UPC Barcelona offers personalized support to foreign students

The Polytechnic has launched the program ‘Salsam’ to provide support to international students through a mentoring

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During the program is the work of mentors to guide students in the academic field but also integration into university life and practice the new language. Mentoring lasts a semester and each assigned to mentor two students.

This is the case of Helena, who studies in the master engineer of roads, canals and ports. She decided to join the program after being Erasmus. “There were a host program and found it very good opportunity to be part of here,” he said.

Once a week he meets Mathias, one of the student adviser. “Apart from the language and be able to help them in class, they can also tell them to visit the city, where they can go,” says Helena. An aid to foreign students is very positive. “I think it is a great way to meet people from Barcelona,” said Mathias, who comes from a Norwegian university.

The pilot project has been launched in four schools of the UPC in Barcelona 3 1 Terrace, and the goal is to consolidate and extend all the university centers. Currently involved more than 330 students: 224 students and 111 students from the UPC that make mentoring.

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An exhibition at La Pedrera of Gaudí claims the modernist work of artisans

It is the most comprehensive monographic exhibition dedicated to these arts in the last 50 years

Modernism

Barcelona La Pedrera show a “new story” about the applied and decorative arts of Modernism in the exhibition Modernism: Art, tallers, INDUSTRIES from this Thursday until February 7th, announced Wednesday the director of the Foundation Catalunya – La Pedrera, Marta Lacambra.

Along with the director of the Culture of the Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera, Marga Viza, and curator and professor of art history at the University of Barcelona (UB) Mireia Freixa, it stressed that it is the largest solo exhibition dedicated to these arts in the last 50 years.

The selection draws a tour of the building of the last century and relive a time of momentous changes in the field of architecture and design with the recovery of “unknown aspects of recent history” and updating artistic trades, said Freixa .

The exhibition is the result of research in the university team with a montage Commissioner made an “extraordinary sensitivity,” which has a special lighting for each piece. With this exhibition, “Casa Mila regains its domestic value”, and a large window-usually hidden behind a curtain or ceiling, doors, columns, railings and floors of the building by Antoni Gaudí is recovered, stressed the Commissioner . One of the most spectacular pieces is a large stained glass window from the Museum of Cerdanyola del Valles, and one of the most delicate is a screen made of stained glass from broken glass modernist forms takes on a technique that only remained in Catalunya. It is a “liquid exposure” because the plot is given by the techniques used, stained glass, wrought iron and wood, flooring, textiles and jewelry, among others.
50 public and private collections

The exhibition brings together more than one hundred objects and numerous documents and photographs from the period from 50 public and private collections such as the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), the Museum of Design in Barcelona, ​​the Documentation Centre the Terrassa Textile Museum and the Library of Catalonia.

A new feature of the exhibition is precisely the focus on the creative process of decorative objects, from conception to consumption. Freixa has concluded that each piece is beautiful and unique, and noted that the Catalan Modernism is so aesthetic that hides the “glitz” of a bourgeois class through a style that then came to other layers of society.

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U2 starts his tour in Barcelona in search of innocence

The Irish group provides the first of four concerts this week at the Palau Sant Jordi today | The concert started with ‘The miracle (of Joey Ramone)’ and can be extended for more than three hours | Songs ‘Songs of Innocence’ well received by critics, they are erected in the backbone of the act

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Every U2 tour is an event. When the Irish band she released her so far last studio album, Songs of innocence, in October 2014, called stage machinery I was already in operation. The goal was to properly accompany an album in which the band led by Bono showed renewed vigor.

The U2 offer tonight the first of four Barcelona’s performances (Palau Sant Jordi, 21 h), performance will be repeated on Tuesday and next Friday and Saturday in the same location and same time. For the last two remaining concerts tickets.
Like all the tours of U2, the impact promises to be bet. But beyond the characteristics of the assembly, called Innocence + Experience Tour Barcelona which passes the result of a joint venture between the promoter Live Nation and Doctor Music-clear premises by making reference to its European leg A city by country (except Germany) and look in every city the most appropriate venue.

In the Barcelona Xavier Balart, deep knowledge of the Irish group U2 author of Spain (Quarentena Editions), say “I do a concert in Madrid or Barcelona is due to logistics optimization. No sentimental considerations influence or affection because in practice it is not they who decide, “he explains.

