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Spain names trio of films to fight for Oscar contention
The Spanish Film Academy hasselected three finalists for its nomination to the foreign-language Oscar,including Montxo Armendariz's Obaba, which inaugurated the 53rd Donosita-San Sebastian International FilmFestival on Thursday night.The other two finalists areJose Luis Garci's theatre adaptation Ninette and Fernando Leon's prostitute drama Princesas.The Academy, which createdthe two-tiered selection four years ...
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San Sebastian kicks off with emotional tribute to Robert Wise
Spain'sDonostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival kicked off its 53rd annualedition Thursday night.The inaugurationat the coastal city's glass-box Kursaal auditorium commenced with news thatdirector Robert Wise, the subject of one of the festival's two retrospectives,had passed away just one day earlier.The festivalplayed a short video of Wise thanking San Sebastian forthe ...
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Andalucian outfit launches film investment fund
Agroup of film professionals and investors from the Spanish region of Andalusiahave launched new investment fund Surinvest Capital Andalucia to offerfinancing for film and TV works.The godfather of the project is director Antonio Caudri,whose Euros 11m, English-language UK co-production The Heart Of The Earthwill be the fund's tent-pole project for ...
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KWA takes on international sales for Galan's Editor
Spanish sales outfit KevinWilliams Associates (KWA) has picked up international rights on a handful ofnew Spanish and Latin American films including San Sebastian special screener Pablo G.del Amo: Editor Of Illusions. The documentary from DiegoGalan, the former director of the Donostia- San Sebastian International FilmFestival, tracks the career of one ...
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Anjelica Huston to head San Sebastian jury
Anjelica Huston will presideover the official jury of the 53rd Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 15-24), which has also unveiled TheWorld's Fastest Indian as its closing film.Written and directed byRoger Donaldson, The World's Fastest Indianstars Anthony Hopkinsin the true story-inspired tale of a man who set a new speed record ...
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Sogepaq runs with South Express
Spain's Sogepaqhas picked up world rights on new feature South Express, screening this month in both Toronto andSan Sebastian.The movie (SudExpress) weaves togethersix stories of ordinary people whose lives are touched by the fabled train linethat runs from Lisbon to Paris.It was shot onDVacross three countries and in five languages ...
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San Sebastian launches North African financing initiative
TheDonostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 15-24) is expandingits geographical reach with a new financing initiative targeting North Africanfilmmakers, building on its current reputation as a hotbed for emerging Latintalents.The festival has unveiled two sections in two days: thepopular Latin Horizons competition, where many of the films are alumni orfinalists ...
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Lumina takes on sales for Favela Rising doc
Sales house Lumina Films has picked up world rights outside the US toprize-winning documentary Favela Rising.The US-Brazilian co-production won directors Jeff Zimbalist and MattMochary the best new documentary filmmaker award at the Tribeca Film Festivalin May and will now screen at both the Montreal International Film Festival andin Rio de ...
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Zaentz, Forman call action on Goya's Ghosts
Milos Forman will strike up principal photography on his $36million (Euros 29m) historical drama Goya's Ghostsstarring Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skarsgard on September 5in Spain.The highly-anticipatedbiopic marks the reunion of Forman with his OneFlew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus producer Saul Zaentz. Ghosts willshoot entirely on location ...
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San Sebastian announces Films in Progress contenders
Seven projects chosen from 80applicants from across the world will compete for completion funding in thisyear's Films in Progress initiative.The contenders will screenbefore a range of cinema professionals on September 20 and 21 at theDonostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival.Each is hoping for finance to completetheir features, which are either still ...
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Galactic launch for Real Madrid movie
Madrid is to host the most lavish premiere in Spanish cinemahistory this week featuring the city's footballing megastars, known as galacticos.Real The Movie is the first official film featuringplayers from the Real Madrid football team.The project made a huge splash when it was unveiled atCannes last May and organisers expect ...
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Banderas leads Andalucian film push
The AndalusiaFilm Commission has announced new incentives to attract more internationalshoots to the region with the support ofnative son Antonio Banderas, whois planning to shoot his next film as a director in Malaga this autumn.Together withthe Andalusian Tourist Board, the Film Commission (AFC) has unveiled a newthree-year plan to jointly ...
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San Sebastian names New Directors contenders
Twenty-fourfilms from almost as many countries will compete for the Altadis New Directorsprize at the upcoming 53rd edition of the Donostia-San Sebastian InternationalFilm Festival (Sept 15-24).Social themes -from Tibetan exiles and Mongolian nomads to unemployed and illegal workers inSpain - reign across genres and from around the world in the ...
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Sogepaq to handle five more from Tesela
Spanishsales house Sogepaq has inked a deal with local producer Tesela to handle internationalsales and domestic video on five new and in-development features Includedin that five are two films that will be unveiled in the upcoming festivalseason. Among them is Venice Days screener The Wind (El Viento) from director Eduardo ...
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First Hand takes on sales for Oliveira's Magic Mirror
First Hand FilmsWorld Sales will handle international sales on venerable Portuguese directorManoel de Oliveira's Venice competitor Magic Mirror.The Zurich-basedcompany picked up the film prior to the announcement that it would compete inVenice, one of the cities where the film also partially shot.Mirror (Espelho Magico)is about an innocent ex-con who goes ...
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San Sebastian adds 13 titles to competition line-up
The Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 15-24), now in its 53rd edition, has unveiled13 more predominantly European and Asian features selected to complete thisyear's official competition.Among the high-profiledirectors throwing in their hat are Terry Gilliam, with his Texas-set tale of ayoung girl's fantasy world in Tideland, and Michael Winterbottom's period ...
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Moreau to head San Sebastian jury
Jeanne Moreau will preside over a high-profile official jury at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival(Sept 21-30).She is joined by Bruno Barreto, Isabel Coixet, Sara Driver, Bruno Ganz, Manuel Gomez Pereira and Jose Saramago.Mexican actress Patricia Reyes Spindola will preside over the New Directors' jury. The festival has also made ...
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Oldman, Ledoyen headline Filmax horror Backwoods
Gary Oldman and Virginie Ledoyen are headlining a new Englishlanguage horror title from Spain's Filmax, The Backwoods.To be sold internationally by Filmax, the film is aco-production with Spanish start-ups Monfort Producciones and Videntia FramesProducciones together with the UK's Holy Cow and France's Divine Productions.It began shooting under award-winning short film ...
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Argentinean romantic comedy scores in Spain
Juan Taratuto's romantic comedy It's NotYou, It's Me is breaking records for an Argentinean film in Spain.The film's Spanish distributor andinternational sales handler, Notro Films, says it is the first Argentinean filmto remain in the top 10 in Spain seven weeks after premiere. After a14-week run in the top 20 ...
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Guillermo del Toro enters the Labyrinth
Mexicandirector Guillermo del Toro started shooting this week in Spain on his latestfeature, the Spanish-language Pan's Labyrinth.The filmblends fairy tale and realism in the story of a 13-year-old girl named Ofeliawho discovers the ruins of a labyrinth where a mysterious creature hails her asa long-awaited princess and puts her to ...