Belén Funes
Belén Funes (born 1984) is a Catalan film director.Alfonso Rivera"Belén Funes putting the finishing touches to her second feature, Los Tortuga" ''Cineuropa'', 13 June 2024. She is most noted for her 2019 feature film debut ''A Thief's Daughter (La hija de un ladrón)'', for which she won the Gaudí Award for Best Director at the 12th Gaudí Awards, and the Goya Award for Best New Director at the 34th Goya Awards. Born in Barcelona, Funes earned a degree from the ESCAC and continued her filmmaking education in Cuba. Filmography *''A Thief's Daughter ''A Thief's Daughter'' ( es, La hija de un ladrón) is a 2019 Spanish drama film directed by Belén Funes, starring Greta and Eduard Fernández. The film was nominated for two Goya Awards with Funes winning award for Best New Director. Cast ... (La hija de un ladrón)'' - 2019 *'' The Exiles (Los Tortuga)'' - 2024 References External links * 1974 births Living people Film directors from Barcelona Spanish women ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Barcelona
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the Province of Barcelona and is home to around 4.8 million people, making it the fifth most populou ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cinema And Audiovisual School Of Catalonia
The ESCAC - Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya is a Spanish film and audiovisual school. Currently located in Terrassa, the ESCAC was founded in Barcelona in 1994 as an offshoot of the vocational study programme of the'' Centre Calassanç''. It is attached to the University of Barcelona and is currently directed by the film producer Sergi Casamitjana. History Founded by Josep Maixenchs in 1993, the school began operating in 1994 when it offered a Degree in Cinema and Audiovisuals. With this initial degree it became attached to the University of Barcelona, with which it has been associated since. It currently offers a Combined BA and MA in Cinematography, the first part of which takes place in Spain. In 2003, the school left the Escola Pia building in Barcelona's Sarrià district and moved to the city of Terrassa. The school The ESCAC is a private educational centre that trains professionals in different branches of cinema and the audiovisual sector. It ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Film Director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, production design and all the creative aspects of filmmaking. The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget. There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended a film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline a general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write thei ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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A Thief's Daughter
''A Thief's Daughter'' ( es, La hija de un ladrón) is a 2019 Spanish drama film directed by Belén Funes, starring Greta and Eduard Fernández. The film was nominated for two Goya Awards with Funes winning award for Best New Director. Cast * Greta Fernández as Sara * Eduard Fernández as Manuel * Àlex Monner as Dani * Tomás Martín as Martín * Adela Silvestre as Noe * Borja Espinosa as Borja * Frank Feys as Marcel Reception ''A Thief's Daughter'' received positive reviews from film critics. It holds approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on reviews with an average rating of . Accolades , - , rowspan = "16" align = "center" , 2020 , rowspan=1 , 7th Feroz Awards , Best Actress , Greta Fernández , , align = "center" , , - , rowspan = "13" , 12th Gaudí Awards , , colspan = "2" , Best Non-Catalan Language Film , , , , rowspan = "13" , , - , Best Director , , Belén Funes , , , - , Best Screenplay , , Belén F ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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12th Gaudí Awards
The 12th Gaudí Awards, organised by the Catalan Film Academy, were presented on 19 January 2020 at in Barcelona. Directed by Jordi Prat and produced by Dagoll Dagom, the gala was hosted by . The nominations were read by Anna Castillo and Oriol Pla on 5 December 2019 at La Pedrera's auditorium. Winners and nominees The winners and nominees are listed as follows: Public's Choice Special Award * ' ** '' The Platform'' ** ' ** '' The Days to Come'' ** ' ** '' Liberté'' ** '' The Innocence'' ** '' A Thief's Daughter'' Honorary Award Filmmaker Francesc Betriu Francesc Betriu was a Catalan filmmaker. He was born in the town of Organyà, Lleida in 1940. ''Corazón solitario'' marked his feature film debut in 1973, a film that is now rarely seen. This was followed by films such as ''Furia española'' (1 ... was the recipient of the Gaudí honorary award. References {{authority control Gaudí Awards 2020 in Catalonia 2020 film awards 21st century in Barcelona J ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Goya Award