Barcelona has been privileged on this occasion by the Irish band, which did not happen when he gave his first Spanish concert, which went to Madrid on 15 July 1987. On that date the U2 premiered at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in the The Joshua Tree tour. Then Barcelona and joined later in the spectacular tours of the band, starting with the extraordinary Zoo TV tour in a brand new Palau Sant Jordi on 16 and 18 May 1992. And so to the last stop, in 360 tour conceived in 2009 to present the then latest album of the band, no line on the horizon, with a stratospheric performance at the Camp Nou, where the world tour began.

In view Balart, who has already tasted several concerts of this tour that started last May in Vancouver, in this Innocence + Experience Tour Band “is much more interesting because the repertoire is built with logic, there is a story It can be followed, and the rest of the songs that sound, and not the Songs of innocence, which is why the tour, well selected. ” In his opinion, the tour “would be between 8 and 9 out of 10 from a musical point of view.”

Help the musical raw material is first class. Songs of innocence has marked an era. A month before the album’s release, at a ceremony held in September 2014 in Cupertino, Apple headquarters, the group joined the acts of marketing a new iPhone and then performed a new song called The miracle (of Joey Ramone ), which would be included in the upcoming album, an album that was ready for publication, and while Bono and the head of Apple, Tim Cook, kept awake the good news, iTunes was sending automatically Songs of innocence to the memories of the apparatus 500 million iTunes users in 119 different countries. Surely, the most comprehensive edition of an album in history.

The album was met with critical acclaim, just as he received no little criticism for the way they had been circulated. The group said, “The work of art is to create discrepancies”.

Precisely The miracle (of Joey Ramone) have started all his concerts this world tour. A repertoire in its regulated portion extends at least in all European performances held up until the moment the twenty songs that form the bulk of the show more than three hours long and divided by a hitherto unheard break such acts.

Unlike outdoor forums American leg of the tour, the concerts are offered in Europe take place indoors, which affects two aspects: first, that the sound quality is impeccable and the enjoy the scenic dimensions allow mounting in a very satisfactory way. On the other hand, “that as the smallest capacity, there are not many tickets for sale, people will see them here is really very fond of, and therefore much more demanding and aware of what you are seeing and hearing, that they can go to a stadium, “remarks Balart.

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Barcelona held the first festival Anime

The B-Anime will be held from 9th to 11th October with the aim of bringing the Barcelona public at large genre of Japanese animation

B Anime festival Barcelona

Those interested in the world of Japanese animation will be a festival in his city tailor-made for them. Barcelona held from 9th to 11th October, the first edition of B-Anime, a festival dedicated to the genre of Japanese animation known as “anime.”

The event stems from the need to approach this kind of animation audiovisual Japanese citizenship and aims to encourage youth participation in the consumption of culture and create a space for exchange and discussion between professionals and fans.

The B-Anime created by the Association jellyfish, and Magoexperience Magoproduction, wants to bring anime premieres in Barcelona unpublished, for commercial reasons not reach the big screen in the city. In addition, it will promote Japanese culture related to gender organizing all kinds of workshops, from writing to a kitchen.

The B-Anime held in six locations in the city: the MACBA Auditorium, places of Angels and Joan Corominas, the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication, the Film Archive of Catalonia and space Room 1418.

In the Japanese animation festival will be from both television and film. Regarding television episodes of series like the magic sword, Glasslip, Shirobako and teen drama Love Live! School Idol Project. Regarding the recent cinema films will be old Tamako are released from Love Story and The Garden of Words, and the recovery of Asian animation peaks as 5 meters per second -of Makoto Shinkai, and La chica que saltaba a través del tiempo, one of the most emblematic Mamoru Hosoda.

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Seven Barcelona players in the first Golden Ball list

Today has released the list of 59 players vying for the award | There are seven players from Real Madrid among the nominees

Golden Ball list

Seven FC Barcelona players appear on the first list of 59 players who will compete for the FIFA Golden Ball award will be presented on January 11th in Zurich (Switzerland). They Are Leo Messi, Luis Suarez, Neymar, Iniesta, Rakitic, Claudio Bravo and Mascherano. Surprised by the absence of Gerard Pique and Sergio Busquets. In addition to Iniesta, among the selected four more Spanish players: Sergio Ramos, Alvaro Morata, David de Gea and Diego Costa.

This nurtured preselection, unveiled Friday by La Gazzetta dello Sport, is led by Argentine Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have been dealt the last seven editions of the award for best footballer on the planet.

The list will be shortened to a list of 23 finalists that FIFA announced. For now, Argentina is the country most represented with six players, followed by Spain and Chile, with five each.

