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The list features 10 rising actors and filmmakers with the potential for breakout international careers.

The third edition of Spain Stars of Tomorrow, part of Screen International’s talent-spotting series, has been unveiled.

The list features 10 rising actors and filmmakers with the potential for breakout international careers.

Scroll down for profiles of the stars

The 2023 line-up will be presented on September 26 at a special launch event at the San Sebastian film festival.

The list of talents, featuring six actors and four filmmakers, was once again curated by Screen’s Spain correspondent Elisabet Cabeza.

The actors selected are Nourdin Batan, who made...

The 2022 line-up of Spain Stars of Tomorrow are being presented on Wednesday November 16 at a special launch event in Madrid.

Screen International today unveils the second edition of Spain Stars of Tomorrow, part of Screen’s long-running talent-spotting series.

The list of 10 rising actors and filmmakers are making a name for themselves in the vibrant Spanish film and TV landscape, all with the potential to break out and pursue international careers.

Scroll down for the full list

The 2022 line-up of Spain Stars of Tomorrow are being presented today (November 16) at a special launch event at the Leclab club in Madrid,...

List will feature ten rising actors and filmmakers from Spain with the potential for breakout international careers.

The 2022 line-up of Spain Stars of Tomorrow, part of Screen International’s long-running talent-spotting series, will be unveiled in Madrid on November 16 at a special launch event.

The launch party in Madrid will reveal the ten rising actors and filmmakers from Spain who have been selected for the second edition of Screen’s Spain Stars of Tomorrow, all with the potential for breakout international careers. The list of talents will again be curated by Screen’s Spain correspondent Elisabet Cabeza.

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Paris-based Rebecca Leffler and Barcelona-based Emilio Mayorga join Screen’s global network of reporters.

Screen International is bolstering its European editorial team and has appointed Paris-based Rebecca Leffler to cover the French film and TV industry and Barcelona-based Emilio Mayorga to work with Elisabet Cabeza to report on the booming Spanish industry.

Leffler was France correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter from 2006-2012, and has also worked at Le Film Français as international editor, Cannes Market News as editor-in-chief and as a film critic on Canal+ and France 24.

Leffler is also a published author, a presenter and moderator at film...

The speakers are producer María Zamora, Maialen Beloki from San Sebastián film festival and Protagonist Pictures’ Marielle Membreno.

The next episode in our ScreenDaily Talks webinar series will take place September 9 at 10:00 BST / 11:00 Cest and will discuss how the international industry can work with the dynamic Spanish film sector.

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The international demand for Spanish films and talent is making stars out of a new generation of directors and actors and ensuring Spain’s thriving indie producers are sought-after creative partners.

Last month Screen launched our inaugural Spain Stars of Tomorrow, in partnership with Filmin,...

Screen profiles 12 platforms that have expanded their subscription base and activities in Europe and the US since early 2020.

The Covid-19 pandemic has undoubtedly accelerated the rise of the VoD platforms over the past 19 months, but this expansion is not confined to global behemoths such as Netflix and Amazon.

A raft of independent VoD players with a special focus on local and international arthouse cinemas have also seen their footprints grow. 

Screen profiles 12 cinephile platforms that have expanded their subscription base and activities in Europe and the US since early 2020 and now have ambitions to grow further.

As well as replenishing...

The latest in Screen’s talent-spotting showcases is sponsored by the Atlantida Mallorca Film Fest.

Spain Stars of Tomorrow, the newest edition of Screen International’s long-running talent-spotting series, has revealed the list of 10 rising actors and filmmakers from Spain, all with the potential for breakout international careers.

Scroll down for the full list

The list of rising talents was unveiled at the opening of the Atlantida Mallorca Film Fest (Amff), which is the headline sponsor for Spain Stars of Tomorrow. The initiative is also supported by the Spain Film Institute (Icaa).

“For over a decade, the Amff has focused...

Screen is teaming with Filmin and the Atlantida Mallorca Film Fest to spotlight emerging talent in Spain.

Spain Stars of Tomorrow, the newest edition of Screen International’s long-running talentspotting series, is to launch at this summer’s Atlantida Mallorca Film Fest (Amff), which is running from July 26 to August 1.

Ten rising actors and filmmakers from Spain, all with the potential for breakout international careers, will be presented during the festival. The inaugural list of Spain Stars of Tomorrow is being curated by Screen’s Spain correspondent Elisabet Cabeza, who will attend Amff to introduce the rising talents.

“For over a decade,...

As part of the Restart Conference, we speak to key players of the new wave of Catalan women directors.

As part of the Restart Conference (May 18-20), we speak to key players of the new wave of Catalan women directors who are enjoying the international spotlight at festivals and markets.

We discuss success stories such as Carla Simón’s Summer 1993 and Pilar Palomero’s The Girls as well as the new names and projects - like Simon’s upcoming shoot Alcarrás - that will shape the region’s future Film & TV Series landscape.

