his screenplay KILLER TONGUE won support from The European Script Fund. As a director, he won the highly competitive Fuji Award for his short film “Balls of Fire”, which generated considerable press acclaim. He then started producing and directing music videos for such artists as Nitzer Ebb, Diamanda Galas, Thomas Felman, Rude Girl and Fisher Z, before joining Palace Pictures (producers of “The Crying Game”) as a permanent promo director. He has also directed music-based commercials for TV for clients such as Coca-Cola (Summer 1990 Spanish campaign), as well as directing for Channel Four in the UK.

His personal, distinctive style earned him one of the leading positions in Spain as a video-director. He has worked with such names as Heroes del Silencio, Alaska y Dinarama, Fangoria, Gabinete Caligari and La Union, in London, Madrid and New York.

The outrageous KILLER TONGUE, made with Spice Factory and Lola Films, was his first feature as writer and director, starring Robert Englund, Melinda Clarke and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. It won BEST ACTRESS AWARD for Melinda Clarke at THE SITGES INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FANTASTIC CINEMA 1996; it won BEST SPECIAL EFFECTS for Image Animation at the FANTASPORTO FILM FESTIVAL 1997; and BEST DIRECTOR for Alberto Sciamma at the XVII FANTA FESTIVAL ROME 1997.

Alberto was then commissioned to write two screenplays for Working Title Films. Last year he completed directing his own screenplay ANAZAPTA, a medieval thriller in the vein of the Pale Rider meets The Name Of The Rose, starring Jason Fleming, Lena Headey and David Le Haye, produced and financed by Spice Factory and currently being sold by Lightning Entertainment. Also being developed with Spice Factory is DOG, FRY, and CRUSH HOUR. He is also developing a $60M animated feature for Universal Films entitled GON.

Alberto recently directed an original script he wrote with Harriet Sand for Spice Factory entitled JERICHO MANSIONS, starring James Caan, Jennifer Tilly, Maribel Verdú and Geneviève Bujold.

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