To everyone’s surprise, a group of marginalized men and losers decide to form an improvised synchronized swimming team, it is the film project that Learning RamonesWith Gabriel y Rodolfo Riva Palaciofrom the animation company Huevocartoon, they have hidden under their arms.
The film will be a Latin American adaptation of “Swimming with men”an original Swedish story, a winner at festivals such as the one in Sao Paulo and which was already taken up in France at the time, a version that reached Cannes and England.
“It’s a very nice story, we bought the rights, and we’re at the beginning of the adaptation. It’s a dramedy, it has nice things, adventure. It’s about a group of men who are all marginalized, with problems, losers, and you have to vindicate before the family and society, forming the team together”comment Ramones.
“Swimming with men” will be the first production of the Riva Palace in live action, far from the animation in which they have navigated for two decades and extended to the cinema with the saga of “A film of eggs”.
Ramones, who became known in the media as the host of “Otro rollo”, has training as an actor, with cinema being a field that he likes.
Just released in Amazon Prime Video the movie “Santa vs. Magi” in which he plays a politician, but his background is the films “Santos Peregrinos”, “Puños Rosas”, “Martín at Dawn” and “Rescuing Soldier Pérez”.
Because of the movies and the series that he is preparing, he has rejected invitations to return to television, as was the case with “The Academy”.
“I have bought many rights to plays, bought from Daniel Datola who wrote Guillermo Francella for a long time (‘Rudo y cursi’) and what I am doing is co-writing series with another group; from the pandemic I said, let’s go that way”details.
At the end of last year, along with Monica Huarte and without earning a penny, he filmed the tape “Love (not) is forever” in a sequence shot. This is the second part of “Love Cannot Wait”, shot six years ago and is now available on the platform Star+.
“We win when it is sold to the platforms, to the film channels, now it is on all planes (the previous film). Since before the pandemic, independent cinema has been a great outlet for stories, especially now that the big platforms devour content “considers.
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