The San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF) will take place from September 18th to 26th. As they prepared for this year’s event the organizers announced they want to introduce a film market into the programme. Like the Zurich Film Festival, the SSIFF wants to create a market which would include films selected for festivals cancelled …
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Like many countries, Spain is having to live with a period of confinement, which includes closing its cinemas. As a consequence a Spanish distribution and production company, A Contracorriente Films, may be forced to postpone several of its films. To prevent total disruption to its schedules, A Contracorriente Films has decided to preview four of …
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During the European Film Market the Spanish island of El Hierro (one of the Canary Islands) received the EUFCN Location Award for best European location in the film and television industries. The European Film Commissions Network created this award in 2017. To choose the winner, ten locations had been selected by a jury and then …
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On February 14th the president of the Spanish Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences, Mariano Barroso, and the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis Garcia Montero, formalized a collaboration agreement to promote Spanish films in the Institute’s branches – which are active in 80 cities in 45 different countries. “The two institutions are following the …
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January 18th was the final wrap for La vampira de Barcelona. With this feature film Lluís Danés, a Spanish / Catalan director best known for documentaries such as Llach: La revolta permanente (2006), is now trying his hand at drama. He and his crew have been immersed in a period drama about a Barcelona prostitute, …
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On November 7th and 8th Los Angeles hosted the first “Shooting in Spain” forum – an opportunity for professionals in the Spanish film industry to meet their American counter-parts. Those present included the Spanish Film Commission (SFC), the Secretary of State for Tourism (SETUR) and James Costos, former US Ambassador to Spain, as well as …
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Organized in collaboration with Creative Europe MEDIA, the European Film Forum tackled various issues during the San Sebastian Festival. The main theme was “New Models of Cooperation in the Broadcasting Industry”. “We want to talk about new ways of production, financing and distribution, so that film professionals can keep developing their projects with the strongest …
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