'Bride' woos producing partners
New Barcelona-based shingle Get in the Picture Prods. is teaming with Turkey's Mantar Film to produce "The Bride," the sophomore outing of Paula Ortiz, whose "Chrysalis" was one of Spain most notable…
Emilio Mayorga
Catalan film board taps Enrich as head
Veteran producer Teresa Enrich has been tapped as director of the Catalan Institute of Cultural Companies (ICEC), which runs Spain's biggest regional film fund.
Genre-pic posse hot on Chile
"The Green Inferno," which begins lensing in New York on Nov. 4, isn't just Eli Roth's first film as a director since 2007's "Hostel: Part II."
Carax's 'Holy Motors' tops Sitges
SITGES -- Leos Carax's surrealistic dramedy "Holy Motors" swept Catalonia's 45th Sitges Festival awards Saturday, collecting film, director and Sitges' Critics and Silver Melies Awards.
Media Films sails with 'On Board'
SITGES, Spain -- Luis de Val's Barcelona-based Media Films will produce "A bordo" (On Board), the film debut of commercials directors Roger and Hugo Menduina.
Gondola boards 'What About Love'
SITGES -- Spain's Gondola Films has boarded "What About Love," a romantic drama starring Sharon Stone, Andy Garcia and Marielle Jaffe.
'Body' opens 45th Sitges fest
SITGES -- In now near-hallowed tradition, the 45th Sitges Film Festival opened Thursday with one of the biggest Spanish genre films of the year: Oriol Paulo's "The Body," from Barcelona's Rodar y…
TVC takes steps to protect its future
If one regional pubcaster in Spain can withstand swingeing state budget cuts, it's Televisio de Catalunya (TVC).
Crisis-proof pix survive subsidy cuts
Genre auteurs show the way through industry's rampant recession
Through a lens darkly
Sprocket opera's lineup reflects social upheaval in Iberian peninsula
