Sitges Festival-2018

The event from 5 to 15 October opens with ‘La forma del agua’ by Guillermo del Toro, and bets on Catalan talent

Sitges Festival-2018

Lovers of fantastic cinema are counting the hours for the beginning of the most important festival of a genre that every year gains more followers. Sitges Film Festival has everything ready to start its 50th edition on 5 October. From that day until Sunday 15, the coastal city will once again be the meeting point of a contest that presents many new features.

The director of the festival, Ángel Sala, told a press conference at the Filmoteca de Catalunya that the Mayor of Sitges, Miquel Forns, and the Mayor of Sitges Minister of Culture, Lluís Puig.

With the leitmotif of Dracula and a godfather of the stature of Guillermo del Toro, who will open the contest with La forma del agua, his fable awarded at the Venice festival, Sitges will screen a total of 255 films, most of them integrated in his official sections, which will be screened in five rooms: Auditorium, Retiro, Prado, Brigadoon and Sala Tramuntana. In addition, there will be a large series presence and a virtual reality section in the hands of Samsung.

The Mexican filmmaker will be the host of an event that will showcase figures such as Susan Sarandon, William Friedkin and Frank Langella, who will receive the honorary grand prize this year. Also coming as guests are Udo Kier, Dario Argento, the unforgettable Freddie Krueger Robert Englund or the young stars of Stranger Things Millie Bobby Brown and Noah Schnapp, who will present a preview of the second season of the hit series.

Mayor Miquel Forns recalled that it is no coincidence that the festival was born in Sitges half a century ago due to the culture that is breathed in its streets. A combination of culture, tourism and festival that are part of the identity of Sitges. Forns recalled how the embryo of the festival was played on September 28, 1968 with the projection of Aelita (Yakov Protazanov, 1924) in the Casino Prado cinema. A Soviet sci-fi classic that kicked off an annual event for fantastic moviegoers.

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Lychee Film Festival-2017

Barcelona’s first Chinese film festival kicks off

LYCHEE FILM FESTIVAL-2017

The Lychee Film Festival, the first Chinese film festival in Barcelona, ​​premieres this Friday its first edition until next 22 September. The competition is organized by the Chinese and Spanish Film Association and the Wenzhow Business Association in Spain. The program includes the screening of 21 films, including fiction feature films, documentaries and animation short films, and will consist of three large sections.

The first block is a thematic section on the genus Soft Kung Fu -New Wu Xia. The films that make up this block are: Lu Yang’s sword brotherhood, popular Kung Fu Hustle Stephen Chow, King Hu’s classic A Touch of Zen, and three films that form the retrospective of filmmaker Xu Haofeng, who will be one of the festival’s guests of honor: The master, The identity of the sword and The archer.

The second block is dedicated to a section of contemporary cinema, with films produced between 2014 and 2017. Among the titles selected are two documentaries, There is still a morning of Fan Jian and the Van Gogh of China, by Yu Haibo. Also included are author and fiction films: Lou Ye’s Blind Massage, Yang Qing’s Chongqing Hot Pot, Zhang Dalei’s August, the thriller Deep in the Heart of Xi Yukun, Bi Gan’s Kaili Blues and two films by Tibetan directors Tharlo by Pema Tseden and Soul on a String by Zhang Yang.

Ingrid Olmo, head of communication and press of Casa Batlló, has announced the titles that make up the third block dedicated to animation short films: Li Jin’s Warrior Dream, Ruan Junting’s White Snake, Tang Summer’s Insect Country Bohua and two short guest director Weng Jie: The Killer: The Prequel and The Temple of Feng Xue Shan Shen.

Also the Casa Batlló will be the stage for Lychee Night: a film cocktail, an exclusive event for filmmakers that aims to foster the relationship and dialogue between the Chinese and Spanish film industry. In the intervention of Clementina Milà, public relations and communication at Hotel Omm, two events have been presented at the hotel: Lychee Talks, an afternoon of talks with the guests Isabel Coixet, Xu Haofeng and Wang Hongwei, and a session in “Ask Me Anything” format with Wang Hongwei on the 20th, at 6:00 pm, where users can ask their questions through the networks.

