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Spain's Avalon partners with Fnac on DVD label
Spanishproducer-distributor Avalon Pictures has launched a new DVD sell-through labelin Spain with entertainment megastore Fnac handling classic internationalauteur titles.The label, Filmoteca Fnac, will handle an initial 20 to 25films per year from auteur directors like Fellini, Cassavetes, Jarmusch andKitano.Titles will be released on anywhere from 1500-4000 copies.Avalon founder Stefan Schmitz ...
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Euro producers link up for Carreras' Wind
New Spanish company Ficcion Producciones has signed on fourEuropean co-producers to its debut feature, 18th century drama Talking WithThe Wind starring Luis Tosar.Italy'sD'Ursi, Germany's Pictorion Pictures and Portugal's EPC Lisboa will each bring12% of the Euros 2.8m budget to the film, shooting next autumn for directorDavid Carreras (Hipnos).Spain's Intuition Films ...
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Spain's Filmanova boards mystery tale Portovero
Spain'sFilmanova Invest has signed on to co-produce T&C Film's Portovero fromSwiss director Daniel Schmid and writer Barry Gifford.The mystery-laden tale set in a fictitious port city, wherea married woman invents a second identity in order to embark on an affair, willshoot partially in Spain's Galicia region next autumn.Schmid, director of ...
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Filmax options Iraq war Invader
Spain's Filmax has optioned the rights to Fernando Marias'novel Invader (Invasor).The novel blends reality and horror fantasy in the tale of aSpanish doctor who returns from a peace mission in the Iraq War, where he wasunwittingly involved in a double murder, to find his home and family lifemysteriously afflicted.Filmax is ...
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Sales veteran Aguilar leaves Spain's Aurum
Salesveteran Mocha Aguilar has left her position as director of international salesat Spanish distibutor Aurum Producciones to launch her own El DoradoInternational.Aguilar, who was with Aurum from its launch in 1995, willcontinue to represent Aurum's catalogue of Spanish films and is also looking toindependently pick up third-party titles in advance ...
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Venture capital group acquires Spain's Abaco
Venture capital groupMercapital has invested Euros 55m in Spanish exhibition company Grupo Abaco tobecome the majority shareholder.The operation leaves Abaco president Manuel Ramirez andgeneral manager Fernando Robredo with remaining shares and continued directionof the company. The Valencia-based firm owns 157 screens in 16 theatres acrossSpain.The investment will allow Abaco to ...
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Voyage sails off with Mar del Plata prize
Ismael Ferroukhi's French-Moroccan co-production Le GrandVoyage was awarded the Golden Astro for best feature film at the 20thanniversary edition of Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival(March 10-20)Le Grand Voyage star Mohamed Majid also won bestactor for his work in the film, a road movie with a twist about a ...
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Malaga festival unveils first films in competition line-up
The 8th annual editionof the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 22-30) has unveiled the first five featuresset to compete in its official line-up, which kicks off with opening film AntsIn The Mouth by Mariano Barroso.The five competitors, representing some of the most anticipated new filmsout of Spain this season, ...
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Dygra racks up further Midsummer pre-sales
Spanish animation producer Dygra Films has pre-sold itsanticipated new feature film Midsummer Dream to Scanbox Entertainmentfor rights in five Scandinavian countries.Scanbox took rights in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland andDenmark, meaning the film has now racked up pre-sales to 61 internationalterritories through sales handler Lumina Films.The deal was closed at the ...
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Wanda takes on sales for Rotterdam winner Sky Turns
Spain's Wanda Vision will handle international sales onMercedes Alvarez's award-winning documentary The Sky Turns (El Cielo Gira).Thefilm, which has already sold to France's ARTE, was a surprise Tiger Awardwinner in Rotterdam and took home the top prize last weekend at Paris's Cinemadu Reel festival.Wanda plans to release the title in ...
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Las Palmas festival hands top prize to Chinese World
Veteran Chinese director Jia Zhangke won the Golden LadyHarimaguada prize for The World, which also won best cinematography, atlast week's Las Palmas International Film Festival of Spain (March 3-12).The Silver prize went to Lebanese-French-Belgian co-productionIn The Battlefields (Maarek Hob), which screened in Cannes Directors'Fortnight last year. The film's director Danielle ...
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Films In Progress announces 2005 line-up
FilmsIn Progress, the joint completion financing initiative of the San SebastianInternational Film Festival and the Latin American Film Festival of Toulouse,has unveiled the seven titles screening in the seventh edition March 17-18 inToulouse.The titles were selected from among 47 entries from acrossLatin America. They will screen for producers, distributors, labs,broadcasters, ...
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Mar del Plata kicks off in face of economic troubles
Argentina's Mar del Plata International Film Festival kicksoff its 20th anniversary edition today (March 10-20) with a line-up boastingmore than 300 titles.Thisyear the sole FIAPF-accredited A-grade festival in Latin America will also hostthe first annual Mercosur Film Market (March 14-19), sponsored by Al-Invest,Europe's MEDIA Programme and the local Exportar Foundation."The ...
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Malaga festival unveils market initiatives
The Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 22-30) will hostfour industry-oriented markets this year, adding two new three-day events toits calendar of activities.On top of the now established feature film Market Screeningsfor international buyers (April 24-26) and documentary market Mercadoc (April24-26), the festival has unveiled a new TV Market (April ...
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23 projects for Las Palmas co-prod market
Twenty-three feature film projects from across Europe havesigned up for the third annual EuroForum co-production market, held March 9-11during Spain's Las Palmas International Film Festival (March 4-12), which kicksoff tomorrow with Paul Weitz's inaugural film In Good Company.Fatih Akin's new comedy Soul Kitchen,bullfighters-in-training tale The Sweet Life from Spanishproducer-distributor Alta ...
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SPAIN 3 March
Distributor Filmax is looking to benefit from the multipleOscar wins of Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. The film has alreadybeen seen by more than 1 million spectators in Spain, where it had earned Euros6.5m pre-Oscars after its fourth weekend, making it the highest-grossing ofEastwood's recent films to premiere in Spain. ...
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Spanish producers spread their film budget bets
A contradictory trend is at work in Spain: the country ismaking increasingly more low-budget films, yet production cranks up this monthon two of its costliest features ever, Viggo Mortensen-starrer Alatristeand Vicente Aranda's The White Knight.Average feature film budgets decreased in Spain last yearand almost two-thirds of films were budgeted at ...
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Spanish box office hit gets sales lift at EFM
Spanish salesconsortium Grupo Pi has announced a handful of deals concluded at the recentEuropean Film Market in Berlin.The outfit soldlocal box office hit 4th Floor (Planta 4a) to Movie Max in Italy, where the film is expectedto be released on around 50 prints, and to Jekino Films for Benelux.The BocaBocaproduction, ...
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Spain's Filmanova to co-finance flamenco biopic Camaron.
Galician investment fundFilmanova Invest has signed on to co-finance Spanish veteran Jaime Chavarri'slatest film, flamenco biopic Camaron.Camaron will star up-and-comer Oscar Jaenada (November)in the life story of well-known flamenco musician Jose Monge Cruz, better knownas "Camaron de la Isla.""We were attracted to thisproject because we believe it has huge international ...
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Sixth Lanzarote Screenings attracts buyers from 20 countries
Fifty buyers from more than20 countries are expected to attend the sixth annual Spanish Film Screenings ofLanzarote (Feb 24-26).Newly dubbed the WinterScreenings - due to a move from lateNovember to February, Lanzarote offers buyers the opportunity to see more than30 new Spanish films from the last year.Three premieres will getgala ...