All articles by Jennifer Green – Page 18
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Madrid, Barcelona plan Spanish film studios
New plans are underway to build studio and production centres in both Madrid and Barcelona.Spain is already gearing up for the opening this summer of sections of the massive City of Light (Ciudad de la Luz) studio complex in Alicante. Whereas City of Light will target international productions, the smaller ...
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Fantasporto shares out top honours
Korean title A Tale Of Two Sisters and Spain's Killing Words shared the top prizes of the official Fantasy Film competition at the 24th annual edition of Portugal's leading film festival, the Oporto International Film Festival (Feb 20-Mar 1), better known as Fantasporto.Kim Jee-Woon's Sisters took the best film, director ...
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Spain's Manga sues Miramax over Kill Bill
Spanish distributor Manga Films has filed a suit against Miramax in a Barcelona court claiming non-completion of a distribution agreement for Quentin Tarantino's two-volume Kill Bill.According to Manga president Luis de Val, the two companies signed an agreement last November for theatrical and video/DVD rights in Spain on both volumes ...
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Filmax unveils Bloodline at AFM
Filmax is prepping new English-language horror film Bloodline from award-winning short film director Nacho Cerda to be presented for the first time at the AFM.Bloodline tells the story of an American film producer who returns to her native Russia following her mother's death and is forced to face her own ...
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Sharif, Chaplin in line for Spanish honours
Omar Sharif and Geraldine Chaplin will travel to Spain to receive honorary lifetime achievement awards at the upcoming Las Palmas International Film Festival and the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga, respectively.Las Palmas, which celebrates its 5th annual edition March 12-20, will bestow its Lady Harimaguada prize to the Egyptian-born actor ...
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Manga sues Miramax over Kill Bill, Miramax countersues
Twoweeks before the scheduled March 5 opening of Kill Bill Vol I in Spain through BVI, Spanish distributor MangaFilms last week filed a suit against Miramax Films in a Barcelona courtclaiming non-completion of a distribution agreement for both Vol I and Vol II.Andyesterday Miramax Films filed a suit back in ...
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Medem's Basque Ball sparks UK festival funding row
The Spanish government's Instituto Cervanteshas pulled its contribution of funding to the Viva Spanish Film Festival ofManchester (March 18-28), ostensibly over the inclusion of Julio Medem'scontroversial documentary The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone in this year's line-up.The documentary, a flash of 70 interviewsaddressing the emotionally-charged issues of nationalist identity and ...
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Cannes to open with Almodovar's Bad Education
Pedro Almodovar's Bad Education (La Mala Educacion) will open the 57th Cannes Film Festival on May 12,the event's organisers announced on Friday.At an impromptu press conference called at the Madrid officeof El Deseo on the same day, Almodovar confirmed that he did not plan tocompete with Bad Education at Cannes."In ...
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Spain's KanZaman strikes deal with Columbia TriStar
Spanish production powerhouse KanZaman has signed a five-title distribution deal with Columbia TriStar Films of Spain for local theatrical and DVD/video rights.The deal includes three of KanZaman's high-profile international co-productions: Robert De Niro-starrer The Bridge Of San Luis Rey; Helen Hunt-starrer A Good Woman; and Willem Dafoe-starrer The Reckoning (Morality ...
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Latido beats Spanish drum
New Spanish-language sales consortium Latido has closed a string of sales on Manuel Gutierrez Aragon's Berlin competition entry Your Next Life prior to the film's premiere today (Monday) - and the company's official launch at the post-premiere party.Your Next Life (La Vida Que Te Espera) has sold to Canada's Seville ...
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Machinist director moves to bossa nova
Director Brad Anderson, whose The Machinist screens in Berlin's Panorama section, is prepping two new and very different feature film projects.The first is a musical set in early 1960's Brazil. The story follows an American woman who travels to Rio de Janeiro and discovers bossa nova music. Anderson is writing ...
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Filmax creates second Spanish base
Spanish mini-studio Filmax is expanding its Barcelona-based activities with plans for a new, integrated hub in the northwest Galicia region.The company has appointed former TV producer Xose Manuel Barreira new general manager to oversee activities in the region, where Filmax Animation and part-owned animation factory Bren Entertainment are currently headquartered."Galicia ...
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Spain's Star Line unveils 2004 slate
Spanish producer Star Line, producer of Berlin Panorama entry Bear Cub (Cachorro), is looking to repeat its two-fold production success of 2003 with its new slate for 2004.Following on the coattails of Bear Cub and the company's big-budgeted international production Carmen, Spain's third top-grossing local film last year, Star Line ...
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Take My Eyes takes Spanish prize
Director Iciar Bollain's domestic abuse drama Take My Eyes fulfilled expectations as the big winner at Spain's 18th annual Goya Awards this weekend, taking home seven of nine nominations including best film, director, original script, actor, actress, supporting actress and sound.The uncompromising film was an appropriate mascot for a ceremony ...
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Amenabar, Medem shepherd Spanish short film-makers
Alejandro Amenabar and Julio Medem are two of five established Spanish directors godfathering an up-and-coming filmmaker each in new short film initiative 50 Minutes.Sponsored by Nescafe as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, the initiative matches five established directors with five newcomers to make five ten-minute short films.The other big-name ...
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Madrid targets foreign shoots with film commission launch
Long the capital of the Spanish film and television sectors, Madrid has finally made official the launch of its much-anticipated Film Commission.An estimated 70% of Spanish films shoot in Madrid, yet producers have long complained of complications shooting here. A large clutch of producers turned out to Friday's presentation to ...
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Top Spanish film exec drafted into key Sogecable role
Sogecable has announced that Fernando Bovaira will take over as the company's managing director of contents following the unexpected departure earlier this month of Jose Manuel Lorenzo.Bovaira has topped Sogecable's production activities through powerhouse Sogecine since 1996, where he shepherded the country's two biggest-grossing local films ever, English-language The Others ...
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Media Luna takes on Spanish Bearcub sales
Media Luna Entertainment has picked up world rights on new Spanish film Bearcub (Cachorro), premiering in the Panorama section of the upcoming Berlin Film Festival.The new drama - the sixth feature by director Miguel Albaladejo (Rancour, Manolito Four Eyes) - turns on a gay dentist forced to tone down his ...
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Astronauts (Astronautas)
Dir: Santi Amodeo. 86mins. 2003. Spain.It's the same old story: if Astronauts (Astronautas) was set in Savannah rather than Seville and shot in English instead of lispy Spanish, this misleadingly-titled indie gem might take off. Instead, it is likely to follow in the wake of so many bygone but deserving ...
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Spanish cinema stuck in 'vicious circle' says Academy
Spanish cinema is stuck in a "vicious circle" of debility and dependence, the Spanish Cinema Academy suggested in its annual report on the local film sector, presented on Thursday in Madrid.The so-called "Crisis" of Spanish film production - the title of last year's report - is far from resolved, ...