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 international ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Goya Award For Best New Director
The Goya Award for Best New Director ( es, Premio Goya a la Mejor Dirección Novel, links=no) is the Goya awarded yearly to the best debuting director. The award was first presented at the fourth edition of the Goya Awards with Ana Díez being the first winner for her film ''Ander eta Yul''. Three directors have won this category and later have received the Best Director award, Alejandro Amenábar won for '' Tesis'' (1996) and went on to win Best Director twice, for '' The Others'' (2001) and ''The Sea Inside'' (2005); Fernando León de Aranoa won for ''Familia'' (1997) and later won Best Director thrice, for ''Barrio'' (1998), '' Mondays in the Sun'' (2002) and '' The Good Boss'' (2022); and Juan Antonio Bayona won for '' The Orphanage'' (2007) and went on to win Best Director twice, for '' The Impossible'' (2012) and '' A Monster Calls'' (2016). Five films have won both this award and Best Film, Agustín Díaz Yanes's '' Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead'' (1995), ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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34th Goya Awards
The 34th Goya Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AACCE), honored the best in Spanish films of 2019 and took place at the Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena in Málaga on 25 January 2020. The ceremony was televised in Spain by Televisión Española (TVE) and was hosted for the second consecutive year by television presenter and comedian Andreu Buenafuente and actress Silvia Abril. It was also televised for the international public by the TVE Internacional channel. It was the third overall time and the second consecutive year that the ceremony was held outside of Madrid: previously the 14th edition and the 33rd edition had taken place in Barcelona and Seville respectively. It was also the second consecutive year that the ceremony takes place in Andalusia. Nominations were announced on 2 December 2019 by Elena Anaya and Miguel Herrán. '' While at War'' received the most nominations with seventeen, followed by ''Pai ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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El Mundo (Spain)
''El Mundo'' (; ), before ''El Mundo del Siglo Veintiuno'', is the second largest printed daily newspaper in Spain. The paper is considered one of the country's newspaper of record, newspapers of record along with ''El País and ABC (newspaper), ABC.'' History and profile ''El Mundo'' was first published on 23 October 1989. Perhaps the best known of its founders was Pedro J. Ramírez, who served as editor until 2014. Ramirez had risen to prominence as a journalist during the Spanish transition to democracy. The other founders, Alfonso de Salas, Balbino Fraga and Juan González, shared with Ramírez a background in Grupo 16, the publishers of the newspaper ''Diario 16''. Alfonso de Salas, Juan Gonzales and Gregorio Pena also launched ''El Economista (Spain), El Economista'' in 2006. ''El Mundo'', along with ''Marca (newspaper), Marca'' and ''Expansión (Spain), Expansión'', is controlled by the Italian publishing company RCS MediaGroup through its Spanish subsidiary company Uni ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Exiles (2024 Film)
''The Exiles'' () is a 2024 drama film directed by Belén Funes. It stars Antonia Zegers and Elvira Lara. Plot The plot tracks a mother-daughter relationship, in which both parts are mourning the passing of Julián, with the mother (Delia, Julián's wife) being a Chilean taxi driver in Catalonia and the daughter (Anabel; Julián's daughter) holding a close relationship to the land of Jaén, from which her father emigrated. They both face eviction from their apartment in , acquired by a vulture fund. Cast Production The film is a Spanish-Chilean co-production by Oberon Media, La Claqueta PC, Quijote Films, and Los Tortuga AIE. It was shot in between the provinces of Barcelona and Jaén in late 2023. Release ''The Exiles'' was presented in September 2024 in the 'Centrepiece' section of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It also made it to the main competition strand of the 28th Málaga Film Festival, where it was presented on 16 March 2025. It is expe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |