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Frank Spano
Frank Hernández Spano is an actor, screenwriter and director with a cinema career spanning 25 years in more than 25 films. As a scriptwriter and director, Spano made the short film ''Íntimos'' (2015), and several feature films. Spano's film ''Hora menos'' (2011) was shown in the official section of the Malaga Festivals 2011, the Moscow Festival, the IFF Panama, the Mostra de Sao Paolo, and the Chicago Latino Film Festival. It won the award for best feature film at the International Festival of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias and Madrid Imagen. ''HIDDEN'' (2017) was Spano's documentary feature film about extreme sport. He was writer/producer/director in a family thriller about organ trafficking Organ trade (also known as Red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation.(Carney, Scott. 2011. "The Red Market." Wired 19, no. 2: 112–1. Internet and Personal Computing Abstracts.) Accor ...: ''Humanpersons'' (2018) Spano h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It has a territorial extension of , and its population was estimated at 29 million in 2022. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. The Venezuelan government maintains a claim against Guyana to Guayana Esequiba. Venezuela is a federal presidential republic consisting of 23 states, the Capital District and federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Counselor
''The Counselor'' (known as ''The Counsellor'' in countries that use British English) is a 2013 crime thriller film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Cormac McCarthy. It stars Michael Fassbender as the eponymous Counselor as well as Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt. The film deals with themes such as greed, mortality, love, and trust in the context of the Mexican drug trade. The extremely violent and bloodthirsty activities of drug cartels are depicted as the Counselor, a high-level lawyer, gets involved in a drug deal around the troubled Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/Texas border area. ''The Counselor'' was chosen as the closing film at the 2013 Morelia Film Festival and also played the Cork Film Festival. The film was theatrically released on October 25, 2013 and is dedicated to Scott's brother, Tony Scott, who died in 2012. It received mixed reviews and grossed $71 million worldwide against a budget of $25 million. Plot In Mexico, cocaine is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gauguin & The Canal
Gauguin and The Canal is a Panama movie based in a theater play wrote by Venezuelan author Frank Spano (also the director and the screenwriter). The film is starred by Roberto Brindelli, Monica Grocchi, Juan Carlos Avendaño, Dubaidi Avila, Ash Olivera among others. Gauguin and the Canal was screening in 67 Seminci Film Festival, 76th Salerno Film Festival in Italy, 39 Chicago Latino Film Festival, and the Marche Du film of Cannes. The movie had a domestic release on February 29, 2024 in Panama. Plot Whilst being a prisoner in his French Polynesian cabin the painter Paul Gauguin was forced to paint a new masterpiece to save his five year old native son's disease and struggles between madness and sanity. He crashed into his memories of Panama, traveling and working in the Canal Construction in 1887 and the guilt of abandoning his family in Paris. Cast * Roberto Brindelli as Gaugain * Monica Gronchi as Aline * Ash Olivera * Dibaidi Avila as Gerdamen #1 * Juan Carlos Av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Lines (TV Series)
''White Lines'' is a British-Spanish mystery thriller streaming television series created by Álex Pina. The 10-episode first series was released on Netflix on 15 May 2020. In August 2020, the series was cancelled after one season. Premise When Zoe Walker's brother Axel is found dead, 20 years after going missing while he was working as a DJ in Ibiza, she decides to travel there and investigate. Cast and characters Main * Laura Haddock as Zoe Walker ** India Fowler as young Zoe * Nuno Lopes as Duarte "Boxer" Silva ** Rafael Morais as Young Boxer * Marta Milans as Kika Calafat ** Zoe Mulheims as Young Kika * Daniel Mays as Marcus Ward ** Cel Spellman as young Marcus * Laurence Fox as David ** Jonny Green as young David * Angela Griffin as Anna Connor ** Kassius Nelson as young Anna * Juan Diego Botto as Oriol Calafat * Pedro Casablanc as Andreu Calafat * Belén López as Conchita Calafat * Francis Magee as Clint Collins * Tom Rhys Harries as Axel Collins Recurring * Jade A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Que Se Avecina
''La que se avecina'', is a Spanish television situation comedy created by Alberto Caballero, Laura Caballero and Daniel Deorador. The show is set in Mirador de Montepinar, a condominium located in the suburbs of Madrid. The show is an indirect successor to the Antena 3 comedy '' Aquí no hay quien viva''. The name is a pun on the verb "avecinarse", which means both "become neighbour to" and "approach", and is used in expression ''la que se avecina'' meaning "the trouble that is approaching", so it alludes both to being neighbours and the friction that exists between the characters. ''La que se avecina'' debuted on Telecinco, and was later rerun by the same network as well as cable/satellite channels FDF and Comedy Central España. The series debuted on 22 April 2007, the show began to become much more prominent in its third season, becoming one of the most widely watched shows in Spain. Most characters in the show are stereotypical representations of different groups in Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sin Tetas No Hay Paraíso