The rooms that participate during the event are Phenomena Experience, which will host the inaugural gala, Cinemes Texas, where most of contemporary films will be screened, Cotxeres de Sants, with several projections of Wuxia outdoors genre, and the Filmoteca of Catalunya, where the closing ceremony will take place.

The program includes a great variety of projections and activities with which it is intended to bring the Chinese culture to the public in Barcelona while providing a cultural offer in Barcelona for the entire Chinese community of the city. With great enthusiasm and dedication, the Lychee Film Festival team anticipates a great success in this first one and hopes that it will be the beginning of a long way of good author cinema and cultural exchange with China.

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Soho House Barcelona

The social club for creative disembarks in Barcelona

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Berlin, London, Miami … and now, Barcelona. Soho House, the exclusive social club for creative professionals, created 21 years ago by Nick Jones in London and now present in 18 cities around the world, has just opened its doors in Barcelona.

It is his first seat in Spain, in the Gothic Quarter, in a nineteenth century building in the Plaza del Duque de Medinaceli, opposite the Port Vell of Barcelona; and for its creation, it has been allocated around 60 million euros.

Straddling the concept of luxury hotel – possibly reach Category 5 stars – combined with social areas where only members and their guests have free access to enjoy facilities like club, pool, spa, gym, cinema and restaurants; Soho House aims to be the opposite of the classic gentry club: The indispensable requirement to access it is to have a creative profession.

Its members belong to industries like film, the media, music or art; and to be selected, not only to test the profession but also be recommended by at least two other members.

Once inside, there are two unbreakable rules: entry is allowed partners suit and tie or use mobile phones to take pictures.

The price to pay? 1,500 per year for those over 27 years and half for the younger ones. That only in Barcelona. Also enjoy the facilities of the rest of the world Soho House is priced at 1,800 euros per year. But even with these prices scandal currently over 60,000 people belong to this private club worldwide.

The new headquarters of Barcelona has 57 rooms, which can obviously only book partners, and its cost is around 320 euros and 350 euros per night. One of them is a suite, with separate living room, and all overlook the sea, the city or the Duque de Medinaceli square.

The design of the new building was designed by Nick Jones, executive director of design company, Vicky Charles, and European design director James Waterworth. They were inspired by a classic design with influences of Catalan Gothic architecture and double height vaulted ceilings, because the desire for Jones is that each city in which disembarks.

The rooms boast modern at the same rustic feel, with warm, Mediterranean colors and patterned fabrics with traditional Spanish designs. And the spa, open to the general public, which opens Wednesday with the gym, is inspired by a Barcelona pharmacy 80s and has a large vault.

The furniture consists of an amalgam of European mid-century pieces, antiques bought in local Changuito or Mercantic and custom designs by the team of Soho House.

November reach its restaurant, Cecconi’s, an Italian restaurant that will open its doors on the ground floor and will be open to the general public. Like the film, although it will be only for members, will have a programming or independent arthouse films and even some sneak previews.

Music events and often tend to be borne by the members themselves (and has been acting to Craig Richards at the headquarters of Shoderitch, for example). Everything will be quoted on the roof of the hotel, with pool, hammocks and a rest area or in the club.

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Sitges Film Festival-2016

The event hosts from October 7th to 16th more than 170 films

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A Sitges Film Festival “more feminine than ever” will present from October 7th to 16th more than 170 films in different sections of the contest that offered the vision of “a great date,” said Monday the director Angel Sala.

Among the 170 films there are established names genre film as Adam Wingard, Rob Zombie, Paul Schrader, Takashi Miike, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ti West, Bill Plympton, Isaki Lacuesta, Miguel Angel Vivas, Jonás Cuarón, Na Hong-jin, Julia Ducournau , Keishi Otomo, Carles Torrens, Mateo Gil, Mike Flanagan or Anurag Kashyap.

In programming films featuring familiar faces from the big screen as Gael García Bernal, Nicolas Cage, Glenn Close, Kate Bosworth, Keanu Reeves, Malcolm McDowell, Anne Hathaway, Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Antonio de la Torre, María Valverde will be shown Feng Xiaogang, Choi Min-sik, Doona Bae, Brontis Jodorowsky or Kristen Stewart.

