TV movies and series
2006
Catalan Films & TV
Mestre Nicolau, 23, entresol 08021 Barcelona Tel.: + 34 935 524 940 Fax: + 34 935 524 953
Televisió de Catalunya (TVC)
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Director: Àngela Bosch Coordinators:
Contact: Oriol Baquer
Carme Puig - Int’l Department Mònica García - Marketing and Communication David Matamoros - Market Research and Coproductions Carme Romero - Administration Cata Massana - Assistant Director
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THE PRODUCTION OF TV MOVIES HAS PROVED TO BE A FERTILE BREEDING GROUND FOR NEW TALENT, IN WHICH SCRIPTWRITERS, ACTORS, DIRECTORS AND PRO- DUCERS ALIKE PUT THEIR CREATIVE STRENGTHS TO THE TEST IN A GENRE CHARACTERIZED BY ITS IMMEDIACY AND FLEXIBILITY.
The most remarkable aspect of TV movies is that they have embraced almost the full gambit of themes, though they have perhaps found their greatest area of growth in biopics and news or factbased stories. This is the legacy the Catalan film and television industry took up very few years ago, and it has since gone on to create a burgeoning portfolio of TV movie titles.
Over 50 titles have been broadcast in dedicated slots on Televisió de Catalunya, some involving new approaches to co-production. This catalogue brings together the most recent crop, conceived with a view to accessing all possible sales channels: theatrical release, theme channels, satellite, etc. In brief, these are high-quality productions which are attracting the interest and the applause of their home audiences and are set to do the same on the international market.
Angela Bosch
Director
Francesc Escribano i Royo
Director of Televisió de Catalunya
2006
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48 hours Barcelona / Quito 6 films to keep you awake / 6 películas para no dormir A pirate’s heart / Cor de pirata Alleged involvement / Presumptes implicats Angels and saints / Angels i sants Atlantis / L'Atlàntida Buying beauty / Diario de una miss Echoes / Ecos Electroshock Family book / Llibre de familia From the back of my mind / Racons de la memòria Life’s a swine / Porca misèria Like butterflies in the light / Como mariposas en la luz
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Love in times of trouble / Amar en tiempos revueltos More than family / Más que hermanos Oil slick / Chapapote... o no Omar Martinez
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On wheels / Sobre rodes Secret music / Música secreta So that no one forgets your name / Per què ningú no oblidi el teu nom The carpark killer / El asesino del parking The year I trafficked in women / El año que trafiqué con mujeres Things that happen / Coses que passen Those skies / Aquells cels
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We have to find Sara / Cal trobar la Sara
- Windy Plains / Ventdelplà
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48 hours Barcelona
Quito
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Carla allows little room for chance. A charming, headstrong young woman, she likes to plan her life rather than leave it to chance. She's achieved a lot already: a great husband, a big house, a comfortable life. But what she wants most of all is a child – and she’s arranged for that, too. On her way to Quito to adopt a child, Carla suddenly finds herself in Barcelona, on the run with a charming young artist named Raul and a painting he stole from Berlin museum. When the painting is re-stolen by thugs, Carla and Raul are in double trouble. The least of their problems is the pair of policemen chasing them: Antonio, a gentlemanly Catalan police inspector and Kurt his coarse, bumbling Berlin colleague. The real problem is the master criminal who commissioned Raul to steal the painting and who wants it delivered - now. To prove the point he kidnaps Raul’s sister. Up to her neck in big time criminal exploits, Carla puts her plans for a perfect life on hold – though she’s not giving up on that child in Quito....
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Director: David Carreras
Produced by: Steinweg Emotion Pictures/TVC/Network Movie (Germany) – 2004 Executive producer: Julia Steinweg Script: Peter Nadermann/Luis Vega/Angeles Diemant-Hartz Director of photography: Oscar Faura/Bernat Bosch Original score: Ia Clua Sound: Salva Mayolas Cast: Ximo Solano/Jessica Schwarz/Luis Homar/Armin Rohde Genre: Romantic comedy Audience: General Nº of episodes: 1 x 87 min. TV movie Format available: Color/16mm Original version: Spanish-German Other versions available: Spanish/German/Catalan Sales: Bavaria Media Television
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6 films to keep you awake
6 películas para no dormir
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A series of 6 fantasy-horror films designed for the Premium TV and Video/DVD market.
