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26 March 2008 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Sort of like what the Sundance labs do to nurture promising (mostly U.S) filmmaker talent, the Cannes Résidence, presided by Gilles Jacob, does the exact same with world talents. This year's six new candidates include the Mexican helmer Francisco Vargas Quevedo whose festival favortie El Violin (The Violin) garnered international acclaim and he is joined by Rebecca Daly (Irish, 28 years old), Nikias Chryssos (German, 29 years old), Adrian Sitaru (Romanian, 36 years old), Manuel Nieto Zas (Uruguayan, 35 years old) and Yang Heng (Chinese, 32 years old). Each year twelve participants are selected and invited to live in Paris for four and a half months as they embark on a course designed to help them in the writing and production of their films, with invaluable help and support from film professionals. The Résidence has received more than ninety directors since 2000, and assisted in the making of some fifty films. Recent examples include …

6 March 2008 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Looks like Cannes can count on some Spanish content this year - Jaime Rosales who feature in the Solitary Fragments (La Soledad) in the Un Certain Regard section, will most likley be showcasing his latest picture plucked directly from recent headlines: the plot for Un tiro en la cabeza (A Shot to the Head centers on the latest attack carried out by the group in December 2007, when three members of Eta killed two civil guard policemen in the French town of Capbreton. Now in post-production, Cineuropa reports that Rosales took only a week to write the script and filming began straight away. The 14-day shoot took place in San Sebastián and the French region of Les Landes. …

4 February 2008 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- edro Almodóvar and Guillermo del Toro you can both breathe a sign of relief. Spanish cinema is rejuvenated. The split-screen/drama that was premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at last year's Cannes (I'm guilty for having fallen asleep to this one: victim of watching one too many films and  not necessarily the film itself) has walked away from Spain's equivalent to the Oscar with top honors: Best Film and Best Director. Jaime Rosales' La Soledad (Solitary Fragments) (two parallel urban stories highlighting the fragility and simplicity of human existence) beat out the heavy favorite The Orphanage (the Picturehouse-released pic that investigates the power the dead have over the living, especially over children in the most imaginative and vulnerable stages). For a full list of the winners: scroll below.       Picture"Solitary Fragments," Jaime Rosales ACTRESSMaribel Verdu, "Seven Billiards Tables" ACTORAlberto San Juan, "Under the Stars" DIRECTORJaime Rosales, …

3 articles from 2008