FIRST AWARDS. 61 EDITION SAN SEBASTIAN FESTIVAL
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Soshite chichi ni naru / Like Father, Like Son
Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)
Two years after presenting Kiseki / IWish at the Festival, Hirozaku Kore-eda returns to San Sebastian with his latest film, winner of the Jury Award at the last Festival de Cannes. This time Kore-eda tells the story of a man who must make a life-changing deci...
Written and directed by Mariana Rondón, starring Beto Benites, Samantha Castillo, Samuel Lange Zambrano...(Venezuela)
A nine-year-old boy's preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother.
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The Australian actor was awarded last night at the 61st San Sebastian Festival.
Hugh Jackman is an Academy Award® nominated, Golden Globe -and Tony Award- winning performer who got the souls of donostiarras.
Handsome, funny, sweet, etc… Wolverine recognized that he loved San Sebastian before coming because his wife, also was awarded here many years ago with a Silver Shell.
After the Gala Award,there was a special screening of the latest work in which he plays the lead, Prisoners....
The Jury of the 12th International Film Students Meeting, consisting of students from centres in Argentina, Cuba, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Lithuania, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland and United States; chaired by the Amat Escalante has decided to grant the following awards:
Panavision Award and FREAK Independent Film Agency Award to the film:
Escenas previas, Aleksandra Maciuszek
Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba)
The Panav...
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Savage Cinema has taken its first steps at this 61st edition with six adventure and action sports films well received by the Festival audience and sports enthusiasts.
And there´s still another night to go: BIG FRIDAY, a not-to-be-missed get-together with some of the world´s most spectacular mountains in the Velodrome for ...
Helena Bonham Carter, announced to attend the presentation of The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet at the closing gala, is unable to accept the Festivals invitation due to incompatibilities with her professional agenda.
The screening of The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet on 28 September will be introduced by its director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and its leading character, Kyle Catlett, at both the Kursaal Auditorium and the Velodrome.
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EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION FORUM AWARD 2013 FOR THE BEST PROJECT
EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION FORUM AWARD 2013 FOR THE BEST PROJECT
EL ACOMPAÑANTE directed by Pavel Giroud and produced by Areté Audiovisual (Cuba-France)
Sponsored by EGEDA, (Audiovisual Producers Rights Management Association)
SPECIAL MENTION TO THE PROYECT
LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA directed by César Augusto Acevedo and produced by Burning Blue (Colom...
Savage Cinema, the section dedicated to action and adventure sports films, turns the spotlight on San Sebastian, converted for a few days into a meeting place between cinema, sport and the general public.
The first to arrive in the city were Dave Rastovich and Chris del Moro, two of the big names in the cast of Bella Vita, stars of surf worldwide, who visited the revolutionary Wavegarden artificial wave installation, with the result of the video accompanying this note. We will see them ...
LA SALADA, Juan Martín Hsu (Argentina)
Daniel Goldstein , Deluxe-Spain, Dolby, Laserfilm , Nephilim producciones, No Problem Sonido and Vértigo Films.
Created in 2002 thanks to collaboration between the San Sebastian Festival and the Cinélatino, Rencontres de Toulouse, the Films in Progress section was born with the intention to back Latin American film production ...
EUROPE-LATIN AMERICA CO-PRODUCTION FORUM AWARD 2013 FOR THE BEST PROJECT
“EL ACOMPAÑANTE” directed by Pavel Giroud and produced by Areté Audiovisual (Cuba-France)
Sponsored by EGEDA, (Audiovisual Producer’s Rights Management Association)
SP...
Three days of round tables, networking and meetings between creators, producers and distributors
The opening ceremony in the cloister of San Sebastian´s San Telmo Museum was attended by the Mayor of San Sebastian, Juan Karlos Izagirre, the Minister for Economic Development and Competitiveness, Arantxa Tapia, the Director of the San Sebastian Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, and the Director of Programmes at Red.es, Francisco Javier García Vieira.
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The 61st edition of the San Sebastian Festival kicked off at 9 p.m. on September 20 with the opening gala at the Kursaal Auditorium presented by the actors Cayetana Guillén Cuervo andUnax Ugalde.
Important faces from the international cinema world will come to San Sebastian to celebrate the start of an intense week of activities, screenings and events with the focus on film:
Annette Bening will present The Face of Love, opening film...
CARMEN MAURA
Sunday 22
The 61st San Sebastian Film Festival will be presenting the actress Carmen Maura with a Donostia Award, as a tribute to one of the most outstanding professional careers in Spanish cinema in the last few decades.
The actress will receive her lifetime achievement award on Septembre 22, during the out-of-competition Official Selection presentation of her latest participation, Las ...