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Director: "To Let" – Jaume Balagueró
"The Baby’s Room" – Alex de la Iglesia "Spectre" – Mateo Gil "A Christmas Tale" – Paco Plaza "A Real Friend" – Enrique Urbizu "The Room Upstairs" – Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Produced by: Castelao Productions/Estudios Picasso - 2005 Executive producer: Julio Fernández Genre: Fantasy-horror Audience: Adult Completion: 2005 Sales: Filmax International
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A pirate’s heart
Cor de pirata
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Störtebeker is a sailor in search of justice for the brutal murder of his parents. When he realises there’s no way of obtaining retribution because the murderers are the powerful Konrad von Wallenrod and his son, Simon, he becomes a pirate, repudiating the rules of a hypocritical society and living by his own law. But his keen sense of justice and solidarity make him a target for the hatred of the powerful, who hound him relentlessly. Throughout his adventures, Störtebeker attempts to win back his great love, Elisabeth, who has been promised in marriage to Simon.
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Director: Miguel Alexandre
Produced by: ICC/TVC/Bavaria Film/Degeto Film/Steinweg Emotion Pictures/ORF/TF1/TV Markíza/C˘ eská Produkc˘ní/Nova TV/RTL Klub/Baltijos TV/WDR/NDR/BR/MDR/SWR - 2005 Executive producer: Miguel Ángel González Script: Walter Kärger Director of photography: Peter Indergand Original score: Dominik Roth Sound: Michael Stecher Cast: Ken Duken/Claire Keim/Pepa López/Pep Ferrer Audience: General Nº of episodes: 2 x 90 min. Format available: Digital Betacam Original version: German-Catalan Other versions available: French/Lithuanian/Czech/Hungarian/Bulgarian Sales: Bavaria Film
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Alleged involvement
Presumptes implicats
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All at once, Santi loses his job, his girlfriend and his car. Victor and his friends know they’re to blame but don’t dare face the consequences of confessing it. In compensation, they come up with a great plan to settle their account with Santi by sorting out his problems. But he mustn’t find out what they’re up to...
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Director: Enric Folch
Produced by: Zip Films/Dacsa Produccions/TVC/TVV - 2006 Executive producer: Jordi Rediu/Norbert Llaràs/Xavier Crespo Script: Enric Folch Director of photography: Federico Ribes Sound: Licio Marcos de Oliveira Cast: Gaston Pauls/Xavi Mira/William Miller/Irene Montalá Audience: General Nº of episodes: 1 x 90 min. TV movie Format: Color/16mm Versions available: Spanish/Catalan Sales: Zip Films
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Angels and Saints
Angels i Sants
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Superintendent Ravell obtains authorization from the President of the Generalitat to go ahead with a risky operation. He’s convinced the wealthy Barcelonese businessman Ramon Figuerola and his son Alex are preparing a huge consignment of cocaine but lacks concrete evidence. To get the insider information he needs, Ravell pressures Joan Sants, a pimp who runs the Tavara Club, to work for him. As bait to entice the crim onto his side, Ravell retrieves an ex-agent, Àngels Muñoz, who left the force on account of an unfortunate incident with her drug addict brother. She bears an extraordinary resemblance to a prostitute by the name of Paula, a frustrated love from Joan Sants past.
