TURIN, Italy  " When cinematographer Dan Laustsen described his collaboration with Guillermo del Toro, he reached first for feelings rather than lenses. "It's like trust and love," he …
CANNES, France " wedotv, the global free ad-supported streaming network, is partnering with Germany's ZDF Studios, to create and distribute a FAST channel dedicated to just one title: landma…
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil " French star Juliette Binoche has presented at the 27th edition of the Rio International Film Fest the premiere of "In-I in Motion," her first film as a director, …
Banijay Entertainment looks set to present one of the biggest, most powerful and eclectic lineups of any company at this year's Mipcom content trade fair at Cannes, headlined by 'Half Man,' …
In 2022, Pedro Almodóvar hailed "Lullaby," the feature debut of Basque director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa as "undoubtedly the best debut in Spanish cinema for years." Her first series, "Quer…
SAN SEBASTIÃN " Spain's Quickets and U.K. startup AnthroTek claimed the top prizes Friday at the Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, the San Sebastián Festival's flagship technology competit…
Daniel Burman, icon of the New Argentine Cinema and now one of Argentina's foremost feature/TV series writer-directors and showrunners, is shooting a new series "So Far So Good" ("El Resto B…
Veteran Portuguese producer Paulo Branco has begun principal photography on the €4.5 million ($5.3 million) dystopian drama "Aqui," directed by Tiago Guedes ad shooting in Spain and Po…
In 2019, making "Money Heist Season 3," Netflix and creators Alex Pina and Esther MartÃnez Lobato took Spanish TV to a new production level. Now they look poised to do the same with t…
Packed with panoramic shots of a 1575 Algiers, "The Captive," from Oscar-winning director Alejandro Amenábar ("The Sea Inside," "The Others"), weighs in as one of the biggest Spanish movi…
Spain's Verónica Echegui, an actor of enormous vitality and contagious humor, died Aug. 24, at Madrid's 12 de Octubre hospital where she was being treated for cancer. She was 42. Only tho…
Top Icelandic actor-writer-producer Björn Hlynur Haraldsson (seen in "The Witcher," "The Borgias," "Lamb"), also the co-showrunner of the Series Mania winning show "Blackport," is teaming…
Chile's Paulina GarcÃa, winner of a Berlin Silver Bear for her performance in Sebastián Lelio's "Gloria" and a highly-courted actor in Latin American productions, is attached to toplin…
For Helen Walsh, place comes first. "Place is always my starting point. It's an active force that shapes and informs our identities right throughout our lives," said the novelist-turned-…
Director Jesse Noah Klein is world premiering at Edinburgh the jet-black comedy thriller "Best Boy," starring Caroline Dhavernas and Aaron Abrams, ("Hannibal"), Marc Bendavid ("Good Witch…
LOCARNO, Switzerland " AGC International is closing a slew of major distribution deals in key markets worldwide on 'Kiss of the Spider Woman,' starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna and Tonatiu…
Diego MartÃnez-Ulanosky's Caponeto, the Mexico-based company behind Netflix original "Unstoppable," Disney's "Soy tu Fan" and Sundance player "The Virgin of the Quarry Lake," is teaming w…
Tapping into one of Spanish TVs big, big IPs, BuendÃa Estudios is developing "Sira," the sequel to "The Time In Between," teaming with Spanish broadcaster Antena 3 and Netflix in a busine…
Noted Canadian actor Prince Amponsah ("Station Eleven") has been cast in the film's central role of "King Baby" director duo Kit & Arran's satirical horror chiller "How Dare You" as the …
Actor-filmmaker Frank Mosley, star of Sundance Jury Prize winners "Upstream Color" and "The Procedure," is set to play the lead in "Fur," taking on the part of Albert Ostman, history's first…
Locarno's interdisciplinary and international think tank StepIn will welcome comedian and disability advocate Maysoon Zayid to its 14th edition.  In her introduction "Somewhere Ove…
Mexico's Marina de Taviria, Oscar-nominated as supporting actress for her performance as the mother in Alfonso Cuarón's "Roma" is attached to star in Brenda Navarro's "House Eight" ("Casa…
Acclaimed Irish filmmaker Jim Sheridan was honored at this year's Amman Intl. Film Festival, where Ireland received a tribute as its country of honor. The six-time Oscar nominee ("My Lef…
Ashé Ventures, co-founded by Viola Davis, an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner, has joined forces with Brazil's Maria Farinha Filmes to co-produce "The Girl Who Could Fly." The partnershi…
Richard Hunter's feature "Foul Evil Deeds" is one of the more European of British first features, taking its inspiration from continental art house names rather than the more usual luminarie…