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) grants its Grand Prix for Best Film of the Year to La Vie d’Adèle – Chapitre 1&2, directed by Abdellatif Kechiche.. The award is the result of the votes cast by 245 critics worldwide, members of FIPRESCI, for titles premiered during the previous twelve months.
The prize will be awarded to the director of the film, Abdellatif Kechiche and its producer, Brahim Chioua, at the opening gala of the 61st edition of the Sa...
The 61st edition of the San Sebastian Festival will present its Donostia Award to one of today's best known film stars, Hugh Jackman. The actor will receive the Award on September 27 prior to the special screening of the latest work in which he plays the lead, Prisoners.
Hugh Jackman is an Academy Award® nominated, Golden Globe -and Tony Award- winning performer who has made an impression on audiences of all ages with his multi-hyphenate career persona, as successful on stage in front...
Made in Spain is a non-competitive selection showcasing Spanish films of the year, including productions previously premiered or not in Spain. The Festival offers these films an excellent international launch-pad.
Eleven films will be shown at the 61st San Sebastian Film Festival starting September 20 until September 28.
Some of these film have been awarded and presented in Malaga;Berlin,Toronto and Cannes Festivals.
15 aÑos y un día - Gracia Querejeta
Los amantes pa...
The 61st edition of the San Sebastian Festival will come to a close on September 28 with the world premiere of The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet.
The film is the latest work from the French moviemaker, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, creator of one of the great classics of contemporary cinema, Amelie (2001), and helmer of titles such as Delicatessen (1991), La cité des enfants perdus (The City of Lost Children, 1995) – both in collaboration with Marc Caro – Alien Resurrection (1...
At its opening gala on 20 September, the 61st edition of the San Sebastian Festival will present the international premiere, out-of-competition, of Futbolín, an animated film directed by Juan José Campanella.
Metegol is the original title of this Argentinian movie that has become a real blockbuster with over 1.365.944 spectators in its third week and obtained better figures than The Smurfs 2 for example.
Futbolín is a game known as table football or foosball (USA).
It c...
Yet another year, important filmmakers from all over the world will compete for the Golden Shell at the new edition of the San Sebastian Festival, to take place from 20-28 September.
François Dupeyron, Fernando Eimbcke, Roger Michell, Mariana Rondón, Bertrand Tavernier and Jonathan Teplitzky among the directors to compete in the Official Selection at the 61st San Sebastian Festival.
Club Sándwich - Fernando Eimbcke (México)
Mon âme par toi guérie - F...
This second edition of the Forum will run for 3 days-23, 24 and 25 September- to coincide with Films in Progress, dates on which San Sebastian will celebrate an enormous coming together between members of the audiovisual industry.
16 projects in development from 15 countries will participate in the II Forum. The 16 projects have been selected from among the total of 160 submitted from 24 countries, mostly in Latin America. The Selection Committee made specific mention of the high standard of ...
Spanish film is back as one of the stars of the San Sebastian Festival. The 61st edition of the event will pay tribute with a Donostia Award to the actress Carmen Maura, recognising one of the most remarkable professional careers in the Spanish cinema of recent decades. The actress will receive the lifetime achievement award during presentation in the Official Selection, out-of-competition, of her latest participation: WITCHING AND BITCHING (Las brujas de Zugarra...
The Basque Culinary Center, the San Sebastian Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival presented the programme of the “Culinary Zinema: Film and Gastronomy” section. The press conference was attended by Thomas Struck, head of the “Culinary Cinema” section of the Berlin Festival, Joxe Mari Aizega, director of the Basque Culinary Center, and José Luis Rebordinos, director of the San Sebastian Festival.
This year’s programme includes seven films fo...
The Director of the San Sebastian Festival, José Luis Rebordinos, has presented, with Iñigo Arteche, Director of Assessment and Consultancy at IKERTALDE, the economic impact study carried out on the Festival by the company.
Among the data and conclusions of the study are:
The San Sebastian Festival is an SME (small and medium enterprise) with a team of 642 people during the event. A 12-month calculation of the time worked by these people shows that the Festival is a stable orga...
The new image for the 61st edition of the San Sebastian Festival was unveiled after the competition, open to graphic designers the world over, received 1,046 proposals from 327 authors.
In the Official poster category, “Óptico”, by the Catalan designer and photographer Toni Pontí, who also won last year with his proposal for the Horizontes Latinos poster.
Toni Pontí tells us the story behind this year’s official poster:
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Nominees to the XXVII Goya Awards
Today at the Academy of Cinematographic Sciences in Madrid, Goya awards winners, Elena Anaya and Antonio de la Torre joined Enrique Gonzalez Macho,President of the Academy in the reading of the nominees to the 27th Goya Awards.
A happy Antonio de la Torre received two nominations in two different categories.
Also special was the nomination of a mother and her two children. Paco León, a famous tv actor in Spain directed his first film Carmina o revien...
