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Platino Award For Best Ibero-American Film
The Platino Award for Best Ibero-American Picture (Spanish: ''Premio Platino a la mejor película iberoamericana'') is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards, presented annually by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA). It was first given in 2014, with Sebastian Lelio's drama film '' Gloria'' being the inaugural winner. Two of the winners in the category have also won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film ('' Roma'' and ''A Fantastic Woman''), additionally, winners '' Wild Tales'', '' Embrace of the Serpent'', ''Pain and Glory'' and ''Argentina, 1985'' were nominated for the same award. Argentina holds the record of most wins in the category with three victories ('' Wild Tales'', ''The Distinguished Citizen'' and ''Argentina, 1985''). Spain is the most nominated country with sixteen Spanish productions being nominated f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Platino Awards
The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano (" Platinum Prizes of Ibero-American Cinema"), are Ibero-America's annual film awards. The awards were established in 2013, and the first awards ceremony took place on 5 April 2014 at the Teatro Anayasi, Panama City. The ceremony continues to take place annually between April and July, and awards are given to films produced during the previous year. The award itself is a platinum figure with the shape of a woman offering the world with Latin America's map on the center, it was created by designer Javier Mariscal. History To reward the best Ibero-American films of each year, the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) along with the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA) decided to create the Platino Awards. The inaugural ceremony took place on 5 April 2014 at the Anayasi theatre in Panama City. The Awards were created as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Platino Awards
The 1st Platino Awards were presented at the Teatro Anayasi in Panama City, Panama on April 5, 2014 to honour the best in Ibero-American films of 2013. Nominations were announced on 13 March 2014. '' The German Doctor'' received the most nominations with five. '' Gloria'' won three awards including Best Ibero-American Film and Platino Award for Best Actress for Paulina García. Winners and nominees Major awards Honorary Platino *Sônia Braga Films with multiple nominations and awards The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards: References External linksOfficial site {{Platino Awards, state=expanded 1 Platino Awards The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano (" Platinum Prizes of Ibero-American Cinema"), are Ibero-America's annual film awards. The awards were established in 2013, and the first awards ceremony took place ... 2014 in Panama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damián Szifron
Damián Szifron (Argentine ; born 9 July 1975) is an Argentine film and television director and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the TV series ''Los Simuladores'' (2002), the most successful TV series in the history of Argentina, and writer-director of '' Wild Tales'' (2014), the most successful film in the history of Argentina. On 18 March 2022, Paramount announced a film based on ''Los Simuladores'', directed by Szifron, programmed for 2024. Biography Born to a Jewish family, January 21, 2015 Szifron studied cinema with the film theory writer Angel Faretta. Szifron was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Platino Awards
The 2nd Platino Awards were presented at the Starlite Auditorio in Marbella, Spain on July 18, 2015 to honour the best in Ibero-American films of 2014. '' Wild Tales'' received the most nominations with ten. '' Wild Tales'' won eight awards including Best Ibero-American Film, Platino Award for Best Director for Damián Szifron and Platino Award for Best Actress for Érica Rivas. Winners and nominees Major awards Honorary Platino * Antonio Banderas Films with multiple nominations and awards The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards: References External links Official site{{Platino Awards, state=expanded 2 Platino Awards The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano (" Platinum Prizes of Ibero-American Cinema"), are Ibero-America's annual film awards. The awards were established in 2013, and the first awards ceremony took place ... 2015 in Andalusia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrés Baiz
Andrés Baiz Ochoa (born 1975), also known as Andi Baiz, is a Colombian film director and screenwriter. As a film director, his first feature was ''Satanás'', based on the novel of the same name. He is known also for directing the film '' The Hidden Face'' and for the TV series '' Metástasis'' and '' Narcos''. Life He went to Colegio Bolivar and later graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a major in Film and TV and a minor in Cinema Studies. After graduating he was mentored by French director Raphael Nadjari, with whom he produced four horror short films. He then worked for the video production company Centro-Films as producer, director and editor for two years. He also worked as a film critic for ''Loft'' magazine between 2001 and 2004. He also worked in the production department of five feature films: ''Bringing Out the Dead'', ''Zoolander'', '' Cremaster 2'', ''Maria Full of Grace ''Maria Full of Grace'' (Spanish title: ''María, llena er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucía Puenzo
Lucía Puenzo (born 28 November 1976, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine author, screenwriter and film director. She is the daughter of the Oscar-winning film director, producer, and screenplay writer, Luis Puenzo. Early life Puenzo studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires and proceeded to attend the ENERC, film school of the National Film Institute from Argentina (INCAA), where she graduated. She has done work with feature films, documentary films and mini series. Career Puenzo began her career in the film industry as a screenwriter; her first work being The Whore and the Whale (2002) She also wrote the screenplay for the film Through Your Eyes (2007), which was based on the short story "Cinismo", by the Argentine writer Sergio Bizzio. Within the same year, Puenzo made her debut as a director with the film, XXY (2007). In much of her work, Puenzo focuses on childhood and adolescences. Most of these pieces feature either queer or intersex characters. She frames th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The German Doctor
