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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...
Named after the great Spanish producer Jose María Forqué, these awards are the first of the year in Spain and they always give us a hint of what we can expect on the Goya Awards.
Nominees for the XVIII Forque Awards are:
BEST FILM
BLANCANIEVES (Snowhite)
GRUPO 7 (Unit 7)
LO IMPOSIBLE (The Impossible)
EL ARTISTA Y LA MODELO (The artist and the model)
BEST ACTOR
ANTONIO DE LA TORRE – GRUPO 7
JEAN ROCHEFORT – EL ARTISTA Y LA MODELO
JOSE SACRISTAN &ndash...
Juan Antonio Bayona's, The Impossible, broke all-time Spanish box office records for the biggest four-day opening, with 10.3 million euros and 1.4 million tickets sold.
When we attended the European premier of the film at the San Sebastian film festival, we knew that we were watching something big.
The Impossible, is a drama based on a true story of one family’s terrifying account of the 2004 tsunami and the compelling events as they fought to survive in the face of dis...
It is time to give a note to the 60th San Sebastian Festival and this can only be magnificent! A merited A, like the category it holds. Like Cannes, Venice or Berlin but whereas Cannes has a budget of 20M Euros, San Sebastian has to deal with 7.4M
Not always a film festival combines high quality of films in all sections (official, New directors, Zabaltegi-Perlas, Horizontes Lations,etc…) with a glamorous red carpet (Gere,Sarandon,Travolta,Hoffman,McGregor,Affleck,Bellucci,P...
This year’s San Sebastian Festival closed with a Special 60th Anniversary Donostia Award to Dustin Hoffman, a tribute to one of Hollywood’s greatest actors, winner of two Academy Awards and with a brilliant career behind him.
Hoffman also was chosen to close the Festival with his directorial debut: Quartet, on which the actor steps behind the camera to direct a splendid cast headlining Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Sheridan Smith, Pauline Collins, Tom Courtenay, Tr...
This year’s San Sebastian Festival closed with a Special 60th Anniversary Donostia Award to Dustin Hoffman, a tribute to one of Hollywood’s greatest actors, winner of two Academy Awards and with a brilliant career behind him.
Hoffman also was chosen to close the Festival with his directorial debut: Quartet, on which the actor steps behind the camera to direct a splendid cast headlining Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly, Sheridan Smith, Pauline Collins, Tom Courtenay, ...
OFFICIAL SELECTION
GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM
DANS LA MAISON, François Ozon (France)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
BLANCANIEVES, Pablo Berger (Spain-France)
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Unusual coincidence between public,jury and press at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Here they are! the 60th San Sebastian Film Festival Awards
OFFICIAL SELECTION
GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM
DANS LA MAISON,François Ozon
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
BLANCANIEVES,Pablo Berger
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST DIRECTOR
FERNANDO TRUEBA, El Artista y la Modelo
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTRESS
ex-equo MACARENA GARCIA, Blancanieves
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SGAE-FUNDACIÓN AUTOR AUDIENCE AWARD
THE SESSIONS, Ben Lewin (USA)
SGAE-FUNDACIÓN AUTOR AUDIENCE AWARD. AWARD TO THE EUROPEAN FILM
THE ANGELS' SHARE, Ken Loach (UK-France-Belgium-Italy)
EUS...
Interview with Klaus Eder, Fipresci General Secretary
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In 2013, cinemas across Europe are going to be fueled with an adrenaline rush: A monthly action sports movie event, featuring compelling stories and heart-stopping stunts that have never been seen on a big screen.
Todays “Big Friday” press conference at San Sebastian Film Festival just might have heralded the beginning of a new era of action sports movie exhibition:
Not only did the Festival and Red Bull Mediahouse announce further details concerning the new section that...
Panavision AWARD and FREAK Independent Film Agency AWARD
THE MASS OF MEN, Gabriel Gauchet (National Film and TV School, United Kingdom)
Participation in the SHORT FILM CORNER at the CANNES Festival
THE MASS OF MEN, Gabriel Gauchet (National Film and TV School, United Kingdom)
WEDDING DUET, Goran Mihailov (Universitatea Nationala de Arta Teatrala si CinematograficaI.L. Caragiale, Romania)
I THINK THIS IS THE CLOSEST TO HOW THE FOOTAGE...
The film "SHESH PEAMIM / SIX ACTS", by Jonathan Gurfinkel won the award.
Special jury mention for "THE ATTACK", by Ziad Doueiri. ...
FILMS IN PROGRESS INDUSTRY AWARD
Daniel Goldstein, Deluxe-Spain, Dolby, Imasblue, Kodak (División de Cine Profesional), Laserfilm, Nephilim producciones, No Problem Sonido and Vértigo Films.
GLORIA, Sebastián Lelio (Chile)
NORTEADO AWARD
TANTA AGUA, Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge (Uruguay - Mexico - The Netherlands)
For further information:
www.sansebastianfestival.com ...
On Friday, September 28th, at 12h00 at the Principe Cinemas, the film Camera Obscura will be screened with audio description and subtitling for the hearing impaired in Basque. This is the first time that a showing accessible for people with sensory activity will be available in the Basque language.
This screening joins the others previously announced, accessible by means of subtitling and audio description for the hearing impaired. The Festival therefore continues its effor...
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