In the midst of his multi-million-dollar lawsuit against Amazon, Woody Allen has picked up and started working on a new film in Spain. According to The New York Times, the divisive director has received backing from Mediapro, a Barcelona-based conglomerate that has previously worked with Allen on films like Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Midnight in Paris.

“We have a 10-year relationship with Mr. Allen and, like all projects we produce, we judge the creator by its work,” Mediapro said in a statement to the Times. “All of our projects have a unique personality, and we support all types of artistic voices and ideas and remain committed to producing well-defined and creative projects for audiences worldwide.”

Amazon recently backed out of a $68 million, four-picture deal with Allen amid renewed scrutiny in the #MeToo era. Dylan Farrow, Allen’s estranged daughter, has repeatedly accused the filmmaker of molesting her as a child; Allen has repeatedly denied the allegations. The director’s latest film, A Rainy Day in New York, was expected to be released at some point in 2018, but plans were eventually scrapped after the film’s stars—including Timothée Chalamet and Rebecca Hall—began explicitly distancing themselves from the project. Amazon then decided to terminate its deal with Allen. According to the Times, the studio e-mailed Allen’s reps last June, citing the renewed focus on sexual misconduct allegations against Allen, as well as the director’s “own comments, and the increasing refusal of top talent to work with or be associated with him in any way, all of which have frustrated the purpose of the agreement.” Allen has been disavowed by numerous stars who have worked with him in the past, including Natalie Portman, Greta Gerwig, Ellen Page, and more. Stars like Javier Bardem and Jude Law have not been so quick to condemn him, however. Bardem in particular has been an ardent Allen supporter, comparing the backlash against the director to “a public lynching.”

Allen filed a suit in February against the studio for reneging on the multi-film deal. “Amazon has tried to excuse its action by referencing a 25-year-old, baseless allegation against Mr. Allen, but that allegation was already well-known to Amazon (and the public) before Amazon entered into four separate deals with Mr. Allen—and, in any event, it does not provide a basis for Amazon to terminate the contract,” states the complaint.

In an interview published Monday, Amazon studio head Jennifer Salke (who replaced ousted head Roy Price, who championed the deal with Allen, but left the company in 2017 amid his own sexual misconduct scandal; he never publicly commented on the allegations against him) said the company would remain steadfast. “We don’t have any plans to release any Woody Allen movies,” she said.

Allen, meanwhile, has made it clear that losing Amazon’s support has not dissuaded him from working. “I’m a writer,” he told Page Six last October. “It’s what I am. What I do. What I always will be. I’ll write. Since I continually have ideas, it’ll be new ideas and I’ll write new things.”

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