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A production company created in Barcelona in 1985. Since its founding, Ovideo TV has successfully combined a variety of different activities.
Services include television and film production, advertising, as well as big event management, the largest of which was the design and production of the opening and closing ceremonies at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. |
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| Trenhotel |
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Lluís María Güell, the director of "Nudos", directs this TV-movie co-produced by the French production company Pampa Productions.
Every weekend, Olivier, a Parisian businessman who lives in Paris and works in Barcelona, takes the Talgo fast train which makes the journey between both cities. In one of these trips, he meets Elisa, a young lawyer who works in an International Lawyer's Office in Barcelona. She is going through a rough patch in her relationship leading both to reveal their inner feelings. |
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| Things that happen |
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Directed by Sílvia Munt, who is also the co-script-writer along with Eva Baeza.
Paula is a designer who opens a new shop in the centre of the town (Barcelona). The area is changing becoming a fashion centre in an old neighbourhood where new trends have to find a way of living side by side with older customs.
The “cool” brigade move in and disrupt the precarious and difficult reality of the neighbours, the starting point for one of the great debates of modern-day society: the increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
Award winner at the Malaga Film Festival 2006:
Best TV-movie
Barcelona de Cine Award 2006:
Best TV-movie |
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| The shadow of a crime |
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Directed by Jean Sagols with the script written by Mitch Hooper and Laurence Decréau.
Alberte is a 45 year-old rich widower who lives in a small town, in a luxurious mansion. The arrival of Camille, her daughter, with Franz her Lithuanian engineer boyfriend, will disturb Alberte's life because she feels a strong sexual attraction to Franz. However, Camille will die in a terrible car accident meaning that Franz's is a step closer to achieving his objective: Alberte's money.
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| The losers |
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Directed by Lluís Mª Güell and written by Christian Görlitz.
Erik finds Krista dead. Erik takes it on herself to find the daughter of the dead woman to show her who her mother really was. The mother recorded a message for her daughter explaining why she abandoned her. From the tapes, Bernardette (Krista’s daughter) discovers that her mother was forced to abandon her because she was the daughter of the local priest. Krista then meets Carlos, the leader of a group (that she will later join) that uses violence in its struggle against the church. |
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| Les parents terribles |
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A TV-movie directed by Josée Dayan and based on “Les parents terribles”, a play by Jean Cocteau.
It tells the story of jealousy between parents and children. Jeanne Moreau, Nicole Garcia, Ariadna Gil, Francois Berleand and Cyrille Thouvenin all star in this TV-film.
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| Més Dinamita |
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A comedy series created by Tricicle and produced by Trivideo, a company formed by Ovideo and Tricicle. In this re-launch, the new episodes, which follow in the lines of “Dinamita”, have a series of even more intricate subplots as well as incorporating several fixed sections.
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| La Via Augusta |
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An hour long 12-episode drama series directed by Sònia Sánchez from an original idea and script written by Joaquim Oristrell.
A series about the relationships between a Roman family and their slaves forced to move to Tarragona under orders from the Emperor Cesar.
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| Dinamita y Trilita |
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Two comedy series created by Tricicle.
A comedy show comprising a series of sketches and visual gags which proved a big hit with audiences on TV3.
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| Teletipos |
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A comedy show directed by and starring the Catalan comedy trio Tricicle, produced by Telecinco.
Revealing the funny side of everyday life through a series of sketches. |
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| Arnau |
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A 90 minute 3-episode mini-series directed by Lluís Maria Güell and co-produced by Televisió de Catalunya.
Nominated in the Montecarlo and New York Television Festivals in 1994 and an audience leader on its first showing on Televisió de Catalunya.
Set in the eleventh century in the border lands between Arabs and Christians, in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, Arnau, a noble Christian, is captured by the Sarracenes. The nobles of the area believe him dead and his brother-in-law Odalric takes advantage of the situation to establish himself, through skilful manoeuvring, as the ruler of the region. But Arnau is not dead. |
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| Maresme |
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Rosa Vergés is the director of this 2-episode mini-series.
Maca, an audiovisual student, makes a documentary about her family and their circumstances in order to win a scholarship. She discovers that the rejection her father suffered as an Andalusian immigrant some decades ago is being repeated in the 21st century with the African immigrants who work in the flower growing businesses based in the Maresme. Maca feels a growing bond with the immigrants and falls in love with Hallil, a young Arab who works in her grandfather's company. |
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| Andorra. Between the snowstorm and the Gestapo |
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Directed by Lluís Maria Güell, who also wrote the script with Joaquim Jordà and Núria Villazán.
Andorra, the small state that during the World War II was used as a safe-haven by the French resistance, provides the back-drop for this story of adventure and romance. |
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| Buñuel |
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By Manuel Huerga.
Insight into the work of Luis Buñuel in 50 mini-episodes. A co-production with Arsenal Films, Festival Internacional de Cinema de Barcelona, Ovideo TV in conjunction with Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP). |
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