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Raúl Arévalo
Raúl Arévalo Zorzo (born 22 November 1979) is a Spanish actor and director, known by international audiences for his role in the film '' Summer Rain'', directed by Antonio Banderas. Career Raúl Arévalo Zorzo was born on 22 November 1979 in Móstoles, province of Madrid. Arévalo began his acting career in 2001 performing the role of Carlos in the Spanish TV series '' Compañeros'' for two seasons, until 2002. In 2003, he made his film debut in ''Los abajo firmantes'', starring alongside Javier Cámara and Juan Diego Botto. The following year, he appeared in ''Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena'', directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira. Between 2003 and 2005, he made appearances in the TV series ''Hospital Central'', ''Cuéntame cómo pasó'', ''Aída'' and ''Motivos personales''. In 2006, he made his breakthrough performance as Israel/Sean, the lead character's best friend, in ''Dark Blue Almost Black'' (''AzulOscuroCasiNegro''), directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
32nd Goya Awards
The 32nd Goya Awards were presented at the Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel in Madrid on 3 February 2018, to honour the best in Spanish films of 2017. Joaquín Reyes (actor), Joaquín Reyes and Ernesto Sevilla hosted the awards ceremony. Nominations were announced on 13 December 2017 by David Verdaguer and Bárbara Lennie. ''Giant (2017 film), Giant'' received the most nominations with thirteen, followed by ''The Bookshop (film), The Bookshop'' with twelve nominations. ''The Bookshop (film), The Bookshop'' won Best Film, as well as Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, but ''Giant (2017 film), Giant'' won the most awards, with ten awards, including Best Original Screenplay. Winners and nominees The winners and nominees are listed as follows: Major awards Other award nominees Honorary Goya *Marisa Paredes Films by number of nominations and awards Controversy The fashion designer David Delfín, who died on 3 June 2017, and the actress Amparo Pacheco, who died o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Sciences, and the first awards ceremony took place on March 16, 1987 at the Teatro Lope de Vega, Madrid. The ceremony continues to take place annually at Centro de Congresos Príncipe Felipe, around the end of January/beginning of February, and awards are given to films produced during the previous year. The award itself is a small bronze bust of Francisco Goya created by the sculptor José Luis Fernández, although the original sculpture for the first edition of the Goyas was by Miguel Ortiz Berrocal. History To reward the best Spanish films of each year, the Spanish Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts decided to create the Goya Awards. The Goya Awards are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Graduation
''Ghost Graduation'' ( es, Promoción fantasma) is a 2012 Spanish fantasy-comedy film directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera. Plot Modesto is a teacher who sees dead people, which has cost him both much money on psychiatrists and the firing from every school he has worked in. His luck changes when he is hired in Monforte and has to teach five students who have turned a prestigious school into a house of horrors. Modesto must get them to pass their pending subject and leave the school once and for all, but it will be no easy task: all five students died twenty years earlier. Cast * Raúl Arévalo as Modesto * Alexandra Jiménez as Tina * as Pinfloy * Anna Castillo as Ángela * Andrea Duro as Mariví * Aura Garrido as Elsa * as Dani * as Jorge * Carlos Areces as Otegui * Silvia Abril Silvia Abril Fernández (Mataró, 10 April 1971) is a Spanish comedian, actress and TV host. Biography Abril was born in Mataró, Barcelona, and she has three sisters: Meritxell (1986), Mónica ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cousinhood
''Cousinhood'' ( es, Primos) is a 2011 Spanish romantic comedy film written and directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo and starring Quim Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo and Adrián Lastra. This is the third film of Sanchéz Arévalo, but his very first comedy, and it premiered on 4 February 2011. The film was shot in Comillas (Cantabria) during spring 2010. The film received two nominations for the 26th Goya Awards: Best New Actor (Lastra) and Best Supporting Actor (Arévalo). Plot When Diego is abandoned by his girlfriend a day before their wedding, he decides to go with his two cousins, Julian and José Miguel, to the village where they used to go on vacation when they were children to recuperate Diego's first love: Martina. There, the trio will face again their past and some people who took part of it, such as the irreconciliable "El Bachi" and his daughter Clara. Cast * Quim Gutiérrez as Diego * Raúl Arévalo as Julián * Adrián Lastra as José Miguel * Inma Cuesta as Martina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Even The Rain
''Even the Rain'' ( es, También la lluvia, links=no) is a 2010 drama film directed by Icíar Bollaín and written by Paul Laverty. The plot concerns Mexican director Sebastián (Gael García Bernal), Spanish executive producer Costa (Luis Tosar), and their group of actors who travel to Bolivia to shoot a film depicting the Spanish conquest of the New World. The members of the Spanish film crew unexpectedly find themselves in a moral crisis when they and their crew arrive at Cochabamba, Bolivia, during the intensifying Cochabamba Water War in 2000, in which their key indigenous actor Daniel (Juan Carlos Aduviri) persistently leads. Shot in Bolivia, it is an internationally co-produced film by companies from Spain, Mexico and France. The film received nominations and won awards internationally, including an Ariel Award for Best Ibero-American Film and three Goya Awards, one of which was Best Original Score for the work of Alberto Iglesias. Additionally, the film was nominated as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fat People (film)
''SIAO CHA BO'' ( es, Gordos, links=no) is a 2009 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. The ensemble cast features Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Enríquez, Verónica Sánchez, Raúl Arévalo, Leticia Herrero, Fernando Albizu, María Morales, Pilar Castro, Adam Jezierski, Marta Martín and Teté Delgado. Plot The plot tracks five personal stories connected to a therapy group managed by Abel that helps people with a condition of obesity. Cast Production The film was produced by Filmanova and Tesela Producciones Cinematográficas and had the participation of TVE and Canal+. Release The film received a pre-screening on 11 June 2009 at the Sala Argenta of the in Santander. It also screened at the Venice Days. Distributed by Alta Films, it was theatrically released in Spain on 11 September 2009. Accolades , - , rowspan = "17" align = "center" , 2010 , , rowspan = "8" , 24th Goya Awards , , Best Actor , , Antonio de la Torre , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Prison Yard
