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Corporate Responsibility 2010

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Responsible flm production

Telecinco Cinema premiered four flms during 2010:

“Hierro”, “El Mal Ajeno”, “Rabia” and

“Agnosia”. The Telecinco group’s production company also began shooting the super-production

“Lo Imposible” starring Naomi Watts and Ewan Macgregor, “Lo Mejor de Eva” starring Leonor Watling and Miguel Ángel Silvestre, “Amigos”, a comedy starring Ernesto Alterio and Diego Martín,

“Verbo” a teen drama directed by Eduardo Chapero Jackson, and fnally, the thriller “No habrá Paz para Los Malvados” directed by Enrique Urbizu and starring José Coronado.

Of the flms premiered, that with the greatest social impact is “Rabia”, a drama which focuses on immigration in Spain. It tells the story of an immigrant couple who fnd themselves caught up in a murder. The man is forced to hide from police in the mansion where the woman is employed as a maid. The flm has received numerous national and international prizes, including the Biznaga de Oro ( Golden Elderfower ) at the Malaga Film Festival and the Special Prize awarded by the Jury at the Tokio Film Festival.

“El Mal Ajeno”, is a supernatural thriller focusing on the chronically sick. It highlights the importance of hope to be able to keep fghting and to fnd meaning in life in extreme situations.

Of the flms currently in the process of production, attention is drawn to the social impact of “Lo imposible”. This is a major production on the tsunami which devastated Thailand and other countries of the region in 2003. The flms tells the tale of a family which is on holiday in the area at the time, portraying the social and personal dramas experienced by hundreds of thousands of people.

“Verbo” is a fantasy flm which focuses on the workings of the mind of a Spanish teenager who considers suicide owing to a lack of communication with her family and others around her. The flms

shows the isolation and lack of understanding which society imposes upon the young, forcing them into extreme situations; at the same time, however, it gives grounds for optimism and hope through friendship, art and music.

Finally “No habrá paz para los malvados”, directed by Enrique Urbizu, highlights the links between diferent kinds of organised crime (drugs trafcking, human trafcking, Islamic fundamentalism...) and the negative consequences for society of a lack of coordination between the state security forces whose task it is to combat them.