Tag: Close Your Eyes
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The Public Experience: San Sebastian International Film Festival 2023
There’s something fittingly appropriate about the way that The Spirit Of The Beehive director Victor Erice became the first Basque director to receive a lifetime achievement Donostia Award at the 71st San Sebastian Festival, while the Golden Shell for Best Film also went to San Sebastian-born Jaione Camborda for The Rye Horn, which is scripted…
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Spanish Master Victor Erice Receives Standing Ovation at Press Conference for his San Sebastián Donostia Award
San Sebastian — Legendary Spanish writer-director Victor Erice received a standing ovation from a packed press conference on Friday, ahead of receiving the festival’s Donostia Award tonight.The award ceremony for San Sebastian’s accolade for career achievement follows on from the San Sebastian screening this morning of his first feature film in 30 years, “Close Your…
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European Film Awards Contenders Lineup Includes Cannes, Berlin, Sundance Award Winners
The European Film Academy has fired the starting gun in the race for the European Film Awards. It has recommended 19 films to its members who will then select the nominees from this list, as well as some additional titles that will be announced next month.Among the selected films are Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or…
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Victor Erice’s Cannes Premiere title ‘Close Your Eyes’ scores UK-Ireland distribution deal (exclusive)
Erice did not attend the Cannes launch in protest at a lack of “dialogue and consultation” over its Competition omission.New Wave Films has acquired UK-Ireland distribution rights to Victor Erice’s Close Your Eyes, which was the subject of a controversy over its inclusion in the Cannes Premiere section in May instead of the main Competition.Having…
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Pecado, Arcadia ready Miguel Gila tragi-comedy (exclusive)
The film will be directed by Alexis Morante, a music video director and short filmmaker.Spain’s Pecado Films and Arcadia Motion Pictures, the producers respectively of Víctor Erice’s Cannes Premiere Close Your Eyes and Pablo Berger’s Special Screening Robot Dreams, are teaming for Is This The Enemy Speaking?, a tragi-comedy about celebrated Spanish comedian Miguel Gila.Portugal’s…
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Haut et Court Takes France on Victor Erice’s Latest Drama, ‘Close Your Eyes,’ from Film Factory (Exclusive)
Paris-based Haut et Court has closed French distribution rights with sales agent Film Factory Entertainment on Victor Erice’s ”Close Your Eyes” (“Cerrar los ojos”), the legendary Spanish director’s return to feature film direction 30 years after Cannes Jury Prize winner “Dream of Light” and a half century on from his milestone debut, “The Spirit of…