Fasten Films

At Fasten Films, we aim to tell original stories that entertain, move, and inspire, doing so through the unique perspective of screenwriters and directors with the ambition to creatively transcend. That’s why we produce series and films rooted locally, with a contemporary, diverse, and inclusive approach, aspiring to resonate with a global audience. Stories that unapologetically tackle topics reflecting the concerns and realities of our society.

Currently, we are in the process of production and post-production on projects such as “The Birthday Party” (Miguel Ángel Jiménez, 2025, with Willem Dafoe and Emma Suárez); “The End of It” (Maria Bayona, 2025); “La Gang” (Carol and Marina Rodríguez Colás, 2025); or “Cuatro Amores” (2026, Jorge Dorado). Among the directors we are collaborating with are Adrià García (“Sira”); Maria Rodríguez (“La Primera Bruixa”); Marcel Barrena (“Pizzinato”); Nely Reguera; and Ulises Porra.

Among our recent productions are films awarded at international festivals and distributed worldwide, such as “Mediterráneo” (Marcel Barrena, 2021); “Uno para todos” (David Ilundain, 2020); “Centauro” (Daniel Calparsoro, 2022); “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” (Phạm Thiên Ân, 2023); “La Imatge Permanent” (Laura Ferrés, 2023); the non-fiction series “Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President and the Spy” (Justin Webster, 2019); “La Voluntaria” (Nely Reguera, 2022); and “O Corpo Aberto” (Ángeles Huerta, 2022).

Team

Adrià Monés

CEO / Producer
Adrià Monés, is the mangaging producer and director of Fasten Films. He has produced over 20 films shown at festivals such as San Sebastián, Miami and Malaga. Monés has a degree in Economics from the Pompeu Fabra and Sorbonne Universities, and has a Masters in Business Management from Media Business School. He also attended EAVE in 2018.

In 2018, he set up his own production company, Fasten Films, with the idea of creating local content for international markets. As of 2022, Fasten Films has produced 10 films, has obtained over 12 million euros in public and private funding, and has managed over 20 million euros in budgets. Fasten’s films have been nominated for awards such as the Goyas (best film for Mediterráneo, among others), as well as for Gaudí, Forqué and Feroz awards. His productions are available on streaming platforms such as Netfilix and Movistar+ and have been sold to international markets. Prior to Fasten Films, Adrià was Executive Producer and Director of Co-Productions at Filmax, producing titles such as the "Rec" saga, the highest grossing Spanish horror franchise to date, "Summer Camp" a co-production with LionsGate; or Jaume Balagueró's "Muse", a multilateral co-production (Ireland, France, Belgium, Spain) with a budget of over six million euros.

Monés also worked as Acquisitions and Co-productions manager for Sogecable / Canal +, acquiring rights to successful international shows such as “House” and “Lost” for Digital +, Canal + and Cuatro.

He is a member of the European Producer's Club, Proficció and the Catalan and Spanish Film Academy. He also teaches film production and financing at ESCAC, UPF and Ramon Llull University.

Blanca Heredia

Financial Director
With a degree in Economic Sciences from Pompeu Fabra University, Blanca Heredia brings over 18 years of solid professional experience to the auditing, control and finance aspects of Fasten. She began her profesional career at Deloitte, where she worked with clients such as General Motors, Nissan, Grupo Quiron and Abertis. Since then, she’s been linked to high-profile national and multinational companies (Hotusa, Grupo Razzmatazz, Grupo Julia), where she has directed teams and projects in various countries and multicultural environments.

Blanca has also had the chance to lead both professional projects in both private and public sectors including the United Nations. As a member of the Fasten team, Blanca is a leader in management, forecasting and financial analysis. Excellence, rigor and having solid profesional values can best define her.

