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Callum McLennan

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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Callum McLennan

    Gaussian Scout, Pixentinel Take Top Prizes at San Sebastián’s Zinemaldia Startup Challenge (opens the original)

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    Finland’s Gaussian Scout takes Best European Project and an entrepreneurship prize, while Spain’s Pixentinel lands the €30,000 ($34,800) Spanish award SAN SEBASTIÁN, Spain — Finland’s Gaussian Scout (formerly listed Virtual Location Scouting) and Spain’s Pixentinel claimed the top prizes at the 2026 Zinemaldia Startup Challenge, the San Sebastián Festival’s flagship technology competition. Gaussian Scout, a browser-based virtual location scouting platform being developed by Finnish cinematograph

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Callum McLennan

    ‘Suro’ Director Mikel Gurrea on ‘Saints,’ Directing ‘The Belovd’ Star Victoria Luengo, Religious-Art Theft and Finding Mystery in Care (opens the original)

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    The ‘Suro’ filmmaker reunites with 'The Beloved' star Victoria Luengo for an urban drama where family obligation collides with the thrill of the heist For director Mikel Gurrea’s latest he didn’t have to travel far in search of a story. “I live in Barcelona’s district of Sants and, having done my previous film in the woods, this time I wanted to find fiction at my doorstep,” Gurrea told Variety of “Saints,” picked up for international by M-Appeal. “So I started interrogating that name, Sants, wh

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Callum McLennan

    ‘200 Lives, Paco Rabal,’ Told in the Spanish Screen Legend’s Own Voice, Boarded by Latido Films (opens the original)

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    SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain – Paco Rabal worked with Luis Buñuel, Michelangelo Antonioni and Carlos Saura, made more than 200 films and built a career spanning Spain, France, Italy and Mexico. In “200 Lives, Paco Rabal,” the Spanish screen legend gets one more role: Narrator of his own life. Directed by Vanesa Benítez, the documentary world premieres as the closing film of San Sebastián Festival’s Made in Spain section. Latido Films handles international sales on the Spain-France-Mexico co-production,

  4. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · Callum McLennan

    ECAM Incubator Title ‘The Woodworm’ Explores Female Identity in the Shadow of an Artist Father (opens the original)

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    In “The Woodworm” (“El Corquim”), the feature debut of Laura Obradors, a teenage girl’s search for an identity of her own runs up against the authority of her father, a successful artist in creative crisis. Developed through Madrid’s ECAM Incubator, the project examines the power exercised inside a family and the artistic prestige that can shield it from scrutiny. Produced by Sergio Adrià’s Espurna Films, with Sandra Hermida on board as co-producer, the film centers on 17-year-old Clara, whose d

  5. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Callum McLennan

    Tom Nicoll Looks Beyond Male Influencer Culture in TIFF Title ‘Salvation’: ‘I Don’t Think Anyone’s Ever Been Insulted Into Changing Their Mind’ (opens the original)

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    Scottish writer-director Tom Nicoll is unveling at Toronto his buzzy debut “Salvation.” It tracks an aspiring online life coach whose attempt to reinvent himself and then sell that transformation to others pulls him in increasingly desperate directions. The psychological and blackly comic thriller world premieres in TIFF’s Discovery section, having already been selected for the BFI and British Council’s Great 8 showcase at Cannes. MetFilm Sales recently boarded world sales on the film, which sta

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