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Two Catalonias
''Two Catalonias (Dos Cataluñas'' or ''Dos Catalunyas)'' is a 2018 documentary film directed by Álvaro Longoria and Gerardo Olivares, about the ideological differences surrounding the 2017 Catalan regional election in Spain. The film was released by Netflix on September 28, 2018. Premise The documentary follows the ideological differences surrounding the 2017 Catalan regional election in Spain through interviews and behind-the-door conversations. It covers the societal dynamics in the country resulting in a push for sovereignty with parliamentary declaration of independence, and aftermath following it. Reception The film won the 2019 Cinema for Peace Award for Justice. However Catalonian ex-president Carles Puigdemont attended the award gala and gave a speech denouncing the trial of Catalonia independence leaders, Longoria returned the award after the ceremony due to what they felt was the politicization of the ceremony. Olivares did not attend the gala, knowing that Puigdemo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Longoria
Álvaro Longoria (born 1968 in Santander, Cantabria, Spain) is a film director, executive producer, and actor. He produces indie films for several distributors including Cinema Libre and Morena Films. He is perhaps best known for producing the film ''Everybody Knows'' directed by Asghar Farhadi and ''Che'' starring Benicio Del Toro and directed by Steven Soderbergh as well as '' Looking for Fidel'' directed by Oliver Stone. He won a Goya Award for Best Documentary Film for '' Hijos de las Nubes'', a story about the decolonization of the Sahara region of western Africa, starring Javier Bardem Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (; born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. Known for his roles in Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbusters and foreign films, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the psychopath, .... He received the Cinema for Peace International Green Film Award in 2020 for his film Sanctuary, and the Award for Justice in 2019. Filmogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trial Of Catalonia Independence Leaders
The trial of Catalonia independence leaders, legally named and popularly known as the , was an oral trial that began on 12 February 2019 in the Supreme Court of Spain. The case was tried by seven judges and was chaired by judge Manuel Marchena. Judge had previously coordinated an instruction between October 2017 and July 2018, as a result of which 12 people were tried, including the previous vice president Oriol Junqueras of the regional government and most of the cabinet as well as political activists Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart and the former Speaker of the Parliament of Catalonia Carme Forcadell. Some defendants remained in pre-trial detention without bail from the beginning of the instruction process and have thus already served part of their sentence. The accused were tried for the events surrounding the organization and celebration of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum after it was declared illegal and was suspended by the Constitutional Court of Spain, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Films
2018 in film is an overview of events, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, critics' lists of the best films of 2018, festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Evaluation of the year Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, "2018 has been a banner year for movies, but you'd never know it from a trip to a local multiplex—or from a glimpse at the Oscarizables. The gap between what's good and what's widely available in theatres—between the cinema of resistance and the cinema of consensus—is wider than ever." He also stated, "In some cases, streaming has filled the gap. Several of the year's best movies, such ''Shirkers'' and ''The Ballad of Buster Scruggs'', are being released by Netflix at the same time as (or just after) a limited theatrical run. Others, which barely qualified as having theatrical releases (one theatre for a week), are now available to stream online, on demand, and are more widely accessible to viewers (albeit at home) tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Documentary Films
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Decider (website)
The ''New York Post'' (''NY Post'') is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The ''Post'' also operates NYPost.com, the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, and the entertainment site Decider.com. It was established in 1801 by Federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, and became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century under the name ''New York Evening Post''. Its most famous 19th-century editor was William Cullen Bryant. In the mid-20th century, the paper was owned by Dorothy Schiff, a devoted liberal, who developed its tabloid format. In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought the ''Post'' for US$30.5 million. Since 1993, the ''Post'' has been owned by Murdoch's News Corp. Its distribution ranked 4th in the US in 2019. History 19th century The ''Post'' was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US$10,000 () from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as the ''New-York Evening Post'', a broadsheet. Hamilton's co-investors included other New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Diario (Spain)
''elDiario.es'' is an online newspaper based in Spain. Founded in 2012 and published only in Spanish, it has been available since 18 September 2012. ''eldiario.es'' is managed by Ignacio Escolar, a journalist who was the first editor of '' Público''. ''eldiario.es'' includes amongst its staff the former journalists of ''Público'' upon cessation of its print edition. It is published by the company 'Diario de Prensa Digital S.L.' ''eldiario.es'' reported that in 2016, it had revenues of euro and in expenses, with a profit of euro. ''eldiario.es'' published every three months a magazine monograph, called ''Cuadernos''. The publication is aimed at a target market of the academic left. The political agenda has been described as " progressive". License ''elDiario.es'' publishes its contents under a CC-BY-SA license. It contains two exceptions: first, the license does not apply to the content (text, graphics, information, images, and so forth) published by ''elDiario.es'' from thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA Review Of Books
