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En mundoCine tuvimos el honor de recibir el Premio a la Mejor Labor Informativa. © Asecan

Ayer se celebró la gala de los 37 premios Asecan. Una gala cuyo protagonismo recayó en la película Solos en la noche, de Guillermo Rojas, que se alzó con cuatro premios y la serie En fin, de David Sainz, que se llevó tres galardones. Por otro lado, destacó el momento en el que la actriz sevillana María Alfonsa Rosso recogió el Premio Asecan de Honor. Además, nuestro medio de comunicación también estuvo muy presente con la directora Marta Medina recibiendo de la mano de los periodistas Leonardo Sardiña y Paz Piñar el Premio Asecan a la Mejor Labor Informativa sobre cine. Aquí la lista completa de los premiados:

Premio Asecan PELÍCULA (Ex Aequo)

La infiltrada

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Solos en la noche

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Premio Asecan DIRECCIÓN De Cine

Guillermo Rojas por Solos en la noche...

En mundoCine tuvimos el honor de recibir el Premio a la Mejor Labor Informativa. © Asecan

Ayer se celebró la gala de los 37 premios Asecan. Una gala cuyo protagonismo recayó en la película Solos en la noche, de Guillermo Rojas, que se alzó con cuatro premios y la serie En fin, de David Sainz, que se llevó tres galardones. Por otro lado, destacó el momento en el que la actriz sevillana María Alfonsa Rosso recogió el Premio Asecan de Honor. Además, nuestro medio de comunicación también estuvo muy presente con la directora Marta Medina recibiendo de la mano de los periodistas Leonardo Sardiña y Paz Piñar el Premio Asecan a la Mejor Labor Informativa sobre cine. Aquí la lista completa de los premiados:

Premio Asecan PELÍCULA (Ex Aequo)

La infiltrada

© Beta Films

Solos en la noche

© La Claqueta PC

Premio Asecan DIRECCIÓN De Cine

Guillermo Rojas por Solos en la noche...

The sophomore edition of Spain’s South International Series Festival, unspooling in Cadiz from Oct. 25-30, will spotlight Andalusia’s burgeoning audiovisual sector.

More than twenty festival activities will focus on the Andalusian audiovisual sector, with industry panels, screenings and talks highlighting the strength of the region’s output.

While presenting this year’s festival poster, Sisf’s director Joan Alvarez declared that Andalusia is entering its “Hollywood moment.” The buzzy timing in the region sees not only increased production in the South but also greater support from local bodies such as Junta Andalusia and Andalusia’s public broadcaster Canal Sur, plus the creation of events like the South International Series Festival, which offers a gathering place for local industry heads.

“We believe it’s a great opportunity for European producers to focus on what is going on in Andalusia,” Head of Programming and Industry at Sisf Carles Montiel told...

Un thriller de acción que se desarrolla a lo largo de un día en un enorme polígono industrial ficticio. © La Dalia Films

Termina el rodaje de “Luger”, un thriller de acción ácido dirigido por Bruno Martín a partir de un guion que ha coescrito junto a Santiago Taboada y que se desarrolla a lo largo de un día en un enorme polígono industrial ficticio llamado “Santos 117”.

“Luger” sigue a Rafa (David Sainz) y Toni (Mario Mayo), dos buscavidas que trabajan para Ángela (Ana Turpin), una abogada de moral flexible que ofrece a sus clientes “soluciones rápidas” al margen de lo legal. Dentro del maletero de uno de estos clientes aparece una misteriosa caja fuerte cuyo contenido, una reliquia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial muy codiciada por gente de los bajos fondos, les situará en el centro de una peligrosa encrucijada.

La película está protagonizada por David Sainz (“Mambo”) y Mario...

Prime Video is reviving classic Spanish talent gala format Operación Triunfo and has unveiled its latest slate of scripted shows, films and doc series from the nation along with a local version of Takeshi’s Castle.

The 12th season Operación Triunfo, which is filmed in front of a live audience, will stream on the SVoD in Spain and Latin America later this year.

A major ratings hit and cultural phenomenon, the first 11 seasons aired on Spanish public broadcaster Rtve and ran between 2001 and 2020.

The musical talent show follows a series of aspiring contestants as they enter a musical academy to train and display singing and artistic skills. Each week, in a live gala, they compete on stage.

“Operación Triunfo has entertained fans for over 22 years and brought joy to millions of viewers. We are thrilled and honored to bring back this beloved show to fans not only in Spain but also across Latin America,...

