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Una lista de 10 películas del 27 Festival de Málaga que no te puedes perder.

Con la 27ª edición del Festival de Málaga finalizada, desde mundoCine te traemos las diez recomendaciones que no te puedes perder a lo largo de los próximos meses. Películas que han cautivado a los asistentes de esta edición, y que se estrenarán en cines en breve. Echémosles un vistazo:

10. Radical (Christopher Zalla)

¿Por qué deberías verla? La película galardonada con la Biznaga de Oro a Mejor Película Iberoamericana nos narra la historia real de un grupo de chavales de instituto que son inspirados por su nuevo maestro (interpretado de forma magistral por el gran Eugenio Derbez) y que tratan de sacar todo su potencial para huir de un pueblo en la frontera con Estados Unidos lleno de abandono, corrupción y violencia.

Una cinta plagada de sentidas y emotivas actuaciones por parte de su elenco más joven, que...

Featuring famed directors such as Argentina’s Ariel Rotter and Spain’s Benito Zambrano, who have not only played but won at Berlin and San Sebastian respectively, Malaga’s 19-pic out of competition strand is a testament to the buyer-driven pulling power of Malaga , thanks to its significant market.

Multiple other name auteurs pack out the selection, which also includes a far stronger line is broad audience comedies than most festivals would risk.

This is certainly territory for discoveries and breakouts – a healthy Málaga tradition.

A brief drill down on titles:

“La Bandera”

Director: Martín Cuervo

“La Bandera,” produced by Álamo Producciones Audiovisuales and Idesia Films, humorously unfolds a family’s inheritance dispute, in the sense that sons, Aitor Luna and Miquel Fernández, aren’t getting what they expected from their father played by Spanish veteran actor Imanol Arias.

“A Blue Bird”

Director: Ariel Rotter

Respected Argentine auteur Rotter returns...

Ask Jose Velasco, 60, what he thinks about the Conecta Fiction Honorary award he’s receiving on Thursday June 23 and his first response is, “Why?”

The self-effacing founder and president of powerhouse content producer iZen Group says he is grateful to those who decided to give it to him, “rightly or not.” “I guess it’s because I’ve been in this business for 35 years and have done everything from fiction to reality to game shows,” he muses, adding: “But if they think this will make me retire, they’re mistaken.”

“I guess I am of the generation of people in Spain who were trying the shape the country’s television landscape,” he notes. Indeed, Velasco founded and ran one of the pioneering entertainment giants of Spain, Globomedia. He later established Zeppelin TV as well as Diagonal TV and Linze Producciones, all of which formed part of Endemol, then owned by Telefonica Media.

British actress to receive career award; festival guest list includes Tom Hiddleston, Ellen Page, Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro.

Emily Watson, star of Breaking The Waves, The Book Thief and Everest, is receive the Donostia Award at the 63rd San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 18-26) in recognition of her 30 years in film.

The British actress will collect the award at a gala on Sept 25 in San Sebastian’s Kursaal Auditorium.

The festival also unveiled some high-profile names and juries for its upcoming edition.

Actors attending include stars of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, Sienna Miller, Tom Hiddleston and Luke Evans; Freeheld actress Ellen Page; Sicario stars Emily Blunt and Benicio del Toro; Tim Roth, at the festival with 600 Miles and Chronic; Louise Bourgoin, star of The White Knights; and Karin Viard and Isabelle Carré from 21 nuits avec Pattie.

Filmmakers in attendance include Pablo Agüero (Eva Doesn’t Sleep), Laurie Anderson (Heart of a Dog), Scott Cooper ([link...

Exclusive: Kevin Williams Associates has closed some eye-catching deals on its remastered Pedro Almodovar film, Labyrinth Of Passion.

The 1982 film has now gone to Arte (France), Shochiku (Japan) and Lucky Red (Italy) with a Us deal in negotiation.

The Spanish screwball comedy, written and directed by Almodóvar, stars Cecilia Roth and Imanol Arias as well as Antonio Banderas in a small role, marking his film debut.

Almodóvar’s second film follows a nymphomaniac pop star who falls in love with a gay Middle-Eastern prince.

