Ángel Sala | |
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![]() Ángel Sala during the
Sitges Film Festival of 2017 | |
Born | Àngel Sala 1964 (age 59–60) |
Occupation(s) | Writer, screenwriter and film critic |
Ángel Sala (born 1964) is the director of the Sitges Film Festival. [1]
A Serbian Film was banned by a court in San Sebastián, Spain for "threatening sexual freedom" and thus could not be shown in the XXI Semana de Cine Fantástico y de Terror (21st Horror and Fantasy Film Festival). [2] The film was shown at an adults-only screening at the Spanish Sitges Film Festival during October 2010. As a result, the festival's director Ángel Sala was charged with exhibiting child pornography by the Spanish prosecutor who decided to take action in May 2011 after receiving a complaint from a Roman Catholic organization over a pair of scenes involving the rapes of a young child and a newborn. [3] The charges were later dropped. [4]
Paradoxically, film was awarded in others festivals like the Fantasporto in Porto, Portugal. [5] [6] Film was presented in 40 countries, and only in Spain had this problem. [7]
Several directors of different film festivals ( Sevilla, San Sebastián, Valladolid, Málaga, Pamplona, Huelva and Granada, etc.) sent letters to Salas showing their support. [8]
He has written several books about films. [9] It includes Tiburón: Vas a necesitar un barco más grande!: el filme que cambió Hollywood (2005), about the film Jaws (1975); [10] [11] Profanando el sueño de los muertos: la historia jamás contada del cine fantástico español (2010), about Spanish cinema; [12] [13] and Just imagine: 50 títulos esenciales del cine de ciencia ficción (2017), about science fiction films. [14] [15]
Ángel Sala | |
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![]() Ángel Sala during the
Sitges Film Festival of 2017 | |
Born | Àngel Sala 1964 (age 59–60) |
Occupation(s) | Writer, screenwriter and film critic |
Ángel Sala (born 1964) is the director of the Sitges Film Festival. [1]
A Serbian Film was banned by a court in San Sebastián, Spain for "threatening sexual freedom" and thus could not be shown in the XXI Semana de Cine Fantástico y de Terror (21st Horror and Fantasy Film Festival). [2] The film was shown at an adults-only screening at the Spanish Sitges Film Festival during October 2010. As a result, the festival's director Ángel Sala was charged with exhibiting child pornography by the Spanish prosecutor who decided to take action in May 2011 after receiving a complaint from a Roman Catholic organization over a pair of scenes involving the rapes of a young child and a newborn. [3] The charges were later dropped. [4]
Paradoxically, film was awarded in others festivals like the Fantasporto in Porto, Portugal. [5] [6] Film was presented in 40 countries, and only in Spain had this problem. [7]
Several directors of different film festivals ( Sevilla, San Sebastián, Valladolid, Málaga, Pamplona, Huelva and Granada, etc.) sent letters to Salas showing their support. [8]
He has written several books about films. [9] It includes Tiburón: Vas a necesitar un barco más grande!: el filme que cambió Hollywood (2005), about the film Jaws (1975); [10] [11] Profanando el sueño de los muertos: la historia jamás contada del cine fantástico español (2010), about Spanish cinema; [12] [13] and Just imagine: 50 títulos esenciales del cine de ciencia ficción (2017), about science fiction films. [14] [15]