EXCLUSIVE: Stillking Films, the production services company behind titles like Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things has teamed up with production house Twentyfour Seven to launch the Málaga-based production outfit Ánima Stillking.
Ánima Stillking will be overseen by Silvia Aráez, who will take up the role of CEO. Aráez had a previous stint as CEO of Fresco Film. The company’s exec team will also include executive producer María Cabello, whose credits include Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, Netflix’s Fool Me Once, Black Mirror, and Sony’s The Blacklist alongside CFO Cristina Armario, also previously CFO of Fresco Film.
In addition to its Málaga base, Ánima Stillking has fully staffed offices in the Canary Islands, Barcelona, Madrid, Basque Country, and Palma de Mallorca. The outfit is already chomping away with a slate of projects, including several projects in production with Netflix and what they have described as “a major anthology series for AMC.” The company said it has also been bonded by financiers to produce a feature film now in production.
“We have all come to the table with our own extensive backgrounds: myself, María, and CFO Cristina Armario having worked as producers on many international films in Spain including managing tax rebates,” Aráez said this morning, discussing the launch. “We feel strongly about our capabilities, together with Stillking and Twenty-Four Seven, we are even stronger in partnership with each other as demonstrated by the exciting slate we have already started to build.”
Ánima Stillking has said its focus will be overseeing all aspects of production, local tax rebate structuring, pan-European finance options, and location services, using an “extensive roller-deck of local production and Government contacts.”
Other Stillking Films credits include Robert Egger’s Nosferatu, Netflix’s Wednesday, Spiderman: Far From Home, Casino Royale, Bourne Identity, and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Led by CEO Matthew Stillman and head of production David Minkowski, Stillking’s network spans the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Serbia. Twentyfour Seven is a production house based in Santiago, Madrid, Warsaw, Buenos Aires, and the Dominican Republic. The company has worked across branded content, music videos, commercials, and feature films.
Minkowski added: “What’s exciting to me is the community we’ve built. We are a network of filmmakers with a very personal, hands-on way of working. Between all of us at Ánima Stillking, we have decades of experience, so if you work with us you’re going to work with a new company, but not with people who are new to the business. You’re coming into a stable, reliable, professional environment full of people who know exactly what to do to make your project a success.”
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