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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Norman Reedus in Barcelona

The Norman Reedus ‘Walking Dead’ photographic exhibition in Barcelona

Norman Reedus in Barcelona

Norman Reedus is one of those characters that never cease to amaze. Actor, model and now also professional photographer. The popular Daryl Nixon in the series The Walking Dead departs a few days of scene to be able to inaugurate this tuesday a photographic exhibition in Barcelona. The show can be seen in the Artevistas gallery until next April 1 and has about thirty snapshots captured during his shootings and his long trips.

The images mix different themes, and remember the book he edited in 2013 The sun is coming up … like a big bald head. Snapshots that turn the haunting into beauty. “Some are shocking, others are sweet,” said Reedus during the presentation, as along with snapshots in a Russian maximum security prison there are other fun along with other actors in the series. Reedus’ theory is that “in the turbulent is the sublime,” and this is demonstrated in his work, which has its unmistakable personal stamp.

Reedus says that his “true passions are painting, sculpture and photography”, something that would have been dedicated if the seventh art had not stood in its way. The multifaceted actor was spotted during a party in Los Angeles and, unintentionally, accepted his first role.

It is not the first time he shows the world his art beyond the big screen. His works have previously gone through several galleries in New York, Berlin and Paris. However, his collection is premiered in Catalonia makes him “special illusion”, because it brings “beautiful moments of the time I lived in Sitges.” “I remember the sea, the church bells, the cats and their cafes. It was one of the most fantastic cities I’ve ever lived in. ”

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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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Circuit Festival Barcelona

More than 70,000 homosexuals come to the city to participate in the longest gay party on the planet

Circuit Festival Barcelona

Rose joy go around Barcelona. IPhones these days everything brazen vibrate through the streets of the Eixample. “You have a gay three meters, they say their alertas-, you are a gay two meters, you are un …”. Very few groups were able to get as much out of the geolocators applied to social networks as does the homosexual. For days all are full of complicity glances. Because today starts in the Catalan capital’s largest and the world’s longest gay soiree, the Circuit thirteen days of lectures, exhibitions, sports competitions and above all parties, many parties, day and night parties, an awful lot of festivals, which bring together more than 70,000 homosexuals come from places like Russia, the United Arab Emirates and China. These days Barcelona becomes the world capital of gay entertainment, a title that also compete Cape Town, Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro …

Many of those attending the Circuit design your exercise program in the gym and tanning sessions for your muscles look this week as they did any other year. And then, after a few quieter days in Sitges and the Costa Brava, they are to Ibiza. The second part of this festival takes place on the island. The premise is not depriving yourself of anything. All this mounts Matinée Group, a promoter of Catalan parties organized revelry up in Kazakhstan.

The gay tourists often spend half over a hundred euros a day, twice the heterosexual, and these days, indeed, much more. According Matinee, each attendee Circuit 250 euros per day, between 25 and 40 years, a good purchasing power and a profession is spent. Apparently the economic impact of this racket is about 100 million euros. The Mobile World Congress is 460. Reservations at the Axel hotel and they did a year ago. Gayxample shops specializing in water-repellent fillers for bathing suit also prevent urinary tract infections live two weeks their particular Christmas season, the most important two weeks of the year.

These days, facing the party at the water park in Vilassar de Mar, the gay party in the world’s largest water park, which is customary among those attending this festival is to buy two swimsuits, one more tightly to jump out slides and other longer for the cup in the afternoon. Water-resistant filler worth more than 30 euros. If it were not for the Circuit Gayxample it would cost more to survive. For years to know how many people share preferences at any coffee shop, bookstore or waiting room just take a look at the smartphone. Thus one can have a tab on the likes of a person to three meters. The popularity of these applications partly explains the Gayxample not go through the best of times lately. One no longer depends on certain establishments to meet people. Now the sight can appear anywhere via an alert iPhone.