Angel Sala said that “as happened in the last edition of the festival of San Sebastian in Sitges will be movies with violence, as a consubstantial gender element, and specifically to horror movies, which this year has a special role” .

“The horror film -HA added Salamis is in an incredible Industrial moment, because they are films that have low budget and are profitable at the box office.”

Not all the terror that will be in Sitges will be of supernatural origin, but there are also “films in which you look to terror from a perspective of reality, as the tape Desert Jonas Cuaron, who speaks of emigration from the perspective of terror, therefore, reflects on violence. ”

Regarding the growing role of women, Sala said that “now are very important for the genre, not only because more women are in management and in the script, but because the stories are not as macho and show women as protagonists, either as heroin or bad history. ”

The 49th edition of the festival showcases a spectacular guest list headed by actors Christopher Walken and Max von Sydow, who will receive the Grand Honorary Award each, besides the director Paul Schrader and actors Walter Koenig, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Campbell and Dolph Lundgren which will be recognized with the award of Time Machine.

Spanish actors Mario Casas Terele Pávez and receive in Sitges, respectively, the Nosferatu Award and the Bacardí Sitges indomitable Spirit Award.

A team of producers and Franck Ribiere Mick Garris, directors Brian Yuzna and Axelle Carolyn and programmer Geoffrey Gilmore jury selected palmares of Great Official section among the 30 films competing.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, Sitges pay tribute to the saga, which is the protagonist of the poster and the universe ‘Trekkie’ will be as visible to the character of Chekov, played by Walter Koenig figure.

A thematic cycle, a master class and two exhibitions will serve to remember the legendary saga that will culminate on October 12 with a Star Trek Walk, a parade through the streets of Sitges with fans dressed up as their favorite characters.

Days earlier, the same streets will be the protagonists of classic Zombie walk, in a year in which she will walk through Sitges Max von Sydow, “the first actor who dared to challenge death in a chess game,” recalled Hall .

The festival this year has a budget of 2.4 million euros, an increase of 13% over last year, of which 60% come from government (the Generalitat 700,000 euros, 328,000 euros Sitges City Council and Barcelona Provincial Council 20,000).

The Minister of Culture, Santi Vila, has announced that “next year we will have the opportunity, with the 50th anniversary of the festival, to expand the visibility of the festival, which is already established between the public and the professional sector.”

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Othello in Barcelona

A new stage in the assembly incorporates a total of 85 beds

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A new production of Othello, opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi and the tenor Jose Cura in the title role, comes the next day 21 to the Gran Teatre del Liceu, with an impressive staging that plays a refugee camp and incorporating on stage a total of 85 beds. With this play, directed by Andreas Kriegenburg and the musical direction of Philippe Auguin, lyric institution Barcelona starts the year Shakespeare, who in February combine this piece with Rossini’s version, which will play Gregory Kunde in concert .

It is also planned that I Capuleti ei Montecchi, Bellini, based on Romeo and Juliet see in May and June with a scenic proposal Vincent Boussard and the musical direction of Riccardo Frizza. The artistic director of the Liceu, Christina Scheppelmann, accompanied by Philippe Auguin, the Albanian soprano Ermonela Jaho, representing Desdemona, and co-director of scene, Claudia Gotta, presented this afternoon the work, which has been framed in this year’s Shakespeare, right when they met 400 years of his death.

Gotta have revealed that, six years ago Kriegenburg started thinking about directing Othello, he saw the work the theme of war was essential and even influenced all relations that exist between the different characters, whether between Othello and Desdemona, whether between Othello and Iago. But as in the stage of a theater is more difficult to show a battle in the film, in the end he opted to “show the results of the war, including refugee camps,” a very topical issue today but not six years ago, when this project was conceived. “The reality has been behind the art,” he asserted Gotta.

