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Julio Medem to shoot new film next year
Spanish auteur Julio Medem is preparing to shoot his next film, Caotica Ana, in 2006 with backing from local powerhouse Sogecine.The film turns on a young woman fleeing her own fate after a hypnosis session allows her to glimpse parallel experiences she believes are past lives.Caotica Ana (literally, Chaotic Ana) ...
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Tornasol to understudy De la Iglesia's Oxford thriller
Spain'sTornasol Films is backing the second English-language foray of Spanish cultdirector Alex de la Iglesia, the UK-set Oxford Murders.A serial killer thriller set against the esoteric world of mathematics at Oxford University,Murders will shoot with an international cast there next year.AUK co-producer is in talks for the Euros 6m project, ...
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European Film Awards to be announced at Seville
The nominations for thisyear's European Film Awards will be announced at the Seville Film Festival onSunday.The event (November 4-12)will also host the presentation of the European actors selected for ShootingStars 2005.Seville's festival is decicatedtedentirely to European cinema, with 160 films and $290,000in prizes for the Spanish distributors of winning titles. ...
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Bedside manner earns Bize the Golden Spike
Chilean-Germanco-production In Bed scooped the Golden Spikeaward at the 50thanniversary edition of Spain's Valladolid International Film Festival.DirectorMatias Bize's film (En La Cama) turns on two strangerswho meet, decide to rent a hotel room for a tryst, then unexpectedly spend therest of the night talking. Thefilm picked up the top prize ...
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Malaga brings forward festival dates
The Spanish Film Festival of Malaga has moved its dates forward a monthto March and added several new awards for its 9th annual editionnext year.Organisers also announced that veteran Spanish scriptwriter Rafael Azcona, who has dozens of film credits to his nameincluding Oscar Award winner Belle Epoque, will receive this ...
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Virgins run wild at Spanish box office
Seville-set teendrama 7 Virgins ousted runaway localhit Torrente 3: The Protectorin a surprise upset at the Spanish box office over the weekend.7 Virgins (7 Virgenes) earned Euros 746,039 from just under148,000 admissions on its second weekend, beating Torrente 3's Euros 727,070 from nearly 143,000admissions.It is highly unusualfor atitle to rocket ...
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Sogepaq takes on Leon's Princesses
Spain's Sogepaqhas picked up international rights outside North America just ahead of the AFMon Fernando Leon's Princesses.The drama abouttwo prostitutes from different walks of life, played by Candela Pena (TakeMy Eyes) and newcomerMicaela Nevarez, is Leon's follow-up to the internationally well-received MondaysIn The Sun (Los Lunes Al Sol), which Sogepaq ...
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Spain finalises plans for new guarantee fund
The Spanish government hasformed a landmark new mutual guarantee fund for the audiovisual sector,unveiled Monday in Madrid under the banner Audiovisual SGR.Spain's Minister of CultureCarmen Calvo announced the initiative in sketchier detail at last month'sDonostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival while the project awaitedapproval from supervising entity the Bank of Spain.It ...
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Hard Candy sweeps prizes at Sitges
David Slade's Hard Candy picked up best film and script honors at Spain'sInternational Film Festival of Catalunya, better known as Sitges (Oct 9-17).Brian Nelson wrote thescript for Hard Candy, a shockingtale of sexual politics and revenge about a thirtysomething fashionphotographer and a 14 year-old girl who meet online then arrange ...
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Spanish broadcasters bankroll commercial fare
Spanishbroadcaster Antena 3 cranks up production on Monday (Oct 17) on its biggest feature filmto date, the Euros 10m period drama Los Borgia.The 100% Antena3 production is set to roll during 10 weeks in Spain and Italy beginningOctober 17 with stars Paz Vega (Spanglish), Lluis Homar (Bad Education), Maria Valverde ...
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Tenerife to host new Historical Film Festival
Spain's Canary Island of Tenerife will host thenewly-created International Historical Film Festival of La Laguna (Oct 13-15).Billed as a pioneer cultural and social eventin Spain, the festival, dubbed FICHLA, hopes to up its budget next year and runsubsequent editions over seven days.Teodoro Rios, organiser of the Spanish Film Screenings of ...
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Valladolid unveils competition line-up
Spain'sValladolid International Film Festival has unveiled the programme for itsupcoming 50th anniversary edition (Oct 21-29).To celebrate the event, the festival has created a one-time 50thAnniversary Prize with a cash award of Euros 50,000 to be split between thewinning film's producer and director. Another Euros 12,000 one-time prize willgo to a ...
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Sitges kicks off with Cronenberg's Violence
QuentinTarantino, Jodie Foster, Viggo Mortensen and David Cronenberg are among thehigh-profile guests expected at Catalunya's International Film Festival (Oct9-17), which kicks off on Sunday in the coastal resort town of Sitges.The festival'sswitch back from December to its traditional October dates has helped attractthe talents, director Angel Sala told local press.Sitges ...
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Torrente 3 smashes Spanish box office records
Torrente 3: The Protector, the third instalment inthe hugely successful local comedy franchise, made history on its openingweekend in Spain.Thefilm was released September 30 on a gargantuan 465 copies by UIP, whichreporteda record-making Euros 7.2m grossed off 1.38m admissions.The figuresmark the biggest opening ever for a film ofany nationality in ...
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Filmanova unveils three film slate at San Sebastian
Spanishproduction fund Filmanova Invest has unveiled three new films for 2006 withinternational names attached like Barry Gifford, Eva Green, Paul Auster andDaniel Schmid. Using theDonostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 15-24) as a platform,Filmanova chief Anton Reixa presented the projects on Tuesday with many of thetalents on hand. Bertoluccidiscovery Eva ...
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Beyond takes on sales for road movie Carmo
Beyond Films has picked up international salesduties on new Latin America-set feature film Carmo from start-up BR-3Films & Music UK. The romantic-adventure road movie described asBonnie & Clyde meets Y Tu Mama Tambien marks short film andTV writer-director Murilo Pasta's feature debut. Mariana Loureiro (BehindThe Sun) and Jorge Ramon (Brainstorm) ...
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El Dorado picks up sales rights to Garci catalogue
Mocha Aguilar'sstart-up Spanish sales house El Dorado Internacional has picked up rights on acatalogue of films from Academy Award winning director-producer Jose LuisGarci. The catalogue includes all ofGarci's films, including new feature Ninette, one of three currentfinalists pre-selected for Spain's nomination to this year's foreign-languageOscar.Also included isthe director's 1982 Oscar ...
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Local films dominate San Sebastian opening weekend
Local films dominated the opening weekend of the 53rdannual Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 15-24). Half of thecompetition titles to screen over the opening weekend were Spanish orSpain-backed. One of the festival's most highly anticipated world premieres, NineQueens director FabianBielinsky's2 hour 14 minutethrillerTheAura (El Aura), earned praise for its ...
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Shadowboxer sold to Italy in San Sebastian
Lee DanielsEntertainment closed a sale to Italy's Videa on Daniels' directorial debutShadowboxer at the San SebastianFilm Festival where it is in official selection. The film had its worldpremiere at Toronto.The company expects toannounce deals with the US and Spain in the days ahead.The film, which marks thedirectorial debut of producer ...
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El Aura cleans up at Argentina box office
Fabian Bielinsky's El Aura (The Aura), his follow-up to local smash Nine Queens, has opened to record-breaking numbers in its hometerritory of Argentina.Producer Patagonik Filmsreported that the film was seen by a massive 120,000 spectators on its firstweekend out on 51 prints through Patagonik backer Buena Vista International(BVI).That figure is ...