EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas is expanding its footprint into Spain in a new production venture with prolific local producer Enrique López Lavigne aimed at producing ambitious projects with Spanish talent with international appeal. Bannered Goodapatxe – in a nod to Lavigne’s Apache Films company, which he runs alongside El Studio – the venture aims to get two to three productions off the ground a year. Details of the first projects are under wraps, but the partners have revealed they are in development on a Spanish historic film noir, a western and science fiction picture and four additional genre feature films directed by young Spanish authors.
Lavigne has been a driving force in the Spanish independent cinema scene for more than 30 years. He started out as a film buyer for Canal Plus, before moving into distribution at Sogecine. He branched into producing in the late 1990s, taking credits on a host of early films by now established filmmakers such as Isabel Coixet’s Those Who Love , Javier Fesser’s The Miracle of P.
Tinto , Julio Medem’s Sex and Lucia , Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intact and Daniel Calparsoro’s Warriors . In the 2000s, he produced three of the 10 highest-grossing films of all time in Spain: Fessier’s Mortadelo & Filemon: The Big Adventure , produced under the banner of Sogecine, and J.A.
Bayona’s The Impossible and A Monster Calls , produced by his Apaches Entertainment together with Belen Atienza. Lavigne has also enjoyed success with genre far.