Albert Morera

Supervising Line Producer
Albert Morera has extensive experience as Line Producer in feature films and series with titles such as "El CID: la serie", for Amazon Prime Video, "Terminator: Dark Fate", "Gavilanes" or "La Catedral del Mar", among others.
He joined Fasten Films in 2020 and has so far directed the production of "Entre la vie et la mort", "O Corpo Aberto", "La Voluntaria", "Maret" and "La Imatge Permanent".
During the first decade of the 2000s, working with the production company Drimtim Entertainment, he produced several action TV movies for the international market, including the miniseries "Ben-Hur", shot in Morocco and co-produced with Muse Entertainment and Antena 3 Television.
He began his professional career in the early years of TV3, working on series such as "13x13", the first sitcom in Catalonia to be recorded with a live audience, or "Tres Estrelles" by El Tricicle. He collaborated with the most important Catalan production companies of the 90's, such as Ovideo TV, Cromosoma, Gestmusic or Diagonal TV; with whom he produced several TV series and miniseries such as "Orden Especial", "Pol Nord" or "Mirall Trencat". During this period he combined the production of audiovisual content with the production of shows and events such as the 1992 Olympic Games.

Claudia Romero

Business Affairs
After graduating from the Ramon Llul University with a Degree in Audiovisual Communication, Claudia’s career in the audiovisual industry began in distribution, specialising in premieres and European and Indie films in Spain.
Between 2015 and 2021, she worked for Freeway Entertainment, a multinational company offering administrative, financial and legal services to producers, sales agents, distributors, banks and financial entities tied to the entertainment industry.
In 2021 he completed the Financial Controller course at ESCAC and since then he has participated in several projects in the management team as cash controller ("La Pulga y el Elefante" and "Hermana Muerte" both for Netflix) and as controller in "La Imatge Permanent" production of Fasten Films.

Laia Filella

Project Manager
With a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and a Masters in Communication from the UPF-Barcelona School of Management, she has extensive experience in production coordination and is one of the latest additions to Fasten Films' Executive Production department. Laia began her professional career in the production of advertising, shows and events and then moved exclusively into fiction. His recent film projects include his work in the production department of "Palomino" for Palma Pictures-Left Blank Pictures, "Vampire Academy" for Calle Cruzada-NBC-Universal, "Fanático" for Corte y Confección de Películas-Netflix and "A Perfect Enemy" for Sábado Películas-Filmin.

Claudia Calviño

Executive Producer
Cuban filmmaker, her credits as Producer, Executive Producer and Co-Producer includes more than 15 titles among which are JUAN OF THE DEAD (2011), by Alejandro Brugués, Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film in 2013; YULI (2018), by renowned director Icíar Bollaín, produced by Morena Films, about the life of Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta; IN A WHISPER (2019), by Patricia Pérez and Heidi Hassan, Best Feature Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, IDFA. Her most recent films are VICENTA B (2022), third film with director Carlos Lechuga, premiered at the Toronto Festival and the San Sebastian Festival; WILD WOMAN (2023), award for Best Female Performance at the Malaga Festival; and THE OCEANS ARE THE REAL CONTINENTS (2023), by Italian artist Tommaso Santambrogio, premiered at the Giornate degli Autori in Venice. In 2024 she kick off as a director with the feature documentary ISLA FAMILIA, co-directed with journalist Abraham Jiménez Enoa, and premiered internationally at the prestigious DOC NYC festival.

Professor and advisor at the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) and the University of the Arts in Cuba, she has been a jury member at the Havana Film Festival; the CINÉLATINO Festival - Rencontres de Toulouse; the Cortos Soria International Short Film Competition and the Co-Production Forum of the San Sebastian Film Festival. In 2013 she was selected by Variety magazine as a “Rising Stars: Latin American Talent”, that same year she was in charge of the production in Cuba of the film THE CUT by the German Turkish director Fatih Akin.

She currently lives in Barcelona, working for 3 years for The Mediapro Studio. In December 2024 she joined Fasten Films as Executive Producer.