Below is Part 2 of my annual look at the films that have a shot at making the Foreign Language Oscar shortlist. There are 83 submissions this year with some truly remarkable films in the bunch — and no 100% frontrunner. Here’s a refresher on how the nine films are chosen for the shortlist which is expected to be revealed tomorrow: The phase one committee determines six of the candidates, and the other three entries are selected by the Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee. For the profiles below and yet to come, I spoke with the directors of the films about their inspirations and expectations. In many cases, I also checked in with the U.S. distributor about why they acquired the movies. Below is a look at the second group of four titles that have generated serious buzz over the past several weeks of screenings, Q&As and consulate lunches. For...

Alberto Arvelo’s Simón Bolívar epic The Liberator – Libertador starring Edgar Ramírez will represent Venezuela as the foreign language Oscar submission.

Spanish actress María Valverde, Danny Huston, Imanol Arias and Gary Lewis also star in the story of Bolivar’s fight to free South America from Spanish rule and his role in establishing the Hispanic-American republic of Gran Colombia.

Mundial handles international sales on The Liberator – Libertador and Cohen Media Group holds North American rights and will release theatrically on October 3.

The film generated close to 600,000 admissions when it opened in Venezuela on July 24. The Venezuelan committee chose the film for its “artistic and production value, staging/realisation, music and photography.”

Timothy Sexton wrote the screenplay and Ana Loehnert, Winfried Hammacher and Arvelo produced. Ramírez served as executive producer with Maria A Guerrero Rocca.

The film shot in Venezuelan locations such as Llanos de Acarigua, Parque Nacional de Canaima and Caracas, in addition...

Richard Linklater’s 12-year project beats Ida, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Winter Sleep.

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood has been named the best film of the past year by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, Fipresci.

The poll for the Fipresci Grand Prix 2014 - Best Film of the Year gathered votes from 553 members throughout the world.

In the first phase, participants nominated feature-length films that received their world premiere no earlier than July 1, 2013. This led to a final round between the four finalists: Boyhood by Richard Linklater, Ida by Pawel Pawlikowski, The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson, and Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

This is the first Linklater has won the prize, which has previously gone to Michael Haneke, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Luc Godard and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, among others, since its establishment in 1999.

Boyhood will have a special screening at the San Sebastián Film Festival on Sept...

"We are all sons of America." Cohen Media Group has debuted the trailer for Alberto Arvelo's Libertador, also known as The Liberator, starring Edgar Ramirez as Simon Bolivar, the Latin American revolutionary from the late 1700s and early 1800s. This sweeping and majestic biopic tells the story of how he liberated and helped Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia gain independence from the Spanish Empire. In addition to Ramirez, Libertador also stars Maria Valverde, Danny Huston, Imanol Arias, and Gary Lewis. The performances look powerful, but the cinematography looks exceptional. This might be worth watching. Here's the first official Us trailer for Alberto Arvelo's Libertador, originally debuted by Yahoo: The Liberator, or Libertador in Spanish, is directed by Venezuelan filmmaker Alberto Arvelo Mendoza of a few films previously including Habana, Havana and To Play and to Fight. The screenplay was written by Timothy J. Sexton. Édgar Ramírez stars as Simón Bolívar,...

The Toronto International Film Festival® has announced the addition of 3 Galas and 19 Special Presentations to the 2013 Festival programme, including a further 12 World Premieres. Representing countries from around the world, the Gala and Special Presentations programmes offer a lineup of diverse titles and genres.

Toronto audiences will be among the first to screen films by directors Fred Schepisi, Alberto Arvelo, Reha Erdem, Dexter Fletcher, Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, Megan Griffiths, Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu, Kevin Macdonald, Arie Posin, Charlie Stratton, Nils Tavernier and John Turturro.

The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 5 to 15, 2013.

Galas Blood Ties

Guillaume Canet, France/USA North American Premiere

New York, 1974. 50-year-old Chris has just been released on good behavior after spending several years in prison. Waiting for him reluctantly outside the prison gates is his younger brother, Frank, a cop with a bright future. Chris and Frank have always been different, yet blood...

After delivering one of the best recent performances with Olivier Assayas‘ expansive Carlos, star Edgar Ramirez hasn’t exploded as he should have. This was likely due in part to his dull choice of a follow-up with the dreadful Wrath of the Titans. But now, along with Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty arriving this fall, there’s a new chance for him to shine with another biopic.

