{"id":618243,"date":"2026-09-08T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618243\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:46:10","slug":"elite-star-ester-exposito-circles-iberseries-forum-pic-stink-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618243\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Elite’ Star Ester Exp\u00f3sito Circles Iberseries Forum Pic, ‘Stink Eye’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSpanish actor Ester Exp\u00f3sito<\/a> (\u201cElite<\/a>\u201d) is circling the upcoming feature \u201cStink Eye\u201d (\u201cMalmirada\u201d) and has signed a letter of intent to topline the feature debut of Colombian director-writer Cristina S\u00e1nchez Salamanca<\/a>, who first caught the film world\u2019s eye with her short \u201cBeb\u00e9\u201d at the 2022 Tribeca Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cStink Eye\u201d is among the projects participating at Madrid\u2019s Iberseries<\/a> Co-Production and Financing Forum which has also snagged Goya-nominated cinematographer Gris Jordana, whose credits include Netflix\u2019s \u201cLa Bola Negra\u201d (Cannes 2026 Best Director winner and a strong contender to represent Spain at the Oscars)<\/a>, \u201cLa Mes\u00edas\u201d and \u201cLiberty\u201d (\u201cLibertad\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe drama revolves around 13-year-old Nina whose life is upended when her father leaves her mother for Bel\u00e9n, a striking model-influencer,\u00a0which would be role played by Exp\u00f3sito, who has a massive following on social media herself, with 24.7 million followers on Instagram alone.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe scandal leaves her mother grappling with her mental and physical health which forces Nina to move in with her father and his new wife. To improve her social status among the horny teens she wants to impress, she creates a black market of her stepmother\u2019s stolen underwear, discovering her own identity and sexuality in the process.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Nina longs to fill the maternal void in her life, she finds herself growing unexpectedly close to her stepmother. The closer Nina gets to Bel\u00e9n, the more conflicted she feels about her real mother.<\/p>\n

\n\tS\u00e1nchez Salamanca drew from her own childhood experience to write the story: \u201cWhen I was seven, my father left my mother for Miss Universe. Or well, the first runner-up. This woman was beautiful, poised, charming, intelligent and oozed sex. How can you find your own place in life when such a huge shadow is cast upon you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe most exciting aspect of this project is having the magnetic Ester Exp\u00f3sito on board to play such an important figure in my own coming of age. I can\u2019t think of anyone better to deconstruct the perfect woman and show something much more interesting that lies beneath. This isn\u2019t a coming-of-age story. It\u2019s closer to dark comedy body horror \u2013 but here, the horror lies in growing up as a 13-year-old girl in a world that validates women\u2019s existence through the eyes of others.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a director and screenwriter, S\u00e1nchez\u2019s work explores the fragility and darkness of the human condition. Alienation, the body, duality, identity and the shadow are recurring themes, rooted in her experience of navigating the world around her. In \u201cBeb\u00e9,\u201d she captured the angst of childhood amid the fractures of a broken family, while her vision for \u201cThe Tour \u201823,\u201d a series of short documentaries commissioned by Victoria\u2019s Secret, explored the chaotic experience of moving through Bogot\u00e1 in a woman\u2019s body.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cStink Eye\u201d is produced by Continente Pictures, led by S\u00e1nchez and her producing partner Duv\u00e1n Duque Vargas, along with Spain\u2019s Ringo Media, run by Mireia Graell (\u201cMatria\u201d) and France\u2019s Dibona Films, led by J\u00e9r\u00e9my Zelnik (\u201cThe Spectacle,\u201d Cannes 2025).<\/p>\n

\n\tDuque Vargas and Paola P\u00e9rez Nieto serve as producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth of Continente Pictures\u2019 debut features \u201cStink Eye\u201d and \u201cName and Surname\u201d have participated in such development programs as the Torino Film Lab, the ECAM Forum and S\u00f8rfond\u2019s Pitching Forum, winning a host of awards at Colombia\u2019s Bogota Audiovisual Market (BAM) as well as Ventana Sur and Guadalajara.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDirector Cristina S\u00e1nchez Salamanca Courtesy of Continente Pictures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish actor Ester Exp\u00f3sito (\u201cElite\u201d) is circling the upcoming feature \u201cStink Eye\u201d (\u201cMalmirada\u201d) and has signed a letter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,262424,153976,93,262425,262426,61,60],"class_list":["post-618243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-cristina-su00e1nchez-salamanca","tag-elite","tag-entertainment","tag-ester-expu00f3sito","tag-iberseries","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}