FILM: SIGNAL

DIRECTOR: DAVID BARRERA

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED

GENRE: TERROR, MYSTERY, SCI-FI, THRILLER

SYNOPSIS: A few decades into the future, a mission is planned by several international organizations with some funding from a couple of space industry giants. Effectively, this is a proof-of-concept mission demonstrating that the technology to support extended interstellar missions is ready for application. After 50 years of space travel sped up by a gravity engine–the Alcubierre drive–the ISC Robert Innes successfully arrives at the nearest stellar neighbor to the solar system, Proxima Centauri, with plans to sample planets in its orbit. Another objective of this mission is to find the source of a strange radio signal broadcasting from the area.

Upon arriving, the crew finds some surprising things: first, that telemetry is malfunctioning, making telemetry a round-the-clock operation; second, that the signal has no definite source, and seems to be coming from everywhere around them all at once; third, that there is a field of debris orbiting very close to the star. Upon investigating the debris field, they find that they not just shipwrecks but indeed human shipwrecks–two unconscious bodies in spacesuits are recovered from the wreckage, brought onboard, and stabilized. The signal, most definitely interfering with telemetry, proves too elusive to find; however, a major breakthrough occurs when the communications officer, Barry Whitacre, notices that the brainwave patterns of the two comatose astronauts rescued from the wreckage exactly match the signal he’s been staring at for hours on end. The captain Alex Beaumont decides to have the medical officer, Dr. al-Qatari, remove the drugs inducing coma and wake the survivors up for questioning.

STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION

FILM: LESSER EVIL

DIRECTOR: MANUEL CARBALLO

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED, k5 INTERNATIONAL, BALANCE MEDIA

GENRE: HORROR, THRILLER

SYNOPSIS: Someone murdered Thomas’s wife and kidnapped his son. A year later, still without any clues, Thomas is on the verge of collapse. But then he receives a mysterious call: his son is alive, but if he wants to save him he will have to do something atrocious, something that seems to copy step by step the crimes of a serial killer and rapist decades ago – and was never caught.

Why is someone forcing Thomas to copy the modus operandi of a serial killer who acted when Thomas was just a child? Who is behind this dark and sick game that turns his life into a macabre hellish nightmare? Could Thomas save his son without losing his soul along the way? To recover his much-loved son, Thomas will have to inmerge in hell itself.

STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION

FILM: SAVANT

DIRECTOR: JAVIER ARAGUZ

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED, ALIDRA CREATIVE

GENRE: SCI-FI, THRILLER, DRAMA

SYNOPSIS:Alice, a neuroscientist with a severe memory disorder, sees how all of her experiments fail, and so she decides to go and find Ulysses, a guy who lives removed from the world on an abandoned oil rig, and who suffers from savant syndrome (he is incapable of forgetting) in order to find a cure for both of their conditions.

The surprising results of their tests will lead them to cross all ethical and legal boundaries, and to risk their lives and even travel in time… in order to survive and overcome the tragic past they share, and which prevents them from being together.

STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION

FILM: NATURAL

DIRECTOR: MARINA SERESESKY

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED

GENRE: THRILLER

SYNOPSIS: Since she was little, Diana wanted to see the world through the lens of a camera. Stagnated in her work as a journalist at a small local newspaper. Diana decides to take a few days off to escape it all and to reorganize her life. Before leaving Diana receives an assignment, to collect the statement from Celso, a man acquitted in a murder trial in Diana’s old hometown. The initial unwillingness to take the assignment converts into a growing fixation when she discovers a key factor. The victim of the murder is Diana’s childhood friend, Laura, with whom she lost touch when Diana abruptly left the village as a teen. Haunted by her troubled pas Diana tries to make her stay in her old hometown as short as possible, but she finds herself trapped in the unveiling of a far more disturbing story than she expected when Celso opens up for her and confess to the crime.

STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION

FILM: THE FOURTH HORSEMAN

DIRECTOR: ENZO G. CASTELLARI

PRODUCTION COMPANY: AMG FILMS INTERNATIONAL LTD, DREAMFILMS GMBH, ITA ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, MINDED

GENRE: WESTERN

SYNOPSIS: Chief Tawanka instructs Hombre to take his grandchild Little Elk to Burning Cross. Only young Lakota is able to lift the curse haunting the town which was built on the graves of his ancestors. The dark past is being exposed and Hombre unites the boy with his mother. All obstacles, like bandits and bounty hunters will be ironed out algond the film.

STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION

FILM: THISMAN

DIRECTOR: CINZIA BOMBOLL

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED – AMARCORD

GENRE: HORROR

SYNOPSIS: The story connects an old super8 camera; Ramona, a sensitive psychology student, who has the gift of seeing the past of the objects and the people she touches; and Thisman, who’s face more than a thousand people in the world say they have dreamt of. After coming in contact with the old camera, Ramona begins to have a recurring nightmare: about a boy, with the face of an old man, that is asking her for help, and always accompanied by the same macabre man. Her instinct tells her to answer the calling. Accompanied by her teacher and lover James, the clues will lead them to Spain, and to a mysterious house in the village of Bélmez. The only way for Ramona to alleviate the suffering of the strange child, is by discovering the subtle clues that connect the beings in her nightmares, to this house.
A physical and interior journey that will transport us beyond urban legends into the terrain of collective consciousness, common fears and our dread of loneliness, and to finally discover the terrifying secrets behind THISMAN.

STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION

FILM: THE GOLDEN GAME

DIRECTOR: CHARLIE MAXWELL

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED – SOMERSET FILMS

GENRE: AVENTURE, COMEDIA, MYSTERY

SYNOPSIS: Throughout history there have been many secrets kept from the public eye; the reason for the monsters of mythology, the burning bush of Exodus, what is the cup of eternal life, the secret strength of Alexander the Great; What are we being told by these stories? What if you discovered that all these stories are about the same thing; a literal immortal real god, living among us all this time, guiding western civilization, hiding always in plain sight?
Our hero, JOE, begins his story in London, where we first find him peddling hot cell phones and narrowly escaping arrest. Joe is a small-time crook, but with a certain charm, and a soft heart. He genuinely loves his “bird”, KATE, an Airline Stewardess and devout Christian, who sees the potential in Joe, even if he does not. It’s Kate’s idea to bring Joe on holiday to the Holy Land, where she hopes some of that fabled holiness might rub off on her man.
Joe and Kate travel to Israel, and Joe is convinced to visit the Dead Sea and the caves of Qumran. While wandering on his own, Joe meets IO, a Guardian of the Holy Grail, who claims to know the secret to eternal life and wealth. Intrigued, Joe agrees to join Io on a quest to find the mythical Grail.
Undeterred, Joe follows Io through time and space, finding himself in the Garden of Eden. Joe then gets caught in a whirlwind tour of Grail mythology, following this mysterious cup as it travels through history, influencing our lives in unexpected ways. Throughout their travels, Io and Joe will recreate the actual journey of the Grail, from Israel, to Ancient Greece, to Glastonbury, England. Joe will eventually learn that the search for the Grail is also the search for a real object and nothing is ever what it seems to be when you travel with a Grail Guardian.

STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION

FILM: LIMBO (the edge of hell)

DIRECTOR: DAVID BARRERA

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED

GENRE: HORROR

SYNOPSIS: The way to the treasure lies in the mind of Efrén, Emilio’s only son, an innocent mentally handicapped boy who, without knowing it, holds in his confused head this enigmatic secret. Getting someone so special to reveal his secret turns out to be Dario’s hardest and most dangerous mission. In order to find the jewels Dario must first access the boy’s mysterious mind. To do this he kidnaps him from the psychiatric hospital, and takes him to a secluded place where he will use all his efforts to make him talk. During a long journey he has to play with the boy’s mind, and enter the wicked game of horror that Efrén used to play with his father.

This was the machiavellian way of Emilio to communicate with his son, since the boy in his special mind, was not able to react to direct conversation with another human being. The game transforms the innocent Efrén completely and he becomes a different being, someone even disturbing. He seems to enjoy reviving and performing the shocking horror scenes that he was forced to watch together with his diabolical progenitor, as if the world for him was a wicked play.

