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AFM: Spanish sales companies look beyond horror
The last few years have all been about horror films from Spain but 2009 promises a more diverse slate of projects. One of the few scary movies in the works is Filmax's [Rec 2] which will be offered to buyers for the first time at the AFM. Jamie Balauguero is ...
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Wild Bunch sells Javier Fesser's Camino to several territories
Spanish director Javier Fesser's controversial, but popular religious family drama Camino has been sold by Wild Bunch to several territories, including Latin America and India.Currently on general release in Spain through Alta Films, the film has been picked up by SPI for Poland, Quality Films for Latin America, Alliance for ...
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Spain - Speeding bullet
Award-winning Spanish director Jaime Rosales has sparked huge controversy with his latest film, Bullet In The Head (Tiro En La Cabeza). It follows the everyday life of an ETA member, with no dialogue within earshot and little action until the explosive closing scenes.During the film's world premiere in competition at ...
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Pandora's Box wins the Golden Shell at San Sebastian
Yesim Ustaoglu's coming home drama Pandora's Box has won the Golden Shell for best film at the 56th edition of San Sebastian.An international premiere at the festival, Ustaoglu's Turkish-French-German-Belgian co-production tells the story of three siblings forced to put their differences aside to find their missing mother.The film beat off ...
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Norteadocompletes hat trick at San Sebastian's Films In Progress
Mexican director Rigoberto Perezcano has won all three awards in the Films In Progress section of the San Sebastian film festival for his debut feature Norteado.The Industry award will allow Perezcano to complete post production on the film, in particular to establish a English subtitled 35mm copy. It is supported ...
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San Sebastian deals for Still Walking and Pandora's Box
Golem Distribucion has acquired the Spanish theatrical rights to Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Still Walking (Aruitemo, Aruitemo). The deal was done with Celluloid Dreams at the San Sebastian film festival. The film had its international premiere at Toronto.Still Walking is a family drama about grown-up siblings returning to their family ...
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Funny Balloons seals raft of territories for Louise-Michel
French sales outfit Funny Balloons has sold Benoit Delepine and Gustav Kervern's black comedy Louise-Michel to Ad Vitam in France, Pony Films (Austria), Columbus (Switzerland), Cirko (Hungary), Independenta (Romania), UTV (India), Vendetta (New Zealand/Australia), and Maywin (CSI and Baltics). The deals were closed on the back of the film's world ...
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San Sebastian announces Cinema In Motion award winners
San Sebastian's Cinema In Motion programme has selected Najwa Najjar's romantic drama Pomegranates And Myrrh, Mohamed Chrif Tribak's political tale Le Temps Des Camarades and De Gaulle Eid's moving film Chou Sar' as this year's winners.The three were chosen from a shortlist of five projects all from the Maghreb region ...
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Wide Management sells La Vida Loca to Siren Visual for Australia/New Zealand
Wide Management has sold Christian Poveda's documentary La Vida Loca to Siren Visual for theatrical distribution in Australia and New Zealand.The deal was struck following the film's world premiere at the San Sebastian film festival on Saturday. In addition, Wide Management is negotiating the rights to La Vida Loca for ...
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Michael Winterbottom begins work on Naomi Klein'sShock Doctrine
Michael Winterbottom and Road To Guantanamo collaborator Mat Whitecross are working on documentary The Shock Doctrine.The film is based on a book by Naomi Klein whichaims to expose what she calls 'disaster capitalism'. The theory is that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, warand terror to establish its dominance.Klein herself ...
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Banderas to star in Mexican drama La hija Del Ruisenor
Antonio Banderas has revealed that his next project will be the supernatural thriller La Hija Del Ruisenor from Mexican director Luis Mandoki.Banderas will star as the father of a young girl with supernatural powers. Filming is set to begin in January in Mexico where the actor has already made seven ...
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San Sebastian ready to welcome 1,600 industry attendees
This year's San Sebastian film festival (September 18-28) has attracted some of the leading lights of world cinema to its shores, including Kim Ki-duk, Christophe Honore, the Coen Brothers, and Richard Eyre, whose film The Other Man will kick off proceedings tonight.For full San Sebastian preview, click hereMore than 1,600 ...
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In Focus: Galicia
Galicia may be an autonomous state tucked away in the north-west corner of Spain, but that is not stopping a new breed of local film-makers from bursting onto the global scene by working with international film-makers on bigger budget productions.New companies such as Perro Verde and Vaca Films, as well ...
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Preview: San Sebastian International Film Festival
Set in a pretty horseshoe bay lined with restaurants and cafes, San Sebastian has always been one of the most popular stop-offs on the annual festival circuit. The festival is appreciated for its laid-back approach to business dealings and as a productive breeding ground for Spanish and South American talent.This ...
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Interview: San Sebastian director Mikel Olaciregui
Which festivals do you particularly enjoy''I enjoy Cannes. It is a lot of work, meeting contacts and watching films. But in the world of festivals, it is the leader. For years it has been finding new talent, attracting all the stars and all the industry. I love Berlin, where you ...
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San Sebastian to honour Antonio Banderas and Meryl Streep
The San Sebastian film festival has announced that Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas will receive the Donostia award, which is given to a film personality in recognition of their work and career. A respected Spanish actor and director, Banderas' career spans from his role in Pedro Almodovar's Labyrinth Of Passion ...
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Richard Eyre's The Other Man to open San Sebastian
San Sebastian has announced that British director Richard Eyre's romantic drama The Other Man will open the festival in official selection, out of competition, and US director Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom will be the closing film.The Other Man is a romantic tale involving a love triangle between Antonio Banderas, ...
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San Sebastian announces Films In Progress projects
San Sebastian has announced the six titles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina and Nicaragua that will make up this year's Films In Progress section of the festival.The projects are:Carlos Serrano Azcona's Mexican drama El Arbol about a man who has to turn his life around after being prevented from seeing his ...
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There Will Be Blood takes Fipresci Grand Prix
US director Paul Thomas Anderson has been awarded the Fipresci Grand Prix for his film There Will Be Blood.The award for best film of the year, which is given by the international federation of film critics, will be collected by Anderson in person at the San Sebastian Film Festival's opening ...
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San Sebastian selects projects for Cinema in Motion
The San Sebastian International Film Festival has revealed the four films that will compete in the fourth edition of Cinema In Motion, which highlights key projects from the Maghreb region and developing Arabian countries.This year's selected projects are Lebanese director De Gaulle Eid's Chou Sar' (Lebanon-France-Palestine); Najwa Najjar's Pomegranates And ...