Rotterdam Tiger Competition Contender Ainhoa Rodriguez on Artistic Freedom, the Surrealism of Rural Spain

Protests over the imprisonment of a rapper convicted of insulting the Spanish monarchy and praising terrorist violence were marred by rioting for the third night in a row Thursday. The plight of Pablo Hasél, who began this week to serve a 9-month sentence in a northeastern prison, has triggered a heated debate over the limits of free speech in Spain and a political storm over the use of violence by both the rapper's supporters and the police.

Jamie Lang ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) has boarded Amazon Prime Video and RTVE’s resurrection of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador’s legendary Spanish horror series “Historias Para No Dormir,” (“Stories to Stay Awake”), which started filming this week in Madrid.Set as a four-part anthology miniseries, “Historias Para No Dormir” boasts a superstar cast and crew on either side of the camera, with episodes to be directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“Mother”), Spanish Academy

Emilio Mayorga Boutique German sales agent Patra Spanou Film has pounced on “Destello Bravío,” acquiring international sales rights to the feature debut of Spain’s Ainhoa Rodríguez’s film, which screened this week in main competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival.“Destello Bravío” is produced by Rodríguez’s Tentación Cabiria, based out of Extremadura in southwest Spain, in co-production with Eddie Saeta, the Barcelona-based company of Luis Miñarro, one of Spain’s most internationally renowned

Having scored an Oscar for Spain with Belle Epoque in 1994, director Fernando Trueba returns to the International Feature Film race with a Colombian entry. Memories Of My Father (aka El Olvido Que Seremos) strikes a similarly nostalgic note to Belle Epoque, but focuses on familial love. Based on Héctor Abad Faciolince’s memoirs, it’s adapted by the director’s own brother, David Trueba: an apt familial collaboration.

 Anna Kournikova  and  Enrique Iglesias  broke from their usual privacy for a special reason this weekend. The 39-year-old tennis star and 45-year-old Spanish singer celebrated their youngest daughter Mary’s first birthday on Saturday, January 30.

Emiliano De Pablos Shot partly in Navarre, Northern Spain, TV drama “3 Caminos” bowed Jan. 22 on Amazon Prime Video, as the region, a burgeoning film-TV hub and shoot locale, has just hiked its already substantial incentives for the audiovisual industry.A six-episode TV drama, “3 Caminos” turns on five people of different nationalities that forge their friendship along the St.

Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova‘s daughter Mary is a year old!

Naman Ramachandran In today’s Global Bulletin, Miguel judges BBC fashion show; representation plummets across U.K. TV; AMC launches channel in Spain; Synchronicity signs first-look deal with All3Media; WFTN produces Sydney Harbour show; ESPN Plus takes West Indies cricket rights; Patrick Irwin joins Ringside; and U.S.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Spain’s The Mediapro Studio has sealed a production pact with Colombia’s Caracol Television in its continued bid to boost an already substantial presence in the Latin American market.The first project out the gate is “Los Cheers,” a 60-episode musical comedy series created by Hector Rodriguez (“La Mamá del 10,” “Dónde Carajo Está Umaña”), which turns on a group of cheerleaders from a working-class hood who dream of representing their country at the Olympics.The series is

Jamie Lang “The Endless Trench,” Spain’s submission to the Best International Feature category of the 2021 Academy Awards, features standout performances from its two leads who spend nearly all of the film’s 148-minute runtime on screen together.A story of confinement and fear, “The Endless Trench” follows Spanish Academy Goya Award-winner Antonio de la Torre’s Higino as he escapes from Francoist soldiers at the onset of the Spanish Civil War.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFew European TV execs have a better sense of the bigger picture than Movistar Plus president Sergio Oslé. Variety caught up with him as HBO Max announced it had acquired “Perfect Life” for the U.S.

isn’t haunted — it just has spirits. But as the site of multiple pet deaths, the old house built in 1926 raised eyebrows in the Netflix original, which premiered Friday.“I think there are spirits” in the house, Shay said in Season 1, Episode 3, explaining why her pet pocket monkey and fish died.But haunted or not, Shay’s Spanish Mediterranean-style estate on Sunset Boulevard is listed for an eye-popping $16 million, and it is filled with 1920s-style mosaics, terra cotta tiles and greenery.“It