After announcing the project earlier this summer, The Hollywood Reporter has already provided the first still of Alberto Arvelo Mendoza‘s Libertador, which features Ramirez as Simon Bolivar, which is being described as the South American Braveheart and their biggest independent projection to date. One can see the actor in character above amongst heavy weather conditions.

Written by Timothy J. Sexton (Children of Men), the film follows Bolivar’s early 19th-century campaign to free much of South America from the Spanish Empire...

The first still from director Alberto Arvelo's Libertador is now online and you can check it out below. Scripted by Timothy Sexton and starring Edgar Ramírez, María Valverde, Danny Huston, Imanol Arias and Gary Lewis, the film tells the life of Simón Bolívar (1783 . 1830). Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America's struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America. Click on the image below for a larger version in our gallery:...

No stranger to biopics, Edgar Ramirez (“Carlos” and “Che”) has signed on to play Simón Bolívar, the Venezuelan military and political leader who was instrumental in Latin America’s successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, in “Libertador.”

The film, written by Timothy J. Sexton (“Children Of Men”) and directed by Alberto Arvelo, will focus on the fight for independence from Bolivar’s point of view. Ramirez will be joined by Danny Huston, Gary Lewis, María Valverde and Imanol Arias, though what roles they'll be playing haven't yet be revealed. The filmmakers have also drafted La Philharmonic music director Gustavo Dudamel for what will be his film composing debut, an appropriate choice as Dudamel is also the director of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela.

Bolivar’s story sounds like it could make for a good and proper historical epic, the likes of which we haven’t seen in a few years,...

Edgar Ramirez, Danny Huston, Gary Lewis, Maria Valverde and Imanol Arias are all set to star in Alberto Arvelo's "Libertador", a biopic of 19th century Latin American freedom fighter Simon Bolivar says Variety.

The $50 million+ Venezuela-Spain co-production will be produced by Caracas' Prods. Insurgentes and San Mateo Films.

Timothy Sexton ("Children of Men") penned the script, which deals with Bolivar's military campaign to wrestle independence from Spain and unify Latin America.

The film will be Spanish language, but will include some English and French dialogue. Gustavo Dudamel will create the score.

Having been appropriately stunned by his 330-minute work in Carlos, it was disappoiting to see Édgar Ramírez jump on board sludge like Wrath of the Titans — how you go from Olivier Assayas to Jonathan Liebesman… that’s a drop — but onward and upward will he move from the bowels of Hades. Next, Variety reports that he’ll be starring in Libertador, a Simón Bolívar biopic already being labeled “[o]ne of Latin America’s most ambitious productions” and “the South American Braveheart.”

Director Alberto Arvelo Mendoza is behind the currently-shooting picture, with the script supplied by Timothy J. Sexton (Children of Men). Though bereft of any solid description in the above article, Libertador bound to cover Bolívar’s early 19th-century campaign to free much of South America from the Spanish Empire’s clutches; helping to instill strong political systems throughout these nations is worth documenting, too. All that historical relevancy and impact notwithstanding,...

Golden Globe and Emmy nominated Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez ( Carlos , Zero Dark Thirty ), Spanish actress María Valverde ( Melissa P. ), Danny Huston ( Magic City , X-Men Origins: Wolverine ), Imanol Arias ( El Lute ) and Gary Lewis ( Billy Elliot , Gangs of New York ) will topline Libertador , a modern epic about the life of Simón Bolívar (1783 . 1830). Bolívar was instrumental in Latin America.s struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire, and is today considered one of the most influential politicians and emancipators in American history. Libertador is told from the viewpoint of Bolívar, portrayed by Ramírez, about his quests and epic military campaigns, which covered twice the territory Alexander the Great conquered, and his vision to unify South America....

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10.04am: Day three of Cannes 2012 rolls round. If you want to catch up with what happened yesterday (whenever that was), here's yesterday's blow-by-blow live blog.

But as is the way with Cannes, it's history already; all that's left is to pick over the bones. And that will assuredly be happening in the video we'll post later this morning, when Peter, Xan and Catherine run the rule over Rust and Bone, last night's biggie. We'll also have a gallery of red carpet pictures, featuring star Marion Cotillard and ice-cold director Jacques Audiard. (I've said it before, I'll say it again: he's the person I want to be when I grow up.)