The panel explores the factors that have...

Time and date: 14:00pm, Thursday May 20

As part of this week’s Restart conference (May 18-20), we will speak to key players of the new wave of Catalan women directors who are enjoying the international spotlight at festivals and markets.

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Our panelists are Valerie Delpierre, producer at Inicia Films; Clara Roquet, writer and director of 10,000 km and Petra, and Berlinale selection committee member Paz Lazaro.

The session, chaired by Screen International’s Spain Correspondent Elisabet Cabeza, will take place on 14:00pm, Thursday May 20. It is sponsored by Catalan Films and the Catalunya Film Commission

It will...

Find out what made our top 10 films of 2016 - and which films feature on Team Screen’s overall top 10.Scroll down for Screen’s overall top 10

Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2016. Festival premieres and UK/Us theatrical releases are deemed eligible.

Matt Mueller (editor)

Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven)Hell Or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie)Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)Little Men (dir. Ira Sachs)Suntan (dir. Argyris Papadimitropoulos)Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)Nocturnal Animals (dir Tom Ford)Jeremy Kay (Us editor)

Manchester By The Sea (dir. Kenneth Lonergan)Neruda (dir. Pablo Larrain)Aquarius (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)Deadpool (dir Tim Miller)Fire At Sea (dir. Gianfranco Rosi)Moonlight (dir. Barry Jenkins)Oj: Made In America (dir. Ezra Edelman)[link=tt...

Who are the exciting new film-makers emerging from Spain? Elisabet Cabeza profiles seven to keep an eye on.Esteban Crespo

Experienced in TV documentaries, short films and commercials, this Madrid-born film-maker had a significant career breakthrough with his successful short That Wasn’t Me (Aquel No Era Yo), which won the Goya for best short film in 2013 and the Oscar for best live-action short film in 2014. Crespo is now working on his first feature, To Love (Amar), about an adolescent couple in love, based on his own script. Shooting starts in April in Valencia and Avalon is producing. Crespo is then set to direct another thriller, Black Beach, produced by Lazona. He is repped by CAA in the Us and by Anxo Talent in Spain.

Contact Agent: anxo@zigguratfilms.com

Leticia Dolera

Chainsaw in hand and wearing a blood-spattered bridal dress — this is how Leticia Dolera appeared in Rec 3, the third instalment in the successful zombie franchise...

Madrid -- Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" will be honored with the Fipresci best film award at the opening ceremony and Gilles Paquet-Brenner's "Sarah's Key" will close the Official Section of the 58th San Sebastian International Film Festival, organizers announced Friday.

In addition to "Sarah's Key," which will run out of competition, organizers have added Chang-dong Lee's "Poetry" and Richard J. Lewis' "Barney's Version" as the bookends for the Zabaltegi-Pearls showcase. Diego Luna will open the Latin Horizons section with his directorial debut "Abel."

Norwegian director Hans Petter Moland will chair the New Directors jury. Directors Elisabet Cabeza and Albertina Carri, author Marc Levy and musician Fermin Muguruza make up the rest of the jury.

The festival, which runs Sept. 17-25 in Spain's northern Basque region, has yet to announce the main competition's jury.

This year's Guadalajara Film Festival (Ficg - Festival International de Cine Guadalajara) has so many events, sections and sidebars that one barely knows where to begin. Established in 1986 it now has an attendence of about 66,000 with industry attendence at about 3,000 all of whom are interested in interacting with one another and with filmmakers in an extremely friendly upbeat environment. Its festival has a competition for Mexican and Iberoamerican fiction, docs and shorts, French features with a focus on Agnes Varda, animation, alternative, childrens, and of course gala sections. It has a film market, numerous panels and has incorporated several key international initiatives.

About my ever active Women Directors' Tally: Of 160 new features at the festival, 27 are by women, equalling 16%. Those women are the ones who are currently playing the most important festivals: Paz Fabrega, Natalia Smirnoff, Florence Jaugey, Maria Novaro, Renate Costa, Urszula Antoniak, Elizabeth Chi Vasarhelyi, the ones not...

Until women reach a 50-50 parity with men directors, my mission continues to count the women directors in upcoming and recent film festivals (and an occasional informal glance at what’s selling in the markets). Women’s films in Berlin reflect women’s place in the world both in content and in the numbers of women represented as directors, producers, writers, etc. John Cooper of Sundance stresses the increasing and possibly 50-50 parity of women producers, but I am looking at the directors. As March is Women’s History Month (and all the other months are Men’s History Month according to Gloria Steinem’s L.A. Times Article of March 4, 2010) this blog is in honor of all women everywhere.

Congratulations to Kathryn Bigelow for winning the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture. La Times puts into perspective the fact that the Best Director Oscar went to Kathryn Bigelow...