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Sandra Hermida Muñiz
Sandra Hermida Muñiz (born 22 July 1972) is a Spanish film producer and production manager. She has produced more than 30 domestic and international films, such as '' The Impatient Alchemist'' (2002), '' The Orphanage'' (2007), '' The Impossible'' (2012), and ''A Monster Calls'' (2016). Career Sandra Hermida Muñiz holds a licentiate in image and sound from the Complutense University of Madrid. She began her film career in 1998 as coordinator ( es, regidora, links=no) of the film ''La primera noche de mi vida'', directed by Miguel Albaladejo. In 2000, she worked as head of production on the film '' The Other Side'', directed by . She has been a producer on numerous films, such as '' The Impatient Alchemist'' by Patricia Ferreira, and '' The Orphanage'', '' The Impossible'', and ''A Monster Calls'' by J. A. Bayona. Her other film credits include '' Marrowbone'', '' Aloft'', '' Carmina y amén'', '' La torre de Suso'', ''Return to Hansala'', ''Mediterranean Food'', ''Spanish Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
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 the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloft (film)
''Aloft'' ( es, link=no, No Llores Vuela) is a 2014 internationally co-produced drama film written and directed by Claudia Llosa and starring Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, and Mélanie Laurent. The film premiered in competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. Plot Nana Kunning, a struggling mother of two young sons, takes her children to an isolated location. She, along with other parents and children, have come there in order to be seen by the Architect, a faith healer who builds small delicate structures out of branches and then brings patients inside them. The Architect works by lottery and Nana's son Gully, who has an inoperable brain tumour, is not chosen to be saved. Before the Architect can touch the winning patient, a blind boy, the falcon of Ivan (Nana's other son) destroys the structure. The furious crowd refuses to give Nana and her sons a ride unless they abandon the bird. When Ivan releases the falcon, one of the men shoots it dead. The Archit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amor En Defensa Propia
''Love in Self Defense'' ( es, Amor en defensa propia, links=no) is a 2006 Spanish romantic drama film written, directed, and scored by Rafa Russo in his directorial feature debut. It stars Ana Fernández and Gustavo Garzón. Plot Set in Spain's eastern coast, the plot follows the twisted relationship established between an idle woman claiming to be a painter (Adriana) and an Argentinian former football player turned scammer (Rubén) upon their meeting in a bar. Cast Production The film was produced by Mediapro alongside NBCUniversal Global Networks, and it had the participation of Antena 3. It was shot in the provinces of Barcelona and Tarragona. Release The film premiered in competition at the 9th Málaga Film Festival in March 2006. Distributed by UIP, it was theatrically released in Spain on 9 June 2006. Reception Jonathan Holland of ''Variety'' assessed that the "absorbing, slow-burning" film stars out "like a scam movie", "quickly mutating into something f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voices In The Night (film)
''Voices in the Night'' ( es, Las voces de la noche, links=no) is a 2003 Spanish-Italian film written and directed by based on the 1963 novel ''Voices in the Evening'' by Natalia Ginzburg. Ruiz relocates the setting from an Italian village to a Spanish one, but keeps the setting in the 1950s. The main roles are played by Laia Marull, Tristán Ulloa, and Vicky Peña. Cast Production A Spanish-Italian co-production by DeAPlaneta, Esicma, and Mikado, the film also had the participation of Antena 3, Canal+, and TVC. Shooting locations included the province of Girona. Release The film screened at the 48th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci) in October 2003. Distributed by Columbia TriStar, it was theatrically released in Spain on 27 February 2004. Reception Jonathan Holland of ''Variety'' deemed the film to "a well-dressed, if over-earnest, romancer", "otherwise solidly built, well-played". Nuria Vidal of ''Fotogramas'' rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Abajo Firmantes
''With George Bush on My Mind'' ( es, Los abajo firmantes, links=no; ) is a 2003 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Joaquín Oristrell, which stars Javier Cámara, Juan Diego Botto, Elvira Mínguez and María Botto. Plot The plot follows a troupe of thespians preparing a stage play (García Lorca's ''Play Without a Title''). The replacement lead actor is also set to read an anti war manifesto at the end of the show. Cast Production The screenplay was penned by the four leads alongside Oristrell. A Centro de Nuevos Creadores and Garbo Producciones production, the film featured a "very small" budget, and it was shot in 3 weeks and a half. Release The film premiered at the 51st San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2003. It was theatrically released in Spain on 17 October 2003. Reception Esteve Riambau of ''Fotogramas'' rated the film 5 out of 5 stars, writing that the film came "from the guts" to show the actors' commitment to the campaign against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirage (2018 Film)