''The German Doctor'' ( es, Wakolda) is a 2013 Argentine historical drama film directed, produced, and written by Lucía Puenzo, based on her own novel ''Wakolda'' (2011). The film stars Àlex Brendemühl as Nazi SS officer and physician Josef Mengele, infamous for performing human experiments in the Auschwitz concentration camp. It also stars Florencia Bado, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti, Elena Roger, and Guillermo Pfening. Plot Josef Mengele is in exile in Argentina in 1960, living under a new identity. He makes a long journey by road to a new location by following a family, as the roads are dangerous. Mengele has his own place to stay in Bariloche, in western Patagonia, but he takes an interest in Lilith, who is the daughter of the family, and he moves into their hotel by paying six months' rent. Lilith was born prematurely and, as a result, she is much shorter than her classmates. She is bullied at school because of her size. Mengele is working as a doctor and suggests ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Trueba
David Rodríguez Trueba (born 10 September 1969) is a Spanish filmmaker and author. Biography David Rodríguez Trueba was born on 10 September 1969 in Madrid, the youngest of 8 siblings. His elder brother Fernando is also a filmmaker. In 1987, he joined the Complutense University of Madrid to study journalism. He later took a 1-year course on scriptwriting at the American Film Institute, where he penned the base script of '' The Worst Years of Our Lives''. He is the ex-husband of actress Ariadna Gil. He has published the novels ''Abierto toda la noche'', ''Cuatro amigos'' and ''Saber perder'' in Anagrama Anagrama is a Spanish publisher founded in 1969 by Jorge Herralde. In 2010 it was sold to the Italian publisher Feltrinelli. Since 1969, Anagrama has published over 3,500 titles. currently, Anagrama publishes around 100 books annually, between t .... Filmography Film Documentary Television Music Videos Director Bibliography Fiction * ''Abierto Toda La Noche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed
''Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed'' ( es, Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados, links=no) is a 2013 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by David Trueba, and starring Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina, and Francesc Colomer. The film's title comes from a lyric in the song "Strawberry Fields Forever", from the Beatles. The film won six Goya Awards, including Film, Director, Original Screenplay, and Actor. It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Plot In 1966 John Lennon is in the midst of an existential crisis in which he's considering leaving the Beatles for good. Trying to launch a career in acting, he travels to Almeria in southern Spain to film Richard Lester's anti-war black comedy: How I Won the War. Antonio, a schoolteacher of English and die-hard fan of the Liverpool quartet, decides to go on a road trip from Albacete to Almería in the hope of meeting Lennon. He uses the Beatles' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álex De La Iglesia
Alejandro "Álex" de la Iglesia Mendoza (born 4 December 1965) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former comic book artist. De la Iglesia's films combine grotesque and very dark elements such as death and murder: most of his works are considered dark comedies, but are also often considered to have horror and/or drama elements. All his films, with the notable exceptions of '' The Last Circus'' (2010) and '' As Luck Would Have It'' (2011), were written together with Jorge Guerricaechevarría. Biography Alejandro de la Iglesia Mendoza was born on 4 December 1965 in Bilbao, son to a professor of Sociology (father) and a realist painter (mother) and the youngest of five siblings. He received his primary and secondary education in Jesuitic centres, later earning a licentiate degree in Philosophy from the University of Deusto, likewise a Jesuitic centre. A comic book artist since young, he had a brief stint in television before finding work as production designe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witching & Bitching
''Witching & Bitching'' ( es, Las brujas de Zugarramurdi, links=no; ) is a 2013 Spanish comedy horror film co-written and directed by Álex de la Iglesia. It stars Hugo Silva, Mario Casas, and Carmen Maura. It won the most awards at the 28th Goya Awards with eight wins out of ten nominations, primarily in technical categories. Plot The film opens with two men, José and Antonio robbing a pawn shop in Madrid. Antonio is unhappy that José has brought his son Sergio along on the heist and is even unhappier that the child is participating with them, as this puts both him and them at risk. The robbery turns sour and several people die in the resulting gunfire. The men hijack a taxi and stow its unwilling passenger in the trunk, then force the driver, Manuel, to drive towards Spain's border with the intent to flee to France. The group is followed by Sergio's mother and José's ex Silvia as well as two police investigators Pacheco and Calvo, who are tracking Silvia. The men end up in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Golden Dream
''The Golden Dream'' ( es, La jaula de oro; literally: "The Cage of Gold") is a 2013 Mexican drama film directed by Spanish-born Mexican director Diego Quemada-Díez. "El cineasta Diego Quemada-Díez (Burgos, 1969) presentará «La jaula de oro» -su primer largometraje- en la sección «Un Certain Regard» del certamen de la 66 edicion del Festival de Cannes." It was screened in the section at the |