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The Girls, a coming of age drama by a first time female feature film director has scooped the best film award in the 2021 Goyas, the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars.
Pilar Palomero also won Goyas for best new director and best screenplay for her drama Las Niñas set in a convent school. The film was also awarded the prize for best cinematography.
The Girls, a coming-of-age drama set in a Spanish convent school scooped Spain’s top film prize
The film scooped the top prize beating Netflix drama
Adú which as the front-runner leading up to the ceremony with 14 nominations although its director Salvador Calvo was awarded the best director trophy.
Truman Director Cesc Gay s Stories Not To Be Told Picked Up by Filmax (EXCLUSIVE)
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Barcelona-based film-TV studio Filmax has acquired international sales rights to Cesc Gay’s new comedy “Stories Not to Be Told,” which is currently shooting.
Filmax will also handle Spanish distribution to the latest outing from Gay, whose 2021 Goya Awards contender “The People Upstairs,” has sold to major territories in Europe and North America.
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Written by Gay and regular co-scribe Tomás Aragay “(“In The City,” “Truman”), Gay’s ninth feature is produced by Marta Esteban at Imposible Films and backed by Spanish pubcaster TVE, Movistar Plus and Catalan pubcaster TVC.
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Arguing appears to be the only meaningful from of communication between Julio (Javier Camara) and Ana (Griselda Siciliani). But, Ana has invited the new neighbours from upstairs to visit, to repay some half-remembered favour from months ago. Julio is against the idea, saying he will embarrass them all by telling the neighbours that he can hear every detail of their enthusiastic bouts of sex and could they please tone it down. But arrive they do. It s odd to pass on that the first half hour or so of
The People Upstairs is completely taken up with us wondering whether Julio will make good on his threat and tell the seemingly lovely Laura and Salva (Belen Cuesta and Alberto San Juan) that they are shaking the paintings off the downstairs walls. Or will discretion prevail?
The book - The People of the Dominican – has inspired two scripts written for a film production – Down Low in the D.R.: Just Another Day in Paradise - based on Thun’s adventures in the booze and sex industry in the Caribbean and the colourful characters his bar attracted. The project includes elements of Thun’s own life in Prince George, working for his parents in their downtown hotel and bars, which could bring filmmakers to the city to shoot the series. “I’m dying to bring production back to Prince George, and we would have already been there but COVID stepped in the way,” Thun said. “I want to bring economic development back to Prince George. I’d love to see film crews come in and Tammy and I be responsible for millions of dollars coming through Prince George and it’s right there. It’s so close to being done.”