La llamada
En un pueblo costero de Andalucía, un acto de violencia desencadena una espiral que arrastra a un hombre al centro del conflicto. Lo que empieza como una agresión puntual se revela como síntoma de algo más profundo: las complicidades, los silencios y el poder que sostienen la vida del pueblo. Un thriller social que observa, sin juzgar, las grietas de una comunidad acorralada.
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Fernando Gracia OrtuñoWriter
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Project Title (Original Language):La llamada
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Number of Pages:97
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Language:Spanish
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
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Seleccionado a mejor guión de largometraje en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Suecia
Fernando Gracia Ortuño is a Barcelona-based novelist and screenwriter, member of the Guionistes Associats de Catalunya (GAC) and registered with SGAE. His literary career began with the publication of his last novel, Rehenes del Abismo, in 2020 — a dystopian noir thriller set in a near-future Barcelona under single-party authoritarian rule, exploring themes of institutional corruption, resistance, and the personal cost of moral compromise.
The novel became the foundation for his first feature-length screenplay of the same title, Hostages of the Abyss, which has since built an exceptional international track record, achieving recognition across approximately 78% of the festivals and competitions to which it has been submitted. Its credits include six awards at the Caravan International Film Festival (20th Season), a Finalist placement at the Chicago Script Awards (June 2026, selected among 48 finalists worldwide from an international pool of submissions), two awards at the Art Film Awards (Best Screenplay and Best Movie Poster), an Official Selection at the Swedish International Film Festival, an Official Selection at the World Class Film Awards (Milan) in three categories — Best Screenplay Plot, Best Novel Screenwriter, and Best Movie Poster — and a professional evaluation by Blastoff Screenplay Competition (Los Angeles) with an aggregate score of 8/10. Festival Director Rowan Sutherland, M.F.A. (Screenwriting/Film), described the script as "An irresistible screenplay."
His second feature-length screenplay, La Llamada (The Call), is a social thriller and rural neo-noir set in contemporary Andalusia, where a young man's death forces an entire community to confront twenty years of collective silence. The screenplay is currently in active international festival submission and registered with Safe Creative with a certified SHA-256 hash.
Fernando Gracia writes in Spanish and English, and his work is rooted in European social and genre traditions, with a sustained interest in stories about institutional power, collective silence, and individual resistance.
La Llamada was born from a question that has stayed with me for years: what does it cost a community to stay silent? Not the silence of indifference, but the silence of fear — the kind that is passed down from generation to generation like an inheritance no one asked for and no one knows how to refuse.
I wanted to write a story set not in a city, but in a small town, because small towns make silence visible. Everyone knows everyone. Everyone knows what happened. And yet the machinery of fear — quiet, patient, invisible — keeps people from saying out loud what they already know to be true.
La Llamada is, on one level, a thriller about a brother trying to find justice for a death that was ruled an accident. But beneath that, it is a story about what happens when one person decides that silence is no longer an option — and how that single decision can, slowly and painfully, change everything around it.
I wrote this screenplay because I believe that stories about collective courage matter as much as stories about individual heroism. The real protagonist of La Llamada is not Álex. It is the moment when a community decides, after twenty years, to stop looking the other way.