So what to look forward to today? The line-up is perhaps a tad less starry that on days one and two: the competition films are Reality, from Italian director...

Diamond Dogs

Alex Pettyfer is set to play the lead in "Heartbreaker" director Pascal Chaumeil's new English-language thriller "Diamond Dogs" for Quad Films.

An adaptation of a novel by Alan Watt, Pettyfer will play a popular Nevada high school quarterback whose life is turned upside down after he accidentally kills someone, a crime his local sherrif father is covering up. [Source: Variety]

Mobius

Tim Roth, Jean Dujardin and Cecile de France have joined Eric Rochant's spy thriller "Mobius" for EuropaCorp and Axel Films. Set in the world of high finance, Roth plays a Russian oligarch suspected of laundering money through his bank.

Shooting kicks off later this year Belgium, Luxembourg, Ukrania, Russia and Monaco with the film aiming to be completed and ready for release by early 2013. [Source: Variety]

Guernica 33 Days

Gwyneth Paltrow is in negotiations to play opposite Antonio Banderas in Carlos Saura's $10 million-budget "Guernica 33 Days" which deals with Pablo Picasso...

A long-gone time (February) brought news that Antonio Banderas was set for the coveted Picasso role in 33 Days, a semi-biographical depiction of the beloved painter and the effort expended to craft one of his masterpieces, Guernica. The uptake has been a little slow on this one in the time sense — or, nothing has actually happened, save for a title change that reflects the aforementioned painting — but Variety now has news of a big casting grab — one that could also mean things are really snapping together.

They’re reporting that Gwyneth Paltrow is currently in talks for Guernica 33 Days, having been pegged for the crucial role of Dora Maar; in real life — and in the actual film — Maar was a French photographer who acted as Picasso’s lover during the painting’s months-long creation. Along with her, Imanol Arias and Bárbara Goenaga have also boarded, being hired to play José Bergamín and his assistant,...

My First Wedding

Directed by Ariel Winograd

Written by Patricio Vega

Argentina, 2011

Grooms on their wedding day usually consider themselves the luckiest man in the world, but in Ariel Winograd’s My First Wedding, nothing can be further from the truth. Filled with humour, heart, cynicism, and misadventure, My First Wedding’s whirlwind narrative culminates into a perfect storm of marriage clichés.

The betrothed in question are Adrián (Daniel Hendler), a non-practicing Jew, and Leonora (Natalia Oreiro), a quasi-practicing Catholic. With the ceremony already balancing a precarious equilibrium (see previous sentence), Adrián inadvertently knocks it off kilter when he accidently loses the wedding rings, and as the wedding comes crashing down around him, Adrián must try to remedy the situation without furthering the ire of his wife-to-be.

My First Wedding initially feels formulaic, presenting itself as the marital equivalent of Death at a Funeral. The catalyst for the initial comedy...

Ariel Winograd's My First Wedding (Mi primera boda), goes to Seventh Art in N. America The deal was made at the Ventana Sur by Udy Epstein and Ricardo Freixas of Seventh Art, for a limited release in the U.S. sometime in the middle to the late part of next year, reports Variety. Patricio Vega, scribe of The Pretenders, Fratelli Detective, Hermanos y detectives (a.k.a. Brothers and Detectives) wrote the screenplay for the film which stars Natalia Oreiro, Daniel Hendler, Imanol Arias, Martín Piroyansky, Muriel Santa Ana and Gabriela Acher. Juan Jose Campanella produced My First Wedding with Nathalie Cabiron of Tresplanos and Axel Kuschevatzky of Telefe.

Ariel Winograd's My First Wedding (Mi primera boda), goes to Seventh Art in N. America The deal was made at the Ventana Sur by Udy Epstein and Ricardo Freixas of Seventh Art, for a limited release in the U.S. sometime in the middle to the late part of next year, reports Variety. Patricio Vega, scribe of The Pretenders, Fratelli Detective, Hermanos y detectives (a.k.a. Brothers and Detectives) wrote the screenplay for the film which stars Natalia Oreiro, Daniel Hendler, Imanol Arias, Martín Piroyansky, Muriel Santa Ana and Gabriela Acher. Juan Jose Campanella produced My First Wedding with Nathalie Cabiron of Tresplanos and Axel Kuschevatzky of Telefe.

