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San Sebastian lines up political documentaries
Six political themeddocumentaries - including Oliver Stone's Looking For Fidel and BasqueCountry-set Persecuted - have been invited to screenat nextmonth's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 17-25) as part of itsOpen Zone (Zabaltegi) sectionThe festival also has addedfive new films, four of them documentaries, to its Latin Horizons sidebar, allout ...
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San Sebastian unveils 2nd Latin Horizons competition
New films from talents across Latin America will beshowcased in the San Sebastian International Film Festival's (Sept 17-25)second annual Latin Horizons competition.The section carries a jury-awarded prize worth Euros 18,000.Films entirely or partially produced in Latin America, directed by filmmakersof Latin origin or inspired by Latin culture are eligible. The ...
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Pony Canyon takes rights to Spanish Sea
Japan's Pony Canyon has picked up rights to AlejandroAmenabar's much-anticipated The Othersfollow-up, The Sea Within (Mar Adentro).Starring Javier Bardem in the true story-based tale of aparalyzed man who fought for decades for the right to die, The Sea Within (formerly OutTo Sea) competes at next week's Venice Film Festival.Venice is ...
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Zabaltegi unveils festivals' top titles
Walter Salles' TheMotorcycle Diaries, Joshua Marston's MariaFull Of Grace, Mike Leigh's VeraDrake and three memorable documentaries are among the thirteen titlesselected by the San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 17-25) for itspopular "Festivals' Top" selection of hits from other festivals.Calling this year's selection "daring," San Sebastian haschosen three documentaries for ...
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Horas De Luz joins San Sebastian competition
Spanish production HorasDe Luz has been added to the official competition of the San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 17-25).The Sogecine title from director Manolo Matji stars EmmaSuarez (former Julio Medem muse) and Alberto San Juan (Football Days) in the true story-inspired tale of redemption andlove between a convicted murderer and ...
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Sogepaq adds Roma to autumn slate
Spain's Sogepaq has picked up international rights to SanSebastian competition title Roma fromveteran Argentine director Adolfo Aristarain.The film joins Sogepaq's fall slate, headlined by AlejandroAmenabar's much-anticipated drama Out ToSea (Mar Adentro) starring Javier Bardem, and Alex de la Iglesia's newblack comedy Ferpect Crime (CrimenFerpecto).A tale spanning 50 years, Roma follows ...
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San Sebastian unveils New Directors competition line-up
A selection of eighteen films from seventeen differentcountries will compete for the New Directors award at next month's 52nd annualedition of Spain's San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 17-25).The selection furthers the geographic diversity of thefestival's official competition line-up, unveiled last week. The Altadis-NewDirectors prize comes with a purse of ...
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San Sebastian selects seven Films In Progress
The San Sebastian and Toulouse film festivals' joint fundinginitiative, Films in Progress, has announced the seven Latin American titlesinvited to participate in this year's sixth edition, including first-timeentries from Brazil and Uruguay.The projects seek assistance to complete post-production.Various privately sponsored awards provide additional incentive to chosenfilms. The screenings will take ...
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San Sebastian unveils main competition titles
The Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival hasunveiled 15 of the titles set to compete for the official competition's GoldenShell prize at this year's 52nd edition (Sept 17-25) - showing off ahigh-profile and geographically balanced international line-up.Following the inauguration by Woody Allen'sout-of-competition comedy Melinda AndMelinda are new films from well-known international ...
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Stantic sets Lerman's Meanwhile
Argentine producer LitaStantic, backer of Lucrecia Martel's Cannes competition title The Holy Girl (La Nina Santa), ispreparing the next film from up-and-coming director Diego Lerman.Provisionally titled Mientras Tanto (Meanwhile), the filmwill follow the overlapping stories of a cluster of characters populating lowermiddle-class Buenos Aires. Two young women provide the link ...
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Morena launches Trauma, sets Saura
Spain's Morena Films isgearing up for an ambitious year with the launch of new genre label Trauma anda musical feature in development with veteran director Carlos Saura.The projects represent thetwo divergent lines of production at Morena: commercially-oriented,locally-targeted genre concepts developed in-house; and high-profileinternational fare such as Oliver Stone documentary Looking ...
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Almodovar toys with trio
Spain's El Deseo is preppinga new English-language drama from director Isabel Coixet for an autumn shootprior to cranking up Pedro Almodovar's as-yet undecided next film in 2005.Almodovar, whose latestfeature, Bad Education (Mala Educacion) inaugurates Cannes, has threescripts in development, according to producer Agustin Almodovar. The directoraverages one film every two ...
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Aligator measures up with Salazar's Centimetres
New Spanish productioncompany Aligator is prepping its first feature film: Ramon Salazar's follow-upto 2001 Berlin screener Stones, the provocatively titled 20Centimetres.Former Alquimia Cinema headof international relations Iker Monfort launched Aligator earlier this yearwith the goal of making and co-producing two to three films per year.Salazar's 20 Centimetres(20 Centimetros) is a ...
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Aligator measures up with Salazar's Centimetres
New Spanish productioncompany Aligator is prepping its first feature film: Ramon Salazar's follow-upto 2001 Berlin screener Stones, the provocatively titled 20Centimetres.Former Alquimia Cinema headof international relations Iker Monfort launched Aligator earlier this yearwith the goal of making and co-producing two to three films per year.Salazar's 20 Centimetres(20 Centimetros) is a ...
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Wild Bunch picks up Cargo for Cannes
Wild Bunch has picked up international sales duties on PaulLaverty-scripted thriller Cargo, set to star Peter Mullan (TheMagdalene Sisters) and Luis Tosar (Take My Eyes).The estimated Euros 9.8m English-language thriller is aproduction of Juan Gordon of Spain's Morena Films and Andrea Calderwood of theUK's Slate Films. Clive Gordon will direct ...
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Wild Bunch picks up Cargo
Wild Bunch has picked up international sales duties on PaulLaverty-scripted thriller Cargo, set to star Peter Mullan (TheMagdalene Sisters) and Luis Tosar (Take My Eyes).The estimated Euros 9.8m English-language thriller is aproduction of Juan Gordon of Spain's Morena Films and Andrea Calderwood of theUK's Slate Films. Clive Gordon will direct ...
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Spanish producers go for box office gold
The president ofthe Spanish exhibitors' federation FEECE has called on local producers to helpturn around the gradual slide in ticket sales in Spain by making filmsspecifically targeting the largest cinema-going demographic: the 15 to 45 agegroup. He need hardly have bothered: a new wave of films matching this profileare in ...
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Saura to get EFA lifetime achievement award
Veteran Spanish director Carlos Saura will be the recipientof a lifetime achievement honour at December's European Film Awards.The Awards will take place in Barcelona on December 11. "Inrecognition of his dedication to cinema, the European Film Academy takes greatpleasure in presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to Carlos Saura in hisnative ...
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Nine Queens director readies Aura thriller
Fabian Bielinsky, director of international hit NineQueens, is putting the finishing touches onthe script for his follow-up film, a psychological thriller provisionallytitled The Aura (El Aura) and setto star Ricardo Darin.Darin (Nine Queens, Son Of The Bride) will play a taxidermist whose fantasies aboutsetting up the perfect crime come unexpectedly ...
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Argentine directors commemorate Jewish massacre with short film project
Ten up-and-coming Argentine directors are joining to make acollaborative feature of short films commemorating the tenth anniversary of amassacre targeting the local Jewish community.Among others, talents expected to contribute are DanielBurman, whose Jewish community-centered Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido) won Silver Bears for best film and actor in Berlin;Carlos Sorin ...