Najwa Nimri's survival thriller "Blind Spot" goes to the American Film Market
Film Factory Entertainment will introduce Blind Spot, a survival thriller starring Najwa Nimri, to buyers at this week's American Film Market, according to Variety.
The film is directed by Mar Targarona and written by Alex Aviñó. Pako Revueltas and María Rodríguez-Maribona also star. The production is currently shooting in Bilbao, in northern Spain.
The story follows Sara, who is trapped in a car between rocks as the tide rises. A tyre blowout sends the vehicle off a cliff and kills the driver, Luis. The sea-facing cliff setting was partly built on a sound stage, then combined with natural exteriors in the Basque Country.
The film is produced by Rodar y Rodar with Oslodije and Esan Nizuen. RTVE is taking part, and the project is made in collaboration with Prime Video. The Basque Government's Department of Culture and Language Policy and Basque Audiovisual are supporting it.
Film Factory will handle international sales. That means the company will offer the film to distributors in countries outside Spain, the buyers who later book it into cinemas or onto streaming services. ADSO Films will handle theatrical distribution in Spain, which is the business of booking the film into cinemas and selling tickets. Its planned Spanish cinema release is late 2027.
The American Film Market is a trade event in Los Angeles where sellers show films and deals are struck. Buyers there decide what reaches screens in their home countries, often long before a film is finished. For Blind Spot, that process has started while the cameras are still rolling in Bilbao.
Film Factory's involvement is the latest step in a project that has drawn public support from the Basque Government and public broadcaster RTVE. Nimri, Revueltas and Rodríguez-Maribona are the faces buyers will see first, and the film's sales pitch will rest on a single premise: one woman, one car, and a rising tide.
