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Beyond prepares to sell A Good Woman
Beyond Films is to handle international sales on director Mike Barker's upcoming feature A Good Woman starring Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Wilkinson.The film is a co-production between Alan Greenspan of the US's International Arts Entertainment, Jonathan English of the UK's Meltemi Entertainment, Denise O'Dell and Mark Albela of ...
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Gun-Shy shoots down opposition at San Sebastian
Georgian director DitoTsintsadze's German film Gun-Shy wasthe controversial top winner on Saturday night of the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival's Golden Shell prize, while local favourite Take My Eyes was recognised with bestactor and best actress Silver Shells for stars Luis Tosar and Laia Marull. As has become customary in San ...
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Gun-Shy shoots down opposition at San Sebastian
Georgian director DitoTsintsadze's German film Gun-Shy wasthe controversial top winner on Saturday night of the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival's Golden Shell prize, while local favourite Take My Eyes was recognised with bestactor and best actress Silver Shells for stars Luis Tosar and Laia Marull. As has become customary in San ...
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Colombian project wins Latin cash prize at San Sebastian
Columbian title The Wandering Shadows won the Films In Progress cash and post-production services prize on Sept 25 at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-28).From director Ciro Guerra, The Wandering Shadows (La Sombra Del Caminante) was chosen from the seven, mostly-Argentinean titles participating in this year's initiative. The ...
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SPAIN
Spanish film Football Days (Dias De Futbol) opened strong on its first weekend with a three-day gross of Euros 879,354 from 200 prints through Buena Vista International. The film marks the directorial debut of the screenwriter of last year's local hit The Other Side Of The Bed (El Otro Lado ...
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Another Basque film stirs up San Sebastian
Eduardo Noriega is set to star in ambitious new action-packed Spanish thriller Lobo, which was presented on Sept 23 at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival.If Julio Medem's documentary has not brought enough attention to the situation in Basque Country following its San Sebastian screening on Sunday, Lobo looks set ...
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Another Basque film stirs up San Sebastian
Eduardo Noriega is set to star in ambitious new action-packed Spanish thriller Lobo, which was presented on Sept 23 at the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival.If Julio Medem's documentary has not brought enough attention to the situation in Basque Country following its San Sebastian screening on Sunday, Lobo looks set ...
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Spanish veterans launch co-production consultancy
Aiming to fill a niche for Spanish and other producers increasingly hard-pressed to finance feature films in their own markets, two veteran players have formed Madrid-based co-production negotiation outfit Cinearch.Co-founders Maria Jose Poblador and Carlos Batres officially presented the company, which has been operating for several months, on Sept 22 ...
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Spanish veterans launch co-production consultancy
Aiming to fill a niche for Spanish and other producers increasingly hard-pressed to finance feature films in their own markets, two veteran players have formed Madrid-based co-production negotiation outfit Cinearch.Co-founders Maria Jose Poblador and Carlos Batres officially presented the company, which has been operating for several months, on Sept 22 ...
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San Sebastian opener strikes string of deals
Spain's Wanda Vision has closed a string of sales on Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival opening film Suite Havana.Fernando Perez's poetic, dialogue-free fictionalised documentary has received glowing reviews locally and Wanda chief Jose Maria Morales called reception among buyers "very positive, even passionate."The film had sold to Ocean Films for ...
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San Sebastian opener strikes string of deals
Spain's Wanda Vision has closed a string of sales on Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival opening film Suite Havana.Fernando Perez's poetic, dialogue-free fictionalised documentary has received glowing reviews locally and Wanda chief Jose Maria Morales called reception among buyers "very positive, even passionate."The film had sold to Ocean Films for ...
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MTV strikes first European film production alliance
MTV Films Europe, looking to produce a slate of low-budgetyouth-orientated films in a variety of local languages, has turned to Spain forits first alliance.An agreement with Spanish consultancy Intuition Media'snew production arm Intuition Films is designed to funnel projects and potentialco-productions in Spain and Portugal to the iconic music network.Speaking ...
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MTV strikes first European film production alliance
MTV Films Europe, looking to produce a slate of low-budgetyouth-orientated films in a variety of local languages, has turned to Spain forits first alliance.An agreement with Spanish consultancy Intuition Media'snew production arm Intuition Films is designed to funnel projects and potentialco-productions in Spain and Portugal to the iconic music network.Speaking ...
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Spanish film industry in flux
Key changes to the Spanishfilm industry were announced this weekend at the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 18-28).Production, facilities andrights management giant MediaPro unveiled its acquisition of post-productioncompany Molinare and a majority stake in another, Mozart. The new acquisitions givethe company a strong new foothold in the film, TV and ...
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Spanish film industry in flux
Key changes to the Spanishfilm industry were announced this weekend at the Donostia-San SebastianInternational Film Festival (Sept 18-28).Production, facilities andrights management giant MediaPro unveiled its acquisition of post-productioncompany Molinare and a majority stake in another, Mozart. The new acquisitions givethe company a strong new foothold in the film, TV and ...
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Basque politics loom large over San Sebastian opening
Charlize Theron, MarkWahlberg, Isabelle Huppert and Harvey Keitel provided the star wattage for theopening weekend of the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival butit was a controversial Basque documentary and a strike by workers at thefestival's traditional social hub, the Hotel Maria Cristina, that dominatedconversations here. By Sunday evening, JulioMedem's La ...
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Basque politics loom large over San Sebastian opening
Charlize Theron, MarkWahlberg, Isabelle Huppert and Harvey Keitel provided the star wattage for theopening weekend of the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival butit was a controversial Basque documentary and a strike by workers at thefestival's traditional social hub, the Hotel Maria Cristina, that dominatedconversations here. By Sunday evening, JulioMedem's La ...
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Chill Out (Descongelate)
Dirs: Dunia Ayaso & Felix Sabroso. Spain. 2003.It is easy to see how writer-director team Ayaso and Sabroso's new film might attract the Almodovar brothers as co-producers through their El Deseo outfit. The black humour, camp and kitschy urban aesthetic hark back to early Almodovar gems like What Have I ...
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San Sebastian opens on realistic note
Spain's leading film festival, the Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 18-28), kicks off today with award-winning Cuban director Fernando Perez's dialogue-free fictionalised documentary Suite Havana - one of several bold programming selections sure to set tongues wagging at this year's edition.Yet the real controversy looks likely to surround Sunday's ...
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Sogepaq takes on sales for San Sebastian contender
Making its fourth third-party pick-up in two weeks, Spanish distribution house Sogepaq has taken worldwide rights on San Sebastian competition title Take My Eyes (Te Doy Mis Ojos).One of the most anticipated new Spanish films of the season, Take My Eyes offers a heartwrenchingly realistic take on domestic abuse. Laia ...