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Carolina Bang
Carolina Herrera Bang (born 21 September 1985), professionally known as Carolina Bang, is a Spanish actress and producer. She is the best known to wider audience for her roles in Álex de la Iglesia's films ''The Last Circus'' (2010), ''As Luck Would Have It'' (2011), ''Witching & Bitching'' (2013) and ''My Big Night'' (2015), and also produced his film '' The Bar'' (2017). She was nominated for Goya Award for Best New Actress for her performance in ''The Last Circus''. Career In 2005, Bang began her professional career by working in theatre. Throughout 2007 and 2008, she worked on several short films, and then was cast by Álex de la Iglesia for his television series ''Pluto B.R.B. Nero''. Bang starred the series from 2008 to 2009. Meanwhile, she appeared in other popular television series, '' Paco's Men'' and '' The Successful Pells''. In 2010, Bang starred the film ''The Last Circus'' by Álex de la Iglesia, opposite Antonio de la Torre. As she played a trapeze artist, her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
67th Berlin International Film Festival
The 67th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 9 to 18 February 2017 with Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven as President of the Jury. ''Django (2017 film), Django'', directed by Etienne Comar, opened the festival. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Hungarian film ''On Body and Soul'' directed by Ildikó Enyedi, which also served as closing film of the festival. Jury Main Competition The following people were on the jury for the Berlinale Competition section: International jury * Paul Verhoeven, film director and screenwriter (Netherlands) - Jury President * Olafur Eliasson, sculptor (Iceland) * Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, producer (Tunisia) * Maggie Gyllenhaal, actress (United States) * Julia Jentsch, actress (Germany) * Diego Luna, actor and film director (Mexico) * Wang Quan'an, film director and screenwriter (China) Best First Feature Award Jury The following people were on the jury for the Best First Feature Award: * Jayro Bustamante, film director (Guatemala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little White Lies (magazine)
''Little White Lies'' is a British, internationally distributed, movie magazine and website. It is published by London-based media company TCOLondon, who also publish the DIY culture magazine '' Huck''. History and content ''Little White Lies'' rose out of the ashes of ''Adrenalin,'' an adventure sports and lifestyle magazine. When Adrenalin's publisher went bankrupt, a group of friends working there decided to turn designer Danny Miller's student degree project "Little White Lies: Issue Zero" into a full-fledged magazine. The design of each issue is inspired by its feature film, often represented on the cover by an illustration of its lead actor. The cover film also influences interior aspects, such as editorial icons, chapter headings and custom typefaces. However, the overall template of the magazine remains the same. It was called "the best-designed film magazine on the shelf" in ''The Guardian''. Its content is split into three acts: the lead review, a series of feature art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorien
''Dorien'' is a Spanish psychological thriller and horror web television series created by Kiko and Javier Prada starring Carolina Bang, Daniel Muriel, Macarena Gómez and Dafne Fernández. It was released from 2017 to 2018 on RTVE's playz. Premise Consisting of a loose translation to the current day and age of Oscar Wilde's ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'', the fiction is set in Malasaña, Madrid. Dorien (Carolina Bang) is a popular photographer obsessed with not aging who is hired by influencers. A disgruntled journalist, Marcos (Daniel Muriel), is commissioned to write a report about Dorien, unaware that the latter's camera takes away the essence and youth of the people. Dorien has even kept her secret away from her girlfriend Miriam (Dafne Fernández). Meanwhile, Marcos' relationship with her long-time girlfriend Marta ( Macarena Gómez) is not going well. Cast ;Starring * Carolina Bang as Dorien. * as Marcos. * Macarena Gómez as Marta. * Dafne Fernández as Miriam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfect Strangers (2017 Film)
''Perfect Strangers'' ( es, Perfectos desconocidos, links=no) is a 2017 Spanish comedy thriller film directed by Álex de la Iglesia remaking the 2016 Italian film of the same name. It stars Belén Rueda, Eduard Fernández, Ernesto Alterio, Juana Acosta, Eduardo Noriega, Dafne Fernández and Pepón Nieto.The film grossed €18.9 million at the box office by February 2018. Premise Seven friends decide to play a game at their dinner party, in which each member needs to read aloud all incoming text messages or put phone calls on speaker for all to hear. This causes many revelations to materialize, and challenges the "normal" of everyone at the dinner. Cast Production The film is a Telecinco Cinema, Pokeepsie Films and Nadie Es Perfecto production, with the participation of Mediaset España and Movistar+. Release Distributed by Universal Pictures, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 1 December 2017. Box office The film was the second highest-grossing Spanish lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skins (2017 Film)