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Barcelona Erotic Show-2015-Five booming sex

The Barcelona Erotic Show commitment to give visibility to the most popular trends in the sector, which are gaining social acceptance thanks to the internet and selling books

Barcelona Erotic Show-2015

We do not know when the god Eros tighten the string of his bow and fired its lethal arrow sexual attraction added to the passion that was born some erotic trend, although it would not be surprising seeing sexual depictions of Greek vases that have come to this day, or even reviewing certain stories of its mythology. As some would say practical Romans after centuries, which transformed Eros Cupid, nihil novum. That is, there is swimming again, but the fact remains that all about fashion.

Giving a tour of the newly opened Erotic Show Barcelona, ​​installed through Sunday at the Olympic Hall Vall d’Hebron, is easy to discover the main sexual practices that are currently booming more and more they are making visible through a social popularization It has been marked by different factors. One of them, who have experienced the dissemination on the Internet. They have also helped some best sellers, such as the trilogy Fifty Shades of Grey. More or less accepted in public, the following trends have erotic out of the closet of privacy for the joy of Eros itself, which these days certainly fly at will around the room that bears his name.

‘Swinging’

This anglicized come to refer to swinging, although the Spanish translation is that its practitioners prefer the liberal couples. “It’s totally booming,” says Pepe Cera, one of the leaders of the swinger lounge area, before pointing out that only nine local Barcelona dedicated to this practice work. “The exchange club is the meeting place of ordinary couples seeking couples of the same type, with themed rooms and objects that do not usually have at home,” explains. “Needless to participate, there are couples who just look like other have sex, would be like a porn movie but live” compares. “The liberal atmosphere is very open, you can be alone with your partner or do trios, quartets, quintets, sextets …” Wax recommends this practice to couples who have entered into a sexual routine and also to those who seek “sex for sex “. Precautions to consider would be normal any sexual relationship. “The use of condoms is mandatory and the club has showers and hygienic measures.” And he notes: “normally really like women.”

‘Foot Fetish’

Undoubtedly the most famous fetishism is the erotic attraction of the feet. “It has always existed, but now people live more naturally,” says Poch Arola responsible sexblogger with Sergy Martin of the area devoted to this trend, a new feature of the room. “The Internet has helped make visible the foot fetish, people who practice sees she is not alone and contacts who have their own tastes.” “We standardize and give visibility to this option,” explains the expert before detailing the variety of tastes that exist in this erotic trend. “The most common is that men are attracted to female feet, although it also occurs in reverse”. “There is one who is fascinated by small or other sizes feet, others are set on the arc because they like tickling, or the shape of the fingers, feet clean or by showing their natural smell … a world is very varied, “says Poch, like the games played: erotic massage, tickling (tickle) or trampling (step on the partner). “In the latter case the pain involved, the only precaution to consider is how and where to step,” says the expert.

Tantra

It is not known if it was the Buddha himself or later or even earlier masters who laid the foundations of this oriental doctrine that seeks to elevate the spirit through the use of sexual desire. Its practitioners, as Adora Life, one of the area responsible for tantric sex classroom, says it is “a spiritual path based on the mind and continence climax” that increasingly more interest. “Now is gaining popularity because there is a crisis of values ​​and people looking for something deeper and more authentic,” explains Thomas Mayor, also responsible for this area of ​​Barcelona Erotic Show. Both recommend the practice of tantra people who “want to experience their sexual life without taboos, given that its objective is not to last longer in bed, that’s only part of tantra has been misrepresented,” he warns.

BDSM

Bondage, Discipline, Domination, Submission and Sadism Masochism: Under these acronyms such practices and fantasies interrelated hide. “Perhaps their curiosity has increased, but not their practice,” said Ama Monika responsible for this area of ​​the room. “Youth is now more understandable to such practices, but there are still people who believe the lies and we are the plague,” he explains before detailing its positive aspects. “He brings freedom, new sensations, helps you know yourself more, as your points G, there is a wide variety, including eyebrows or three places of the spine.” Monika loves alert BDSM “is a strong adult game and you have to know how far you can go.” Therefore points out the three golden rules to be observed: “establish rules and follow them, make a keyword to stop the game and take into account the health problems they may have.” It also reveals some aspects of the relations of domination. “A mistres never naked before her submissive and does not practice any sexual relationship with him, you must be a goddess to be worshiped.”