Marc Guanyabens

Delegate producer
Marc Guanyabens is the founder and producer of Fractal. Throughout his career, he has produced several short films and documentaries with strong international recognition. Among them, notable works include The Strange (Oriol Guanyabens, 2020), premiered at the Seminci and nominated at the 16th Gaudí Awards, and The Real Truth About the Fight (Andrea Slavicek, 2023), a Catalan-Croatian coproduction premiered at the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival. Recently, he has served as executive producer of the series Asfalt (3cat) and delegated producer of White Out (Fernando Trullols), both produced by Lastor Media and Goroka. At the end of 2024, he joins Fasten Films as an executive producer.
In addition to his work as an executive producer, Marc also teaches as an associate professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

María Carla del Río Betancourt

Executive Producer
Cuban producer, member of EAVE, graduated in production at the International Film and Television School of San Antonio de los Baños EICTV. She collaborates with film training spaces such as BrLab, Brazil; the Centro Iberoamericano de Estudios de Foto y Cine CIBEF, Mexico; Nuevas Miradas EICTV, the only international laboratory in Cuba for films in development, where she worked since 2014, being executive director between 2017 and 2019. In 2018 he received the Best Production award given by the Muestra Joven del Instituto de Cine de Cuba, for the feature film "La música de las esferas". He participated in Berlinale Talents (2015, 2017) and Talents Guadalajara (2015). She was one of the emerging Latin American producers invited by the CNC of France to the eighth edition of the Producer Network of the Cannes Film Festival. In 2015 he participated in the Emerging Leaders of Latin-America Program at Concordia University, Montreal.

Paula Peña

Line producer
Paula Peña has been trained as an audiovisual producer, radio and shows in the school of Mitjans Audiovisuals de Barcelona EMAV. Subsequently, she studied a degree in film directing and screenwriting at the Barcelona Film School Bande à Part.
She has worked in all aspects of production, from television to events, and finally settled on fiction film and television production. She’s worked on productions for Distinto Films (“6 dies corrents”, “Suc de Sindria”) Inicia Films (“Unicornios”), Lastor Media (“Suro”), ESPotlight Media & Legendary Entertainment (“Tú también lo harías”), Brutal Media (“Bienvenidos a Edén”) Minoría Absoluta and Filmax, among others.
She recently joined the Fasten Films team as a production manager, having managed the production of “La Imatge Permanent”, one of the company’s most recent productions.

Paula Orlando

Production coordinator
Argentine producer recently relocated to Barcelona, graduated from the Universidad del Cine (FUC). With more than 13 years of experience in the audiovisual industry, she has worked in a wide variety of formats, including feature films (such as Guaraní by Luis Zorraquin, El Potro by Lorena Muñoz, Chico Ventana También Quisiera Ser un Submarino by Alex Piperno, Amor Bandido by Daniel Werner, among others), television series, commercials, reality shows, and music videos. Throughout her career, she has held roles such as executive producer, line producer, production manager, head of production, and production assistant. At the same time, she has worked on her own short and feature film productions, including Tres Hermanos, selected for development programs at the Cannes and Berlinale festivals, and awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival in 2022, as well as the Best Film award at the Moscow International Film Festival in 2023.

Charlotta Hedman

Office Manager, Administrator, and Coordinator
Originally from Sweden, with experience in various sectors, in positions such as event organization and production, administration and accounting. She has a degree in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and in 2024 she completed a Cost Controller course for audiovisual projects at the Escuela Superior de Cine y Audiovisuales de Cataluña (ESCAC).
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Rita Acebrón

Executive Production Assistant
Graduate of the Bachelor's Degree in Cinematography at the Superior School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia (ESCAC) and currently completing the Specialization Master's Degree in Screenwriting. With three final master's projects in post-production, he begins to do an internship at Fasten Films and recently joins the team as an assistant in executive production.

Ester Montero

Graphic designer
Currently studying the fourth year of the Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication Degree at ERAM (University of Gerona) and recently completing the respective graphic designer internships at Fasten Films.
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1. To attach, associate, or connect. To fasten a team.
2. To take a firm hold. To fasten on an idea.
3. To focus attention;concentrate. Their gaze fasten on the film.
4. To enclose securely, as a person or an animal. To fasten a producer in a cage.
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