''Skins'' ( es, Pieles, links=no) is a 2017 Spanish drama film directed by Eduardo Casanova. It was screened in the Panorama section at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was produced by Pokeepsie Films and Nadie es Perfecto alongside The Other Side Films. Plot Laura A man named Simon gets a call from his wife saying that their son is born, but he stays at a brothel. A nude elder woman tells Simon that "people were born to suffer" and that he should not go see his child because he is a pedophile. The woman brings in a child named Laura. When Laura takes off the ribbon she reveals that she has skin over her eyes and sings a song. Simon then gives Laura two pink diamonds for eyes. 17 years later, Laura who is now in her 20s still works at the brothel. A waitress who works there who is in debt attempts to steal Laura's diamonds, but when someone comes in the room she puts them in her mouth and ends up swallowing them. Laura starts to panic because she cannot do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Víctor Ros
''Víctor Ros'' is a Spanish crime mystery television series starring Carles Francino. It is based on the Jerónimo Tristante' novels about the namesake fictional detective set in late 19th-century Madrid. The first season was originally released on Movistar TV in 2014 before its free-to-air broadcasting on La 1 in early 2015, while the second season aired on the latter channel in late 2016. Premise The first season, set in Madrid in 1895, follows the innovative investigations of Víctor Ros (Carles Francino), a police officer from the ''Brigada Metropolitana de Madrid'', the first Spanish law enforcement unit employing scientific and deductive techniques. The plot of the second season, also featuring Ros as lead character, takes place three years after the events of the first season and the fiction develops in Madrid and Linares, in the province of Jaén. Cast * as Víctor Ros. * Megan Montaner as Lola la Valenciana. * Esmeralda Moya as Clara Alvear. * Tito Valverde como ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velvet (TV Series)
''Velvet'' (also known as ''Galerías Velvet'') is a Spanish drama television series created by Ramón Campos and Gema R. María and produced by Bambú Producciones for Antena 3. Its budget is estimated in 500,000 euros per episode. The main storyline of the show is the love story of Alberto Márquez (played by Miguel Ángel Silvestre), heir of Galerías Velvet, one of the most prestigious fashion houses in the Spain of the late 1950s, and Ana Ribera (Paula Echevarría), who works as a seamstress there. Cast This is the list of characters of the series. ;Supporting characters International broadcast In the 2014 edition of MIPTV Media Market, the rights for ''Velvet'' were acquired by Italy's RAI and France's M6. RAI also got the rights for a remake. In Lithuania, it started airing on LNK on 1 June 2014. In Greece and Cyprus, it is airing on Nova Life and from 20 June is airing also from ANT1 and ANT1 Cyprus. In Finland, the series started airing in December 2015 on YLE Tee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aída
''Aída'' is a Spanish sitcom that aired on Telecinco from 16 January 2005 to 8 June 2014. Set in Madrid, it is a spin off of the sitcom ''7 Vidas'', on which Aída was a recurring character. It was produced by Globomedia. The show stars Carmen Machi as Aída García, a working single mother with two teenage children who is forced to move in with her mother Eugenia, played by Marisol Ayuso, and brother Luisma, played by Paco León, to make ends meet. The show received favorable criticism and was the most-viewed show in Spain from 2007 until the end of its run. It has also received several awards, including the Ondas Award for Best Spanish Sitcom. The Polish remake of the series began airing in March 2012 on the TVP2 channel. Synopsis The series begins when Aída García, a divorced, ex-alcoholic and uneducated cleaning worker, returns to her lifelong working-class neighborhood, Esperanza Sur, when her recently deceased father leaves her the family home as an inheritance. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello (magazine)
''Hello!'' is a royalist weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news and human-interest stories, first published in the United Kingdom on May 21, 1988. It is the United Kingdom local edition of ''¡Hola!'', the Spanish weekly magazine. Editions ''Hello!'' was launched in 1988 by publisher Eduardo Sánchez Junco, owner and chairman of Spain's ''¡Hola!'' magazine. ''¡Hola!'' was created in 1944 by husband and wife Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón. In 2006, Rogers Media launched ''Hello! Canada''. In 2007, the Madrid office reorganized and changed out the management for the Canadian version. ''Hello! Thailand'' is a bi-weekly Thai lifestyle magazine targeted at women aged 21 and over, launched in March 2006. The magazine focuses on royal news, celebrity and entertainment features. Circulation peaked at 300,000 in 2006 and was at 100,000 copies nationwide in 2017. Awards * 2005 ACE, UK Magazine distributed Internationally, Winner * 2004 PPA – Sales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vanguardia
' (; , Spanish for "The Vanguard") is a Spanish daily newspaper, founded in 1881. It is printed in Spanish and, since 3 May 2011, also in Catalan (Spanish copy is automatically translated into Catalan). It has its headquarters in Barcelona and is Catalonia's leading newspaper. Despite being mostly distributed in Catalonia, ' has Spain's fourth-highest circulation among general-interest newspapers, trailing only the three main Madrid dailies – ', ' and ''ABC'', all of which are national newspapers with offices and local editions throughout the country. Its editorial line leans to the centre of politics and is moderate in its opinions, although in Francoist Spain it followed Francoist ideology and to this day has Catholic sensibilities and strong ties to the Spanish nobility through the Godó family. History and profile ''La Vanguardia'''s newspaper history began in Barcelona on 1 February 1881 when two businessmen from Igualada, Carlos and Bartolomé Godó, first published th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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