In a sign of the times, Spain’s San Sebastian Festival, the biggest movie event in the Spanish-speaking world, announced Thursday two of its biggest Spanish premieres, both of which are TV series: …
, the biggest movie event in the Spanish-speaking world, announced Thursday two of its biggest Spanish premieres, both of which are TV series: Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “Riot Police,” a Movistar Plus original, and Aitor Gabilondo’s “Patria,” a banner title at HBO Europe.
The first full TV series created by filmmaker Sorogoyen , following a female Internal Affairs officer who investigates an eviction by six riot police that goes tragically awry, “Riot Police” will be the first drama series to play in its entirety in San Sebastian’s official selection.
Spanish, but based out of Florida, in another mark of the globalization of talent in the Spanish-language world, Antonio Méndez Esparza’s “Courtroom 3H” marks his follow-up to San Sebastian competition entry “Life & Nothing More,” selected byProduced by Madrid’s Aquí y Allí Films and sold by Feel Sales, “Courtoom 3H” reveals what the sales company calls “intimate truths about the United States,” more specifically its juvenile delinquency and economic equality, recording...
Another first feature, from German-born Isabel Lambert, straddling documentary and fiction — with non-actors, a non-fiction aesthetic and fictionalized storylines — “Last Days of Spring” records the emotional wrench suffered by the Gabarre Mendoza family at their imminent eviction from shanty town Cañada Real just outside Madrid, where they have lived happily enough the last 18 years. Amsterdam-based IJswater Films produces with Spain’s up and coming Tourmalet Films.
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