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Media Business School seeks applicants for training course
The pan-European Media Business School (MBS) has announced a July 28 deadline for applications to the upcoming fourth edition in October of its Marketing & Distribution training course.A maximum of 16 participants will be selected to attend the course, which is jointly organised by MBS and UIP and supported by ...
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Spain's BocaBoca to double feature output
Spanish producer BocaBoca is planning to more than double its recent feature film output with an ambitious 2003-2004 slate and a new five-year production plan. Whereas in the last two years the company has produced just two films - well-received thriller Nos Miran, still going strong on the genre festival ...
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Spanish digital merger concluded
Spain's Sogecable and Via Digital have completed the merger of their pay TV platforms, joined in new unit Digital+, with Wednesday's integration of Telefonica-backed Via Digital into Grupo Prisa and Groupe Canal+ -backed Sogecable. Digital+, the merged offspring of Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and Via Digital, will be launched at ...
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Ten first-time directors to compete at Guadarrama fest
Asif Kapadia's The Warrior and Eduard Cortes' Nobody's Life (La Vida De Nadie) are among the ten films to compete at next week's second annual International Film Festival of Guadarrama in Spain (July 12-23).Only first-time feature directors are eligible to compete at Guadarrama, where jury and public prizes are awarded. ...
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RTL, Planeta reach agreement on Antena 3
Luxembourg-based RTL Group and Spain's Grupo Planeta have reached an agreement which could see both companies increasing their stakes in Spanish free-to-air broadcaster Antena 3.Following the IPO of Antena 3 planned before year-end, RTL Group and Grupo Planeta could up their respective 17.2% and 25.1% shares in the channel, the ...
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New Spanish production company prepares debut film
Newly formed Spanish production company Bruta Escena has signed on the UK's F&ME and Portugal's FBF Filmes to its first feature film, Joao Costa Menezes' Penta.Each has committed to 10% of the estimated Euros 2.8m budget, according to Bruta Escena founder Rebeka Biguria: FBF as an advance for distribution rights ...
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Cruz steps up to Castellitto's Don't Move
Penelope Cruz has signed to star in Italian-Spanish co-production Don't Move (Non Ti Muovere) for actor-turned-director Sergio Castellitto. The film, which begins shooting in Rome on July 28, would mark Cruz's first Spanish co-production since 2001's No News From God (Sin Noticias De Dios) and her third film in Italian. ...
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Sweden's Elina wins in Spain, by Jove
Swedish film Elina, As If I Didn't Exist picked up the top Golden Moon of Valencia prize in the feature film competition of Spain's Cinema Jove International Film Festival (June 14-21), which also hosted tributes to Thomas Vinterberg, Richard Lester and Piotr Dumala. Director Klaus Haro (pictured) took home the ...
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Antena 3 announces executive appointments
Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 has announced several new executive appointments following the anti-trust authorities' greenlight to Grupo Planeta's buy-out of a 25.1% stake in the network.Planeta executives Jose Manuel Lara Bosch and Maurizio Carlotti will control Antena 3 as president and CEO, respectively. An Italian Mediaset veteran, Carlotti formerly held ...
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Spain, Puerto Rico sign co-production pact
As part of an ongoing push to 'internationalise local cinema,' Puerto Rico has signed a pact with Spain to facilitate feature film co-productions between the two countries.The deal follows Puerto Rico's new participation this year in the pan-regional Ibermedia program and inclusion last year in the Iberoamerican Conference of Cinematographic ...
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Columbia Spain prepares first local production shoot
Columbia Films Producciones Espanolas, Sony Picture Entertainment's Spanish production unit, has announced its first project to shoot this summer: Tam Tam, a co-production with local outfit Zebra Producciones. Starring Paz Vega (pictured) (Sex And Lucia) and Santi Millan (Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health), principal photography starts August 4 in ...
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Spain's Ele Juarez launches Intuition Media consultancy
Veteran Spanish film and TV executive Ele Juarez has launched new Madrid- and Miami-based consulting firm Intuition Media.The consultancy will offer a range of services to Spanish and international media firms looking to capitalise on growing strategic opportunities both locally and overseas.Among those services are analysis and advising on corporate ...
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Spanish Cinema Academy re-elects Paredes president
The Spanish Cinema Academy has unanimously re-elected actress Marisa Paredes as its president for three more years.Paredes, whose credits include All About My Mother and Life Is Beautiful, replaced actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijon in the top Academy spot in December 2000.Scriptwriter-director Joaquin Oristrell and director-producer Antonio Chavarrias were also re-elected as ...
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Martin Sorrell's WPP invests in Spain's MediaPro
Multinational communications giant WPP has taken a 30% stake in growing Spanish media firm MediaPro. The remaining 70% of the company remains in equal parts with MediaPro's three founding partners: Jaume Roures, Gerard Romy and Jose Maria Benet. The value of the WPP sale was not revealed. MediaPro president Roures ...
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Topeka tops Huesca's short film competition
Spain's 31st annual Huesca Film Festival closed Saturday night with three-minute dialogue-free Topeka taking the top prize and the various short film competition juries coinciding on many of the other main awards.Basque native Asier Altuna won the international jury's top prize, worth Euros 6,000, for his three-minute dialogue-free Topeka. France's ...
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Spain's Filmax closes Cannes deals
Spain's Filmax has announced a series of deals closed at the recent Cannes market including two promising European sales on Laura Mana's new psychological thriller Killing Words (Palabras Encadenadas) to Kinowelt for Germany and Instituto Luce for Italy.Under senior vice president of international sales and co-productions Antonia Nava, the company ...
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Spain's Dygra starts work on major 3D animated feature
Spanish animation studio Dygra Films is preparing an ambitious 3D digital animated feature, A Midsummer Night's Dream (El Sueno De Una Noche De San Juan).The project marks the company's follow-up to hit The Living Forest (El Bosque Animado), Spain's tenth top-grossing local film in 2001 and second highest-selling video of ...
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Where Is Madame Catherine' (Les Mains Buides)
Dir: Marc Recha. Spain-France. 2003. 126mins.Les Mains Buides (literally "empty hands" in Catalan but evocatively translated as Where Is Madame Catherine') does not represent a major departure from Marc Recha's previous effort, the mixed-reviewed 2001 Cannes competition contender Pau And His Brother. However, this Un Certain Regard entry should appease ...
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Bardem to star in Amenabar's Out To Sea
In what will surely be one of the biggest buzz titles out of Spain next year, auteur Alejandro Amenabar will team with star Javier Bardem in new film Out To Sea (Mar Adentro), the director's first feature foray since international hit The Others.Sogecine will co-produce with Amenabar's own Himenoptero and ...
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Huesca gets 1,400 submissions for shorts competition
Reflecting the importance of the short film format as a calling card for young talents, the Huesca Film Festival of Spain (June 5-14) said it received more than 1,400 submissions for its parallel international and iberoamerican short film competitive sections.Of those presented, 53 were chosen from 27 countries for the ...