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Jorge Dorado shooting Objetos

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- The Mindscape director has been banking on Spanish actors Álvaro Morte and Verónica Echegui, as well as Argentina’s China Suárez, to topline this thriller about human trafficking

Jorge Dorado shooting Objetos
Actors China Suárez, Álvaro Morte and Verónica Echegui and director Jorge Dorado during the shoot for Objetos (© Manolo Pavón)

Jorge Dorado (Mindscape [+see also:
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, the series The Head [+see also:
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) has just been in Jujuy (Argentina) and Madrid (Spain) shooting Objetos [+see also:
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, a disturbing thriller written by Natxo López (the creator of the series Stolen Away). It is a complex story about searching and acting rashly, set in the sordid world of human trafficking, which portrays individuals who care for objects as if they were people and those who treat people as if they were mere objects.

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For the film, Dorado, who previously worked on the series The Pier with Álvaro Morte (who recently won the Ondas Award for Money Heist), has enlisted the help of an international cast: as well as Verónica Echegui (seen recently in the comedy Donde caben dos [+see also:
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), who has secured a Goya nomination for her first short film as a director, it includes popular Argentinian thesps China SuárezDaniel Araoz (winner of a Silver Condor Award for Best Actor for The Man Next Door) and Andy Gorostiaga, flanked by Maitane San Nicolás and featuring a special appearance by Zorion Eguileor.

Its synopsis introduces us to Mario (played by Álvaro Morte), who works in a huge lost-property warehouse, where he is entrusted with watching over all kinds of belongings – a collection that has built up over decades. This man, who some time ago decided to keep his distance from people, spends his free time investigating the origins of these items in order to provide their owners with lost fragments of their lives. Only Helena (Verónica Echegui), a young police woman who visits the warehouse on a regular basis, has been able to even slightly break through his defences. One day, a suitcase salvaged from the bottom of the river turns up at the warehouse: inside, he finds baby clothes together with human remains. Mario decides to lead his own investigation, and after following the trail revealed by the suitcase, he meets Sara (China Suárez), a young woman who has been trapped since childhood in the clutches of a human-trafficking ring.

The movie can boast a two-time Goya Award winner, Cristina Zumárraga, as an executive producer, heading up a first-rate crew consisting of art director Curru Garrabal (Fire Will Come [+see also:
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); three-time Goya-winning costume designer Clara Bilbao (Maixabel [+see also:
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); editor Pablo Zumárraga (You Shall Not Sleep [+see also:
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); sound editor Juan Ferro, a Goya winner for both The Sea Inside [+see also:
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and Adú [+see also:
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; production director María José Díez; and David Acereto, who is making his debut in the field of cinematography on a feature after having forged an extensive career as a camera operator.

Objetos is a Tandem Films production that is being co-produced by  Setembro Cine and La Maleta Perdida AIE on the Spanish side, together with Argentinian outfits Pampa Films and In Post We Trust, plus Germany’s Rexin Film. The co-production boasts the involvement of RTVE, Amazon Studios and ZDF, and funding from the ICAA, the INCAA, the Community of Madrid, ICO and CREA SGR.

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(Translated from Spanish)

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