Ariel Winograd's My First Wedding (Mi primera boda), goes to Seventh Art in N. America The deal was made at the Ventana Sur by Udy Epstein and Ricardo Freixas of Seventh Art, for a limited release in the U.S. sometime in the middle to the late part of next year, reports Variety. Patricio Vega, scribe of The Pretenders, Fratelli Detective, Hermanos y detectives (a.k.a. Brothers and Detectives) wrote the screenplay for the film which stars Natalia Oreiro, Daniel Hendler, Imanol Arias, Martín Piroyansky, Muriel Santa Ana and Gabriela Acher. Juan Jose Campanella produced My First Wedding with Nathalie Cabiron of Tresplanos and Axel Kuschevatzky of Telefe.

“To Be Heard” and “Hot Coffee” win big at Seattle International Film Festival’s awards ceremony today at Seattle’s Space Needle.

See below for the full list of winners and runners-up:

Siff 2011 Competition Awards

Siff 2011 Best New Director

Grand Jury Prize

Gandu, directed by “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee (India, 2010)

Jury Statement: “We chose to give the prize to a movie that bowled us over with its kinetic, brash humor and style-hoping dexterity, a portrait of tortured youth that refreshingly pokes fun at adolescent self-centeredness while simultaneously exploring the anger, despondency and malaise of a generation.”

Siff 2011 Best Documentary

Grand Jury Prize

Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff (USA, 2011)

Jury Statement: “Going beyond a well-known headline that was the butt of many jokes, Hot Coffee makes dry legal boilerplate spring to life in portraying human dramas with tragic consequences. It makes us all question our simple assumptions – it’s a film that needs to be seen.

“To Be Heard” and “Hot Coffee” win big at Seattle International Film Festival’s awards ceremony today at Seattle’s Space Needle.

See below for the full list of winners and runners-up:

Siff 2011 Competition Awards

Siff 2011 Best New Director

Grand Jury Prize

Gandu, directed by “Q” Kaushik Mukherjee (India, 2010)

Jury Statement: “We chose to give the prize to a movie that bowled us over with its kinetic, brash humor and style-hoping dexterity, a portrait of tortured youth that refreshingly pokes fun at adolescent self-centeredness while simultaneously exploring the anger, despondency and malaise of a generation.”

Siff 2011 Best Documentary

Grand Jury Prize

Hot Coffee, directed by Susan Saladoff (USA, 2011)

Jury Statement: “Going beyond a well-known headline that was the butt of many jokes, Hot Coffee makes dry legal boilerplate spring to life in portraying human dramas with tragic consequences. It makes us all question our simple assumptions – it’s a film that needs to be seen.

Paper Birds

As a performer who has been able to capture the pulse of the audience on both television and cinema, Emilio Aragón (full name Tomás Aragón Emilio Alvarez) sure knows how to connect with the emotions of his audiences. His debut feature film, “Paper Birds” (original Spanish title: “Pajaros De Papel”) provides ample proof of it.

Featured in the First Films World Competition of the 34thMontreal World Film Festival, where it shared the audience award with “The Day I Was Not Born” (original German title: “Das Lied in Mir”, which won the Fipresci prize), by another debutant director Florian Cossan, “Paper Birds” unabashedly pulls at the viewers’ emotional heartstrings.

The way it does so while portraying the relationship between a kid and his father-like figure who has lost his son and wife during the Spanish Civil War, makes one immediately compare it with Roberto Benigni’s much-awarded international hit...

Imagina International Sales which is based in Madrid, Spain, has picked up worldwide rights to distribute the dramedy "Pajaros de papel" ("Paper Birds") outside Spain. The film marks the directorial debut of Emilio Aragón. The story is set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in the early 1940s and follows the adventures of a group of very poor Spanish vaudeville performers. Film cost $8.3 million and stars Lluís Homar, Imanol Arias and Carmen Machi. Antena 3 Films and Versatil Cinema produce. Aragón writes alongside Fernando Castets. Pic opens on March 12th in Spain.

