Virtual charity cycle to Spain sees Sheryl achieve her personal goals

Holidaymakers with trips booked to Spain are being warned after flights to one of the country's major hotspots were all cancelled. The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma closed last week as a result of a huge cloud of ash spewing from a volcanic eruption.

Former TOWIE favourite James ‘Arg’ Argent was pictured partying in Malaga after losing an incredible seven stone. The reality star, 33, has shed weight following gastric sleeve surgery he underwent back in April this year.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentOrganized by the Cannes Festival and Market and Argentina’s INCAA film agency, this year’s Ventana Sur, the biggest film-TV event in Latin America, is rapidly gaining in critical mass.In one crucial development, INCAA president Luis Puenzo confirmed to Variety that Ventana Sur will coincide with the latest meetings of CAACI, the body of governmental audiovisual authorities in Ibero-America – Latin America, Spain and Portugal – and of its biggest

Jamie Lang French software company Kinetix took home the €10,000 ($11,800) Startup Challenge prize from this year’s San Sebastian Zinemaldia & Technology sidebar, held at and in partnership with the Tabakalera, an international center of contemporary culture and technology based in the Spanish city.In addition to the cash prize, the company is offered space in an incubator for a year at one of the Basque Technology Park Network’s BICs (Business Innovation Centers) as well as access to funding

Jessica Chastain has arrived in Spain!

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Jamie Lang In San Sebastian to receive the festival’s highest honor, the Donostia career achievement award, American actor, producer and director Johnny Depp has announced his involvement in a new development fund for film and TV projects, headed by his own London-based Into Films and Adolfo Blanco’s Contracorriente in Spain.Depp is becoming something of a San Sebastian regular, having been at the festival in 2020 with “Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan,” directed by Julien Temple

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.

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).

Travel rules for going on holiday abroad are changing next month, with the traffic light system to be scrapped for good. From 4 October, the red, amber and green countries will be scrapped and replaced with one red only - which will act as a no-go list for travellers.This means anywhere not on the red list is a green destination and is clear for travel because there will no longer be an amber list.

San Sebastian Film Festival is in mourning as Spanish director Mario Camus, celebrated for his sober but caring adaptations of distinguished Spanish novels such as “La Colmena” – written by Nobel prize winner Camilo José Cela – Ignacio Aldecoa’s “Young Sánchez” and “The Holy Innocents” by Miguel Delibes, died on Saturday in Santander, northern Spain, the city where he was born.

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EXCLUSIVE: Spain’s flagship film event, the San Sebastian Film Festival, gets underway tonight. Ahead of the fest, Deadline sat down with Netflix’s two top content executives in Spain to hear about the streamer’s strategy in the key European market, which has the unique advantage of also being a content bridge into the company’s Latin American activities.

Ann-Marie Corvin Vicente Canales’ Film Factory Entertainment has sold Icíar Bollaín’s San Sebastian Festival-bound Basque reconciliation drama “Maixabel” to Germany, striking a deal with Berlin-based distributor Piffl Medien.The film is set to make its theatrical release in Spain on Sept.

Jessica Wright has had a very eventful few days and has never looked happier as she celebrated her 36th birthday out in Palma De Mallorca, Spain. Joined by her nearest and dearest, the former TOWIE star went all-out for her big day, which was only a matter of days after she exchanged vows with long-term partner William Lee-Kemp, 34.The Essex beauty headed out to the Balearic island on Sunday, September 12, with their wedding ceremony following.