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Director: Pau Freixa
Produced by: Fair Play Produccions/TVC - 2005 Executive producer: Ramon Tello/Jordi Roure Script: Francesc Bellmunt/Pau Freixa/Marc Crehuet/Hector Claramunt/Ivan Mercadé Director of photography: Julian Elizalde Original score: Joan Enric Garde Sound: Xavier Clarà Cast: Lluis Homar/Mar Regueras/David Selvas/Josep-Maria Pou Genre: Drama Audience: Adult Nº of episodes: 7 x 55 min. Format available: Digital Betacam shot on 16mm Original version: Catalan Sales: TVC
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Atlantis
L'Atlàntida
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Victoria has just found out she has only a short time to live and her main concern is to sort out her teenage son Mauro’s future. After years of estrangement from her ex-husband, Salinas, who is Mauro's father and a renowned musician, Victoria contacts him to propose selling the house they own jointly in Galicia, named Atlantis, in order to leave her son with some funds behind him. But Salinas refuses and proposes that Mauro go to live with him. Victoria disagrees because she distrusts Salinas, who has surreptitiously begun to strengthen his relationship with Mauro. Victoria decides to tell her son about her illness, but Mauro, incapable of coming to terms with his mother's having to die, takes refuge in the self-interested protection of his father.
The relationship between mother and son deteriorates little by little. Mauro runs away to La Coruña, where he discovers the lies and wretchedness of his father. When Victoria goes to fetch Mauro at the house she and Salinas had once shared, they finally reconcile the past and father and son agree to settle their differences and allow Victoria to live her last months in peace.
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Director: Belén Macías
Produced by: Prodigius Audiovisual - 2005 Executive producer: Jaume Santacana Script: Maite Carranza/Teresa Vilardell Director of photography: Enric Daví Original score: Juan Pablo Compaired/Xavi Capellas Sound: Pepe Cáceres Cast: Mercè Pons/Manuel Lozano/Nancho Novo/Ana Wagener Genre: Drama Audience: General Nº of episodes: 1 x 88 min. TV movie Original version: Spanish Other versions available: Catalan Sales: Prodigius Audiovisual
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Buying beauty
Diario de una miss
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A TV movie based on the exposé carried out by the production company El Mundo TV, specialised in investigative journalism, regarding fraudulent practices committed by some beauty contests.
The production company managed to infiltrate the contest organised by the Alicante delegation for the Miss Spain contest using a female reporter with a hidden camera. For a modest amount of money, the journalists, claiming to be from a fashion company, managed to buy the title of Miss Alicante, which was awarded, despite complaints, to the reporter/false Miss.
Taking the investigation further, the female reporter went on to compete against the winners of the other Spanish provinces in the final of the Miss Spain contest. Negotiations commenced to buy the national title, but the reporter was unmasked before the fraud reached conclusion. However, during the contest she lived in a hotel with all the other contestants and, using a hidden camera, managed to film the living conditions of the participants, who seem to be kept in a golden cage, as well as the scams of the organisers, who were always ready to use the contestants for their private concerns, constantly treating them as mere pieces of merchandise or simply as cattle, in the worst chauvinistic tradition, and continually exhibiting them as a lure for businessmen and other individuals close to the contest and the organisers.
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Director: Carles Vila
Produced by: Castelao Productions/Mundo Ficción - 2005 Executive producer: Carlos Fernández/Santiago Gimeno Script: Antonio Onetti Director of photography: Aitor Mantxola Original score: Francesc Gener Cast: Kira Miro/Paulina Galvez/Pau Dura/Roger Pera Audience: Adult Nº of episodes: 1 x 95 min. TV movie Sales: Filmax International
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Echoes
Ecos
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A young woman, Alba, loses her only daughter. The most serious after-effect for Alba, as well as all the psychological damage and the guilt that consumes her, is her temporary loss of hearing.
Isolated from the world, Alba finds she is able to hear sounds, which little by little turn into voices. Except that these voices are fragments of conversations with people who are already dead. One voice stands out amongst all the others, and invades every corner of her home and her nights, the voice of a girl.