Imagina International Sales which is based in Madrid, Spain, has picked up worldwide rights to distribute the dramedy "Pajaros de papel" ("Paper Birds") outside Spain. The film marks the directorial debut of Emilio Aragón. The story is set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in the early 1940s and follows the adventures of a group of very poor Spanish vaudeville performers. Film cost $8.3 million and stars Lluís Homar, Imanol Arias and Carmen Machi. Antena 3 Films and Versatil Cinema produce. Aragón writes alongside Fernando Castets. Pic opens on March 12th in Spain.

Madrid -- Imagina International Sales in Berlin has picked up international rights to one of Spain's hottest titles for the coming season, "Paper Birds," written, directed and produced by Spain's consummate showman Emilio Aragon.

Aragon's $9 million directorial debut is produced by Madrid-based Versatil and Globomedia, with Hispano Fox handling Spanish theatrical and DVD rights. Antena 3 holds free-to-air rights, while Sogecable's Canal Plus holds pay-tv rights.

Written by Aragon with Argentine "Son of the Bride" scriptwriter Fernando Castets, the choral film pools some of Spain's blue-chip television talent in the cast, like Imanol Arias and Carmen Machi, in addition to "Broken Embraces'" Lluis Homar and "The Orphanage's" Fernando Cayo and Roger Princep.

"Birds" tells of a vaudeville troupe down on its luck in post-war Spain and is due for release March 12 in Spain.

Versatil is a film production label of content powerhouse Imagina, a joint-venture between Barcelona-based Mediapro and...

MADRID -- The Malaga Spanish Film Festival, one of Spain's leading Spanish film festivals, announced Thursday that it will honor Geraldine Chaplin with the Malaga Award for lifetime achievement. Chaplin has participated in a string of films directed by Carlos Saura, including "Peppermint Frappe", "Ana and the Wolves" and "Mama's 100th Birthday". Her other film credits include Richard Attenborough's biography of her father, "Chaplin", and Martin Scorsese's "The Age of Innocence". Chaplin, who will receive the award April 24 in a gala ceremony, joins the ranks of two other Spain-based actors to receive the 3-year-old prize -- Imanol Arias and Angela Molina.The 7th Malaga festival, which runs April 23-May 1 in the Mediterranean resort town of Malaga, has become a reference point for the Spanish film industry for homegrown fare.

A limply acted and unlovingly produced story of war-zone journalists risking all to get the big disaster on tape, "Comanche Territory" manages to pick up after 30 minutes and even to generate excitement about its morally dubious heroes, but is too unambitious to survive outside of its native Spain.

"Comanche Territory" is a particularly dangerous sniper-infested zone of Sarajevo where TV journalists go for their best material to cover the Bosnian war. This is where Laura Riera (Cecilia Dopazo), a soft, untried yuppie host of a sensationalist tabloid TV show, goes to get human-interest reports for a week. There she meets seasoned journalists Mikel (Imanol Arias) and Jose (Carmelo Gomez), who roughly and grudgingly help her through her baptism by fire.

Some scenes are engaging, especially when Laura forgets that she's a human being and keeps the camera running despite the human suffering. However, the camera work is flat, the acting is offhand and the characters are cut-outs.

Gratefully, this is not about Bosnia, the war that European TV tabloid shows had been living off for years before it ended; it is about pampered Western journalists faced with the horrors of war zones -- and discovering that they are part of it, hardened hunters themselves but with cameras instead of guns. However, the film's potential is not mined by director Gerardo Herrero and his screenwriters -- and the movie's limited production values.

COMANCHE TERRITORY

Tornasol Films

a Gerardo Herrero film

Director Gerardo Herrero

Producers Javier Lopez Blanco,

Gerardo Herrero

Writers Arturo Perez-Reverte, Salvador Garcia,

Gerardo Herrero

Screenplay based on the novel by Arturo

Perez-Reverte

Executive producer Emilio Jimenez

Director of photography Alfredo Mayo

Production designer Luis Valles

Editor Carmen Frias

Music Ivan Wyszogrod

Costume designers Eva Arretxe,

Jelena Matic-Mihalic

Color/stereo

Cast:

Laura Cecilia Dopazo

Mikel Imanol Arias

Jose Carmelo Gomez

Jadranka Mirta Zecevic

Running time -- 90 minutes...