All articles by Jennifer Green – Page 30
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Italy's Mediaset mulls majority stake in Spain's Telecinco
More changes to Spain's television landscape are in order if Italy's Mediaset follows through on plans to up its 40% stake in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco to a majority 51% share.Speaking at a conference in Cordoba, Telecinco president Alejandro Echevarria confirmed the move to reporters. The broadcaster's remaining shareholders include Grupo ...
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Film industry worries over Spanish pay-TV merger
The government approval last week of the merger between Spain's rival pay TV platforms - Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and Via Digital - has produced as many questions as it has answers for the film industry.The government released a surprisingly long list of 34 conditions on the merger (Screendaily.com, Nov ...
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Lilja 4-Ever scoops Gijon top prize
Lukas Moodysson's Lilja 4-Ever walked away the top winner from Spain's 40th annual edition of the Gijon International Film Festival (Nov 21-29).Lilja took home the best film and best actress (Oksana Akinshina) awards as well as the young jury prize for best film. Iain Dilthey took home a best director ...
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Spain to introduce measures to protect local market
The Spanish Film Institute (ICAA) plans to prohibit distributors from giving theatrical premieres to any non-EU film which has not previously premiered in its home country. This measure, intended to filter out mostly US made-for-TV and video product, could go into effect within the next month, according to ICAA director ...
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Lanzarote wraps busiest-ever film screenings event
The Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote closed its busiest-ever, fourth annual edition on Saturday night after three full days attended by almost 90 buyers from around the world. Spanish participants said the invitation of Latin American buyers was the most significant new addition to the event this year, with fourteen ...
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Portugal's national film institute appoints new president
Portugal's National Film Institute ICAM has appointed a new president in the midst of an industry-wide controversy concerning the funding body's outstanding debts.Elisio Cabral de Oliveira was appointed to replace long-time ICAM president Pedro Berhan da Costa, who resigned late last month amid multiple back-and-forth accusations of incompetence with the ...
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Spain's digital TV merger is finally approved
The Spanish government has approved a merger between the country's two leading digital satellite TV operators Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) and Via Digital. The government regulator placed some 34 conditions on the merger. More than a dozen of these concern rights to cinema content and thematic channels. Ten further conditions ...
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Spain to alter local TV ownership rules
In a decision that will directly affect both parties in Spain's pending pay-TV merger, the Spanish government has announced that it will prohibit companies from owning shares in more than one broadcaster at the national, regional and local levels. Grupo Prisa and Telefonica - the backers, respectively, behind set-to-merge digital ...
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Buyers gear up for Lanzarote's Spanish Film Screenings
The fourth annual Spanish Film Screenings of Lanzarote (Nov 28-30) kicks off in Spain's Canary Islands this week with 92 buyers attending from around the world to screen 37 of the latest Spanish feature films.With a budget of close to Euros530,000 - almost Euros50,000 more than last year's edition - ...
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Metro Tartan gets Mind Of A Killer for UK
Spanish sales house Grupo PI has sold all UK rights on San Sebastian International Film Festival competition title Aro Tolbukhin: In The Mind Of A Killer (Aro Tolbukhin: En La Mente Del Asesino) to Metro Tartan.The deal was closed following the recent MIFED market, where Grupo PI also sold all ...
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Kamchatka
Dir: Marcelo Pineyro. Argentina-Spain, 2002. 104m.Argentina's selection for the foreign-language Oscar, Kamchatka has good worldwide potential for arthouse and foreign-language theatres thanks to hot lead actor Ricardo Darin (Nine Queens, The Son Of The Bride) and universal themes of family, childhood, love and loss. A heartfelt, intelligent and well-intentioned film ...
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Spain's digital satellite platforms get qualified greenlight for merger
The planned pay TV merger between Spain's two digital satellite platforms - Via Digital and Canal Satelite Digital (CSD) - got a qualified green light this week from the nation's Competition Defense Court (Tribunal de Defensa de la Competencia).The Court outlined ten key conditions for the merged platform, including that ...
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Nobody's Life (La Vida De Nadie)
Dir: Eduard Cortes. Spain. 2002. 103 mins.The only Spanish film in competition at last week's Valladolid International Film Week, Nobody's Life (La Vida De Nadie) marks the impressive feature film debut of Catalan TV director Eduard Cortes. A suspenseful adult drama anchored by strong performances from lead actors Jose Coronado ...
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KWA sells three Latin American titles to the UK
Spain-based sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has sold three Latin American titles to the UK.Arthouse exhibitor and start-up distributor City Screen picked up theatrical rights to hot Mexican titles Violet Perfume (Perfume De Violetas) and Streeters (De La Calle), while the Feature Film Company took theatrical rights on Argentine ...
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Spain's Alquimia signs co-production deal with France's Mandarin
Spain's Alquimia Cinema and France's Mandarin have signed a two-picture co-production agreement.According to Alquimia founder and chief Francisco Ramos, the reciprocal agreement will encompass Alquimia's Swindled (Incautos), director Miguel Bardem's con-man tale starring Victoria Abril and Federico Luppi, and Mandarin's The Elementary Particles (Les Particules Elementaires), directed by Philippe Harel, ...
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Spain, Israel name foreign language Oscar hopefuls
Fernando Leon's Mondays In The Sun was named Spain's submission for the foreign language Oscar today, beating the other shortlisted films, Pedro Almodovar's Talk To Her and Jose Luis Garci's Story Of A Kiss .Mondays In The Sun, which stars Javier Bardem as an out-of-work dock labourer, took home ...
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Spanish film on course for bumper box office share
Spanish producers have been predicting since September that the market share for local films would rise this year - up from 10.7% to 12% in anticipation of high-profile autumn releases.The prediction, from the Spanish Producers' Federation (FAPAE), looks on course: as of October 15, Spanish films had an 11.8% market ...
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Spanish broadcaster TVE to invest Euros 25m in film rights
Responding to local producers' calls for broadcasters to make public their investment in Spanish films, public broadcaster Television Espanola (TVE) announced that it expects to pump as much as Euros 25m into free-to-air film rights in 2002.TVE provided a list of 40 feature films, 15 documentaries and one animated film ...
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Multiple sales for Saura's Salome
Spanish director Carlos Saura's musical Salome has sold to Japan, Benelux and much of South America.After winning a prize for best artistic contribution at the recent Montreal World Film Festival, Salome screened last week in the official section out of competition at Spain's Valladolid International Film Week.Florence Stern of international ...
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Sweet Sixteen takes Golden Spike at Valladolid
Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen went home Saturday night with the top Golden Spike award from Spain's 47th annual Valladolid International Film Week.The film also won best photography for Barry Ackroyd. Loach was unable to attend the festival for health reasons. Paul Laverty, who won a best script prize for Sixteen ...