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20.09.2021 - 23:37 / variety.com
Emiliano Granada As the demand for Spanish content and young talent booms, with a plethora of new opportunities come new uncertainties.Part of ECAM’s Screen industry platform, its Incubator for independent producers is rapidly consolidating as one of the key new development labs in Spain. Eva Saiz’s ‘House of Beasts’ is one of the selected works for this year’s edition.
It stands out as a promising piece of delicate storytelling. Thoughtful and candid, Saiz moved from screenwriting to direction
.A Spanish villa has been hailed as a ‘work of art’ - and it could be your dream working from home pad for a cool €25 million.
Puerto Rico governor announced Thursday.The segment will be broadcast from the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, where thousands are expected to gather at the island’s main convention center in the capital of San Juan, according to Gov.
This year’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2022 will feature the show’s first Spanish language countdown, with Puerto Rico as the inaugural host destination.
Jamie Lang Two of Spain’s highest-profile upcoming horror titles got release dates and trailers today, David Casademunt’s “El páramo” at Netflix and Amazon Prime Video’s horror anthology “Historias para no dormir.”Amazon Prime Video and Spanish broadcaster RTVE’s reboot of Chicho Ibáñez Serrador’s legendary Spanish horror anthology series “Historias para no dormir” will hit the streaming platform on Nov. 5.
EXCLUSIVE: Starzplay, the international streaming service from Starz that is now in close to 60 countries, is joining forces with Sony Pictures Television (SPT) on a premium scripted series about the life and reign of Spain’s controversial former king Juan Carlos I.
Spain's culture-related businesses recover from the loss of revenue during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.The government said eligible teenagers could spend their 400 euros on items such as movie and theater tickets, books and concerts.Bullfighting businesses wanted to be included, too, but they had few supporters in the coalition government, which is made up of the center-left-Socialist party and the left-wing United We Can party.Conservative opposition parties chided the government for leaving
Amber Davies is officially back with her operations manager boyfriend, Nick Kyriacou following a short split.The 24-year-old and her beau escaped the UK for a break in the Spanish sunshine to celebrate Amber's birthday.The former Love Island winner shared glimpses of the loved up trip with followers on Instagram.
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Entertainment One (eOne) has picked up international distribution rights (outside of Spain and Portugal) to Operación Marea Negra, a four-part submarine drama series.
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
Liza Foreman German animation studio Fabian & Fred has boarded Spanish director Isabel Herguera’s animated feature “Sultana,” which is set between a fictional feminist utopia and India under British colonial rule.The Spain-Germany co-production is inspired by a feminist utopian book “Sultana’s Dream,” written in 1905 by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, a Bengali female activist from a village in British India.The two partners are in talks with an Indian partner to join the film, and Herguera is working
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Emilio Mayorga Selected at TIFF’s Filmmaker Lab, Cannes’ Sources 2 program and Madrid’s ECAM Incubator, “Still Life with Ghosts” marks the first feature from Spain’s Enrique Buleo, director of shorts such as “Decorosa” and “Hell and Such,” which played Clermont-Ferrand and Palm Springs, Slamdance, Nashville and many other events, garnering praise and plaudits.A five-part black comedy, “Still Life with Ghosts” is set in a Spanish village where ghosts and live people come to each other’s aid,
Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorLet the games begin at Tatel in Beverly Hills, the glamorous new Spanish-accented spot with investors including soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo and L.A. Lakers champion Pau Gasol.
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).
Emilio Mayorga Selected by Variety as a talent to track, Spain’s Jaione Camborda is developing her sophomore effort, “The Rye Horn,” a story that takes place in ‘70s Galicia. After a terrible event, midwife María is forced to become a fugitive and, to wrestle back her freedom, flee Galicia for Portugal along an old smugglers’ route.Camborda attended Prague’s FAMU film school and Munich’s University of Film and Television (HFF Munich).
Jamie Lang Narrowing down the best Basque projects on the horizon has become increasingly difficult in recent years, as the region is experiencing a boom in both the quality and quantity of local production that has made prognostication more difficult than ever.Below, Variety has picked 20 projects from that crowded field which we will be tracking in the coming years.“Almanac” (Jorge Moneo Quintana)A Berlinale Talents project, “Almanac” challenges the limits of documentary cinema by revisiting
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.
Mario Camus, the acclaimed Spanish writer-director behind La colmena, Young Sánchez, The Holy Innocents and more, died in his hometown of Santander on September 18. He was 86.