Spain’s Impulse Cinema and Italy’s Fandango Forge Strategic Partnership to Boost Co-Production and Sales Opportunities (EXCLUSIVE)
Spain's Impulse Cinema and Italy's Fandango have agreed a strategic partnership to strengthen Spanish and Italian film production, covering co-production, financing, distribution and international sales. Announced at the Venice Production Bridge, the deal brings together two independent players from Europe's film industry and aims to build a "lasting bridge" between the countries, giving producers stronger backing while helping ambitious projects reach wider international audiences.
Madrid-based Impulse Cinema, led by Andrés Sánchez Pajares and Roberto Butragueño, describes itself as Spain's first large-scale integrated indie studio, spanning the full value chain from development financing to worldwide sales, and has secured €8 million (about $9.3 million) in NextGenerationEU funding via the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation. Fandango, founded by Domenico Procacci in 1989, has produced more than 100 films and is present at this year's Venice festival with five titles, including two in competition. Under the agreement, Impulse will also act as a partner in international distribution alongside Fandango Sales, with both companies' leadership framing the tie-up as a response to the need for new collaborative models in European independent cinema.
- Impulse Cinema and Fandango sign co-production and sales partnership
- Deal announced at Venice Production Bridge market
- Impulse holds €8m in NextGenerationEU funding; Fandango has five Venice titles
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Spain and Italy are two of Europe's stronger film-producing nations, but their industries often work separately when it comes to raising money and selling finished films abroad. Impulse Cinema is a relatively new Madrid-based company that says it aims to be a full-service Spanish studio, handling everything from funding films to selling them internationally, and it has already received a substantial grant from an EU recovery fund. Fandango is a long-established Italian production and sales company that has made over a hundred films since it was founded in 1989.
The two companies have now agreed to work together more closely, covering areas such as co-producing films jointly, arranging financing, and selling films to distributors around the world. The announcement was made at the Venice Production Bridge, an industry event held alongside the Venice Film Festival where producers, financiers and sales agents meet to strike deals.
This kind of partnership matters because independent film companies increasingly need to pool resources and share international networks to compete for financing and reach audiences beyond their home countries. Agreements like this one are a way for national producers to combine strengths rather than operate purely within their own domestic markets.