''Sin tetas no hay paraíso'' (Without Breast There Is No Paradise) is a Colombian telenovela, produced, and aired by Caracol TV. The show is based on the best-selling novel of the same name written by Gustavo Bolivar. The story is based on a young girl, Catalina, who lives in Pereira and becomes obsessed with getting breast implants in order to overcome poverty. Catalina decides to become a "prepago" (prepaid), a prostitute who has sex with drug traffickers in exchange for gifts, money, and social status. The complete, uncut series was released on DVD in the United States under the title ''Sin Pechos No Hay Paraíso'' on October 13, 2009, by DistriMax Inc.; the five-disc set includes English subtitles. Telemundo aired this series on February 8, 2010, with English captions on CC3. When it premiered, the word "Tetas" was censored out and replaced with an image of a bra in between the first T and the final S because its English translation "tits" was censored from broadcast t ... [...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] |
Los Hombres De Paco
''Los hombres de Paco'' (English: ''Paco's Men'') is a Spanish television series that originally aired from 9 October 2005 to 19 May 2010 on Antena 3 (Spain), Antena 3. Created by Daniel Écija and Álex Pina, it stars numerous actors; primarily Paco Tous and Pepón Nieto. The fiction primarily focused on a group of clumsy yet good-hearted police agents. General The fiction focused on a group of police officers in San Antonio, a fictitious neighborhood in Madrid, originally following a trio of clumsy yet good-hearted police agents: Paco, Mariano and Lucas, overseen by Don Lorenzo Castro Riquelme. The "forbidden" love story between Lucas and Sara (Paco's daughter) was another of the main storylines of the series, later turned into a love triangle with the addition of Aitor. Season 6 featured a big jumping the shark moment, by retconning the non-death of Lucas. The series had seasons six through eight centered on a lesbian relationship between officer María Jose "Pepa" Miranda Ram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hospital Central
''Hospital Central'' ("Central Hospital"; previously ''Línea Roja'') is a Spanish television series that follows the professional and personal lives of the staff of the fictitious Hospital Central in Madrid. New episodes are shown by Telecinco network in Spain, and cable/satellite channel ''Factoría de Ficción'' reruns them a couple of weeks later. Another cable/satellite channel, AXN, reruns the old episodes. Produced by Videomedia, the series started in April 2000 and finished in December 2012 after its 20th season. It is often said to be a Spanish version of '' ER''. Cast Final cast Departed cast Recurring cast *Lucas ('' Arturo Arribas''), SAMUR doctor. *Fernando ('' Alberto Mateo''), SAMUR doctor. *Edgar (''Amaruk Kayshapanta'', season 15, episode 206 – 209 – 215) *Susana ('' Tamara Arias'', seasons 13–15), Hector's girlfriend. *Alejandro Vilches ('' Kirian Sánchez'', seasons 1–14), Dr. Vilches teenaged son. Years ago, he suffered a grave depression after h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Comisario
''El comisario'' is a Spanish police drama television series that originally aired for twelve seasons from 1999 to 2009 on Telecinco. Produced by BocaBoca and Estudios Picasso and starring an ensemble cast with the likes of Tito Valverde, Juanjo Artero, Elena Irureta, Marcial Álvarez, Jaime Pujol, Cristina Perales and Fernando Andina, among others, the plot tracks the daily life the members of the Cuerpo Nacional de Policía at the police station of San Fernando in Madrid. Premise The fiction, a police drama, is set in the 'San Fernando' police station, in the fictional district of the same name in Madrid. It deals with the daily life of the Cuerpo Nacional de Policía agents working in the station. Gerardo Castilla serves as a cold but respectful Chief Police officer for the entire series. Recurring personal subplots include the friendship between Pope and Charlie, and the up and downs of the relationship between Charlie and Elo. Cast Final cast Departed cast Producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los últimos De Filipinas
''Last Stand in the Philippines'' () is a 1945 Spanish biographical war film directed by Antonio Román. It is based on a radio script by Enrique Llovet, ''Los Héroes de Baler,'' and novel, ''El Fuerte de Baler,'' by Enrique Alfonso Barcones and Rafael Sánchez Campoy. The movie theme song "", composed by Llovet (lyrics) and Jorge Halpern (music), became very popular. It was lip synced by actress Nani Fernández and sang by Maria Teresa Valcárcel. Historical facts "The Last Ones of the Philippines" is the name given to the Spanish soldiers who fought in the Siege of Baler against Filipino revolutionaries and against the US Army during the Spanish–American War (in Spain also called "The Disaster of 98"). The Siege of Baler lasted from 1 July 1898 to 2 June 1899. During these 11 months, the Spaniards were isolated in a church that became their fortified position. The Spanish troops were a small garrison of 50 soldiers from the "2º de Cazadores" under the charge of Lieut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coup At Daybreak
''Coup at Daybreak'', also ''Amaneció de golpe'', is a 1998 Venezuelan film based on the February 1992 coup d'état attempt. Synopsis The film mainly focuses on a group of rebel soldiers attacking the presidential residence in La Casona. It juxtaposes this with showing the personal lives of residents of the La Casona area during the coup overnight. It opens with a military convey traveling through the east of Caracas towards La Casona. Along the road, the rebel soldiers see a nudist couple (the woman portrayed by Ruth Puebla) in the bushes. They then stop in the poorer part of the area, where they are begged for help by three characters wanting to travel to a hospital; resolute on their mission, the convoy continues and reaches the street of the presidential residence La Casona, attacking everything. Some of the residents nearby is the couple Miguel ( Daniel Lugo) and Isbelia ( Ruddy Rodríguez), who are in the middle of breaking up as Miguel confesses his affair with Paloma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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