Erotic dance

There are different disciplines erotic dance whose practice is becoming popular because they offer workshops and schools open to all kinds of public classes. The striptease is perhaps best known, combining music, lights, dance and clothing that will disappear as the tune progresses. Although gaining strength now the pole dance (dance vertical bar) that can reach even practiced in gyms, as its twists and climbs require strength and endurance as well as an athletic body. Another option is the burlesque, an essentially sensual and seductive dance. The three types of dances are present this year in the classroom, whether in courses, workshops or contests.

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A church is a garden

Santi Moix painting 1

Santi Moix, the Catalan painter born in Barcelona in 1960, has spent many summers in Saurí (Pallars Sobirà), so when the villagers, during the festival, asked him if he would intervene Romanesque church, he said yes. Although he did not think that things come to port. But it came. Thus, the New York based artist got down to work. The immediate goal: to marry contemporary art with a church of the twelfth century to recover. The long-term objective “intervene ancient churches in the area that take years to reopen closed and create a route to attract public” he says.

When started thinking about the project, had very clear that wanted to work full of “color and energy ‘as far as possible from the” darkness and sadness “that sometimes evoke these places. And an intervention that would allow parishioners “feel good, let go and seek his inner world without imposing images.” In short, “a decoration full of flowers and nature that made reference to the environment where it is located.” The result Moix defined as “a cave of colors” and as “a church that is a garden”. All sprinkled with texts by J. V. Foix and Cavafy.

Santi Moix painting 2

First he thought of projecting images and grow fungi to draw space. But the Centre de Restauració Bens Mobles de Catalunya suggested to paint al fresco. “The technique of techniques” that Moix had never used but now passionately defends “A very sophisticated technique that allows great freedom gesture that puts you in your place: the correction is not possible.”

Porcelain flower

The suggestion fresco painting was the only one received. For the rest he has had complete freedom, both by locals as the Bishop of Urgell. “I told them I would not make saints or virgins, but nature and light. And they were very receptive “he says.

Santi Moix painting 3

Although there are some religious reference as the four evangelists and feet of Christ. For the last stage of the project, when there is funding left the representation of the resurrection: “A large flower in the apse in layers of petals made from porcelain and ceramic scatter light and color. Something very complicated technically, “he explains.

For now, he made like and attracts curious. “Every day I receive visits and I have to convince to return to the last minute. Since the walls make me time. ” And the cool does not support or corrections or delays.

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The contemporary art fair Swab comes with more galleries and programs to Barcelona

From 1st to 4th October the Italian Pavilion will host a total of 65 galleries from 22 countries around the world will exhibit more than one hundred works by emerging artists

Swab 2015-Barcelona

Swab 2015 International Fair of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, ​​reinvents itself and grows another edition. From 1st to 4th October, a total of 65 galleries (in 2014 participated in 2013 were 59 and 52) of a total of 22 countries around the world exhibit the work of more than one hundred artists emerging in the Italian Pavilion at Fira de Barcelona.

Swab was born in 2006 as an initiative of the private collection of contemporary art Diezy7 Space Barcelona. Since then, with the support of important national and international galleries. In the first edition held in 2007 at the Maritime Museum was attended by 42 galleries from 13 countries and was attended by 6,000 people. The year 2010 was one of consolidation, with 13,000 visitors the Italian Pavilion at the current location. The excellent reception from the public, as well as interest in new artistic approaches have generated the creation of new programs.

Programs Swab

Swab Seed, curated by David Armengol, gives voice to a series of proposals that have opened separate step outside the institutions in cities such as Barcelona, ​​Madrid and Berlin.

Juan Canela Swab Performance presents a series of specific actions and interventions related to the body, time, space and action.

Swab Forum will feature collaboration with De Appel Arts Centre (Amsterdam).

Swab Thinks Continue this space for reflection on emerging art galleries in hand, renowned artists and curators. This space presented during the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of October a series of lectures, debates and panel discussions that will dialogue artists, curators, collectors and critics think together cultural transformations of the contemporary world and the place in him artistic practice.

SOLO Swab, curated by Direlia Lazo and Carolina Ariza is an area meets individual presentations of Latin American artists, with emphasis on creative practices procedural and documentary confronted with the official story.

Swab ‘Zh¿ngguó: New photography Chinese’ demonstrates that contemporary Chinese art is not a mere copy of the West.

Swab Drawing Applications, this program integrates design, architecture journalism, psychiatry, calligraphy botany.

