Film at Eleven

Magnolia Pictures announced on Thursday the acquisition of world rights (excluding Spain) to director Nacho Vigalondo’s Timecrimes, a clever, mind-bendingly entertaining sci-fi film about a man who inadvertently discovers the perils of time travel. Timecrimes premièred at the 2007 Fantastic Fest film festival in Austin, where it received the “Best Feature” Prize and the Silver Medal for Audience Award, and went on to be a crowd pleaser at Sitges.

TIMECRIMES is an incredibly fresh, brilliantly cinematic take on the time travel concept. Nacho is a serious talent and we’re excited to be involved with him at the start of what promises to be a great career,” said Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles.

“Working with Magnolia on TIMECRIMES is a dream come true. Knowing that my film is going to be shown in USA is something I can’t describe,” added Vigalongo.

“We are so excited to be working with Magnolia, not only because they’re the best company to market an extraordinary foreign language genre film like Nacho’s, but especially because of the commitment they show towards the films that they love,” said Eduardo Carneros, Managing Director of KV Entertainment and joint owner of the company together with the Ibarretxe brothers.

Timecrimes is the feature film début from Nacho Vigalongo - already an accomplished director of short films, whose 2003 short, 7:35 In The Morning, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short.

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