Spain’s biggest film festival.Chastain shared the best leading performance award with 16-year-old Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, who starred in the Danish film “As in Heaven" ("Du som er i himlen”).
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John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMovistar Plus, the pay TV/VOD operator of Spanish telco Telefonica, and the San Sebastian Festival, the biggest film event in the Spanish-speaking world, are bowing a multi-year alliance to simulcast select titles bowing at the festival in a Movistar Plus virtual screening room.Imitating the limited access of a festival, the films will only be available for viewing on the days that they screen in San Sebastian.Movistar Plus subscribers will be able
.Spain’s biggest film festival.Chastain shared the best leading performance award with 16-year-old Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl, who starred in the Danish film “As in Heaven" ("Du som er i himlen”).
Jessica Chastain is putting a lot of skin on display in this new look!
Liza Foreman Paco Plaza, director of the Spanish horror film “La Abuela” (“The Grandmother”), remembers distinctly how Coco Chanel’s favorite model, Vera Valdez, who co-stars in his latest film, responded before boarding a plane to Paris to sit out the pandemic when their production shut down early last year: “I will stay alive.” Although they did not know, at that time, if they would be able to shoot again, Valdez’s promise gave him hope that the film would continue.Born in 1936, the Brazilian
Jamie Lang This year’s San Sebastian Nest competition for international student short films honored Sara Grgurić’s Croatian relationship drama “In the Woods” with this year’s Nest Award and its accompanying €10,000 ($11,800) cash prize.“Because of its complexity and its precision, because with little it tells something enormous and because since we saw it, it has stayed with us, we give the award to ‘In the Woods,’” said the jury as they made the announcement.Spanish production “Pont de Pedra”
Jessica Chastain has arrived in Spain!
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThe devil is in the details. On March 18, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced the government will plow €1.6 billion ($1.9 billion) over 2021-25 into a Spain AVS Hub plan – España Hub Audiovisual de Europa in Spanish.This was aimed, as he explained, to encourage big foreign players to shoot and set up production centers in Spain and also power up Spanish film and TV productionAt the San Sebastian Festival on Wednesday, Sept.
Javier Bardem is all smiles at the premiere of his new movie, The Good Boss, during the 2021 San Sebastian International Film Festival at Kursaal Palace on Tuesday (September 21) in San Sebastian, Spain.
Fernando León de Aranoa’s Spanish-language dark comedy The Good Boss had its world premiere last night at the San Sebastian Film Festival in front of a raucous local crowd (albeit at half-capacity due to Covid measures).
EXCLUSIVE: Spanish indie production powerhouse Mediapro is at San Sebastian Film Festival this year screening two of the buzziest local features in the program: the Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz and Oscar Martinez-starring Official Competition, which arrives from Venice, and the Javier Bardem-fronted The Good Boss, which premieres here.
EXCLUSIVE: Guido Rud’s Argentina and Spain-based sales outfit FilmSharks has scored a pair of deals on its slate with Korea buyers.
Looking at a map of Spain, the Basque region seems to be tucked neatly into one corner, cozy as can be. On the ground, of course, it’s a different matter: the Pais Vasco has its own language, culture, food and politics, plus its own history of violence.
Liza Foreman Spanish producer Piluca Baquero (“Lo que sé de Lola”) is teaming with former BTF Media executive Miguel Bueno to launch Ramen Story & Content Studio, a new – and ambitious – TV-film production venture.Also on board areMiguel Arnas, José Antonio Bosch and Jesus Gómez, Baquero will serve as an executive producer on titles, Bueno, who worked making commercials for much of his career, is director of content at Ramen.Ramen is focusing on two projects to begin with but “we are not
San Sebastian International Film Festival kicked off this Friday, September 18th, featuring some of the biggest stars of Spanish cinema.
Jamie Lang Ahead of the streamer’s Oct.
Jamie Lang Variety has been given exclusive first access to Agustín Banchero’s debut Uruguayan feature “Hilda’s Short Summer,” sold by FiGa Films and premiering in the New Directors section at this year’s San Sebastian Film Festival on Sunday, Sept.
Eve Jobs, 23, has been spotted on a rare outing in Rome, Italy. The daughter of the late Steve Jobs was photographed shopping with her mom Laurene Powell Jobs, 57, at Dolce & Gabbana on September 17 — see all the pics here.
Jamie Lang A week after taking the Volpi Cup best actress award at the Venice Film Festival, Penelope Cruz and her “Official Competition” co-stars Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez were in San Sebastian on Friday evening for the film’s Spanish premiere, where the trio hosted a press conference joined on stage by producer Jaume Roures, CEO at Mediapro, and via a video stream by the film’s writing-directing duo Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn.While discussing her admiration for Duprat and Cohn’s
Marion Cotillard shows off her award after being honored with the Donostia during the 2021 San Sebastian International Film Festival held at the Kursaal Palace on Friday (September 17) in San Sebastian, Spain.
Penelope Cruz took over the red carpet at the 2021 San Sebastian Film Festival on opening day!
Amy Hart has jetted off to lap up the last of the summer sunshine with her new partner Samuel Rason and the pair look so loved up. Amy, 28, who found fame on Love Island back in 2019, went public with her new beau Sam, 31, last month, after she'd enjoyed a few years as a single woman following her stint on the ITV2 show.They flew out to the Spanish destination of Malaga on Thursday, September 16, and have been keeping their followers updated with their pool trips and lavish meals out.