Chilean Horror Icon Jorge Olguin Ventures Into Series, Wins at Spain’s Curtas Festival do Imaxinario with ‘Análogos’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival has unveiled the juries and honorees of its third edition which kicks off on Thursday in the port city of Jeddah.

EXCLUSIVE: Whale with Steve Backshall, the latest high-end natural history series out of the UK is racking up international sales, as the Sky Nature show’s executive producer Wendy Darke talked up the importance of distribution and tax credits in getting such programs made.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Jorge Ramos, the Univision star anchor who has become as defined by his clashes with the Trump administration as he has by his coverage of major world events, has become the latest of the Spanish-language network’s top anchors to take issue with an interview broadcast by the news division earlier this month with the former President. The November 9 interview with Trump, Ramos said in the newest edition of his weekly column, “put in doubt the independence of our news department, and created discomfort and uncertainty within the newsroom.” Univision has for years burnished a reputation for holding top U.S. politicians to account — Trump particularly, following remarks made at the beginning of his campaign for the 2016 election in which he said immigrants from Mexico were drug dealers, criminals and rapists.

A man claims he has become known as the 'Duke of Benidorm' after ditching the UK with no money and starting a new life in Spain.

Christian Nodal attended the Latin GRAMMY ceremony in Seville, Spain. The Mexican singer captivated the audience with his music and took home one of the coveted awards.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent São Paulo-based activist producer Maria Farinha Films, behind Globoplay hit “Aruanas” and one of the global South’s key impact entertainment companies, has boarded Marcel Beltrán’s mystery drama “Moa,” a big double winner at Locarno’s 2022 Open Doors. Produced by Paula Gastaud at Cuba’s Mediocielo Films, “Moa” is now set up as co-production with Mediocielo Filmes, also in São Paulo, and Maria Farinha Films, and the Dominican Republic’s Stems Group.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent After expanding into the U.K., the U.S. and the Netherlands, Paris-based leading unscripted production banner Satisfaction is set to gain ground in Spanish-speaking markets.

At the Award Ceremony of the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF), awards were presented to the winners of the festival’s five competition programmes and PÖFF’s youth and children’s film sub-festival Just Film.The jury of the Official Selection Competition, headed by Trine Dyrholm, selected Emma Dante’s drama Misericordia as their favourite, handing the film the Grand Prix for Best Film. Dante adapted her own play of the same name, telling the story of three prostitutes who live in the wasteland by the sea, where a village of outcasts has emerged. Its star Simone Zambelli also scooped the Best Actor Award.

Karol G won Album of the Year, Natalia Lafourcade won Record of the Year, Shakira and DJ Bizarrap won Song of the Year, and Joaquina was voted Best New Artist to headline the 24th Latin Grammys, held tonight in Seville, Spain.

Thania Garcia In the Latin Grammy Awards first year in Spain, it was only right that Catalan singer Rosalía kicked off the 24th annual ceremony with a flamenco ballad. With an orchestra of percussionists as her support, Rosalía gave a touching rendition of Spanish singer Rocío Jurado’s 1985 track, “Se Nos Rompió El Amor.” A student of flamenco, Rosalía was able to show off her chops in a powerful tribute to the genre she started her global career with.

LATIN GRAMMYS 2023: HOW TO WATCH LATIN MUSIC’S BIGGEST NIGHTLATIN GRAMMYS 2023: A LOOK AT THIS YEAR’S BEST DUETSLATIN GRAMMYS 2023: HERE’S HOW THE WINNERS ARE SELECTEDThis is the case for Camilo and Manuel Carrasco, who decided to take over the streets of Sevilla for an unexpected performance, making fans go crazy and sharing a sweet moment as they sang their recent music collaboration ‘Salitre.’“Without planning it everything is more beautiful… We brought out the guitars and sang Salitre on the streets of Seville,” Manuel wrote on social media, sharing a clip of the moment. Many of their fans can be seen in the clip enjoying the performance and recording their duet with their phones.A post shared by Manuel Carrasco (@manuelcarrasco_)Fans of the two musicians showed their excitement at the end of their performance, with Camilo and Manuel sharing a hug.

Rylan Clark has shared an update on his mum Linda's health two months on from her horrific fall in Spain, resulting in broken bones, after the 71-year-old was forced to undergo emergency surgery in September.

Emiliano De Pablos Disney+ has picked up Latin American rights to Diego Yaker’s Argentine-Spanish revenge thriller “Una jirafa en el balcón” and is planning a theatrical release in Argentina and Uruguay. Barcelona-based indie studio Filmax is handling Spanish distribution and international sales rights on the film. Hitting the final straits of its shoot, “Una jirafa en el balcón” is filming in Barcelona over Nov.

Emiliano De Pablos One of the most robust of Latin America’s emerging film industries, Dominican Republic cinema boasts a standout presence at this year’s Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival. On Monday, Nov.

Emiliano De Pablos The 49th edition of Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival, Spain’s largest confab for films from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, will honor Mexican star Cecilia Suárez with its City of Huelva Award. With leading roles in Netflix’s “The House of Flowers” and HBO Latin America’s “Capadocia,” Suárez has also be seen in ABC’s drama “The Promised Land” and has worked on films by as Tommy Lee Jones (“The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada”), James L.

EXCLUSIVE: Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is teaming up with Jorge Granier and Chris Albrecht of Rubicon Global Media to develop and co-produce the Spanish and English-language crime drama, Prey Before You Eat (w/t).

announced she was teaming up with the Spanish superstar in October in order to fight fish farming in Iceland. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Björk has expanded upon the origins of the song.“I recorded it between [1997’s] ‘Homogenic’ and [2001’s] ‘Vespertine’,” she said. “It was just so different; it was so poppy.

Gogglebox has recently announced a highly-anticipated addition to its celebrity roster.The forthcoming episode will showcase Stephen Graham, 50, and his wife Hannah Walters, along with their teenage children, Grace and Alfie, making their small-screen debut as a family unit. The news was shared via social media with a charming snapshot of the whole family cosily perched on a couch, with Hannah playfully pointing a remote control towards the camera.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. It was 2007. Steven Soderbergh was starting to shoot “Che” in Spain when the Bolivian casting director Rodrigo Bellott came armed with a bottle of Singani, the country’s national spirit, to the production kickoff party.

Quentin Dupieux is a filmmaker who is known for drastically switching subject matter between films. Sure, most of his films are incredibly surreal and absurdist, but he will do a film about a oversized fly and then follow it up with a film about cigarette-inspired superheroes.