Swab 2015 General Program also hosts a significant number of galleries and consolidated with much prestige in the global market of contemporary art. Likewise, gives way to a series of new galleries creation and gives them the opportunity to participate for the first time in an international art fair.

Swab arrive at a historic bus

To mark the eighth edition of Swab Barcelona International Fair of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the organization and enabled TMB two historic buses will shuttle from the center of Barcelona fen a route to the Italian Pavilion where Swab Barcelona will be held.

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The Manga turns to the universe of ‘Star Wars’ (Barcelona)

Manga Festival Barcelona-2015

Japanese illustrator of Star Wars, Tsueno Sanda, will be in the XXI edition of the Manga Fair of Barcelona to be held from  29th to November 1st in Fira Barcelona Montjuïc and this year will pay special attention at the saga created by George Lucas.

Tsueno made dozens of posters, posters and illustrations, as well as several covers of the sleeves of the saga of “Star Wars” both official adaptations of the films as the “expanded universe”.

Japanese illustrator sleeve give a workshop, and will meet with fans, while it will have its own stand.

The force that binds the universe Japan with “Star Wars” is “strong”, explained those responsible for the event, recalling that the relationship between the universe of the series of Lucas and China comes from afar, from the conception the history of the Jedi and the Sith.

Lucas was a big fan of Akira Kurosawa film, and “A New Hope” (the first title in the series) gave a small tribute to the movie “The Hidden Fortress”, the Japanese manager.

The American director adopted an aesthetic that referred to the Japanese clothing, while the Jedi philosophy has much to do with the code “bushido” samurai.

Hall produced the exhibition Star Wars Japan, where you can see illustrations and graphic creations Tsuneo Sanda and manga adaptations of the galactic saga.

The exhibition will also feature a section dedicated to merchandising franchise.

Japan has always wanted to differentiate some of the other countries in this collecting so many fans and there are some exclusive pieces were launched, said the same sources.

The exhibition will show pieces that were launched exclusively for the Japanese market, as well as the latest creation of Bandai, a number of figures of Darth Vader, “stormtroopers” (stormtroopers) and other characters redesigned in true samurai style, a combination that reflects the close relationship between both worlds.

In the twenty Manga of Barcelona will also feature the presence of different associations of fans Star Wars (Star Wars Catalunya, Rebel Legion, Props Star Events), which enliven the days of Hall with its photocalls and parades.

In addition, this year, two “stormtroopers” samurai style Star Wars Catalunya association wander through the Manga.
Sanda began to make his first original artwork in his spare time while working in an advertising agency.

After winning the International Illustration Competition for Science Fiction attracts interest OMNI editors in New York.

His career focuses on the production of illustrations of science fiction and fantasy, especially around the Star Trek and Star Wars.

Since 1996, at the request of Lucasfilm, he starts working on posters and back covers of Star Wars and after twenty years working for the series, has developed a unique style with many fans and good reviews.

Since 2008, Sanda devoted exclusively to his artistic work, and since 2010 also working as official illustrator for Disney Studio.

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One in four foreign tourists landed in Catalunya this August

The month closed with 9.2 million international visitors in aggregate Spain, 2.3 in Catalonia

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With 2.3 million tourists, Catalonia has led this past August arrivals of foreign visitors, according to data from the Survey of Tourist Movements in Frontera (Frontur), released today by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. Some data that stands out above all the strong growth of the US market (+ 25%) resulted from the appreciation of the dollar, a tourist who has Barcelona as its main city of destination and as a base for cruises in the Mediterranean port. It also highlights the likely collapse of the Russian market, 34.2% less than in the same month last year, as well as the role that slowly acquiring the Asian markets.

The Japanese tourists and Chinese, but Taiwanese and Korean, whose extremely high costs in credit card and begin to compute from the top of the statistics shopping Barcelona Tourism form the new core markets from foreign tourists Emerging they are presenting the significant growth in relative terms. According to data from Frontur, in so far this year, Asian countries grew by 37.7%, 22.1% taking into account only the month of August. However, Britain and France continue to make themselves nearly 50% of tourists who visit in summer.

Despite its tourist leadership, Catalonia was the only autonomous region that has experienced a setback, namely 3% compared to last year’s figures. A fall can be attributed mainly to declines in major markets such as Russia, Italy and the UK. However, in cumulative terms, between January and August Catalunya, with 12.1 million tourists, it also ranks as the top destination for foreign tourists who have visited the state.