Andalusia boasts legendary locations, used for decades in productions from “Lawrence of Arabia” to “Game of Thrones.” Now it’s the turn of the filmmakers from the region to get attention. This year’s Seville European Film Festival ran an Andalusian Panorama. Its aim was to showcase the latest and best of Andalusian cinema. A reccy:

Antonio Canales, Dancer (Raúl Rosillo, Spain )

A portrait of a legendary figure in flamenco culture. Rosillo’s film tracks Canales career through avant garde staging and interviews. Produced by José Carlos Conde, Antonio Carreto Cano, Victoria De Prado. A Seville world premiere.

@Buddhistandqueer: From Sari To Habit (“@Buddhistandqueer: Del Sari Al Habito”, Dani Sa-Lo, Spain/India)

Set in India, this doc short follows Tashi, a queer activist who, though now a buddhist monk, continues fighting for justice in their community. Tashi’s complete comfort in who they are is not fully shared by parents.

Santiago De Compostela, Spain — “Día Cero,” “Malaka” and “Streisand Effect” won Tuesday night development prizes at Conecta Fiction, the co-production and networking forum, whose second edition runs June 18-21 in Galicia’s Santiago de Compostela, at the end of the St. James Way.

The awards were adjudicated by Telefonica’s paybox Movistar + and public broadcaster Rtve, two of the main Conecta Fiction partners, who valued the projects’ in part according to their potential fit with their respective TV fiction programming strategies.

A total 10 international co-production projects competed for the Movistar+ and Rtve awards, plus a further six that developed at the series lab of Spain’s General Society of Spanish Authors’ Foundation (Sgae). All projects were pitched Tuesday June 19 at Conecta Fiction.

The Movistar + award went to “Día Cero,” a high concept comedy project set up at Alejandro Miranda’s Spanish distribution-production house Versus Entertainment, marking the company’s entry into TV fiction production.

Santiago De Compostela, Spain — Spanish independent producer-distributor Versus Entertainment is dipping its toe into TV fiction production with high-concept comedy project “Día Cero.”

Co-penned by David Sainz, star-scribe of popular web series “Malviviendo,” and actor-writer Enrique Lojo (“Serramoura”), “Día Cero” on an end of the world hat doesn’t happen how that impacts a group of people. Versus founder Alejandro Miranda, executive producer on films such as Rodrigo Cortés’ Sundance hit “Buried,” produces the TV series, with Teresa Segura at Seville-based Diffferent Entertainment and Sin Sentido’s Rafael Portela as co-producers.

Designed as a half-hour, eight-episode TV show, “Día Cero” is set the day after the end of the world doesn’t happen. Conflicts experienced by the characters in the series arise from what happened in a period of 253 days, between the announcement of the end and the moment when it’s confirmed that the world continues its course.

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Madrid — Zdf’s “La Señora: The Woman Who Defied The Inquisition,” Invercine & Wood’s “An Ordinary Soldier” and “Día Cero,” from Spain’s Versus Ent., feature among 10 projects to be presented at the 2nd Pitch Copro Series, the biggest industry event at this year’s Conecta Fiction.

A co-production forum for European, Latin American and Latino U.S. drama series whose project competitions are backed by Spanish TV giants Movistar + and pubcaster Rtve, Conecta Fiction established itself in a vibrant first edition last June as Spain’s premiere drama series event.

Unspooling June 18-21 in Galicia’s Santiago de Compostela, at the end of the St. James Way, 2017’s inaugural edition caught the modern miracle of the international drama series scene where many titles now have a market outside their country of origin and companies team to share IP and divvy up release windows. The 10 projects to be profiled...

The company will follow up its box-office hit Marshland with the $1.9m production.

Seville-based outfit La Zanfona Producciones is set to produce a futuristic film called Shadow Inside (La Sombra Adentro) and a comedy titled Mi Cadida Cofradia, following the success of Alberto Rodriguez’s thriller Marshland, which took close to $10m in Spain last year and has sold well internationally.

Shadow Inside will be set in 2024 and tell the story of six soldiers who survive a Civil War in Spain and escape to a small village where strange things start to happen.

It will be the feature directing debut of Seville-based director David Sainz, who achieved a cult following with his web series Malviviendo and TV movie Obra 67. Sainz’s company Diffferent (sic) Entertainment will co-produce.

“We are looking to shoot Shadow Inside next year in Seville and the budget will be €1.8m [$1.9m] euros,” Gervasio Iglesias, head of La Zanfona, told ScreenDaily...