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Forqué Awards
The Forqué Awards or José María Forqué Awards ( es, Premios Forqué, links=no, also ) are film and television awards presented by the association of audiovisual producers , honoring the best of Spanish cinema and television. History Created in 1996, they are named after Spanish filmmaker and producer José María Forqué. In the 15th edition (2010), the awards started recognising performances (initially a single non-gender category to Best Performance). Since the 19th edition (2014), the awards include a category recognising the best Latin-American film. The TV categories were added in the 26th edition. Editions * 20th Forqué Awards * 21st Forqué Awards (Palacio Municipal de Congresos, Madrid, 11 January 2016) * 22nd Forqué Awards ( Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville, 14 January 2017) * 23rd Forqué Awards (Palacio de Congresos, Zaragoza, 13 January 2018) * 24th Forqué Awards (Palacio de Congresos, Zaragoza, 12 January 2019) * 25th Forqué Awards (Palacio Municipa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
25th Forqué Awards
The 25th ceremony of the Forqué Awards was held on 11 January 2020 at the IFEMA Palacio Municipal, Palacio Municipal de Congresos in Madrid. The gala was hosted by Elena S. Sánchez and Santiago Segura. History The nominations were disclosed in November 2019. Organised by EGEDA, the awards had the participation of the Madrid City Council, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, the Community of Madrid and RTVE, and the collaboration of Ibercaja, Mercedes-Benz, ICAA (Spain), ICAA, L'Oréal, AISGE, FIPCA, Alta Pavina and Cornejo. The ceremony was hosted at the IFEMA Palacio Municipal, Madrid's Palacio Municipal de Congresos on 11 January 2020. The gala featured musical performances by Los Secretos, Antonio José Sánchez Mazuecos, Antonio José, Ana Mena, Ángela Carrasco and Paco Arrojo. It was hosted by Elena S. Sánchez and Santiago Segura. Gonzalo Suárez (director), Gonzalo Suárez was gifted the EGEDA Gold Medal recognizing a career in the film industry whereas ''Pan's Labyrinth'' was rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondays In The Sun
''Mondays in the Sun'' ( es, Los lunes al sol, links=no) is a 2002 drama film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa, starring Javier Bardem, Luis Tosar and José Ángel Egido. The film depicts the degrading effects of unemployment on a group of men left jobless by the closure of the shipyards in Vigo, Galicia. Plot After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers – Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Serguei and Reina – keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and the unofficial leader of the group who dreams of one day going to Australia. A court case hangs over him that concerns a shipyard street lamp he smashed during a protest against the closure, which he claims to not want to pay, not because of the financial cost but of what it stands for. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed while he is not. The gap between them is widening and he is fearful that she will leave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Bola
''El Bola'' (English: ''Pellet'') is a 2000 Spanish drama film, directed by Achero Mañas. It won the Goya Award for Best Film at the 15th Goya Awards The 15th Goya Awards were presented in Madrid, Spain Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is t .... from imdb.com It is available in the United States from Filmmovement. Plot Pablo a.k.a. "El Bola" is a twelve-year-old boy with an overly strict father. He has few friends at school until a new kid, Alfredo, arrives. The warm, caring atmosphere in Alfredo's family provides a stark contrast to Pablo's oppressive fat ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solas (film)
''Alone'' ( es, Solas, links=no) is a 1999 Spanish film written and directed by Benito Zambrano which stars María Galiana, Ana Fernández, Carlos Álvarez, and Antonio Dechent. The film explores the lives of a mother and daughter and their struggle for survival and happiness. Both of the women in the story are portrayed as alone (''sola'', plural ''solas''), each in her own way. It won five Goya awards in 2000 and several other prizes. Plot ''Alone'' tells the story of María (Ana Fernández) and her mother Rosa (María Galiana). María is one of four adult children, all of whom moved as far as they could get from their parents and the farm where they grew up. Before the movie starts, the father (later revealed to be a violent, cruel, abusive man) has fallen ill and been brought to a hospital in Seville, where María lives. Rosa has been staying at the hospital with him, but the doctor tells her to leave before she falls ill herself. María takes Rosa to stay with her in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrio (film)
''Barrio'' is a 1998 Spanish film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa. It won several awards including Best Director at the 13th Goya Awards, and was also nominated for Best Picture. Plot Javi, Manu, and Rai are friends from school. They are teenagers, and they talk about girls a lot but seldom talk to them. They live in a poor neighborhood of Madrid with large social housing blocks. There is little to do, and in August even less. The centre of the city is far away, so the three friends spend most of their time in the neighborhood. On television, they see people that have flocked to the beaches for the summer, and they wish they were among them. Walking by travel offices they see tempting offers, but their lives demonstrate how hard it is to leave the neighborhood and to improve their situation. In the end, their lives take an unexpected turn. Cast * as Rai * Timy Benito as Javi * as Manu * as Susi, Javi's sister * as Carmen, Javi's mother * Enrique Villén as Ricardo, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lucky Star (1997 Film)
