The Ritual -

Producer and Manager of El Ritual Producciones

Sonia Martín is a journalist, PhD in Information Science, screenwriter, director, and producer of documentaries and short films. She is the driving force and organizer of FIMMER, the Manzanares el Real International Medium-Length Film Festival, which will celebrate its fourth edition in 2025. Under the banner of AsomaCreaciones, she has produced and directed Un Castillo de Película (Sonia Martín, 2019) and produced several short films by director Isaac Berrocal: Mariela te suicida (2019), Primera Cita (2020), La Ceremonia (2021), and La Calima (2022). She is currently in post-production as director of La Torre de los Americans and the feature-length documentary Antonio. El genio oculto (Antonio. The Hidden Genius). She is the producer of Ullate, La Danza de la Vida (2024), by Elena Cid, and is producing Isaac Berrocal's first feature film, El Ritual de Huasao (2025), for which she created the production company El Ritual Producciones SL, and will repeat in El Camino Borrado, the director's second feature film, which will be shot in the summer of 2026.

Executive Producer and Actress

Chiti Abraira is a native of León by adoption and of Galician origin. After many years dedicated to teaching at the university, she discovered her true passion: acting, for which she demonstrates great talent in both theater and film. A tireless traveler and explorer, she enjoys discovering the most remote corners of the planet and displays a wonderful enthusiasm for the audiovisual sector. With Isaac Berrocal's short film La Calima, she began her love affair with executive film production, giving Isaac Berrocal the opportunity to shoot his first feature film, El Ritual de Huasao, which will be released in 2026, and soon his second: El Camino Borrado (The Bored Path) (2027). As an actress, she has filmed several short films and also plays leading roles in these feature films.

Director

Isaac Berrocal is a Spanish filmmaker born in Madrid. His short films tend to be fantasy and horror, but he also frequently explores social cinema, these being his two most common genres.

His works have been screened at prestigious festivals, earning national and international awards. His films have been featured in prestigious festivals such as Sitges, Medina del Campo, San Sebastián, Molins de Rei, Isla Calavera, Mórbido (Mexico), BIFAN (Korea), among many others. He has also been included in the QUERCUS catalog twice with his short films La Trampa and La Proeza. The latter short film has won international awards at festivals such as Bogotá Horror Film Fest, Isla Calavera, Granollers Fantastik, Macabro Film Fest, and Tenebra Film Fest, among many others.

His short films Contranatura, Dunder-Büchse, and Today Is Sunday have been broadcast on RTVE, and he participated in Freixenet's 2012 advertising campaign with the selection of his spot "BRINDIS POR LA VIDA" from more than 15,000 submitted videos, with Bigas Luna as selector and editor.

Works such as Dunder Büchse and Today is Sunday have been featured in Juan Antonio Moreno's books: Miradas en Corto and Cine en Corto. Today is Sunday was short film of the month in 2008 in Cinemanía magazine. In 2021, he made his "partial" feature film debut with VAMPUS HORROR TALES, an anthology film composed of several segments and directed by 5 directors. Its segment is titled "Segunda Cita," starring Nacho Guerreros and Erika Sanz. The film also features a cast that includes Saturnino García, Elena Furiase, Dunia Rodríguez, José Lifante, and Felix Gómez, among others. The film earned 34 Goya Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Screenplay, which included Berrocal's awards for both screenplay and direction.

Isaac Berrocal's reel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ONT-ZkIp0&t=1s