On March 31, the Spanish horror film, Tin & Tina, by director Rubin Stein, and its stars, Milena Smit (The Snow Girl), Jaime Lorente (Money Heist), Carlos González Morollón (El hotel de los lios) and Anastasia Russo (Nasdrovia); They tell us about what it’s like to work with him in the following video.
They all agree on how easy it is to work with Rubin, Jamie Lorente points out, that he is a great director, and a patient and empathic person. Carlos González Morollón remembers the anecdote of when he went to the casting, he remembers seeing him with the Chinese record, without knowing that he was the director.
Synopsis of Tin & Tina
When Lola (Milena Smith) loses the babies she was carrying, she also loses her faith in God. Hoping to get her back, she goes with her husband Adolfo (Jaime Lorente) to a nunnery where they meet Tin and Tina, two angelic seven-year-old brothers to whom Lola feels strangely attracted. Although Adolfo doesn’t feel the same way, they decide to adopt them. With the passage of time, Lola begins to fall into a spiral of suspicion and obsession with children and their macabre religious games.
From short to long
The film is based on the short film of the same name, nominated for the Golden Méliès for the best European fantastic short film. Winner of more than thirty international awards, it was screened at more than two hundred festivals around the world. Critics called it a “cult short” and it has even been dubbed into Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
the short film Tin & Tina is part of the trilogy of black and white suspense short films, Light & Darkness, which has received more than 100 international awards and more than 500 selections at film festivals, including Fugaz Award nominations, an Oscar shortlist and a Goya Award nomination. This trilogy is available on FILMIN.
The film’s soundtrack is provided by Jocelyn Pook, one of the UK’s most versatile songwriters, author of the soundtrack for Eyes wide shut, by Stanley Kubrick or The Good Wife, a film starring Glenn Close, among others.
The film is produced by Olmo Figueredo González-Quevedo for La Claqueta PC and Tin y Tina AIE, in co-production with FilmGate Miami (USA) and Andarams Films (Romania). It is executive produced by Sara Gómez and Paola Sainz de Baranda and with the participation of Netflix and Canal Sur Radio y Televisión, with the support of ICAA and the Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions and with the collaboration of Latido Films. Filmax distributes the film in our country.
