Found Alive to Open Sitges: Chloë Grace Moretz Stars in Carlota Pereda’s First English-Language Feature

# What this is

# Story setup Reeve LeClaire (Chloë Grace Moretz) escaped a sadistic kidnapper as a teenager. Ten years later, Reeve's therapist asks her to help a woman who has just been rescued. That contact reopens Reeve's old case and sends her looking for the man responsible while other missing women may still be alive. The film's runtime is 96 minutes.

# Creative team and cast

• Director: Carlota Pereda. This is her third feature and first made in English. She previously directed Piggy (2022).
• Normal, a 2013 novel by Carla Norton. Norton's background includes true-crime nonfiction as well as fiction.
• Screenwriters: Carlota Pereda, Matt Venne and Lori Evans Taylor.
• Lead: Chloë Grace Moretz as Reeve LeClaire.
• Supporting cast: Rupert Friend as Dr. Ezra Learner (the psychiatrist who brings Reeve into the new case), Scott Haze credited as The Duke (the man Reeve pursues), and Thomas Cocquerel as Nick.
• Composer: Olivier Arson, who worked with Pereda on Piggy.
• Producers/companies: XYZ Films, Vanishing Angle and Industry Entertainment.

# Production details The film shot in Utah across May and June of 2025. No U.S. distributor or wider release date has been announced as of the Sitges announcement.

# How the film connects to Pereda's prior work Pereda's previous feature, Piggy, was a Spanish-language film about a bullied teenager who witnesses a killer and remains silent. Found Alive keeps Pereda in psychological and survival territory but enlarges the time frame: it examines a decade of aftermath instead of a single summer.

# Festival placement and significance Sitges bills Found Alive as a "fast-paced survival thriller masterfully filmed by the director of Piggy." Pereda is the first Spanish woman to direct a Sitges opening film and only the fourth woman overall to open the festival. Found Alive will screen in Official Fantàstic competition as well as the opening slot.

# What's still unknown No U.S. distributor has been named and there is no release date beyond the Sitges premiere. Audience and critical reception will first form at Sitges, which runs October 8–18.

# Quick practical takeaways

• If you follow Pereda's work, Found Alive represents a move into English-language filmmaking while keeping psychological-survival themes.
• Sitges attendees will see the world premiere on October 8 and the film will compete in the festival's Official Fantàstic selection.
• Expect a lean runtime (96 minutes) and a creative team that includes Pereda collaborators (composer Olivier Arson) and genre-seasoned actors (Moretz, Rupert Friend, Scott Haze).