All articles by Jennifer Green – Page 47
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Compassionate Sex (Sexo Por Compasion)
Dir: Laura Mana. Spain-Mexico. 100mins.Prod cos: Sogedasa (The Filmax Group), Visual Grup SL. Co-producers: Resonancia Productora. Backers: Via Digital, Media, Tabasco Films, ICAA, IMCINE, L'Institut Catala de Finances. Spain distrib: Filmax. Int'l sales: Filmax International (34-93-336-8555). Prods: Julio Fernandez, Miguel Torrente. Exec prods: Carlos Fernandez, Fina Torrente. Co-prods: Fernando Camara, ...
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Spain's Grupo Correo buys 30% of Grupo Boca
Spanish multimedia house Grupo Correo has acquired a 30% stake in Madrid-based production outfit Grupo Boca, home to the BocaBoca and Cristal labels.The deal leaves the door open for Correo to take an additional 30% interest before January 2002, a move which would convert Boca owner Cesar Benitez into a ...
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Buena Vista acquires Living Forest for Spain
Buena Vista International Spain (BVIS) has picked up Spanish theatrical and video rights to local animated feature film The Living Forest (El Bosque Animado).Digital satellite platform Via Digital has pay-TV rights to the film, while free-to-air rights in Spain are still under negotiation. BVIS is expected to release Forest in ...
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Russian media baron Gusinsky arrested in Spain
Vladimir Gusinsky, head of Russian media empire Media Most, was taken into police custody in Spain late Monday night, just a few weeks after the Russian authorities placed him on an international wanted list in connection with fraud charges.Gusinsky, who was picked up in the southern beach resort of Sotogrande, ...
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Together scoops four awards at Gijon fest
Swedish film Together walked away the top winner at the 38th annual Gijon International Film Festival (November 24 - December 1).Together writer-director Lukas Moodysson's follow-up to last year's Fucking Amal took home the best director, best script, best actor (Michael Nyquist) and young jury awards.Pawel Pawlikowski's The Last Resort was ...
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HBO acquires KWA's San Bernardo
Madrid-based sales agent Kevin Williams Associates (KWA) has sold pay-TV rights on Spanish-language romantic comedy Saint Bernard (San Bernardo) to HBO USA.The deal reflects the growing commerciability of Spanish cinema, which was on display last week at the Spanish Film Screenings for Europe, held Nov 29-Dec 1 in Lanzarote. KWA ...
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Lanzarote's Spanish Screenings start to mature
The Spanish Film Screenings for Europe (Nov 29-Dec 1) closed a successful second edition Friday night on the Canary Island of Lanzarote. Sales were few, but general consensus praised the event as a budding force for making contacts and launching Spanish cinema. The use of DVD technology and the concentration ...
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You're The One
Dir: Jose Luis Garci. 2000. 111mins.Prod cos: Nickel Odeon Dos, Enrique Cerezo, PC 29. Backers: Television Espanola, Canal Plus. Spanish dist: Col TriStar Films de Espana. Int'l sales: TBD. Exec prod: Luis Maria Delgado. Prod: Jose Luis Garci. Scr: Jose Luis Garci, Horacio Valcarcel. DoP: Raul Perez Cubero. Set des: ...
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Planeta appoints Spinetta for production move
Planeta 2010, the start-up multimedia division of publishing giant Grupo Planeta, is advancing plans to move into feature production after appointing Emanuela Spinetta, to the newly-created post of head of production. Spinetta joins the fast-moving operation from Pearson TV in Spain, where she was director general. Under Spinetta, the firm ...
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Paredes in line for Spanish Cinema Academy post
Veteran actress Marisa Paredes was the only candidate presented to take over the soon-to-be-vacated position of president of the Spanish Cinema Academy, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.The Academy's current president, actress Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, will vacate the post on December 17.Catalan producer-director Antonio Chavarrias and writer-director Joaquin Oristrell were the ...
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Morena to co-produce Portozas Vision's Pencil
Madrid-based production house Morena Films has boarded The Carpenter's Pencil (El Lapiz Del Carpintero), a feature film in development at Galician outfit Portozas Vision.International co-producers are being sought for the film, which is backed by regional broadcaster Television Galicia. First-time feature director Anton Reixa is prepping Pencil for a May ...
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Recoletos, Prensa Espanola win DTT licences
Two major new players were unleashed on the Spanish media scene Friday with the government concession of two nationwide, free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) licences.The winners of the new licences were consortia Veo TV, spearheaded by publishing entities Recoletos and Unedisa (home of national newspaper El Mundo), and Net TV, ...
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Spanish networks oppose new DTT licences
On the eve of the Spanish government's announcement on the winners of two new nationwide, free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) licences, the country's private TV union has sent out a strong warning that the market will not be able to sustain the increase in competition.The Union of Associated Commercial Television ...
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Las Razones De Mis Amigos
Dir: Gerardo Herrero. Spain. 2000. 105 mins.Prod co: Tornasol Films. Spain distrib: Alta Films. Int'l sales: Kevin Williams Associates (34-91-338-5355). Prods: Gerardo Herrero, Javier Lopez Blanco. Assoc prod: Mariela Besuievsky. Scr: Angeles Gonzalez Sinde, based on the novel La Conquista Del Aire by Belen Gopegui. DoP: Alfredo Mayo. Prod des: ...
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Taxidermia stuffs the competition at Alcala
The Alcala de Henares Film Festival, Spain's top short film festival, closed its 30th edition Saturday night in a rousing awards ceremony at the Teatro Cervantes, so named for the town's best-known native son.Luis Cervero's Taxidermia, a critical and post-modern take on the practice of stuffing animals, won the top ...
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Telefonica restructures Media, delays float
After months of uncertainty following the forced resignation of former Telefonica chairman Juan Villalonga, a new blueprint unveiled this week for the future of subsidiary Telefonica Media (TM) confirms the conglomerate's intent to remain at the forefront of the international media business.That said, however, TM executive president Juan Jose Nieto's ...
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Spanish film loses ground at domestic box office
Spanish films' share of the domestic box office dipped below 10% in the ten months between January and October 2000 according to the Spanish Institute for Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA). This compares to a 14% market share for domestic product at the end of 1999.The ICAA found that local ...
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Lanzarote's Spanish Screenings unveils line-up
The Spanish Film Screenings for Europe, held on the Canary Island of Lanzarote, has unveiled the line-up of films set to premiere and screen at this year's second annual edition (Nov 29-Dec 1).Most of Spain's leading production outfits are represented in the 33 films confirmed for screening. This year, buyers ...
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Ardant to star in Chavarri's Year Of The Flood
French actress Fanny Ardant has joined the cast of The Year Of The Flood (El Ano Del Diluvio), a new feature film in development from Spanish director Jaime Chavarri (Tangos Are For Two).Ardant will play Sister Consuelo, a nun in 1950's Catalonia who falls in love with a wealthy landowner. ...
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Kidman resumes work on Amenabar's The Others
Nicole Kidman has returned to the Spanish shoot of Alejandro Amenabar's thriller The Others after nearly a month off to treat a recurring knee injury.Kidman left Spain on October 9 for treatment in the US. In her absence, Amenabar carried on filming scenes in which Kidman's character does not appear. ...