On this occasion, therefore, Othello will move between the beds of a refugee camp, but “the story is the usual” with a protagonist who is an authoritarian, able to control every man, although shown unsafe in your life Private, which it will use Yago. Desdemona and Emilia become volunteers in the field and the rest of the characters will be confined there after the war.

Moreover, in this opera produced by the Deutsche Oper Berlin, they have a major role Cor Children Friends of the Unió de Granollers, led by Josep Vila and the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu. In the case of children, Gotta commented that remain on stage throughout three acts because “Andreas Kriegenburg wanted to show how it can affect younger, both by good people as by the very poor” .

The soprano Ermonela Jaho, debuting as Desdemona, has acknowledged that, when it starts work and go to the children’s choir singing, he “shed tears because they make a very powerful work,” without forgetting that “music is a language universal, capable of transmitting the power of the most powerful or feelings like envy and love. ” The musical director, Philippe Auguin, stressed that Verdi organized everything “to maximize the intonation of the text,” seeking all “tempos and interventions of the orchestra were ideal to highlight the role of the word.”

In his view, Verdi gives also the impression of steady drive, “that nothing is ever to until the end of the play” and has made no secret that he has tried to “not destroy anything that Verdi wanted to express” . Further he believes that the Italian makes the public “with music from the brain of the characters,” while relaxing moments alternating with more romantic, “aware that two hours of climax can not endure.”

The work, which will run until the 7th of February, will have to José Cura as a protagonist in some functions, but also give voice to Othello Carl Tanner and Marc Heller, while Desdemona, plus Jaho, will be performed by Maria Katzarava. In the role of Yago they intervene Marco Vratogna and Ivan Cassio will Inverardi and Alexey Dolgov; Vicenç Esteve Madrid will Roderigo; in the role of Ludovico Roman Ialcic will complete the cast and Olesya Petrova (Emilia), Damian del Castillo (Montano) and Ivo Mischev and Gabriel Slides (heralds).

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James Bond’s car in Barcelona (DB10)

A unit made of ten unique Aston Martin DB10 for the last film in the series 007, Spectre, was seen for 24 hours last week in Barcelona.

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Cars Gallery, official Aston Martin dealership in the Catalan capital (located in the Passeig de la Zona Franca, 10) was the only one in Spain that has exposed in their facilities this very exclusive model, created specifically for the latest James Bond film adventure .

Designed in just five months, in addition to steal the DB10 of the role of Daniel Craig in the latest film of the famous secret agent anticipates the broad lines of the future cars of the prestigious British firm, which in 2015 celebrated 50 years since the first appearance of the legendary Aston Martin DB5 in a film 007 was in the film Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery in 1965.

To commemorate this collaboration, Aston Martin decided to make a unique and special car for Spectre, the ten unique units, all owned by the brand were built and not intended for sale. Eight of them were used in the filming, with adaptations and modifications for recording, resulting in most of them partially damaged or destroyed after the end of the driving scenes. Of the other two units, complete, intact and fully functional, one will be auctioned for charity along the other-2016 and briefly visited Barcelona on Monday December-21 has been used for promotional purposes.

Spectre DB10 measuring 4.4 meters long, 2.1 wide and 1.2 high, has very clean and streamlined shapes, and features innovative stylistic devices, such as your front inspired by the nose of a shark, vents in the hood, tilt opening, or the spectacular tires “Diamond Turned”.

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Gaydon manufacturer began in September a special tour across Europe, which closed just last week in Barcelona and that has led to DB10 Spectre to all dealers of the brand they acquired a unit of only 150 made the exclusive DB9 Bond Edition created by Aston Martin. Cars Gallery was the only one in Spain that has been able to show customers a sneak preview this car, unique in the world.

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Autodesk in Barcelona

The US multinational software Autodesk has introduced its new European sales office in Barcelona

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Technology continues to promote Barcelona and Catalonia. The US multinational Autodesk, a world leader in 3D software, presented on Wednesday its European sales office in Barcelona, a kind of ‘hub’ or sales center that will employ up to 100 people until the mid-year come.