A lot of this sort of body worship, hedonism and backfiring they crave too frivolous. Remember that Barcelona hosted in 1977 the first manifestation of Spain in defense of gay rights. Ocaña itself the turn in his grave at such nonsense. Yes that what questioning the bowels of society … And others, however, they remember that in many countries public backfiring or just walking holding hands is an act of subversion condemned by most people and often even by law. Everyday normality with which two men can be a kiss is the main attraction that made Barcelona a gay tourist power. Russian, Arabic and Chinese do not come just for the weather. Maybe this is not as frivolous as others condemn. All this money industry is sustained by Barcelona’s tradition of defending the rights of minorities.

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Art management center in Barcelona

Artur Ramon from art gallery to art management center

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Artur Ramon Art, historic art gallery and antiques, will close next October local street of La Palla and will reopen at the end of the year or early 2017, in a space of 660 m2en Street Bailèn, ground and floor, old textile manufacturing and be accessed only by appointment. But beyond the change of location, it is “a change of business model with which we reposition ourselves and face the growth in the international market. We will no longer be a gallery open to the public exhibitions, and we will become a center of art management, “explains Artur Ramon, third generation of the family.

The gallery owner Ramon have documented activity since 1911 in Reus, and in the 20s the great-grandfather moved to Sitges. The current business grandfather started it in 1942 in Barcelona, and in 1989 expanded to father Artur Ramon gallery. “Fifteen years ago we started thinking about internationalization, it means to be in the best fairs: TEFAF Maastricht and the Paris Motor Show.” To take this step, Ramon explains, “we were coming generalist tradition, and we specialize in drawings.”

In this model change, Artur Ramon Art is inspired by what already works in London or New York, where there are “art management centers which also offer added value study, assessment or consultancy. We are not only dedicated to buy and sell standard product: there is a cultural, patrimonial background. A work study, valuation, now did tangentially, and we want to become part of our core business “. In parallel, he wants to focus his collection in a higher market segment: “In the coming years we plan to invest between 1.5 and 2 million pieces of quality to grow.”

The company, headed by Artur Ramon and his sons Artur and Mònica, employs seven people. Currently, drawing and painting and represent 80% of the business, which in the last year was about
2 million euros. 70% of sales are made to international customers, mainly collectors or museums ( “this year we sold two drawings at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Fine Arts, Boston”).

His forecast is that “in four years we could double the volume of sales, not the number of operations”; currently, about 50 transactions performed
per year.

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Barcelona to Sitges transfers (ferry)

Maiden voyage of the new sea line connecting the two cities and is starting to work today

Barcelona to Sitges transfers (ferry)

Good morning and welcome aboard the first ferry for Sitges “announced yesterday public address test on the trip boat connecting Barcelona and Sitges regular maritime connection and BlueCat operating company. The PA, however, forgot to recommend passenger- journalists and representatives of institutions that were forewarned and take a pill for motion sickness before leaving. More than one inexperience of work and surf at the same time was a bad experience.

A wonderful journey was presumed. The day accompanied with a bright sun, the sea sparkled and the ability to go in short sleeves made the visit to Sitges the most appetizing.

The new offering ferry trip is intended especially for tourists and cruise passengers. During the presentation, which also took on board, testing the endurance of more than one, they said, “it is another way to share tourism between Barcelona and Sitges”. The authorities hope that it will be an “opportunity to fluff the mass tourism of Barcelona”.

On leaving the port, the passage could enjoy the skyline of Barcelona. The imposing hotel Vela, recognizable towers, the Sagrada Familia cathedral and is blurred in Eixample that could only glimpse the streets climbing up the mountain …. and all moving from left to right from the high seas.

“We do not intend to compete with the train, but we want this to serve for an experience for the Mediterranean”, said the head of marketing for the company, aware that the initiative is not intended as an alternative to the 35 minutes it takes the railway to connect the center of both cities.

“Oh, oh, oh, how boot this,” said a reporter he closed his eyes clinging to the seat to prevent the rolling waves go to his head. “It seems we’re on the Dragon Khan”,.

Meanwhile, those responsible for the initiative showed their satisfaction. “It was a project we have been working since 2014. It is an opportunity in which we all win,” they said.

