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Most Beautiful Island
''Most Beautiful Island'' is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Ana Asensio. The film stars Ana Asensio, Natasha Romanova, David Little, Nicholas Tucci, Larry Fessenden and Caprice Benedetti. The film was released on November 3, 2017, by Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films. ''Most Beautiful Island'' was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Plot summary Luciana is an illegal immigrant to New York City. Phone calls to her family indicate that she is living in hiding due to some past transgression in her native Barcelona for which her mother assures her she's been forgiven but which Luciana does not want to return to face. Due to her undocumented status, Luciana is forced to work menial, cash-pay jobs, such as babysitting and sign waving at a fast food restaurant. Through the latter job she meets Olga, a Russian emigre who seems to live a more lavish lifestyle despite herself being undocumented. After Luciana suffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Asensio
Ana Asensio is an actress and filmmaker born in Madrid and currently living in New York City. Career Asensio got her professional start acting in children's plays while she was studying Acting and Philosophy at Complutense University in Madrid. Her directorial debut Most Beautiful Island premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival where it was awarded the narrative grand jury prize for best film. Asensio wrote the screenplay and played the leading role. Most Beautiful Island was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Most Beautiful Island has received a 93% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Ana Asensio was a lead in the popular Spanish TV series Nada Es Para Siempre. Filmography Movies *'' I Miss You'' (2019) *''Most Beautiful Island'' (2017) *''Like Me'' (2017) *The Archive (2015) *Carne Cruda (2011) *''Zenith'' (2010) *'' The Afterlight'' (2009) *''The Kovak Box'' (2006) *Betty la Flaca (2006) *White (2005) *Alone (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Directorial Debut Films
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Films Set In New York City
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Drama Films
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 Drama Films
Seventeen or 17 may refer to: * 17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese magazine), a Japanese magazine Novels * ''Seventeen'' (Tarkington novel), a 1916 novel by Booth Tarkington *''Seventeen'' (''Sebuntiin''), a 1961 novel by Kenzaburō Ōe * ''Seventeen'' (Serafin novel), a 2004 novel by Shan Serafin Stage and screen Film * ''Seventeen'' (1916 film), an American silent comedy film *''Number Seventeen'', a 1932 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock * ''Seventeen'' (1940 film), an American comedy film *'' Eric Soya's '17''' (Danish: ''Sytten''), a 1965 Danish comedy film * ''Seventeen'' (1985 film), a documentary film * ''17 Again'' (film), a 2009 film whose working title was ''17'' * ''Seventeen'' (2019 film), a Spanish drama film Television * ''Seventeen'' (TV drama), a 1994 UK dramatic short starring Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It is regarded as the foremost online review aggregation site for the video game industry. Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or what the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to a critic's popularity, stature, and volume of reviews. The website won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. Criticism of the site has focused on the assessment system, the assignment of scores to reviews that do not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film '' Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Serero (opera Singer)
David Serero (born 22 April 1981) is a Moroccan-French baritone opera singer. He has played more than 1,500 concerts worldwide, and lead roles in opera, theater and musicals such as Cyrano ''(Cyrano de Bergerac)'', Shylock (''The Merchant of Venice''), Othello (''Othello''), Nabucco (''Nabucco''), Don Quixote (''Man of La Mancha''), Richard III ( ''Richard III''), Napoleon Bonaparte, Escamillo (''Carmen''), Enrico (''Lucia di Lammermoor''), Amonasro (''Aida''), the title roles of Don Giovanni and Rigoletto and starred in more than 100 films and TV series. He has toured in America, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Russia. In 2017, David Serero was honored in ''Marquis Who's Who'' for outstanding achievement in the entertainment world and for his contribution for the betterment of contemporary society. He is a member of the Recording Academy (Grammys) and the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences (Emmys), for which he is both a voting member. In 2019, he is named one of the top mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ami Sheth
Ami Sheth is an American actress and model best known for starring in the NBC drama ''Blindspot'', the AMC drama ''Dietland'', and the American film ''Most Beautiful Island''. Sheth was included in the 2019 Vogue India list of the Top 50 Most Influential Global Indians. Early and personal life Sheth was born to Indian immigrant parents and grew up in New Jersey, United States. She graduated from Boston University with a degree in biology and later received her doctorate in veterinary medicine. She later practised at a vet hospital in Staten Island and quit the job to go into acting. While she was in college, she attended acting classes, and since then she has continued to play parts in theatre, film, and television. Riz Ahmed, Mindy Kaling, Priyanka Chopra, and Aasif Mandvi have been her inspirations. She has worked with the Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra at the Sundance Film Lab in Utah. Sheth is married to Miraj Patel, and has a daughter. Career She has starred in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Tucci
Nicholas Whitney Tucci (April 3, 1981 – March 3, 2020) was an American actor. Early life Tucci was a Middletown, Connecticut, native, born in 1981. He attended Middletown High School in his hometown, and earned a bachelor's degree in theatre from Yale University in 2004. Career Tucci appeared in the films '' Undocumented'' (2010), '' Choose'' (2011), ''You're Next'' (2011), ''The Worst Year of My Life'' (2015), ''Most Beautiful Island'' (2017), '' The Ranger'' (2018), and ''Long Lost'' (2018). His television appearances included roles on '' Daredevil'', ''Homeland'', '' Pose'', and '' Quantico''. Tucci voiced characters in the video games '' Wolfenstein: The New Order'' and '' Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus''. Death Tucci died at the Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