In a meeting with journalists, the vice president of global sales operations and Autodesk, Julie Sockley, and vice president of EMEA sales for the company, Roland Zelles, they have justified the choice of Barcelona as its attractive city, infrastructure and It is offering the ability to recruit talented staff. They have also influenced added that it is a “non-saturated” market of international companies, which believe that will change in the coming years because it believes many multinationals opt for the Catalan city.

By placing this sales offices in Barcelona, the multinational believes he can make the Catalan capital, which is already leader in mobile technologies, “the new European capital of 3D technologies,” said Autodesk.

Autodesk, which develops software used routinely designers, architects or engineers, and has contracted for this project about 50 people and expects to make another hundred contracts until the middle of next year, although it has not provided investment figures provided to this whole project. Zelles noted that the company is looking for qualified professionals with mastery of some of the languages of the countries to which they will serve, and that “no matter” of that country come from workers.

The Barcelona office will serve “to all countries of the euro zone as well as Switzerland, Norway and Iceland,” he explained Zelles, so Autodesk looking for a personal profile with extensive sales experience and language skills.

To locate all officers, Autodesk has rented a floor of about 1,200 square meters located in the Sea B building, next to the Diagonal Mar, but does not rule out expanding space in the same building if you need it.

Zelles said that Autodesk, owner of the popular AutoCAD design software, is changing its business model to provide software services also from the cloud.

Growing company

In addition to these 50 people already working in Barcelona and have been contracted for this ‘hub’ European sales, Autodesk has an office in Sant Just Desvern (Barcelona) with a score of people and Madrid with seven others.

Autodesk closed fiscal year 2014 with sales of over 2,500 million and more than 2.2 million users worldwide, and Europe accounts for 40% of these sales, he explained Zelles.

Sectors such as architecture, design, construction or the entertainment industry, from film to video games, use Autodesk software to design their ideas before taking them out.

 

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The best movie soundtracks return to Barcelona Auditorium

The Film Symphony Orchestra will offer a second concert Sunday after selling out last | It will include classical melodies and Oscar nominated films this year

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Barcelona Auditorium Sunday refills of the best soundtracks of films, with the return to the Catalan capital of popular Film Symphony Orchestra (FSO). The success of his first visit in October, where they sold all the tickets on sale, has led to the formation to include in their 2015 tour a second stop in the Catalan capital. So far, only Valencia had taken over a concert tour of the state.

The founder of the Film Symphony Orchestra, Constantino Martinez-Orts, will run the show, with more than 80 musicians. Born in 2012, it is the only professional orchestra dedicated exclusively to play the best music of the big screen and now has more than 60,000 spectators. After celebrating the anniversary of Back to the Future with a projection-concert, they have returned to the road in a tour that offers some of the most popular titles in the history of cinema in traditional symphonic concert format.

The concert on Sunday, at 19:30, will combine melodies of iconic Hollywood with a special program dedicated to the Oscar awards this year, including the most prominent of the upcoming ceremony BSO, as Imitation Game (Alexander Desplat) and La Theory of Everything (Johann Johannsson), which will be performed live for the first time in Spain. Also sound scoop works composed for The Avengers Alan Silvestri; a spectacular suite of Independence Day by David Arnold; or futuristic music by Don Davis for Matrix, an absolute symphonic premiere in Spain.

Among the classics that will be enjoyed and recognized are also Doctor Zhivago (Maurice Jarre), Out of Africa (Jon Barry) and ET The Extraterrestrial (John Williams), all Oscar-winning. There will also be songs that did not receive statuette but yes were nominated and have stuck in the collective memory, as Star Trek (Jerry Goldsmith), Jurassic Park (John Williams), Citizen Kane (Bernard Herman) and The Big Country (Jerome Moross ).

A variety of genres will be represented in the program, for example recall the romantic Legends of the Fall, in tribute to the late James Horner, retrieve the legendary military parade of The Bridge on the River Kwai Malcolm Arnold and delight the fans Star Wars saga with his famous soundtrack.

Tickets, which can be purchased at the Auditorium or on the website of the orchestra, cost between 25 and 60 euros. The tour serves as an introduction and launch of the first album of training, the best film music Volume I, recorded live during the inaugural concert of the tour 2014 in Las Ventas in Madrid with hundreds of musicians.