“Councillor, Councillor, are you okay?”, Two women, specialists in the marine industry, tried to resuscitate the first deputy mayor of Sitges, which succumbed to the movement and fell fulminated. He collapsed while making a move to enter cover. The impact was so strong that it was one minute on the floor unconscious until they finally came to. It was the culmination to a sharp rattle an hour and a half, which was to last only half an hour, and hardly could bear the unaccustomed. “I told you on the boat is better not to look the phone to not get dizzy,” he recalled pertinently, though in retrospect, a member of the crew.

The boat arrives traveling 35 knots (about 68 km / h), a very fast speed but may be delayed in departure and arrival to port where it should slow down. The Government expects the ferry is also consolidated in an alternative service for the Catalans who want to spend the day to Sitges and wish to make a slightly more original way.

Most journalists arrived groggy. However, in the terminal Sitges has installed a lounge area with good drinks and good food has arranged everything.

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Sitges (Bacardí Museum)

History of Bacardi in Sitges

Sitges-Bacardi Museum

Bacardi is the largest spirits brand in the world that is private and family owned. It was founded 1862 in Santiago de Cuba as a rum distillery and today it owns over 200 brands and labels. Little people know that the story of Bacardi actually starts in Spain long before that.

In 1814, Facundo Bacardí Massó was born in Sitges. Son of a bricklayers’ family, he emigrated to Cuba in 1830 when he was 16 years old, following his older brother. In 1844, Bacardi married Amalia Moreau, a wealthy French lady. After a few months, he opened his own mercantile shop. The couple had 6 children, whom played important roles in the history of the company.  After an earthquake hit Santiago in 1852 and a cholera epidemic followed it, the family returned to Sitges to escape the poor conditions.

Upon their return to Cuba, the business went bankrupt and Bacardi started attempting distilling rum. Rum was considered to be a cheap, low quality drink, and Bacardi developed a unique process with a type of yeast for fermentation, then filtering through charcoal and aging in white oak barrels, which made the final product transparent and fine, being the first white colored rum in the world. Mrs. Amalia spotted bats in the distillery one day and suggested it became the brands symbol. There were many bats that were scared away with a buzz. The fruit bats were attracted to the smell of the molasses. The bat figure was fundamental for Bacardi’s brand recognition since back then most people in Cuba couldn’t read or write.

 

When the Cuban Ward of Independence started, Bacardi’s eldest son was arrested several times for joining the rebels. While the women of the family were exiled in Kingston, Jamaica, the company was run by Emilio’s brothers Jose and Facundo. After the end of the Cuban war, today’s popular drinks Daiquiri and Cuba Libre were both invented using Bacardi Rum. Under the management of Bacardi’s son Facundo M. Bacardi, the company started its first international expansion opening a bottling plant in Barcelona in 1910.

Today, Sitges is home to the Casa Bacardi, a museum that tells more about the Heritage of the brand and the process. Besides that, at the museum there is a lounge bar for Bacardi’s products tasting, a terrace and a bartender school.

Sitges is located 30km south of Barcelona and easily accessible by train. Casa Bacardi is located at the Plaça Ajuntament, right on the city center.

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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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The Penedès will have his “wine road”

The first spanish ‘wine road’, a wine tourism initiative by 12 warehouses and seven municipalities of this region and Garraf, retrieves the Roman road.

The Penedès “wine road”

A dozen wineries in the Penedès and seven municipalities in this region and promote Garraf “The Wine Road”, a wine tourism initiative that encompasses the old route linking the interior to the coast, used by the Romans to bring the wine to different parts of the world.

The initiative will be launched next month, will become the first wine road of Spain, understood as a linear route follows an existing and clearly defined path flanked by wineries and other tourist attractions, as well as a great deal gastronomic. The route, 40 km, runs from Sant Marti Sarroca, in the Alt Penedès, to Sitges, in the Garraf, passed through several towns, including Vilafranca and Sant Pere de Ribes.

The project aims to position itself as a reference wine route, boosting joint activities and coordinated way to promote tourism and, at the same time protect the territory and preserve its beauty and historical value.

The joint promotion of the road by the wineries that comprise motivate an annual program of themed week late, where visitors can carry out activities related to the same topic in different wineries activities or availability of benefits in the visit.

At first, the route is designed to make motorized vehicle, although it is expected that in the near future can be done on foot or by bike through an alternative route.

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