''Lucky Star'' ( es, La buena estrella, links=no) is a 1997 drama film directed by Ricardo Franco and starring Antonio Resines, Jordi Mollá and Maribel Verdú. Critically acclaimed, the film won five Goya Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Antonio Resines), Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score. Ricardo Franco made just one more film; he died of a heart attack in 1998. Plot Rafael is a kind, good-hearted butcher. He has a lonely life after accidentally castrating himself while cutting meat several years before, but he longs to have a family life, a dream that seems unattainable for him. One early morning when he is driving his truck to his butcher’s shop, he sees a young man assaulting a woman. Rafael cannot help but intervene and jumps out of his vehicle to help her. Taking pity on the girl, he takes her to his home. Her name is Marina and the man who was beating her was her boyfriend, Daniel. Marina, nicknamed One-Eye (for she lost one eye in a childhoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tesis
''Tesis'' ( en, Thesis) is a 1996 Spanish crime horror thriller film. It is the feature debut of director Alejandro Amenábar and was written by Amenabar and Mateo Gil. The film was made while he was studying at the Complutense University in Madrid. The film won seven 1996 Goya Awards including the award for Best Film, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. It stars Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez and Eduardo Noriega. Plot Ángela, a university student in Madrid, is planning to write a thesis on audiovisual violence and the family. Her commuter train is evacuated after a man commits suicide by jumping in front of the train. While being led out of the station, Ángela moves toward the tracks in an attempt to see the man's remains. At her school, Ángela asks her thesis director, Professor Figueroa, to help her find the most violent films in the school's library, and seeks out a fellow student, Chema, who is known for collecting violent and pornographic videos. While Ángel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobody Will Speak Of Us When We're Dead
''Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto'' ( en, Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead) is an awarded 1995 Spanish noir drama film written and directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes. Cast *Gloria Duque – Victoria Abril *Doña Julia – Pilar Bardem *Eduardo – Federico Luppi *Doña Amelia – Ana Ofelia Murguía *Oswaldo – Daniel Giménez Cacho *Juan – Ángel Alcázar *Ramiro – Saturnino García *María Luisa – Marta Aura *Evaristo – Guillermo Gil Awards * 8 Goya Awards The Goya Awards ( es, Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards, commonly referred to as the Academy Awards of Spain. The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sc ...: including Best Film, Best Actress (Victoria Abril), Best Supporting Actress (Pilar Bardem), Best New Director and Best Editing. * San Sebastian Film Festival: Best Actress (Victoria Abril) and Special Prize of the Jury * 2 Fotogramas de Plata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Nueva España
''La Nueva España'' is a daily newspaper in Spain. Published in Oviedo, it serves Asturias. The publisher of the paper is Editoral Prensa Asturiana. It is published in tabloid format. The paper has an independent political stance. Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, Queen of Spain, worked for ''La Nueva España'' when she was a university student. ''La Nueva España'' publishes a list of the Asturian of the Month. The paper had nearly a circulation of 100,000 copies on weekends in 1998. See also * List of newspapers in Spain This list of newspapers in Spain includes daily, weekly Spanish newspapers issued in Spain. In 1950 the number of daily newspapers in circulation in Spain was 104; by 1965 this figure had fallen to 87. In 1984, in the period following the transit ... References External links *''La Nueva España'' official website 1936 establishments in Spain Mass media in Oviedo Daily newspapers published in Spain Publications established in 1936 Spanish-language news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
28th Forqué Awards
The 28th Forqué Awards, organised by EGEDA, were presented on 17 December 2022 at the IFEMA Palacio Municipal in Madrid. Background The ceremony paid homage to the career of Verónica Forqué, died in December 2021. The nominations were read by Álvaro Rico, Amaia Salamanca, Eduardo Noriega, Macarena García, and Luc Knowles on 7 November 2022 at Madrid's . Later in November, Esmeralda Pimentel and Adrián Lastra Luis Adrián Álvaro Lastra (born 26 February 1984), known professionally as Adrián Lastra, is a Spanish actor, dancer and singer, known for his performance as Pedro in the TV series ''Velvet'' and ''Velvet Colección''. Biography Luis Adrián ... were announced as the hosts of the gala. Producer José Luis Bermúdez de Castro was gifted the EGEDA Gold Medal recognizing his lifetime achievements in the Spanish audiovisual industry. Categories The winners and nominees are listed as follows: References {{DEFAULTSORT:28th Forque Awards Forqué Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Razón (Madrid)
''La Razón'' (; ) is a daily newspaper based in Madrid, Spain. It has the sixth-highest circulation among general-interest Spanish dailies, and the fourth-highest among those based in Madrid. The newspaper has satellite news bureaux, and local editions, in Barcelona, Murcia, Seville, Valencia and Valladolid. History and stance ''La Razón'' was founded in 1998 by Luis Maria Ansón. The paper is owned by Grupo Planeta and based in Madrid. The newspaper's editorial stances are primarily neoliberal economically and conservative socially. The paper has also a rightist stance. Circulation ''La Razón'' had a circulation of 140,000 copies in 2003. The 2008 circulation of the paper was 153,024 copies. It was 124,284 copies in 2009, 118,466 copies in 2010 and 103,789 copies in 2011. Between July 2010 and June 2011 the paper had a circulation of 109,166 copies.Figures covering July 2010 to June 2011 from Spain'Oficina de Justificación de la Difusión, Retrieved 28 January 2012. Staf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