Overall, they visited Spain in August 9.2 million international tourists, 1.6% more than during the same month in 2014, sealing the best tourism History Month, and surpassing the record high reached in August last year . So far this year, Spain received more than 47.2 million foreign tourists, 4.1% more than in the same period in 2014, representing an increase of 1.8 million additional visitors.

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The magic is installed in the Old Book Fair and Used of Barcelona

It has opened its doors in its traditional location on Passeig de Gràcia, where it will remain until next October 4th

The magic was installed today at the 64th Book Fair Attempt Barcelona Ancient and Modern, which opened its doors in its traditional location on Passeig de Gràcia, where it will remain until next October 4th.

The 64th edition of the Fair was inaugurated with an opening speech by historian Josep Fontana, read in his absence by his editor, Gonzalo Pontoon, while the painter Ramon Aguilar is the author of the poster for this year.

The exhibition of the fair, dedicated to magic and circus paper, collect a large sample with posters, games, books, brochures, stickers and all kinds of printed material on these two worlds.

Visitors can walk along the Passeig de Gràcia, between Plaza de Catalunya and Carrer Consell de Cent, the 33 exhibitors this year, as every year, offering old and rare books and used books prices affordable.

Before placing a plaque dedicated to Fontana at the monument to the book, Pontoon has read the proclamation written by the historian in which Fontana showed his personal passion for books with a bold statement: “books are not dead things “.

During the opening speech, Fontana recalled the beginnings of his library and how it has grown over the years, “with little treasures and discover hidden stories that teach us about the past, present and future.”

He ended his speech with an appeal to the search of personal taste in literature to enjoy this world ..

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Oliver Stone will receive, at Sitges 2015, the Grand Prix of the contest

The 48th edition of the festival devoted to fantasy and terror will take place from 9th to 18th October

Oliver Stone Sitges Festival-2015

Oliver Stone, master of amphetamine mounting scourge of imperial and accommodative vision of an America pleased with themselves, with three Oscars to his credit five Golden Globes, will receive the honorary award “The Time Machine” in recognition of Throughout his career, in the forthcoming new edition of the Sitges Film Festival to be held from 9th to 18th October next.

The director of “Platoon” writer, “Born on July 4,” “born Murderers,” “JFK” and “Wall Street”, to name only some of his most outstanding films, “is a prolific and provocative filmmaker, both writer from his role as director, “says Angel Sala, director of the contest.

The 48th festival of Sitges, which seems dedicated to the great directors in addition to Stone recognize the grand prize of the contest, directors like Terry Jones, Nicolas Winding Refn, Andrzej Zulawski and Sion Sono.

Jones is virtually presentation. It is one of the founding members of the legendary group Monty Python British humor, director of memorable films like “Life of Brian”, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and “The meaning of life”.

Winding Refn, director of “Drive” and “Only God Forgives” has a personal, nontransferable style, where the Apocalypse shakes hands with the murky atmosphere where violence lurks in each of the frames of his films. The Polish director Andrzej Zulawski, author of unforgettable titles for the generation of the seventies, like “The important thing is love” (1975), starring Romy Schneider and Fabio Testi, also directed, “Possession” (1981) an unusual film where the pure terror passed through the sieve of a woman, played by Isabelle Adjani.

Poker great filmmakers who will visit this year Sitges is completed by the prolific director (and poet) Japanese Sion Sono, who is credited with titles like “Suicide Club” and other films own delusional universe. Sono also present in Sitges his last two films: “Tag, Love and Peace” and “The virgin psychics”.

The festival will continue with their avalanche of awards and awarded another “time machine” Rick Baker, one of the biggest names in the world of makeup and special effects, which has participated in such films as “King Kong,” “Men in black” or “Hellboy”, to name just three of their own. The zombies in “Thriller” were also responsible for Baker.

More awards of a festival as Sitges, endlessly rich in awards, in this 48th edition more so. The event, led by Ángel Sala pay tribute to the actress Rossana Yanni Argentina, at which the award will be presented Nosferatu. Yanni was during the sixties and seventies a favorite actress to directors specialists transgression as Jesus Franco and Amando Ossorio. In the Brigadoon section of the contest, the free section, “Count Dracula’s Great Love” by Javier Aguirre, and “Besame monster” Jesus Franco, both starring Yanni will be screened.

The prolific actor Simon Yam, star of nearly two hundred films made in Hong Kong, will receive, for its part, Maria award. Yam is a regular film of John Woo, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To, directors whose films are common in Sitges.

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