Originally commissioned by local Basque public TV broadcaster ETB, the series’ global rights were scooped by Filmax after episode one was buzzed up by critics and viewers on social media in its local market. The series fits nicely within the framework of high-end regional content coming from the northern Spanish community, which has had a large success in film production.
“Mouths of Sand,” in title and in theme, is based on an old seafaring legend which says that whoever tells the secrets of the sea on land will have his mouth filled with sand, because the words brought to land always leave traces. In the series, Inspector Nerea Garcia, played by Nagore Aranburu , is ordered to a small fishing village where she must investigate the disappearance of Josu, a boat captain, and the son-in-law of one of the town’s most powerful businessmen.
To best capture the surrounding countryside, “Mouths of Sand” recruited Javier Aguirre, one of the Basque County and Spain’s most decorated and hardest working cinematographers. In the last four years he has received three Spanish Academy Award nominations, winning one for his work on 2018’s San Sebastian Jury Prize and best Basque film winner “Giant.”
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