The ''Los Angeles Review of Books'' (''LARB'' is a literary review magazine covering the national and international book scenes. A preview version launched on Tumblr in April 2011, and the official website followed one year later in April 2012. A print edition premiered in May 2013. Founded by Tom Lutz, Chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of California, Riverside, the ''Review'' seeks to redress the decline in Sunday book supplements by creating an online “encyclopedia of contemporary literary discussion.” The ''LARB'' features reviews of new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction; original reviews of classic texts; essays on contemporary art, politics, and culture; and literary news from abroad, including Mexico City, London, and St. Petersburg. The site also proposes looking seriously at detective fiction, thrillers, comics, graphic novels, and other writing “often dismissed as genre fiction,” and printing reviews of books published by university press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euronews
Euronews (styled on-air in lowercase as euronews) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France. The network began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and covers world news from a European perspective. The majority of Euronews (88%) is owned by Portuguese investment management firm Alpac Capital,Portuguese investor will buy Euronews , Egypt's Sawiris to sell struggling broadca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carles Puigdemont
Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó (; born 29 December 1962) is a Catalan politician and journalist from Spain. Since 2019 he has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). A former mayor of Girona, Puigdemont served as President of Catalonia from 2016 to 2017 when he was removed from office by the Spanish Government following the unilateral Catalan declaration of independence. He is co-founder of the National Call for the Republic (CNxR), leader of the Together for Catalonia (JuntsxCat) electoral alliance and founder of the Together for Catalonia party. After education in Amer and Girona, he became a journalist in 1982, writing for various local publications and becoming editor-in-chief of '' El Punt''. He was the director of the Catalan News Agency from 1999 to 2002 and the director of Girona's House of Culture from 2002 to 2004. Puigdemont's family were supporters of Catalan independence and Puigdemont became involved in politics as a teenager, joining the nationali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerardo Olivares
Gerardo Olivares (born 1964) is a Spanish filmmaker and screenwriter. He is married with two children and lives in Madrid. He was the first Spanish man to win the Golden Spike at the prestigious Seminci film festival in Valladolid for his film "14 kilómetros". He received the 2019 Cinema for Peace Award for Justice for his film 'Two Catalonias.' Travels A tireless traveler, Olivares began to travel the world in 1987 while studying Information Science at the Complutense University of Madrid. At the age of twenty he borrowed a Vespa motorcycle from his brother and for four months traveled in the North Cape in Lapland, where he did his first reportage on the nomads who live beyond the Arctic Circle. Back in Madrid, the report was published in ''Los Aventureros'' (The Adventurer). Months later he started working under the direction of the journalist and writer Enrique Meneses, whom he has always considered his master. A year later Olivares covered a good part of the Sahara with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinema For Peace
The Cinema for Peace Foundation is a registered, non-profit organization based in Berlin, Germany. It supports film-based projects dealing with global humanitarian and environmental issues, and coordinates the Cinema for Peace awards. History The Cinema for Peace Foundation was founded in 2008 building on the successful outcome of the annual Cinema for Peace Gala, which started in 2002. Since then, the Cinema for Peace Foundation has been running internally originated, cinema-based humanitarian projects. In 2018, Cinema for Peace Foundation expanded its cinema-based humanitarian projects to include arranging medical treatment for Pussy Riot activist Pyotr Verzilof,BBC, 'Alexei Navalny: Putin critic arrives in Germany for medical treatment', 22 August 2020, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53871617 after he was poisoned. Pussy Riot and Cinema for Peace had earlier coordinated humanitarian projects in 2014. On 22 August 2020, Cinema for Peace organized an emergency medical t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Catalan Regional Election
The 2017 Catalan regional election was held on Thursday, 21 December 2017 to elect the 12th Parliament of the autonomous community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was called by Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy after the invocation of Article 155 of the 1978 Spanish Constitution to enforce direct rule in Catalonia and the subsequent dismissal of the Catalan government under President Carles Puigdemont. The three pro-Catalan independence parties won a slim majority of parliamentary seats, claiming 70 out of 135, but fell short of a majority in the popular vote by securing 47.6% of the share. Pro-Catalan independence parties maintained their parliamentary majority at the 2015 election, although then-President Artur Mas and his Junts pel Sí (JxSí) coalition—made up primarily by Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC)—required from the support from Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) to gov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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