''My Prison Yard'' ( es, El patio de mi cárcel, links=no) is a 2008 Spanish prison drama film directed by Belén Macías. The female-dominated cast stars Candela Peña and Verónica Echegui alongside Ana Wagener, Blanca Portillo, Patricia Reyes Spíndola and Violeta Pérez. Plot A prison drama set in the 1980s, the plot tracks a group of female inmates who create a theatre group with help from a female prison officer, Mar. Cast Production An El Deseo and Warner Bros. Entertainment España production, ''My Prison Yard'' began filming began on 8 October 2007. Shooting lasted for 8 weeks, taking place in between the Madrid region and the province of Guadalajara. Release The film was presented on 22 September 2008 at the Kursaal as part of the main competition of the 56th San Sebastián International Film Festival (SSIFF). Reception Irene Crespo of ''Cinemanía'' gave the film 3 out of 5 stars, considering that while not a promise of thematic renewal for Spanish cinema, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Che (2008 Film)
''Che'' is a two-part 2008 biographical film about Argentine Marxist revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rather than follow a standard chronological order, the films offer an oblique series of interspersed moments along the overall timeline. ''Part One'' is titled ''The Argentine'' and focuses on the Cuban Revolution from the landing of Fidel Castro, Guevara, and other revolutionaries in Cuba to their successful toppling of Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship two years later. ''Part Two'' is titled ''Guerrilla'' and focuses on Guevara's attempt to bring revolution to Bolivia and his demise. Both parts are shot in a cinéma vérité style, but each has different approaches to linear narrative, camerawork and the visual look. It stars Benicio del Toro as Guevara, with an ensemble cast that includes Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Santiago Cabrera, Franka Potente, Julia Ormond, Vladimir Cruz, Marc-André Grondin, Lou Diamond Phillips, Joaquim de Almei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
8 Dates
''8 Dates'' ( es, 8 citas, links=no) is a 2008 Spanish comedy film written and directed by Peris Romano and Rodrigo Sorogoyen which features an ensemble cast of actors. Plot The plot, split in 8 parts, concerns about 8 romantic vignettes depicting the evolution of 8 couple relationships. Cast Production The screenplay was penned by the helmers Peris Romano and Rodrigo Sorogoyen. The film was produced by Impala and Tesela and it had the participation of TVE and Canal+. Shooting locations included the province of Segovia. Release The film was selected for the Málaga Film Festival's official selection, premiering on 10 April 2008. Distributed by Alta Classics, it was theatrically released in Spain on 18 April 2008. Reception Jonathan Holland of ''Variety'' deemed the film to be "an above-average if over-derivative Spanish laffer" which "has fun written all over it and contains more than its share of astute observational comedy, but too often mistakes laffs for the mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tocar El Cielo
''Touch the Sky'' ( es, Tocar el cielo, links=no) is a 2007 drama film directed by Marcos Carnevale and starring Facundo Arana, Betiana Blum, and China Zorrilla. It is a co-production between Argentina and Spain. It tells two stories that take place between Buenos Aires and Madrid. Plot The story begins on New Year's Eve. A group of friends have a tradition that they carry out every year at the same time in Argentina and in Spain. At midnight in Buenos Aires and at five o'clock in the morning in Madrid, one of them sends up a balloon with a sheet of paper hanging from the string below it, on which they have written their wishes for the new year. Cast See also * List of Spanish films of 2007 * List of Argentine films of 2007 A list of films produced in Argentina in 2007 in film, 2007: See also *2007 in Argentina External links and references Argentine films of 2007at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Argentine Films Of 2007 Lists of Argentine films ... Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Blue Almost Black
''Dark Blue Almost Black'' ( es, Azuloscurocasinegro, links=no) is a 2006 Spanish drama film written and directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. It was Arévalo's first film. He developed the story from his 2004 short film, ''Física II''. Plot Jorge is a young man whose plans for the future are put on hold when his father has a stroke. For seven years, he diligently nurses his father and works as a janitor while studying part-time to get a business degree. When Natalia, his childhood crush, returns from a stint studying abroad, Jorge begins to yearn for something better. He is desperate to find a new and better job, but finds that no one will hire him because he has experience only as a janitor. Antonio, Jorge's older brother, soon to be released from jail, is an opportunist who has never gotten along with their father. In prison, at a theater workshop, Antonio meets Paula, a beautiful young woman in jail on drug charges. Paula has a problem because she flirted with another inmat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Things That Make Living Worthwhile
''Things That Make Living Worthwhile'' ( es, Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena, links=no) is a 2004 Spanish romantic comedy-drama film directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira, starring Ana Belén and Eduard Fernández. Plot The plot features the relationship between Hortensia, a divorced woman working as a civil officer at the INEM, and Jorge, an also divorced unemployed man and recovering alcoholic. Cast Production The film was directed by Manuel Gómez Pereira whereas the screenplay was penned by Joaquín Oristrell, Yolanda García Serrano, and Luis Piedrahita. It was produced by BocaBoca Producciones with the participation of TVE and Canal+. Release The film screened at the 7th Málaga Spanish Film Festival (FMCE) in 2004. Distributed by Columbia Tristar Spain, the film was theatrically released in Spain on 26 November 2004. Reception Jonathan Holland of ''Variety'' deemed the film be "an enjoyable, adult-oriented comedy romancer beefed up by a thought-prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
