As it turns 70, Spain’s Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid — the Seminci — refuses to look back. Instead, the country’s second-oldest film festival, running Oct. 24–Nov. 1, is very...
Opening with Isabel Coixet’s well-reviewed Italian drama “Three Goodbyes,” closing with “Always Winter,” the latest from Goya best picture winner David Trueba, and regaled by works by two of Spain’s fast-emerging...
Guido Rud‘s Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has secured all rights — including derivative IP — to “Insurrección,” a provocative and politically charged action-thriller film project, teaming with acclaimed Colombian actor-producer Marlon Moreno...
Sean Penn may be one of Hollywood’s most intense performers, but at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, where he is this year’s guest of honor, he appeared relaxed, funny and...
Set in 1580 Seville, Spaniard Alberto Rodríguez’s 2017 series “The Plague,” a milestone in Spanish TV history, depicted how Spain took a wrong turn. Inspired by Javier Cercas’ extraordinary non-fiction book,...
LYON, France — Speaking at the Lumière Film Festival on Monday, Natalie Portman reflected emotionally on the day’s news from her native Jerusalem, calling the end of the war and the release...
Spanish production and distribution powerhouse Onza is heading to Cannes with “Gluten Free,” a feel-good comedy that has become pubcaster RTVE’s most-watched comedy premiere in the last 10 years. Created by...
CANNES, France — In what looks like one of the banner early deals unveiled at this year’s Mipcom convention in Cannes, via his prodco label Crossing Oceans, Ron Leshem, creator of the...
