Bicycle Spoon Apple - Carles Bosch’s latest documentary film, featuring Catalonia's former President Pasqual Maragall - will be presented out of competition in San Sebastian Film Festival's Official Selection.

This documentary follows two years of intense struggle as Pasqual Maragall, his family, his foundation and the scientific community fight both personally and professionally against the Alzheimer’s disease epidemic.

Website: www.bicicletacucharamanzana.com

Perro Verde Films and Cromosoma, together with Televisión Española, Radiotelevisió Valenciana, and with the support of the ICAA (Spanish Film Institute) and the Galician government, have begun production of the animated feature film Arrugas.  The film is based on the homonymous graphic novel by Valencian comic writer Paco Roca that won the 2008 National Comic Prize in Spain. Arrugas, scripted by Paco Roca and Ángel de la Cruz, and directed by Ignacio Farreras, is about the stories and feelings of two elderly men, Emilio (with voice by José Sacristan) and Miguel (voice to be confirmed), who strike up a friendship in the nursing home where they both live. Emilio is suffering the first stages of Alzheimer’s disease and Miguel does what he can to help his friend out and try to halt the progress of the disease, adding a brightening touch of comedy and, sometimes, adventure to day-to-day life in the home.

The new documentary film directed by Carles Bosch is a CROMOSOMA and CESKA TELEVIZE (Czech Republic) co-production.

The preview of the last documentary film directed by the journalist and director Carles Bosch, who has also created documentary films such as “BALSEROS” and “SETEMBRES” was launched on October 22th. The premiere was included in the debate that the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona has planned from October 19th to November 12th, called “1989, EUROPE, TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE WALL”. The documentary includes the different statements and opinions from ten people that were crucial twenty years ago in the transition to democracy of the Central European country called Czecoslovakia in those days. All of them were trusted men and women of the Velvet Revolution leader, Vaclav Havel, who was appointed President of that country during his new democratic turn. The director Carles Bosch was an exceptional witness to that event. In those years he was a journalist for the TV program “30 minuts” on TV3. Twenty years later, he wanted to meet these people again: actresses, playwrights, students, interpreters… who made up the new core of a country that nowadays, twenty years later, is wondering whether the revolution of 1989 was worth it or not.

The documentary includes a recent exclusive interview to Vaclav Havel in Prague for this unique audiovisual work produced by CROMOSOMA, in collaboration with Institut Català de les Indústries Culturals, SAGRERA and DIGITAL 360. “REVOLUTION TAKE 2” also was opened at Alexandra cinemas, in Barcelona, on October 23th.

Cromosoma Group, made up of the companies Cromosoma and Digital360, has appointed Josep Maria Carbonell new Managing Director. Oriol Ivern, founder of the Group and the Managing Director so far, will take over the presidency of the company.

Cromosoma Group is immersed in a process of development and diversification in its activities. Cromosoma has maintained and increased its productions related to audiovisual animation and book publishing for children and young people by launching the new Triplets magazine and releasing this week the animated series “Asha” in Televisió de Catalunya.

The Group has also increased its business activities producing fiction and documentary films, such as “Variations on Variations” and “Revolució #2, retorn als escenaris”.

On the other hand, Digital360 has grown to become a company that offers comprehensive digital service and audiovisual postproduction for film and television.

Josep Maria Carbonell, who has been the Director of Digitalent Foundation so far and will take over the Vice President position, has been replaced by Inés Garriga.

The new 3D animated series, co-produced by EDDADESIGN, TELEVISIÓ DE CATALUNYA and CROMOSOMA, opened in April in K3 channel. SWEESTERS, Virtual Room is a series starring Laia, Olivia and Ji Lan, the three incredible girls who meet you at their virtual room to tell their dreams, insomnia, troubles, adventures and misfortunes they share with K3 channel fans, at 1.30 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Apart from the episodes, in SWEESTERS’ web you will find the sisters’ secret diaries, some questions and some advice. You can send letters, play online or download activities and games you like, or download sounds, tones, alarms and wallpapers for your mobile. Other activities that Laia, Olivia and Ji Lan have made for SWEESTERS, Virtual Room are “Dance with us”, the “Secret Zone” and “Sweesters Community”. But the main course of the season will be “Do you want to be a star?” (If you are patient, you will soon find out.)