Country: Spain
Year: 2011
Duration: 128'
Violeta is willing to do anything to find her missing daughter, Elena keeps a strange secret, Lola wants to settle accounts with her past, Juana needs someone to love her without conditions or questions, and Enriqueta only wants to be made to laugh. These five women have something in common, they are all related to Diamond Flash, a mysterious character that will change their lives forever.
Biography
film director
Carlos Vermut
(Madrid, 1980) wrote and directed his first feature film Diamond Flash in 2011, which he produced himself and distributed independently. The film won the Rizoma Award and the Best Film Award at Abycine, and received great critical acclaim automatically becaming a cult movie. In 2014 he wrote and directed his second feature film Magical Girl, winning the Golden Shell for Best Film and the Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. The film was presented in the Toronto International Film Festival and was nominated for 7 Goya Awards. With his third feature film, Quién te cantará (2018), presented both at the Toronto and San Sebastian, he built one of the most acclaimed films of Spanish cinema of theyear. Before dedicating himself fully to cinema, he worked as a comic book artist, publishing different comics (Psico Soda, Cosmic Dragon) while producing and directing the short films Maquetas (2009) and Don Pepe Popi (2012). He also wrote the screenplay of Paco Plaza’s La abuela (2021), film selected at the TFF.
FILMOGRAFIA
Michirones (cm, 2009), Maquetas (cm, 2009), Diamond Flash (2011), Don Pepe Popi (cm, 2012), La gran ciudad (cm, video, 2014), Magical Girl (2014), Quién te cantará (Chi canterà per te, 2018), Me envenenas (cm, video, 2019), Mantícora (2022).
Declaration
film director
“Diamond Flash mixes all kinds of genres, playing with the viewer, often provoking him. A mystery film indebted to both superhero and giallo movies, going through drama or comedy.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, CINEMATOGRAPHY, FILM EDITING, PRODUCER: Carlos Vermut. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Carmen Martin. SOUND: Pablo Hernando, Alberto Carpintero. CAST: Javier Botet, Maria Cuellar, Petra del Rey, Alba Guerrero, Inma Isla, Adrián López, Ramos López, Santiago Meléndez, Miguel Noguera, Micaela Quesada. PRODUCTION: Psicosoda Films.
