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10th Gaudí Awards
The 10th Gaudí Awards, organised by the Catalan Film Academy, were presented at the Forum Auditorium in Barcelona on 28 January 2018. The gala was hosted by David Verdaguer. Winners and nominees The nominations were read by Alex Brendemühl and Nora Navas at the in Barcelona on 28 December 2017. The winners and nominees are listed as follows: Honorary Award Actress Mercedes Sampietro was the recipient of the Gaudí honorary award. Audience Award * ''Holy Camp! ''Holy Camp!'' ( es, La llamada, lit=The Call, links=no) is a 2017 Spanish Musical film, musical comedy film directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo (actor), Javier Calvo. It is the film adaptation of the musical theatre, musical La llamada ...'' References {{authority control Gaudí Awards 2018 in Catalonia 2018 film awards 21st century in Barcelona January 2018 events in Spain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forum Building
The Forum Building ( ca, Edifici Fòrum, ; es, Edificio Fórum), is an architectural landmark in Barcelona designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (Herzog & de Meuron). The building is triangular in shape, measuring 180 metres on each side and 25 metres in height, located within the triangle formed by Diagonal Avenue, Rambla de Prim and the Ronda Litoral. It was the symbol of the controversial 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures and the serious flaws that arose during its construction were widely covered in both the Spanish national and foreign press. The building has become a political bone of contention, with the opposition parties in both Barcelona Council and the Parliament of Catalonia demanding to know why it cost so much (of the order of US $144 m). The building has an auditorium with a seating capacity of 3,200 and an exhibition hall covering nearly 5,000 square metres. Since 2011 the building hosts the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holy Camp!
''Holy Camp!'' ( es, La llamada, lit=The Call, links=no) is a 2017 Spanish Musical film, musical comedy film directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo (actor), Javier Calvo. It is the film adaptation of the musical theatre, musical La llamada (musical), of the same name, which was also written and directed by Ambrossi and Calvo and has been running for several seasons in the Madrid theater Teatro Lara. As of November 2020, the film is available to view on Netflix. Plot Sister Milagros and Mother Bernarda are two nuns in charge at the Catholic summer camp La Brújula in Province of Segovia, Segovia. Mother Bernarda is seeking to modernize and reach out to youth through music, while Sister Milagros is full of self doubt. The main characters are María and Susana, two 17-year-old girls who are spending the summer at the camp which they have attended since they were little. They both love reggaeton and "" music; but God's apparitions to and calling (religion), calling of María be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruna Cusí
Bruna Cusí Echaniz (born 9 September 1986) is a Spanish actress, winner of Goya Award for Best New Actress The Goya Award for Best New Actress ( es, Premio Goya a la mejor actriz revelación, links=no) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. Since its inception, the award has been given to 27 actresses. At the 9th Goya Award ... in 2018. Filmography Film Television Accolades References External links * 1986 births Living people Spanish film actresses Actresses from Barcelona Spanish television actresses 21st-century Spanish actresses {{Spain-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Snow (2017 Film)
''Black Snow'' ( es, Nieve negra, links=no) is a 2017 Argentine–Spanish thriller film directed by Martín Hodara (in his solo directorial debut) which stars Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia, and Laia Costa alongside Federico Luppi and Dolores Fonzi. Plot The plot concerns about the return of Marcos (together with pregnant wife Laura) to his native Argentina, moving to a remote location in Patagonia to meet with brother Salvador (a presumed fratricide perpetrator) to convince him to sell the lands they both inherited. Cast Production The film is a Pampa Films, A Contracorriente Films, Gloriamundi Producciones, and Bowfinger International Pictures production. It was shot in between Spain (La Seu d'Urgell), Andorra, and Argentina (Buenos Aires). Release The film was theatrically released in Argentina on 19 January 2017 by Buena Vista International. It was presented at the 20th Málaga Film Festival on 18 March 2017. Distributed by A Contracorriente Films, it was theatri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Darín
Ricardo Alberto Darín (born 16 January 1957) is an Argentine actor, film director and film producer, he is considered one of the best and most prolific actors of Argentine cinema. Considered one of the greatest and most acclaimed movie stars of his country, he played a number of parts in TV series for several years where he became popular as a young leading actor. His most prominent roles as a film actor include ''Nine Queens'' (2000), ''El hijo de la novia'' (2001), ''Luna de Avellaneda'' (2004), '' The Aura'' (2005) and '' La señal'' (2007), which was also his directorial debut. He starred in the Academy Award winning film for Best Foreign Picture ''The Secret in Their Eyes'' (2009). In 2011, the Konex Foundation bestowed upon him their Konex Award, Diamond Award, one of the most prestigious awards in Argentina, for being the most important personality in entertainment in the last decade in his country. In 2015, he received the Goya Award for Best Actor for the film ''Trum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abracadabra (2017 Film)
''Abracadabra'' is a 2017 Spanish-French fantasy black comedy-drama film written and directed by Pablo Berger. It stars Maribel Verdú, Antonio de la Torre & José Mota. It was shortlisted as one of the three films to be selected as the potential Spanish submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards. However, it was not selected, with '' Summer 1993'' being selected as the Spanish entry. Plot Carmen (Verdú) is married to Carlos (De la Torre), a rude, emotionally abusive construction worker who barely pays any attention to his wife and teenage daughter. One night, during a wedding, Carlos pretends to offer himself for the act of Carmen's cousin, supermarket security guard and amateur hypnotist Pepe (Mota), but he instead crashes Pepe's performance as his idea of a joke. However, he ends up unexpectedly affected by the hypnosis, to the point of holding Pepe hostage with a knife for a moment while everybody believes he is still joki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio De La Torre (actor)