The distrusting and treacherous Emilio created the game to hide the treasures with the help of Efrén, burying the secret within the boy’s mind and making sure they were inaccessible for anyone else but him. The only way back to the treasure is by living the very same horrors as in Emilio’s favorite movies. Participating in such a morbid and delirious game, Darío will discover that the boy’s mind is a hell difficult to handle. Especially since Emilio, before dying, taught him to play a very special movie. A movie whose ending is much more terrifying than he could imagine, a film that could only have been directed by a real demon.

STATUS: RELEASED IN 2019

FILM: DHARMA

DIRECTOR: PEDRO GARCIA MEJIA

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED

GENRE: SERIE

SYNOPSIS: Dharma Beach is a hippie chic beach hotel in Ibiza, seemingly a harmonious and mystical earthly paradise, but its dark reality is different. Within these cabins the eco-friendly wave of love for the universe does not include humans. The people of different nationalities, that have gathered at Dharma Beach show us that behind the false spiritualism, there is a hell of vanity, betrayal and low passions.

STATUS: PRE-PRODUCTION

FILM: IN OUR BLOOD | SIN LÍMITE | MARC MÁRQUEZ

DIRECTOR: PEDRO GARCÍA-MEJÍA

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED, DAZN, DORNA SPORTS

GENRE: DOCUMENTARY

SYNOPSIS: In Our Blood is the third original series produced by DAZN that explores Spain’s passion for MotoGP through the generations by telling the stories of three Spanish MotoGp World Champions. The documentary was filmed at Marc Márquez’s bike shop in Cervera Spain, dives into his childhood, his family support and key moments in his career that made him a five-time MotoGP Champion at only the age of 25.

STATUS: RELEASED IN 2019

FILM: IN OUR BLOOD | EL LEGADO | JORGE LORENZO

DIRECTOR: PEDRO GARCÍA-MEJÍA

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED, DAZN, DORNA SPORTS

GENRE: DOCUMENTARY

SYNOPSIS: In Our Blood is the third original series produced by DAZN that explores Spain’s passion for MotoGP through the generations by telling the stories of three Spanish MotoGp World Champions. The documentary was filmed at Jorge Lorenzo’s residence city Lugano Switzerland, gives viewers personal, unfiltered insights from him about his childhood and the 2010 season where he won the MotoGP Championship against his fellow Spaniard Marc Márquez.

STATUS: RELEASED IN 2019

FILM: IN OUR BLOOD | EL COMIENZO DE TODO | ALEX CRIVILLÉ

DIRECTOR: PEDRO GARCÍA-MEJÍA

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED, DAZN, DORNA SPORTS

GENRE: DOCUMENTARY

SYNOPSIS: In Our Blood is the third original series produced by DAZN that explores Spain’s passion for MotoGP through the generations by telling the stories of three Spanish MotoGp World Champions. The documentary was filmed in Seva Spain, brings Àlex Crivillé back to the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit in Montmeló Spain where he became the 1999 MotoGP Championship and paved the way for future generations of aspiring Spanish champions.

STATUS: RELEASED IN 2019

FILM: LIMBO (Short Film)

DIRECTOR: DAVID BARRERA

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED, THE FACTORY ENTERTAINMENT, MIGHTY ROAR FILMS

GENRE: HORROR

SYNOPSIS: Dominated by the cursed spirit of greed, a band of thieves suddenly begin killing each other, in the middle of a violent confrontation after having committed the perfect robbery. Only Dario survives, who is unfortunate to discover that before dying the distrustful leader of the band, Emilio, before his death had hidden the stolen jewels. The way to the treasure lies within the mind of Efren, Emilio’s only son, and innocent mentally handicapped boy who, without knowing it, in his confused mind holds the answer to this enigmatic secret. Getting someone so special to reveal his secret leads Dario down a dangerous road to unthinkable horrors.

STATUS: RELEASED IN 2018

FILM: BELOK KANAN BARCELONA

DIRECTOR: GUNTUR SOEHARJANTO, PRITAGITA ARIANEGARA (CO-DIRECTOR)

PRODUCTION COMPANY: STARVISION, CJ ENTERTAINMENT, MINDED

GENRE: ADVENTURE, DRAMA, ROMANCE

SYNOPSIS: Four friends have been together since high school. Now, when one of them is getting married, all three of them must confess their feelings before it’s too late.

