By Irene González · LKS Next Legal The audiovisual sector is experiencing a period of unprecedented expansion, and the audiovisual industry is once again in the spotlight. In this context, the tax framework applicable to productions has become one of...
The most notable shoots of the season in Spain ‘UNTITLED’ (Imagen superior Oliver Vegas)LUCÍA ALEMANY Since the first week of October, director Lucía Alemany has been shooting a film about footballer Alexia Putellas, a fiction feature inspired by the origins...
Cinematographer Lara Vilanova interviews cinematographer Lucía C. Pan AEC. By Lara Vilanova Sentís AEC Lucía Cantoira Pan has spent years developing a distinctive eye behind the camera, the kind you can recognise when you look closely at the cinematography. Trained in Fine Arts and at ESCAC, and closely...
By Camera & Light Editorial Team This October, the AEC and Canon organised an event devoted to understanding how the design of a lens determines its visual response. At this exclusive workshop, Carlos Castán explored concepts such as aberrations, light...
Interview with Manu Tomás García, Steadicam Coordinator & Broadcast Cinema Specialist at the Mediapro Group Manu Tomás García, Steadicam Coordinator & Broadcast Cinema Specialist at the Mediapro Group, was one of the pioneers in introducing cinema cameras into LALIGA sports broadcasts following his arrival in 2018. The reference point that prompted this change was...
Interview with DOP Michał Sobociński on his work on ‘Chopin’ In ‘Chopin’, director Michał Kwieciński (‘Filip’) paints a psychological portrait of the Polish genius, whose life was marked by illness and a unique talent. “We tried to draw a psychological portrait of a genius, to delve into his psyche,” says...
We interview cinematographer David Cortázar about his work on this film We spoke with cinematographer David Cortázar (‘La Boda’, ‘Solo pienso en ti’) about this hybrid visual approach, which combines period tungsten lighting with contemporary light sources to take audiences from the band’s earliest, smaller and more modest performances to major...
Introduction In ‘Sacamantecas’, director David Pérez Sañudo (‘Los últimos románticos’) portrays Álava in the late nineteenth century, at the close of the Third Carlist War. Drawing on the language and aesthetics of the thriller, the film also offers social commentary, contrasting...
By Carmen V. Albert In El castillo (The castle), now available on Movistar Plus+, screenwriters Isabel Peña and Eduardo Villanueva expose the reality of brothels and the trafficking of women in Spain in the late 1990s and early 2000s. “The...
From negative processing and dailies to 4K scanning and 35 mm release prints, Augustus Roma reveals the laboratory work behind La bola negra and El mal hijo. The freedom to experiment with film negative rests on the precision of the...
“I started out very cautiously, with doubts, insecurities and enormous respect, and ended up pushing the negative to its absolute limit.” Photographed by Elías M. Félix AEC, Jaime Lorente’s directorial debut combines 16mm and 35mm film, extreme underexposure and organic...