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- Spain: The riskiest film and in Spanish was the big winner at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Simple stories, yet forceful. Pelo Malo, Venezuelan directed by Mariana Rondon, with a budget of 350,000 Euros, has achieved La Concha de Oro (The Golden Shell) at the 61st edition. The three major awards this year, marked somewhat by a lower level in its official section as last year’s and a significant absence of major stars, have gone to movies in Castilian.
– Japan’s Panasonic will not manufacture more smart phones, after losses of 15,000 million (11,100 million Euros). It becomes supplier of other companies. The Japanese firm came late to this business. And it is that Japan is represented by two large multinationals such as the U.S. company Apple and South Korea’s Samsung market drivers. Both of them take and will take all the benefits of the smart phone industry. By now.
– Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the stars of the Segovia Hay Festival, together with Jorge Edwards, José Manuel Caballero Bonald and Antonio Muñoz Molina, among more than a hundred authors, filled the Juan Bravo theater, last Saturday the 28th. Talked with writer Juan Jose Armas Marcelo of his latest novel, El Heroe Discreto a portrait of the courage of anonymous people, who conceived as the moral reserve of a society of men and women trying to be consistent with some values, as Felicito Yanaque, the protagonist, who refuses to pay the revolutionary tax to the mob, even at the risk of his life.
–The Spanish Federation of Film Producers released catastrophic data: the fall in billing was 15% and 12% in employment in 2012. The number of filmings has dropped by 28.7%.The forecasts for 2013 are even worse.Between 2004 and 2011, Spanish cinema lost 40 million viewers and in 2012 ceased to attend theaters another four million.
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