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Media Capital is a major media group in Portugal, and one of the biggest media corporations in Europe. It distributes 20th Century Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) home video releases in the Portuguese market under the Castello Lopes label. 2020, PRISA was the principal owner of Media Capital.
The new phase was named Cinema Novo or Novo Cinema (New Cinema), and it refers to Portuguese cinema made between 1963 and the revolution in 1974 by directors such as Fernando Lopes, Paulo Rocha or António da Cunha Telles, amongst others. Like other new waves of the period, the influence of Italian Neo-Realism and the burgeoning ideas of the ...
It is the best-preserved medieval royal residence in Portugal, being inhabited more or less continuously from at least the early 15th century to the late 19th century. It is a significant tourist attraction, and is part of the cultural landscape of Sintra, a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Sintra (/ ˈ s ɪ n t r ə, ˈ s iː n t r ə /, [1] [2] [3] Portuguese: ⓘ) is a town and municipality in the Greater Lisbon region of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera.The population of the municipality in 2021 was 385,654, [4] in an area of 319.23 square kilometres (123.26 sq mi). [5]
The Castle of the Moors (Portuguese: Castelo dos Mouros) is a hilltop medieval castle located in the central Portuguese civil parish of Santa Maria e São Miguel, in the municipality of Sintra, about 25 km (16 mi) northwest of Lisbon.
NOS Audiovisuais (formerly ZON Lusomundo) is a Portuguese integrated media corporation founded in 1953, which has major interests in movie distribution, cinema theaters and media assets.
The Portuguese Riviera (Portuguese: Riviera Portuguesa) is a term used in the tourist industry for the affluent coastal region to the west of Lisbon, Portugal, centered on the coastal municipalities of Cascais (including Estoril), Oeiras and Sintra.
In the early 1940s, Portugal was the setting for over a dozen films, depicting the city as a place of "international intrigue". [1] In subsequent decades, the trope of Lisbon as a city of espionage and foreign conflicts continued to endure, although films started to branch beyond this genre from the 1950s onward.