The president of the 76th Cannes Film Festival jury, Ruben Östlund, said on Tuesday that he supports the Hollywood writers’ strike, a position shared by other members of the panel. “I think it’s great that people feel part of something collective and go on strike,” said Östlund, who won two Palme d’Ors at the festival. “I’m definitely in favor of it, go ahead!”, he added at the press conference. after the failure of collective negotiations with the main Hollywood studios.The American actor and director Paul Dano, who is also part of the Cannes jury, with nine members, and is married…
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Portuguese films won four of the nine awards, namely the Best Ibero-American Animation Feature Film Award for “Nayola”, by José Miguel Ribeiro, and the Best Short Film Award for “O Homem do Lixo”, by Laura Gonçalves, announced the organization in disclosing the awards. “Nayola” is a vision of the impact of the civil war in Angola on three generations of women and was nominated in that category and also for the Quirino Prize for best visual development. organization of the event, in a statement, “reflects the poetry, nostalgia and authorial brand that characterize Portuguese animation in recent decades”, reporting the…
The sixth edition of the Quirino awards will take place in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, and “Ice Merchants”, an animation by João Gonzalez that was a candidate for the Oscars, is the one with the most nominations, in four categories. about family ties and loss, is nominated for best animated short film, visual development, animation design and sound design and original music. among the most nominated, being in the majority in some categories. They are the feature film “Nayola”, by José Miguel Ribeiro, and the short films “O homem do garbage”, by Laura Gonçalves, and “Garrano”, by…
“Popcorner”, a SAPO Mag program created in partnership with Comic Con Portugal, about cinema, series, comics and everything in the universe of pop culture, is back this Thursday with more news. pop presented by Inês Gens Mendes and Tiago David, masters of ceremonies at SAPO Mag, has new episodes every week, which you can watch at wttspod.pt, on the Comic Con Portugal EPOPCULTURE News website, but also on TV, on the channel Cinemundo, aired on Thursday at 8:05 pm, Friday at 7:00 pm, Saturday at 2:55 pm and Sunday at 10:55 am. “House of the Dragon” and “Velocidade Furiosa” in…
Hollywood screenwriters are on strike for better pay, but their conflict with studios and streaming platforms is also highlighting something they find insulting: the possibility that artificial intelligence (AI) will soon do its job. ability to imitate human dialogues, programs like ChatGPT aroused fear in many sectors: last week, the White House summoned the technology giants to discuss potential risks. everyone, especially after the failure of negotiations between the studios, the platforms and the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the powerful union representing 11,500 writers in the audiovisual industry, which began the strike on May 2.”Art cannot be created by…
Crazy Day (2003)New, more successful version of “The Adventures of Annabel” (1976), about mother and teenage daughter (Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsey Lohan), who don’t get along when it comes to clothes, hairstyles, music and, above all, their taste in men, until everything changes radically when two Chinese fortune cookies wreak havoc: the next morning, they wake up in each other’s bodies.” data-title= “A Crazy Day (2003) – – SAPO Mag”>
A manuscript full of mysteries that will shake the fate of two twins living very different and distant lives, between Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro. The separation won’t last long because a series of events will conspire to put them on a collision course again.”Life is Two Days”, by Leonardo Mouramateus, will be presented at the 20th edition of IndieLisboa, Friday, May 5th, at 21:30, at Cinema São Jorge.Official site.
Portuguese actor Ricardo Pereira signed a contract with Netflix to work as a creative producer, to help “map” Portuguese projects that can be developed by that production company and ‘streaming’ platform, he revealed to the Lusa agency. and who became popular working in television fiction in Portugal and Brazil, will be focused on Portuguese production and on the markets of Brazil and Spain, analyzing “which projects can and make sense to be developed”, giving them “a window of exhibition “Above all is mapping these good projects, where we realize that they have legs to walk, giving them the whole structure…
“This film takes place during the crisis [2011, 2012] and I lived firsthand how this crisis affected my generation. I think it was enormously violent and it almost seems that, after a pandemic, a war and an inflationary crisis, this was left behind as just one more thing. But I think it was the crisis of a generation”, said Simão Cayatte.“Vadio”, produced by Ukbar Filmes, crosses the paths of two characters: André, a teenager who is at his mercy even after being abandoned by his father, and Sandra, teacher and single mother, who loses her job and custody of her…
Director Alice Diop enters the world of fiction telling the story of Rama, a professor of literature and novelist who travels to Saint-Omer to accompany a trial, while in the first months of pregnancy. In place of the defendant is Lawrence Coly, a Senegalese immigrant student accused of having left her daughter, just over a year old, abandoned on the beach. The affinity that Rama feels towards Lawrence’s life experience makes her apprehensive about her future. “Saint Omer” will be shown at the 20th edition of IndieLisboa, Saturday, April 29, at 10 pm, at Cinema Ideal. It repeats on May…