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October 14, 2019 / By Filmax
Filmax brings the documentary MR HAND SOLO to Mipcom

Filmax will present MR HAND SOLO at Mipcom, a documentary based on the incredible true story of David Aguilar, a teenager with Poland Syndrome, whose passion for Lego led him to design and create his own prosthetic arm. The film, directed...

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September 27, 2019 / By John Hopewell (Variety)
Cesc Gay, Marta Esteban, Filmax Re-Team for ‘Sentimental’ (Exclusive)

SAN SEBASTIAN —  Having scored a career high with “Truman” and Canneseries-selected “Felix,” director Cesc Gay, one of Spain’s most popular cross-over auteurs, is re-teaming with long-time producer Marta Esteban, as well as distributor Filmax for “Sentimental,” Gay’s first studio stage film.Gay’s producer...

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September 23, 2019 / By Emilio Mayorga (Variety)
Filmax Snags International Rights to ‘Bye Bye Mr. Etxebeste!’ (Exclusive)

SAN SEBASTIAN  —  Filmax is handling international rights to Asier Altuna and Telmo Esnal’s “Bye Bye Mr. Etxebeste!,” produced by the Basque Country’s Irusoin, one of the main companies behind Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi and José Mari Goenaga’s “The Endless Trench,” a main competition contender at...

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September 22, 2019 / By Emilio Mayorga (Variety)
Filmax Acquires International on ‘The Curse of the Handsome Man’ (Exclusive)

SAN SEBASTIAN  —  Barcelona-based boutique studio Filmax has acquired international rights to Argentine producer-director Beda Docampo’s “The Curse of the Handsome Man,” produced by Ibón Cormenzana’s Arcadia Motion Pictures alongside Cados Producciones and Damned Besso –based in Spain—in co-production with Cecilia Díez’s Zarlek...

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September 20, 2019 / By Emilio Mayorga (Variety)
SAN SEBASTIAN – Filmax Nabs Alvaro Fernandez Armero’s ‘If I Were a Rich Man’ (Exclusive)

SAN SEBASTIAN – Filmax has taken international rights to Álvaro Fernández Armero’s comedy “If I Were a Rich Man.”Produced by Telecinco Cinema, Think Studio and Ciskul, and backed by Mediaset España and Movistar+, “If I Were a Rich Man” is a Spanish...

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September 6, 2019 / By John Hopewell (Variety)
Filmax Acquires ‘The Crack: Inception’ (Exclusive)

Barcelona-based studio Filmax has acquired international sales rights to José Luis Garci’s “The Crack: Inception,” the third part of a film noir trilogy whose first two installments represent for many the Spanish director’s finest achievement.Introducing the new film to buyers at Toronto, Filmax will...

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September 5, 2019 / By Brian Truitt (USA Today)
The 50 best horror movies of the 21st century, definitively ranked

40. 'REC' (2007)Got claustrophobia? Then maybe ease gently into this Spanish found-footage chiller. A night news crew enters a building with firefighters called in to help an old woman trapped in her apartment, she gets a little too bitey and, before you know it,...

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September 4, 2019 / By John Hopewell
Toronto: Filmax Acquires Lucia Alemany’s ‘The Innocence’ (Exclusive)

Barcelona-based Filmax has acquired world sales rights to “La Innocencia” (“The Innocence”), an uncompromising rites of passage feature which has been sparking good buzz over the summer off sneak previews in Spain.An integrated film-TV production-distribution-sales operation, Filmax will also handle the film’s Spanish distribution.Filmax’s...

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August 1, 2019 / By Filmax
'7 Reasons To Run Away (From Society)' will have its theatrical release in Russia on August 15th, 2019

7 Reasons To Run Away (From Society)...

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July 18, 2019 / By Alfonso Rivera (Cineuropa)
David Victori directing Mario Casas in 'Cross the Line'

Cross the Line will be the name of the second feature by David Victori, the Manresa, Barcelona-born filmmaker who won a YouTube competition in 2010 with his short film The Guilt and managed to get sponsorship from Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender for his subsequent short, Zero. Then, one...

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July 4, 2019 / By Audiovisual From Spain
El mercado internacional demanda animación, cine de autor y thrillers españoles

El primer semestre del año ha generado un importante flujo de acuerdos internacionales en torno al cine comercializado por los principales agentes de venta españoles, títulos en su mayoría producidos o coproducidos por empresas nacionales.Uno de los géneros que mejor...

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June 30, 2019 / By Filmax
TOMORROW'S A NEW DAY wins the Special Nastro d'Argento for the song "Domani è un altro giorno", interpreted by Italian singer Noemi

https://www.nastridargento.it/TOMORROW'S A NEW DAY...

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