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<\/p>\nSecun de la Rosa will host the 17th Film Festival\u2019s opening ceremony<\/p>\n
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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Friday, March 24, 2017.- Secun de la Rosa will take charge of the 17th Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival\u2019s opening ceremony, an event designed by F\u00e9lix Sabroso, directed by Spanish actor \u00c1ngel Burgos and which will have Kike Perdomo\u2019s music. The ceremony, which will take place next Friday, March 31, at 8:30 p.m.<\/strong>, at the P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s Theater<\/strong>, will be followed by the screening of the first film competing for the Cajamar Foundation Golden Lady Harimaguada<\/strong>,\u00a0Katie Says Goodbye<\/em><\/strong>, Wayne Roberts’ first film, who will attend the Festival\u2019s opening and present his work.<\/p>\n Access to both the Festival\u2019s opening and the film screening will be free. Tickets will be available to the public at the P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s Theater\u2019s box office from Wednesday, March 29 on.<\/strong><\/p>\n After it, at 11 p.m.<\/strong>, the band Los Vinagres<\/strong> will give a concert at The Paper Club which, as part of the Monopol Music Festival<\/strong>\u2019s concert program, will welcome the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival. Tickets for the concert will cost 5 euros and will be for sale at The Paper Club\u2019s box office.<\/strong><\/p>\n The actor, who has developed his playwright facet for twenty-seven years, with the staging and direction of independent works, arrived to Madrid, coming from Barcelona\u2019s suburbs, to become an actor. He was trained with Cristina Rota and soon became a supporting actor that stood out in the productions at the end of the 90s, winning the Award of the Spanish Actors Union for Performance in a Minor Role, thanks to his work in D\u00edas de f\u00fatbol<\/em>, in 2003, among others.<\/p>\n Behind the recognition his successful portrayal of \u201cTony Colmenero\u201d meant for his career, there is a theatrical author and director who has been staging theatrical productions since the beginning of the 90s.<\/p>\n Thus, the duo formed by F\u00e9lix Sabroso and film, theater and television actor \u00c1ngel Burgos, adds Secun de la Rosa\u2019s skills that, together with saxophonist Kike Perdomo and the Monkey Business Band\u2019s music (created for the occasion), promise 90 minutes of music and films as a prelude to the screening of Katie Says Goodbye<\/strong><\/em>, Wayne Roberts\u2019 first film that attracted attention at the Toronto, Rotterdam and Stockholm festivals, an 88-minute feature carried by British actress Katherine Olivia Cooke, known for her role as \u201cEmma Decody\u201d in the TV show Bates Motel<\/em>. Katie (Olivia Cooke) is a young 17-year-old waitress from a small town in Arizona who tries to achieve her dream of a new life in San Francisco.<\/p>\n Accordingly, the Festival does not only open its 17th edition, but also starts the Official Section, sponsored by Canarias Cajamar Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Secun de la Rosa will host the 17th Film Festival\u2019s opening ceremony The Spanish actor, comedian, playwright and director will host the opening ceremony designed by F\u00e9lix Sabroso and directed by \u00c1ngel Burgos, next Friday, March 31, at the P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s Theater Tickets to attend the ceremony, during which it will be screened, too, the first film from the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":7575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[741,967,968,969],"class_list":["post-7683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-inauguracion-en","tag-secun-de-la-rosa-en","tag-katie-says-goodbye-en","tag-los-vinagres-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lpafilmfestival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FOT_KATIE-SAYS-GOODBYE_800.jpg\")
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\nF\u00e9lix Sabroso and \u00c1ngel Burgos will be joined by one of the most popular figures in television, the \u201cTony Colmenero\u201d from the show A\u00edda<\/em>, an actor who has worked for Vicente C\u00f3rdoba, Miguel Bardem, David Serrano, Joaqu\u00edn Oristrell, Emilio Mart\u00ednez L\u00e1zaro, \u00c1lex de la Iglesia, and F\u00e9lix Sabroso himself, among many others. In addition to this, Secun de la Rosa has appeared in thirty Spanish films, worked in sixteen short films, as well as in countless plays (five directed by him) and TV shows.<\/p>\n