Ventana Sur: Spain’s Killer Development Projects Span Full Realm of the Fantastic

direct to your inbox Spain and Portugal are the latest in a string of countries to ban travel from the UK after the discovery of the mutated strain of coronavirus. On Monday, the Spanish Government announced that flights from the UK would be suspended - with only Spanish citizens and those who currently live in the country allowed to enter.Madrid said it would also reinforce controls at the border with Gibraltar to ensure travellers complied with the restriction.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentLegendary Global, the TV production-financing house launched by Chris Albrecht and Anne Thomopoulos, has teamed with Barcelona-based ESPotlight to acquire rights for a small screen adaptation of “Los Forasteros del Tiempo,” a family-targeting, illustrated time travel book series from Spain’s Roberto Santiago.The first season makes over the first title in the saga, “La Aventura de los Balbuena en el Lejano Oeste,” said ESPotlight partner Anxo

Ian McKellen, the 81-year-old legendary British actor known for his role of Gandolf in the trilogy and Magneto in the franchise, has become one of the first celebrities to receive his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. On Wednesday, McKellen, rocking a rainbow striped scarf, received his first jab from an NHS nurse at Queen Mary's University Hospital in London, choosing to go public with his story to encourage others to get the vaccine. «I feel very lucky to have had the vaccine.

Queen Letizia talks with a group of children during her trip to San Pedro Sula, Honduras on Tuesday (December 15).

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direct to your inbox A major new travel initiative could soon see tourists welcomed back to Spain. The country currently remains off the UK travel corridor, meaning arrivals need to self-isolate on entry to Britain - with the exception of the Canary Islands which don't require mandatory quarantine.

Ventana Sur, which wrapped Friday, was, on many counts, quite extraordinary. With Buenos Aires, the market’s normal location, still under COVID-19 lockdown, Latin America’s biggest movie mart-meet spread out film screenings over five cities in two continents – Madrid, Mexico City, Bogotá, São Paulo and Santiago de Chile – complemented by digital screenings for the rest of the world.

Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest film market, climaxed Friday with a virtual awards ceremony for its major industry competitions hosted out of Buenos Aires.Awards went to some buzzed up titles from major production houses, as well as others – “Me & The Beasts,” for example, which came from seemingly nowhere to take multiple industry sponsors by storm.Following, the prize winners:Primer CorteVenezuelan Nico Manzano’s “Me & The Beasts” – an original, fantasy-tinged drama turning on a singer

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn a now firmly established Ventana Sur tradition, Film Factory Ent., one of the Spanish world’s premiere sales agents, has announced a new sales rights pick-up on the market’s final day: Italian-Argentine psychological horror movie “El Nido” (“Nest”).With “Nest” now in post-production, Film Factory will present a first promo at 2021’s Cannes Film Market.The feature debut of Italy’s Mattia Temponi, and produced by Rome-based Alba Produzioni and

Emilio Mayorga “Highlands Shadow,” “Cursed Fathers” and “Greta’s Journal” are among five animation projects selected for a new women animation directors’ training initiative launched this year at Ventana Sur’s Animation!, in alliance with France’s Annecy Festival and Argentina’s Institut Français.A 2D eight-episode series “Highlands Shadow” weighs in as a fantasy grounded in traditional folklore mixing action, mystery and political attitude.Targeting young adults and addressing  gender and

Jamie Lang Francisco Ramos, VP of Spanish-language Originals for Netflix in Latin America, headlined a Ventana Sur chat on Wednesday, joined virtually by Latin American industry journalist Nicolás Smirnoff, managing partner of Editorial Prensario and director of Prensario International and Prensario TI Latin America.Titled Netflix, between the Pandemic and the New OTT Ecosystem, the talk focused on how the global SVOD platform is addressing several factors to continue its growth during and