''Mirage'' ( es, Durante la tormenta, links=no) is a 2018 Spanish mystery-drama film co-written and directed by Oriol Paulo. It stars Adriana Ugarte alongside Chino Darín, Álvaro Morte, Javier Gutiérrez and Nora Navas. Plot In 1989, during the fall of the Berlin Wall and a 72-hour-long electrical storm, a boy named Nico, while recording a video in his house, hears some noises and sees a fight scene in his neighbors' house through a window. He goes to the house only to find the body of Ms. Weiss, the wife of the neighbor Angel Prieto. Seeing Mr. Prieto with a knife, Nico tries to escape and is accidentally hit by a car on the road. Prieto is arrested with the murder weapon in hand as Nico dies in the car accident. In 2014, a married couple, Vera Roy and David Ortiz, move to Nico's house along with their daughter Gloria. They find an old TV set in a storeroom along with a video recorder and cassettes. An electrical storm similar to the one in 1989 begins, and after Vera, Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxfam Intermón
Oxfam is a British-founded confederation of 21 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942 and led by Oxfam International. History Founded at 17 Broad Street, Oxford, as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief by a group of Quakers, social activists, and Oxford academics in 1942 and registered in accordance with UK law in 1943, the original committee was a group of concerned citizens, including Henry Gillett (a prominent local Quaker), Theodore Richard Milford, Gilbert Murray and his wife Mary, Cecil Jackson-Cole, and Alan Pim. The committee met in the Old Library of University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, for the first time in 1942, and its aim was to help starving citizens of occupied Greece, a famine caused by the Axis occupation of Greece and Allied naval blockades and to persuade the British government to allow food relief through the blockade. The Oxford committee was one of several local committees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El País
''El País'' (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. ''El País'' is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El País'' is the most read newspaper in Spanish online and one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain (along with '' El Mundo'' and ''ABC)''. In 2018, its number of daily sales were 138,000. Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Madrid, although there are regional offices in the principal Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, and Santiago de Compostela) where regional editions were produced until 2015. ''El País'' also produces a world edition in Madrid that is available online in English and in Spanish (Latin America). History ''El País'' was founded in May 1976 by a team at PRISA which included Jesus de Polanco, José Ortega Spottorno and Carlos Mendo. The p ... [...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] |
Biutiful
''Biutiful'' is a 2010 psychological drama film directed, produced and co-written by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Javier Bardem. The project marks González Iñárritu's first film in his native Spanish language since his debut feature ''Amores perros'' (2000). Alfonso Cuarón and Guillermo del Toro (who make up "The Three Amigos" with González Iñárritu in the film industry) serve as associate producers. The film follows Uxbal, a criminal and father who becomes diagnosed with prostate cancer and seeks to settle various things around his life before he dies. The title is in reference to the phonetic spelling in Spanish of the English word ''beautiful''. ''Biutiful'' premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and was released theatrically by Videocine in Mexico and United International Pictures in Spain on 22 October 2010 and 3 December, respectively. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and was a box-office bomb grossing $24.7 million worldwide on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Movie
''Spanish Movie'' is a 2009 Spanish parody film directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera and written by Paco Cabezas. The film was conceived as a Spanish version of the spoof films that were appearing at the time, continuing the trend begun by the Scary Movie franchise. The production parodies several successful Spanish horror/drama films including: '' The Others'', '' The Orphanage'', '' Alatriste'', '' Open Your Eyes'', ''Mondays in the Sun'', ''Volver'', ''The Sea Inside'', ''Pan's Labyrinth'' and ''REC''. It features a cameo by Leslie Nielsen (in the last film of his to be released during his lifetime). Production started on 23 February 2009 in Barcelona and the film was released in cinemas on 4 December of that year. Plot Ramira ('' Alexandra Jiménez'') works as maid and nanny to Laura (''Silvia Abril'') and her children: Simeón and Ofendia (''Óscar Lara'' and ''Laia Alda''). Unfortunately, Ramira kills the boy, who suffers from photodermatitis, within minutes of meeting him, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mediterranean Food
Mediterranean cuisine is the food and methods of preparation used by the people of the Mediterranean Basin. The idea of a Mediterranean cuisine originates with the cookery writer Elizabeth David's book, '' A Book of Mediterranean Food'' (1950) and was amplified by other writers working in English. Many writers define the three core elements of the cuisine as the olive, wheat, and the grape, yielding olive oil, bread and pasta, and wine; other writers deny that the widely varied foods of the Mediterranean basin constitute a cuisine at all. A common definition of the geographical area covered, proposed by David, follows the distribution of the olive tree. The region spans a wide variety of cultures with distinct cuisines, in particular (going anticlockwise around the region) the Maghrebi, Egyptian, Levantine, Ottoman ( Turkish), Greek, Italian, French ( Provençal), and Spanish, though some authors include additional cuisines. Portuguese cuisine, in particular, is partly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
