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- ↑ "Oscar Faura | Movies and Biography – Yahoo! Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. 2011-04-20. Retrieved 2013-02-25.
- ↑ Oscar Faura – News, Interviews, Biography, Filmography, Videos & Trailers, Music, Awards, Cast, Credits @ARTISTdirect
- ↑ Unpredictable weather didn’t throw Faura off his game for ‘Impossible’ | Variety
- ↑ oscar faura | fuzzy tree
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- ↑ Oscar Faura – About This Person – Movies & TV – NYTimes.com
