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“La Gran Familia Española” at London Spanish Film Festival

by Brit Es Magazine September 29, 2014

La Gran Familia Española (Family United) tries really hard to please everyone. With its pastel and gold palette, handsome cast in suspenders and Converse, a painful wedding entrance music montage to the sound of Calvin Harris’ Feel So Close and, of course, the backdrop of the almighty Spanish national team beating Holland at the South Africa 2010 World Cup Final, the film is really desperate to have in its poster one of those laurel encircled quotes saying something like “…feel-good movie of the year!”.

September 29, 2014 0 comment

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“Coast of Death” (Costa da Morte) in Edinburgh

by Ana G. Chouciño March 3, 2014

I spent last week in the Highlands. Our first stop was Mull; the island, inhospitable, even in the middle of August, it only has one way roads. This way the voyage turns into a slow pilgrimage, in which we must stop every few minutes to yield the way, every time we do so, we say hello to the drivers we come across, remembering those old habits we used to have when the conversation with other walkers was part of the journey. That greeting is a sign that life here flows slowly, that it has come to a halt in a moment that we will never belong to.

March 3, 2014 0 comment

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The Cosmonaut (Nicolás Alcalá, 2013)

by Brit Es Magazine September 22, 2013

“The Cosmonaut” seems to be an unstoppable project. When the Russian backer pulled out (along with half of the funds) just days before shooting began, the team raised €120,000 in three days through crowd-funding. Nor were the inexperienced crew deterred by the plague of mosquitoes they encountered on location in Latvia, insects ferocious enough to kill a local cow and to make actor Max Wrottesely’s leg turn black. It may even have had a positive effect on the film. Wrottesely himself seems to have taken it in his stride: “nothing creates camaraderie like chaos”.

September 22, 2013 0 comment

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The Cosmonaut II– a crowd-funded, community-based experience

by Brit Es Magazine September 22, 2013

“People always have their own answer before asking the question,” remarks the old man interviewed in The Hummingbird, the hoax documentary that accompanies the recently premiered feature film The Cosmonaut. Yet when the Cosmonaut production team embarked on the making of this pioneering piece of cinema, they definitely did not know what the answer to their question would be. They were proposing a new model for the film industry, challenging it – and the public. What would people say? Would it work?

September 22, 2013 0 comment

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Grand Unveiling of ‘The Cosmonaut’ in London

by Carolina Núñez Roca September 5, 2013

On the 13 September Sin Fin Cinema will unveil ‘The Cosmonaut’ (Riot Cinema Collective) at the Riverside Studios in London. The science fiction film, directed by Nicolás Alcalá, is being simultaneously released in cinemas, on VOD TV and online.

September 5, 2013 0 comment

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“The Act of Killing”

by Carolina Núñez Roca May 20, 2013

“The Act of Killing” es un inquietante, atrevido y fascinante documental que está arrasando en todos los festivales de cine del mundo incluyendo la reciente Berlinale donde se ha llevado el Premio de la Audiencia de la sección Panorama y el Premio Ecuménico.

May 20, 2013 0 comment