All articles by Chris Evans – Page 11
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NewsLatido secures Asian deals on top titles
Spanish sales outfit Latido Films has secured several deals for its films, especially in Asia, including Oscar winner The Secret In Their Eyes to Korea and India.
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NewsSan Sebastian adds films from Sayles, Kawasi, Ruiz
Several titles from major award-winning international film makers, including John Sayles, Naomi Kawasi and Raul Ruiz, have been added to the official selection line-up at the San Sebastian film festival, where they will compete for the coveted Golden Shell.
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San Sebastian world premieres include Villaronga's Black Bread
The San Sebastian film festival has announced four Spanish titles for its official selection, which will all compete for the Golden Shell.
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Spanish 3D animation Holy Night to world premiere at San Sebastian
Spain’s first film to be made in 3D, titled Holy Night, will make its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival next month.
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Rebordinos to head San Sebastian as Olaciregui plans surprise departure
The San Sebastian Film Festival has announced that its director Mikel Olaciregui will be replaced by Jose Luis Rebordinos from January 1, 2011, following the next edition of the event in September.The surprising announcement was made late Friday night after a lengthy meeting of the board of directors at the ...
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NewsSpanish Film Institute passes new cultural test for funds
Local and international producers will be relieved to see that the cultural requirements are pretty straightforward and in some cases quite generic.
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FeaturesSleep Tight
Filming is underway on Rec director Jaume Balaguero’s latest project, the $6m terror thriller Sleep Tight, which is being produced by Spanish studio Filmax.
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NewsNick Nolte to star in US-Spain drama At 2:15
Spanish outfit CLO D’Art Productions will make a $3m (€2.5m) drama titled At 2:15 with a US co-producer and a mixture of leading American and Spanish actors, including Nick Nolte.
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NewsProducers and financiers square up at Spanish film finance conference
The Screen International-backed conference reveals the chasm between producers and private financiers in Spain.
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NewsGerard Yubero partners with Legacy, Wind Fish for Tango Dancer
The Spanish producer will work with Canada’s Legacy Filmeworks and UK’s Wind Fish on $7m Spain-set thriller.
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NewsTornasol, Haddock reteam for thriller Everyone Has A Plan
Leading Spanish producers Tornasol Films are once again uniting with Argentina’s Haddock Films on a new thriller titled Everyone Has A Plan, following their collaboration on the Oscar winning drama The Secret In Their Eyes.
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Major European producers unite for sea drama Wave
Maria Ripoll’s tragic sea adventure film Wave is finally set to go ahead after four years in gestation with several leading European producers attached, including Belgium’s Banana Films, Spain’s Kanzaman Films and Ireland’s Samson Films.
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NewsFilmax pick up sales rights to Vaca Films’ thriller Kidnapped
Spanish mini studio Filmax has taken international sales rights outside Spain and France to award winning director Miguel Angel Vivas’ new project Kidnapped, starring leading Spanish actor Fernando Cayo.
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Spain's Cell 211 producers to make detective thriller Nowhere
Leading Spanish production outfit Vaca Films will follow the huge success of their prison drama Cell 211 with the $5m thriller Nowhere, to be written and directed by Manuel Sanabria.
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NewsScreen International to co-sponsor Spanish film financing conference in Madrid
Spain’s film institute, the ICAA, and government backed film finance facilitators, Audiovisual SGR, are co-organising a finance conference to take place in Madrid on July 1 looking at how producers can access private funding for their film projects.
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NewsSpain’s Rodar Y Rodar to work on new project with Julia’s Eyes team
Major Spanish producers Rodar Y Rodar are set to make a new $7m thriller/horror called El Hombre Hueco with Guillem Morales and Oriol Paolo, the writing/directing duo of Julia’s Eyes.
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Kanzaman to produce Blood Wedding, also comes on board for Don Quixote
Leading Spanish outfit Kanzaman Films has come on board for Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, starring Robert Duvall, and David Carson’s Blood Wedding, based on Federico Garcia Lorca’s famous play.
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NewsMajor European outfits partner for The Violin of Auschwitz
German outfit Rich And Famous Film are set to co-produce a new English-language WWII drama called The Violin Of Auschwitz with several major producers, including Lolafilms in Spain and TF1 from France.
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NewsGolem picks up slew of Cannes award winners for Spain
Leading indie/arthouse distributor Golem has picked up Spanish rights to several Cannes award winners, including Aussie director Michael Rowe’s Camera D’Or winner Leap Year from Pyramide and Xavier Beauvois’ Grand Prix winner Of Gods And Men from Wild Bunch.
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FeaturesElisa Salinas
Mexican businesswoman and leading film/TV producer Elisa Salinas talks to Chris Evans about her own companies, Television Azteca and Corazon Films, and her new post on the board of Filmax.