Antonio de la Torre Martín (born 18 January 1968) is a Spanish actor. De la Torre is the actor with most nominations overall to the Goya Awards. He won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actor for ''Dark Blue Almost Black'' in 2007, whereas he earned the Goya Award for Best Actor for '' The Realm'' in 2019. He has starred in many films directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, with whom he collaborated for the first time in the short film ''Profilaxis'' (2003). Biography Antonio de la Torre Martín was born on 18 January 1968 in Málaga. After earning a licentiate degree in Journalism, he worked work for a time as a sports journalist for Andalusian regional broadcaster Canal Sur. He trained his acting chops under Cristina Rota in Madrid. He started his acting career in television series such as ' or ''Los ladrones van a la oficina''. He landed afterwards minor film roles in ''The Worst Years of Our Lives'' (1994, his feature film debut), ''You Shall Die in Chafarinas'', ''The D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oona Chaplin
Oona Castilla Chaplin (; born 4 June 1986) is a Spanish-Swiss actress. Her roles include Talisa Maegyr in the HBO TV series ''Game of Thrones'', Kitty Trevelyan in the BBC drama ''The Crimson Field'', and Zilpha Geary in the series ''Taboo''. A member of the Chaplin family, she is the daughter of actress Geraldine Chaplin, granddaughter of English filmmaker and actor Charlie Chaplin, and great-granddaughter of Irish-American playwright Eugene O'Neill. She was named after her maternal grandmother Oona O'Neill, Charlie Chaplin’s fourth and final wife. Early life Chaplin was born in Madrid to English-American actress Geraldine Chaplin and Chilean cinematographer Patricio Castilla. Her paternal grandmother is Mapuche. She has a half-brother named Shane from her mother's previous relationship with film director Carlos Saura. Chaplin spent her childhood mostly in Spain, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Cuba, but travelled often because of her mother's film career. She starte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laia Marull
Laia Marull Quintana (born 4 January 1973) is a Spanish actress. She has won three Goya Awards — Best New Actress for ''Fugitives'' (2000), Best Actress for ''Take My Eyes'' (2003), and Best Supporting Actress for ''Black Bread'' (2010). She was also nominated for European Film Award for Best Actress for ''Take My Eyes''. Marull is known for her work on film, television and stage, and has performed in Spanish, Catalan and French. Biography Laia Marull Quintana was born on 4 January 1973 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She began her career in an amateurish theatre. Marull studied acting at the Nancy Tuñón Theater School in Barcelona. She made her acting debut in 1994 on the Catalan television channel TV3 series "Estació d'enllaç", which made her popular in Catalonia. Two years later, in 1996, she began her film career with "Razones sentimentales". Marull has won three Goya Awards and a Donostia Zinemaldia Silver Shell. She is fluent in Spanish, Catalan Catalan m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Núria Prims
Núria Prims (born 29 September 1972) is a Spanish theatre, television and film actress from Catalonia. Biography Núria Prims was born in Barcelona on 29 September 1972. She was raised in Sant Andreu. She made her feature film debut by landing a role in the 1995 drama ''Stories from the Kronen''. Film appearances in ', ', ''Saïd'', ''Sobreviviré'', ''Unconscious'' and ' ensued. She became popular to a television audience in Catalonia owing to her performance as Mariona Montsolís in soap opera ''Nissaga de poder'', whereas she earned a wider visibility in Spain in the wake of her performance playing Dr. Leyre Durán in ''Hospital Central''. She retired from cinema towards 2009, and moved to Menorca, returning to cinema 8 years later upon a personal request from Agustí Villaronga to star as Carlana (the widow of a local ''cacique A ''cacique'' (Latin American ; ; feminine form: ''cacica'') was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, the indigenous inhabitants at Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Coixet
Isabel Coixet Castillo (; born 9 April 1960 ) is a Spanish film director. She is one of the most prolific film directors of contemporary Spain, having directed twelve feature-length films since the beginning of her film career in 1988, in addition to documentary films, shorts, and commercials. Her films depart from the traditional national cinema of Spain, and help to “untangle films from their national context ... clearing the path for thinking about national film from different perspectives.” The recurring themes of “emotions, feelings, and existential conflict” coupled with her distinct visual style secure the “multifaceted (she directs, writes, produces, shoots, and acts)” filmmaker's status as a “Catalans, Catalan auteur.” Early life Isabel Coixet was born in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Sant Adrià del Besòs next to Barcelona on 9 April 1960. She started filming when she was given an 8 mm camera on the occasion of her First Communion. After obtaining a BA d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Marqués-Marcet
Carlos Marqués-Marcet (Barcelona, 1983) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and film editor best known for his first fictional film '' 10,000 km''. Biography Carlos Marqués-Marcet studied Audiovisual Communication at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, where he had his degree in 2006. His fourth short film ''Udols'' was awarded as the best short film of the year 2008 by '' Cahiers du Cinéma''. In 2008 he flew to Los Angeles (California) to attend a master in Film Direction at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His first fictional film was '' 10,000 km'', made in Barcelona in 2014. This film won a lot of awards in some film festivals, as Málaga Film Festival, Goya Awards (best new director) or Gaudí Awards (best director), among others. Filmography Short films * ''Amunt i avall'' (2006, "Up and down") * ''Fora de joc'' (2007, "Offsides") * ''Udols'' (2008, "Howls") * ''I'll be alone'' (2010) * ''5456 Miles away'' (2010) * ''Say goodn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
