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‘Below Zero’ Filmmaker Lluís Quílez To Direct Spanish Language Thriller ‘Elegido’ Based On El Ejido Race Riots For ‘Sorry, Baby’ Exec Producer

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EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Lluís Quílez, best known for directing the buzzy Netflix crime drama Below Zero, will direct Elegido, a social thriller inspired by a set of notorious race riots in El Ejido, southern Spain, in 2000.  Produced by Frank Ariza’s AF production company (Sorry, Baby), the film follows Mishal, a 40-year-old Arab migrant who has just arrived in Spain seeking work. The murder of two farm workers at the hands of one of their undocu…

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Among the white plastic of the greenhouses that haunt El Ejido , the white lime wall is indistinguishable, but that is the wall of the cemetery. Entering, to the left, opens a small and fresh office with an aquarium without water, a printer and a gravedigger dressed in in indigo blue that is called Pedro and that types a name on the computer. «That girl we bury here; of that I am sure». Then, it changes the gesture, satisfied, and cuts the corne…

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abc broke the news in Spain on Sunday, July 27, 2025.
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