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Amenabar beats Almodovar to Spanish Oscar nod
Alejandro Amenabar's The Sea Inside will represent Spain in the race for aforeign-language Oscar nomination.Sea (Mar Adentro)beat out Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) and Jose Luis Garci's Tiovivo C.1950, the other two semi-finalists selectedby the Spanish Academy.Spain's most international director, Almodovar lostout on the 2002 nomination with his ...
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Pons' Idiot benefits from Spanish Euros 40m fund
Ventura Pons' Idiot Loveand Eduard Cortes' Other Days Will Come are two of the feature films setto receive backing from a Euros 40m fund created by Sogecable and CatalanTelevision (TVC).The projects form part ofthe first Euros 4m earmarked from the fund, 50% of the anticipated investmentthis year. Four TV movies ...
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Spanish film-makers win major funding boost
Spain'snew Socialist government has increased funding for Spanish cinema by 89%,fulfilling its election promises to support cultural industries.The national film institute's (ICAA) Cinema Protection Fund,the key funding body for Spanish cinema, now totals Euros 63.13m.ICAA's own budget rose by 62%, part of an overall 6.5%increase to culture funding under the ...
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European Film Awards to fete Liv Ullmann
LivUllmann will receive the European Achievement in World Cinema award at thisyear's European Film Awards ceremony, to be held on December 11 in Barcelona.The Norwegian-born actress and director is best known forher collaborations with Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, including Persona,Scenes From A Marriage and Cries And Whispers, among others. Theirmost ...
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Fox nabs Latin American rights to Sea Inside
Sogepaq has sold all Latin American rights to 20thCentury Fox on Alejandro Amenabar's Spanish-language hit The Sea Insidestarring Javier Bardem.LatinAmerica was the last remaining major territory to sell excluding Germany, forwhich Sogepaq says it is considering various offers.Seawon both the Grand Jury Prize and the best actor Volpi Cup at ...
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New distributor launches into Spanish market
Start-up Spanish distributor ABL Augusta has joined with twopartners to launch new distribution company Notro Films to reach the Spanish,Portuguese and possibly Latin American markets.The partners, who made their announcement at the SanSebastian International Film Festival (Sept 17-25), include ABL founder AdolfoBlanco, and Jose Maria Irisarri and Marcos Fernandez of ...
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San Sebastian sees Torrente action
He lies,he drinks, he rarely showers - Spanish P.I. Torrente is back in AmiguetesEntertainment's in-the-works Torrente 3.Industry executives had the chance to get in early on theT3 action as one of a handful of new projects presented at the SalesOffice of the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 17-25).Theestimated Euros ...
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DeA Planeta likes look of Mirror Maze
Spanish-Italianmedia conglomerate DeA Planeta has boarded new Rioja Films thriller MirrorMaze as co-producer and local distributor.Rioja chief Jose Antonio Romero and the film's director,Guillermo Groizard, unveiled the project at the San Sebastian InternationalFilm Festival (Sept 17-25).It is oneof five feature co-productions brought to DeA Planeta by new executivepresident Alvaro Zapata ...
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Spanish pay-TV outfit snaps up arthouse films
Spain'ssole pay-TV platform Digital Plus has signed new deals with local independentdistributors Alta Films, Wanda Vision, Vertigo, Musidora and Golem, coveringkey European arthouse hits such as Dogville, Goodbye, Lenin! and TheGirl With The Pearl Earring.The dealscover only a handful of already-released titles cherry-picked from eachdistributor, and are among the first ...
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European Film Awards names 42 finalists
The European Film Academy has announced the 42 finalistsselected to compete for this year's 17th edition of the European Film Awards,to be celebrated on December 11 in Barcelona.Among thetitles are international festival favourites and local box office hits such as BadEducation, Ae Fond Kiss, 5 x 2, The Sea Inside, ...
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Allen's star shines at San Sebastian
Woody Allen was the undeniable star of the opening weekendof the 52nd annual edition of Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival(Sept 17-25).That is saying a lot, considering other visitors includedthe always-polemic Oliver Stone, M. Night Shyamalan presenting The Village, Michael Winterbottom accompanying his controversialNine Songs, and local hero PedroAlmodovar, in ...
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Almodovar to honour Allen at San Sebastian
Pedro Almodovar is confirmed to present Woody Allen with theDonostia Award on Friday night at the inaugural ceremony of the San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 17-25).Allen's new comedy Melinda& Melinda opens the festival, and the director will hold a pressconference earlier in the day.Also at the inaugural ceremony, UK film ...
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Filmax adds Deadly Cargo to sales slate
Following its pick-up this week of Hypnos, FilmaxInternational has acquired worldwide distribution rights to another Spanishthriller, Deadly Cargo (Camara Oscura).Judging by Filmax's two new pick-ups in two days, theSpanish industry looks to have a dynamic new sales house to go to, particularlyfor genre product. Filmax is best known internationally for ...
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Spain's Sogepaq closes sales on The Sea Inside
Spain's Sogepaq has announced the first sales on AlejandroAmenabar's The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)following its double prize coup in Venice over the weekend.The company closed seven territories including Switzerland(Frenetic), Netherlands (A Film), Portugal (Atalanta), Belgium (CineArt),Hungary (Budapest Film), Greece (Strada) and Israel (Shani Films).Fine Line already has English-speaking territories, whileFrance ...
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Filmax takes on international Hypnos sales
Filmax International has picked up worldwide distributionrights to Spanish thriller Hypnos (Hipnos)from DeAPlaneta PC, and will present it to buyers in Toronto.The deal teams two of Spain's film behemoths and couldmark the start of a prolific relationship. It also marks only the second timeFilmax has picked up a third-party film ...
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Vargas Llosa named as San Sebastian jury chief
Writer Mario Vargas Llosa has been named as the jurypresident at this year's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept17-25), which has closed its official line-up with the announcement of specialscreenings, awards and juries.The rest of the official selection jury comprises YaminaBenguigui, Tom DiCillo, Marta Esteban, Laura Morante, Eduardo Serra and ...
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Spain, Morocco strike film accord
The governments of Spain and Morocco have signed a culturalcollaboration agreement covering sectors of the arts including cinema.The accord spans 2005-2006. Specifically for the cinemasector, the accord talks of furthering the diffusion of films from each countryand promoting professional meetings to discuss potential co-productionmechanisms.The agreement was signed in Rabat on ...
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New Yorker takes My Eyes for US
Spanish sales house Sogepaq has closed a deal with NewYorker Films for US distribution of award-winning local drama Take My Eyes.New Yorker is expected to premiere the film in 2005. The USwas the last of the major territories to sell excluding Germany, which Sogepaqsays it is near to closing.Take My ...
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San Sebastian names Floor as closing film
Tod Williams' The Door In The Floor has been selected as the closing film for theupcoming San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 17-25).Jeff Bridges and Tod Williams are expected to be on-hand forthe festival's closing gala. The film co-stars Kim Basinger, Jon Fosterand Mimi Rogers in the tragic tale of ...
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Balaguero cranks up Flockhart thriller for Filmax
Spain's Filmax begins shooting today (Monday) on itslatest English-language outing, Jaume Balaguero's Fragile starring Calista Flockhart and rising Spanishactress Elena Anaya.The thriller, Balaguero's follow-up to 2002's Darkness and co-scripted with Jordi Galceran, will shoot fornine weeks between Barcelona and England's Isle of Wight. The budget wasnot disclosed. Filmax's Julio Fernandez ...