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Exclusive: Spanish actress Nicole Wallace has signed with Tfc Management for representation.

Wallace is best known for her portrayal of Noah in the hit Prime Video film Culpa Mia (My Fault), based on the bestselling Wattpad novel series by Mercedes Ron. The Domingo González-written and directed title was the most-watched non-English language original in the platform’s history, Prime Video said in 2023. She followed Culpa Mia with starring roles in its sequels: Culpa Tuya (Your Fault) and Culpa Nuestra (Our Fault), which will premiere on the streamer on December 27, and June 2025, respectively.

She most recently starred in the Netflix limited series Ni Una Mas (Raising Voices), based on Miguel Saez Carral’s novel. The 8-episode teen drama follows 17-year-old Alma (Wallace) and her friends Greta and Nata, who have grown up together and are set to graduate from high school Alma’s life is turned upside down after she...

Unspooling in Cadiz over Oct. 25-31, the South International Series Festival is a bellwether on trends and highlights for the current season. What could be some of its star performers? Following, 10 titles to track, which also often say something about the way the market is going.

“The Big Jump” (Atresmedia International Sales)

One of Atresmedia’s biggest bets at Mipcom, a biopic series about the rise to Olympic Gold Medals at Sydney and Athens of Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr and, in a second timeline, his descent into drugs and alcohol, incapable of accepting failure in competition and lost when retired. Oscar Casas plays Deferr, with “Gangs of Galicia” helmer Roger Gual directs. An Atresplayer Original Series, bowing on Nov. 17.

“La Favorita 1922” (Mediterraneo)

From “Grand Hotel” through “Velvet” and “Cable Girls,” Ramon Campos’ Studiocanal j.v. Bambu Producciones has carved out its international reputation, creating modern gender-agenda melodramas that make...

Una película basada en hechos reales. © Elástica Films

Ya se ha publicado el tráiler oficial de “La Virgen Roja”, antes titulada “Hildegart”. Un drama histórico basado en hechos reales que mezcla romance y thriller y que se podrá ver en el Festival de Cine de San Sebastián como Proyección Especial, en Sección Oficial fuera de competición.

“La Virgen Roja” sigue a Hildegart, que es concebida y educada por su madre Aurora para ser la mujer del futuro, convirtiéndose en una de las mentes más brillantes de la España de los años 30 y uno de los referentes europeos sobre sexualidad femenina. A sus 18 años, Hildegart comienza a experimentar la libertad y conoce a Abel Velilla, quien le ayuda a explorar un nuevo mundo emocional y desmarcarse del férreo nido materno. Aurora teme perder el control sobre su hija y hace todo lo posible por impedir que Hildegart se aleje. Las dos...

Una película basada en hechos reales. © Elástica Films

Ya se ha publicado el primer tráiler de “La Virgen Roja”, antes titulada “Hildegart”. Un drama histórico basado en hechos reales que mezcla romance y thriller.

“La Virgen Roja” sigue a Hildegart, que es concebida y educada por su madre Aurora para ser la mujer del futuro, convirtiéndose en una de las mentes más brillantes de la España de los años 30 y uno de los referentes europeos sobre sexualidad femenina. A sus 18 años, Hildegart comienza a experimentar la libertad y conoce a Abel Velilla, quien le ayuda a explorar un nuevo mundo emocional y desmarcarse del férreo nido materno. Aurora teme perder el control sobre su hija y hace todo lo posible por impedir que Hildegart se aleje. Las dos mujeres se enfrentarán durante una noche de verano de 1933 poniendo fin al “Proyecto Hildegart”.

La película está protagonizada por Najwa Nimri (“La Casa de Papel...

Spanish actor Gabriel Guevara, star of Prime Video young adult romance “My Fault,” was arrested Saturday night in Venice for sexual assault, according to media reports. He was arrested by Spanish police on an outstanding warrant out of France.

The news was first reported by Venice’s La Nuova.

Guevara had been scheduled to attend a press conference and award ceremony at the festival Sunday morning, where he was to accept an award from Filming Italy for Best Young Actor.

Filming Italy has reportedly canceled giving Guevara the award as a “precautionary measure,” according to media reports, pending the result of the actor’s case. TheWrap has reached out to Filming Italy for comment — the organization is unrelated to the festival itself.

A Spanish court must approve before Guevara is extradited to France. Further details on the allegations against Guevara were not immediately available.

Guevara is set to star in...

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Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker Michael Douglas will serve as guest of honor and advisor at the fourth annual Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival. Douglas will appear during the short film festival’s 2022 virtual awards ceremony to announce the grand prize winner and offer insights to young filmmakers. The ceremony will be organized via Japan-based Meihodo’s U.S. headquarters in New York City, and stream on YouTube for U.S. audiences on Feb. 22,

The theme of this year’s festival will be “Dreaming Big in the Digital Revolution.” The festival has received thousands of entries from around the world and Meihodo will introduce a new element, awarding top winners with custom NFTs and cryptocurrency and bestowing a prize of $20,000 to one standout work, with total prize money exceeding $100,000.

“I’ve had the good fortune to work in the film business for decades, and I’m both humbled and...

Shot partly in Navarre, Northern Spain, TV drama “3 Caminos” bowed Jan. 22 on Amazon Prime Video, as the region, a burgeoning film-tv hub and shoot locale, has just hiked its already substantial incentives for the audiovisual industry.

A six-episode TV drama, “3 Caminos” turns on five people of different nationalities that forge their friendship along the St. James Way in three particular moments of their lives. Laced with comedy, the three different pilgrimages, framing problems, conflicts and tensions of the ordinary world, also reveal the Way as a spiritual as well as physical journey.

For La Coruña-based Ficción Producciones, “3 Caminos” marks a first international TV drama foray. Set up at Ficción, the series was structured as a co-production with Amazon Prime Video, top European producer-distribution powerhouse Beta Film, South Korea’s 239 Studios and Portugal’s Cinemate.

Released as an Amazon Exclusive series in Spain, “3 Caminos’” German, French and Italian...

The Spanish TV industry has been shaken by the dramatic impact of the coronavirus crisis, but it is fighting back.

Industry players have reacted fast, pushing forward with development, post-production and other business activities using online tools, and with the expectation of supporting funds from both public and private initiatives that will mitigate the effects of the crisis in production.

As has been the case in the local film sector, TV fiction production has been halted, with some 30 TV drama project shoots suspended.

Despite huge difficulties, the TV networks haven’t stopped broadcasting live, operating as normally as possible. Live programming, held without the presence of audiences, continues. News programs, crucial in crisis times, are breaking ratings records. There is, though, a higher than usual presence of reruns.

The release of original TV dramas, a key content for VOD platforms, is being adapted to the exceptional circumstances.

HBO has postponed the keenly-awaited launch of “Patria,...

Madrid — Movistar +, the pay TV unit of telco giant Telefonica, has set a March 28 release for Season 2 of “Skam España,” the Spanish remake of Norwegian cult web-tv hit teen drama “Skam” (“Shame”) whose plot, at least in the second season, begins to diverge from the Nordic original.

Produced in collaboration with Zeppelin TV, part of EndemolShine Iberia, “Skam España” is a transmedia production that runs daily online and weekly as a complete episode on demand via Movistar + platform.

The blog-style series follows the everyday life of five first-year student girls at a public-sector high school. It tracks them through their heartbreaks, partying and the challenges young people face on the cusp of adulthood.

Originally produced by Norwegian pubcaster Nrk, the series format has been already adapted for the U.S. (Facebook Watch), France (France Télévisions), Germany (Zdf) and Italy (TIMVision), among other territories. Nrk and Beta Film hold the international rights for the format.