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16.03.2023 - 14:55 / variety.com
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent MALAGA, Spain — “My Parents’ Great Bazar,” from “Ane is Missing” co-scribe Marina Parés, bio “Costus,” on the iconic Madrid Movida artists, and “Villa Futuro,” a queer old age drama from “Locked Up” star Alberto Velasco, all feature among eight winners of Tell Us the Stories That Nobody Tells, a diversity drive contest for movies and TV shows backed by Netflix and Dama, the Spanish audiovisual authors’ rights collection body. Announced Wednesday at an awards ceremony hosted by the Malaga Film Festival, the winners of the competition, which forms part of the partners’ Cambio de Plano initiative, will receive €6,000 ($6,348) a piece.
Two will also get a teaser financed by Netflix and Dama. As importantly, the partners will pay for mentoring for the development of their projects from Daniela Fejerman, director of Malaga’s opening film, “Someone Who Takes Care of Me,” TV critic and screenwriter Bob Pop (“Maricón perdido”), screenwriter Valentina Viso, co-writer of milestone Catalan movie “Three Days With the Family,” and renowned scribe-helmer Fernando Franco, whose latest film, “The Rite of Spring” played to praise in San Sebastian’s main competition last September.
Fejerman, Viso, Pop and writer-director Arantxa Echevarría (“Carmen y Lola”) served on the jury. The contest ratifies Dama’s “commitment to diversity, plurality and richness within new proposals to make it easier to tell the stories that no one is telling,” said its president, Virginia Yagüe. “At Netflix, we know how important it is to feel identified with the stories we watch and tell, so we are committed to local talent and we are very proud to participate in initiatives such as Cambio de Plano, which
Singles, get excited! A new matchmaking show is on the way.
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John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Running March 10-19, and now hosting the Spanish Screenings, the Malaga Film Festival is now firmly established as Spain’s biggest movie event in the early part of the year. Strategically positioned fairly sharp on the heels of the Berlinale, the Spanish event offers top Spanish titles at the German festival the chance to consolidate their reputations while often producing new discoveries, especially from first-time directors. Many titles, from a Spanish film industry whose younger directors are highly social conscience and favor art-house, are issue driven. “There’s a search for identity, whether a young trans girl’s exploration of gender identity or young leads to understand the world they live in, or the search for love and a sense pf strangeness, of being a stranger to oneself,” Juan Antonio Vigar, Málaga Film Festival director said of this year’s main Competition. Following, a brief breakdown of its titles.
Miles Teller and many of his Top Gun: Maverick co-stars such as Danny Ramirez suited up for the red carpet at the 2023 Oscars on Sunday (March 12).
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