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Director: Oriol Paulo
Produced by: Oberon Cinematogràfica/TVC/Continental Produccions/TVG - 2005 Executive producer: Antonio Chavarrías/Pancho Casal Script: Curro Royo/Juan Vicente Pozuelo/Oriol Paulo Director of photography: Bernat Bosch Original score: Sergio Moure Cast: Núria Prims/Chete Lera/Carlos Blanco/Sílvia Sabaté Genre: Mystery Audience: Teens/Adult Nº of episodes: 1 x 95 min. TV movie Format available: Digital Betacam/Stereo Original version: Spanish Other versions available: Catalan/Galician
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Electroshock
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Due to the prejudices of society, two women in love, Maria Carmen and Isabel, are unable to live together. The situation will lead them to self destruction.
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Director: Juan Carlos Claver
Produced by: Zip Films/TVC/TVV/Dacsa Produccions/Kines Produccions - 2005 Executive producer: Jordi Rediu/Norbert Llaràs/Xavier Crespo/Juan Carlos Claver Script: Juan Carlos Claver/Agustín Madariaga Director of photography: Javier Quintanilla Original score: Alejandro Román Sound: José María Bloch Cast: Carme Elias/Susi Sánchez/Julieta Serrano/Juli Mira Audience: General Nº of episodes: 1 x 85 min. TV movie Format: Color/HD Original version: Catalan-Spanish Sales: Zip Films
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Family book
Llibre de familia
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Virtu and Ramon are a couple who have been trying, unsuccessfully, to have a child. Virtu is tired of all the gynaecological tests she’s being put through to determine why she can’t get pregnant. Her friends, Paca and Marimar, and her mother, all think it’s Ramon who's sterile. Ramon finally agrees to take a fertility test and it confirms what everyone suspected: he’s the infertile one. Virtu tries to fix things and suggests they adopt, but Ramon wants a son of his own blood. On top of all this, Ramon’s father, Candido, who has been missing for years, suddenly reappears. He’s just got out of jail and wants to start up a questionable business with his son. Things begin to get out of hand and Virtu and Ramon's marriage enters dangerous terrain.
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Director: Ricard Figueras
Produced by: In Vitro Films/TVC/Canal Sur TV/Canal 9 - 2005 Executive producer: Ricard Figueras Script: Ricard Figueras/Pau Garsaball Director of photography: Mario Montero Original score: Alex Conrado Sound: Boris Zapata Cast: Antonio de la Torre/Inés Díaz/Lluís Homar/Alberto Lozano Genre: Comedy Audience: General Nº of episodes: 1 x 108 min. TV movie Format available: HD video Original version: Catalan Other versions available: Spanish Sales: In Vitro Films
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From the back of my mind
Racons de la memòria
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Dani is a man in his fifties who has cancer and has to undergo surgery with no guarantee of success. The lack of certainty and the severity of the treatment lead him to doubt whether to go ahead with the operation, until the world of the memory surfaces from the back of his mind and helps him to muster up the optimism to carry on.
Flash back to 1964. At the age of sixteen, Dani is living in a small town with his authoritarian father and classic mother. At school, the boy awakens to new experiences under the influence of his progressive teacher and anarchist grandfather. At the end of high school, he doesn’t want to go to the city: he wants to be a writer. His teacher shows an interest in catching up with him in the future to see how things have worked out.
2005. Dani, now a disillusioned porn writer in crisis, remembers his date with his former teacher, the date with his memory. Despite a disappointing meeting with the teacher and, in some way, with his past, Dani does have the operation, confident of success and with the support of his girlfriend, Anna.
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Director: Sergi Schaaff
Produced by: Morlanda Produccions/Anxo Fernández P.C. - 2005 Executive producer: Marcel·lí Parés/Anxo Fernández Script: Joan Martí Valls Director of photography: Xavier Camí Original score: Piti Sanz Sound: Pepe Caceres Cast: Joan Massotkleiner/Pau Quintana/Pep Tosar/Camila Bossa Genre: Drama Audience: General Nº of episodes: 1 x 85 min. TV movie Format available: HD/Digital Betacam Original version: Catalan Other versions available: Galician
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Life’s a swine (2 season)
Porca misèria (2ª temporada)
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