STATUS: RELEASED IN 2018

FILM: TRANSIENCE

DIRECTOR: DAVID BARRERA

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED, THE FACTORY ENTERTAINMENT, MIGHTY ROAR FILMS HB

GENRE: DRAMA

SYNOPSIS: Levana pursues the dark side of nature, in the supernatural universe that lies beyond the consciousness. The impermanence or change is an essential doctrine, since all things are temporary holding on to them is a futile effort that only leads to one end. All conditioned existence is, without exception, subject to change. Different states of mind and consciousness, the union of all in one soul searching to reincarnate. The pineal gland becomes visible in the human fetus after 49 days, Levanas soul disposes of the same amount of days to try to reincarnate. Levanas consciousness fears to disappear, it fears the eternal rest and only thinks of death as a transition of life, it believes that death provides the solution for ending the suffering. She only has 49 days and uses the pineal gland as a spiritual channel, and DMT dimethyltryptamine as a catalyst, to get the answers to her questions. The search to find the notion of insubstantiality is ceaseless.

Filmed in: TOKYO | SHANGHAI | LOS ANGELES | NEW YORK | LAS VEGAS | BARCELONA | WAIKIKI | STOCKHOLM | ÖSTERSUN | DUBAI | ROYAL BARDENA

STATUS: RELEASED IN 2018

FILM: ONE FINE DAY

DIRECTOR: ASEP KUSDINAR

PRODUCTION COMPANY: STARVISION, CREENPLAY FIMLS, MINDED

GENRE: DRAMA, ROMANCE

SYNOPSIS: Alana (Michelle Ziudith), a girl who is never truly happy with her boyfriend, Danu (Maxime Bouttier), meets a boy named Mahesa (Jefri Nichol) in Barcelona. This unexpected meeting of two opposites brings a big change in both their lives.

STATUS: RELEASED IN 2017

FILM: JEALOUSY

DIRECTOR: DAVID BARRERA

PRODUCTION COMPANY: MINDED, VISUM STUDIO

GENRE: HORROR

SYNOPSIS: The Jaundice of The Soul. Sarah (28), 8 months pregnant, is lost in the forest, desperate and very hurt. She flees from someone who pursues her and searches for his son, Max (8). She desperately tries to save her life and that of his son, who’s hiding in the dark and spooky forest.The electric thunderstorm in the forest introduces us to the emotions of Max (8). The forest is full of monsters that represent the fears of the unknown and the loss of the family structure on the arrival of a new brother. Max (8) has trapped his mother Sarah (28), but she does not know that he is the cause of her situation. She tries desperately to escape but cannot, as Max materializes his emotions and feelings making her pass through different adversities.The spiral movement of the camera is a mathematical- geometrical pattern that can be seen everywhere in nature and gives rise to the golden ratio. It’s called the Fibonacci Spiral. We can observe it in plants, animals (fish, birds, mammals), humans and their bodies, in phenomena such as tornadoes, hurricanes, galaxies, etc… etc… The spiral describes this formula as a solution to a problem. Max (8) is experiencing a process of loss of control. The overwhelming jealousy turns him into a monster consuming the purity of the soul of an 8-year-old child. He shows how unstable and cruel the human feelings can be. The numbers tell the time and the development of a natural phenomenon. It is the sequence of numbers beginning with the unit, each of its terms is the sum of the previous two (1,1,2,3,5,8,13, …). It is a mathematical construction that recurrently appears in the woods, in the dark, in the distribution of the leaves around the stem, in the arrangement of seeds in many flowers symbolizing birth and fruits grow following the sequences based exclusively on these numbers.The film symbolizes passionate love, anger and  hatred. The red colour exalts us paying more attention to the emotions Max (8) wants to convey and introduces us fully into his world. The yellow represents the suffering of the soul of Max and his disproportionately large head represents the accumulation of the ego and his uncontrolled impulses.

STATUS: RELEASED IN 2015