In April, 39 companies in Spain joined together to create Alia, the Alliance for the Audiovisual Industry, a non-profit advocacy group including public and private institutions intended to negotiate and improve Spain’s production pipeline while presenting a unified front when dealing with governmental economic bodies.
“Alia was an idea that we started on quite a while ago, but in the last four months we thought that its foundation must be accelerated since production is very complicated [because of the Covid-19 pandemic],” Alia president Roberto Sacristán said from the stage of a San Sebastian’s panel hosted by the new organization.
As Spanish content has globalized and found new audiences abroad, Spanish talent has blossomed. Not only creative or acting talent, but technical talent is impacting international markets more than ever.
“One of the objectives of the alliance is the internationalization of our sector,” said Alia spokesperson Vanessa Ruiz Larrea of Deluxe Entertainment Services. “As we all know,...
“Alia was an idea that we started on quite a while ago, but in the last four months we thought that its foundation must be accelerated since production is very complicated [because of the Covid-19 pandemic],” Alia president Roberto Sacristán said from the stage of a San Sebastian’s panel hosted by the new organization.
As Spanish content has globalized and found new audiences abroad, Spanish talent has blossomed. Not only creative or acting talent, but technical talent is impacting international markets more than ever.
“One of the objectives of the alliance is the internationalization of our sector,” said Alia spokesperson Vanessa Ruiz Larrea of Deluxe Entertainment Services. “As we all know,...
- 9/21/2020
- by Pablo Sandoval and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
San Sebastian — Scenes Isabel Coixet’s romantic, historical drama “Elisa & Marcela” were sneak peeked at the San Sebastian Festival on Tuesday, along with further details,. The feature will be released by Netflix in 2019.
A Netflix original – produced by Barcelona-based Rodar y Rodar, A Coruña’s Zenit TV and Córdoba’s Lanube Películas in co-production with regional broadcasters TV3 in Catalonia and Galicia’s Tvg – “Elisa & Marcela” portrays a lesbian relationship in late 19th century Galicia between Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, ending in the first-ever recorded marriage between two women.
The nearly five-minute sneak peek offered B&W scenes fragments selected by the director and edited by Bernat Aragonés (“The Bookshop”). The shown images exude a large tenderness hinting at a rigorous, richly-textured recreation of Galician life and manners at that time.
Marcela met Elisa in A Coruña in 1885 on their first day of school, founding a deep friendship between the two.
A Netflix original – produced by Barcelona-based Rodar y Rodar, A Coruña’s Zenit TV and Córdoba’s Lanube Películas in co-production with regional broadcasters TV3 in Catalonia and Galicia’s Tvg – “Elisa & Marcela” portrays a lesbian relationship in late 19th century Galicia between Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, ending in the first-ever recorded marriage between two women.
The nearly five-minute sneak peek offered B&W scenes fragments selected by the director and edited by Bernat Aragonés (“The Bookshop”). The shown images exude a large tenderness hinting at a rigorous, richly-textured recreation of Galician life and manners at that time.
Marcela met Elisa in A Coruña in 1885 on their first day of school, founding a deep friendship between the two.
- 9/27/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
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