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The Vilars Rurals, first hotels specializing in families with babies in Europe

They offer among other services, rooms with children’s decor, changing table, crib, chair, case with diapers, toys for bath or porridge

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The three Vilars Rurals the Serhs group have become the first specialized families with babies hotels in Europe, with its facilities and prepared food to meet the needs of parents and their children under two years.

The objective of these hotels is that families with small children can travel without having to carry all the utensils, so rooms are prepared with special baths, cribs phones, Bibs and protector outlets, among others.

One year after the creation of the stamp baby friendly, the Vilar Rural de Sant Hilari Sacalm (Girona) has introduced two baby room, rooms are themed special baby, which is decorated as if it were the children’s room of the house and include products such as changing furniture, cot, deckchair, a kit with diapers, creams and bath toys, plus a refrigerator and microwave.

In the restaurant high chairs and elevators, plates and plastic cutlery and a choice between two varieties of baby food are offered daily, and reception families can order a bottle warmer and store or heat food and buy products for food and caring for babies.

Over the next 15 months it is planned to adapt new baby rooms, in the Vilar Rural de Sant Hilari as in the other two, located at Arnes (Tarragona) and Cardona (Barcelona). Serhs has decided to specialize in this type of public due to high demand, since in the past year, one in four families staying in the Vilars Rurals have done with a baby.

In addition to the facilities adapted, these hotels offer intended for children under two years, as baby massage, music, sensory, auditory, visual textures and games as well as film screenings activities.

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Environment and cinema come together in FICMA Barcelona

From 5th to 12th November, the International Festival of Environmental Film will screen 120 films in different areas of the city, also in schools

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With the slogan “Change is underway,” the International Festival of Environmental Film makes Barcelona the world capital of environmental awareness with the projection from 5 to 12 November, 120 films in different areas: the CaixaForum, the CosmoCaixa Cinemas Girona, several universities (University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University Blanquerna) and schools across Catalonia.

The festival, the oldest of its kind in the world, is celebrating the 22nd edition doubles and programming. “We are a film festival that moves and generates awareness, and always committed for social change and promoting environmental education from broadcasting,” said Claudio Lauria, founder and president of FICMA.

FICMA decided to start with two films that combine music, film and environment, with 2 characters: Dr. Jane Goodall awarded the Gold Sun Special Festival 2015, starring the short Trio Jane’s Music of Life in Why is that nature is also music, and the Orchestra of Recycled Instruments Cateura, a band formed by young Paraguayans marginalized areas from which their country has become famous throughout the world to play with instruments recycled materials. The orchestra carries the European premiere of the film harmonic Landfill.

The 2015 edition of the CaixaForum FICMA will close on November 12 with the screening of Last of the Elephant Men, a documentary about the relationship of an indigenous tribe with elephants and how to deal with a desperate fight for survival.

The official, the works competing for the Golden Sun Festival consists of 40 films, documentaries and animated films and fiction, selected from over 1,300 productions 100 countries. These figures have exceeded all records of participation in the history of the Festival. Apart from these films, over 80 films have been chosen also to be part of this ambitious program, divided into two sections: Visions of the World and Small FICMA.

Projections in the classroom

This edition FICMA has created a new section. Each named a Hall Cinema, the festival offers teachers of primary and secondary schools in Catalonia the possibility of a documentary project centers free catalog of works, divided according to age groups and themes, such as climate change, waste, renewable energy, sustainability and water shortages. The aim of this activity is that the environmental documentary genre reaches schools in the form of educational materials and encourage, thereby ecological awareness among young people.

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The classic horror, such trend prevails in the festival of Sitges

The festival kicks off with ‘The Witch’ (The Witch) and will offer 169 movies

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The opening film of the International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, known popularly as Sitges- festival will start on Friday, October 9th, with the projection of the Witch (Witch), Robert Eggers, classic horror story located New England in the seventeenth century, with unexpected twists, recognized with an award at the Sundance Film Festival last. A movie “scary, serious, without blood,” said yesterday Angel Sala, director of the Sitges Film Festival.

The whitch will be the first of the 169 films offered by the festival until its closure, ten days later, on October 18th, a selection this year marked by the hegemony of the proposals made tilt terror. “This year will be the year of terror, I’m not sure why, perhaps because of the world situation is worrying,” joked Hall.

The truth is that 169 films go far, and horror Sitges also offer a good selection of fantasy films and more decanted into the classic thriller, “including mixtures of genres, where the comedy interacts with blood and fear” he explained that in previous meetings room and reeled programming this year -a http://www.sitgesfilmfestival.com- publicly available, with tickets already on sale this year of a “much more calm and organized” manner explained festival director.

Room defended fertility and wealth of the fantasy genre in all its aspects, as one of the most vital in today’s cinema.

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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

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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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Beer and pastry shine off the kitchen in Barcelona Tastes

From 24th to 27th September the Fira de Barcelona celebrates the fifth edition of the show, conceived as a large food market

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Beer and pastry shine, next to the kitchen, in Barcelona Degusta, the popular food festival from 24 to 27 September will be held in Fira de Barcelona and in this fifth edition is designed as a large open gourmet market lovers of good food and drink.

The chef Carles Abellan and Carles Gaig today presented the news of the event, which is expected between 25,000 and 30,000 attendees to coincide with the feast of the Merce, and has provided nearly a hundred of activities including lectures, workshops, tastings, tastings, storytelling, film and even outdoor concerts.

The presentation of the event, which will also feature a great product sales space in which 200 companies offer their best specialties, has been held at the Enjoy Eduard Xatruch chefs, Oriol Castro and Mateu Casañas restaurant, which will also be in this Barcelona Degusta presenting some proposals desserts.

In this gastronomic market beer lovers can taste under the Taste Beer Festival to 300 different brands in the world of this drink that has become everything a boom in Spain, where more than 500 craft beers are brewed and especially in Catalonia, where they live 200 brands and some 70 microbreweries.

For the sweet tooth in the space BCN & CAKE there will be exhibition areas, courses and competitions sugar flowers, cakes 3D cakes celebration, decorating cupcakes and all sorts of creative modeled by some of the most prestigious pastry chefs like Christian Escribà (Pastry Escribà) and chocolate masters as David Pallàs, plus international Cake Designers.

Great chef Joan Roca (Celler de Can Roca), Carme Ruscalleda (Sant Pau), Fermi Puig, Nandu Jubany (Can Jubany), Carles Gaig (Restaurant Gaig), Carles Abellan (Bravo) and Ada Parellada (Semproniana), among others which make ten Michelin star, will give lectures and workshops that show some of the secrets of his cuisine.

Ruscalleda discuss how to combine cheeses, Nandu Jubany, sweet and savory dishes of rice, Sergio and Javier Torres (Dos Cielos) will star in a ‘show cooking’ on the kitchen with vegetables, Joan Roca presented snacks and cosmopolitan snacks, Carles Abellan try to Barcelona stews and Carles Gaig taught how to prepare macaroni cannelloni and holidays.

For children it has also prepared the space Taste Kids, to begin to learn, enjoy and experiment with food, and give free rein to their imagination; and storytelling, films related to food and gastronomy, workshops processing fruits and cookies, clowns and magicians.

In addition, a picnic area, an urban orchard, a concert area, and space for more than 20 food trucks, which present the latest trends in urban and street food, with a varied cuisine with crepes, sandwiches will be installed, tortillas, croquettes, dairy, sushi or hot dogs, among other proposals.

For those who love new experiences, “Dinners in the sky” (Dinner in the sky) is also served in a platform 50 meters high where they can eat the proposals of chef Xavi Pellicer and enjoy a unique banquet.

The organizers remarked that Barcelona Degusta wants to be like the Salone Internazionale del Gusto in Turin, held every year in this Italian city, which is an international benchmark.

Barcelona Degusta will also accommodate other culinary cultures with demonstrations of traditional Cantonese cuisine in Hong Kong, workshop Okonomiyaki, the best known variety of Japanese omelette, and traditional Mexican tacos.

Courtesy Avantgarde Limousine Barcelona

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