Jonathan Cenzual Burley shoots his new film, "The Shepherd", in Salamanca
The Salamanca-born filmmaker has already shot his two previous feature films here, ‘El Alma de las Moscas’ and ‘El Año y la Viña’, which premiered at various International Festivals and were distributed in UK cinemas, receiving very good reviews from the specialized press
Salamanca Film Commission is supporting the production in terms of locations, logistics, production, documentation, and personnel
Salamanca Film Commission is supporting the production in terms of locations, logistics, production, documentation, and personnel
The Salamanca-born director Jonathan Cenzual Burley will shoot his next feature film, titled El pastor, in September. The filmmaker has already made his two previous feature films in Salamanca, El Alma de las Moscas and El Año y la Viña, which premiered at various International Festivals and were distributed in UK cinemas, receiving very good reviews from the specialized press.
Jonathan Cenzual Burley returns to Salamanca to shoot El pastor, a story in which a shepherd lives modestly but peacefully in his house located in a village in the interior of Spain; his dog Pillo and his sheep are his most cherished company.
An environment bucolic enough for him to ignore the offers that come from a construction company that intends to buy his land to build a housing development and a shopping center.
Faced with his refusal to sell, there is the greed for money from the owners of the adjacent lands, who only respond to the logic of their own interests.
The eternal struggle of conflicts unfolds in a rural and claustrophobic world, against a backdrop of skeletal plateaus and dormitory towns, where, like a modern western, everything unravels until what simply seemed like a disagreement over a land sale converges into an inevitable and violent end. A bloody metaphor for the greed of those who, to carry out their plans, do not hesitate to use any method.
El pastor will initially feature Miguel Martin (Celda 211), Alfonso Mendiguchia (Teatro los Absurdos and La Malhablada), Maribel Iglesias, and Mayte Iglesias (La Malhablada).
Currently, Jonathan Cenzual Burley is in the pre-production phase and is running a crowdfunding campaign (micromecenazgo) to secure part of the budget; through this campaign, the public and interested companies can become part of the project in exchange for different benefits.
Salamanca Film Commission is supporting the production in terms of locations, logistics, production, documentation, and personnel.
For more information about the project and crowdfunding campaign (public):
http://igg.me/at/elpastor/x/6641013
www.facebook.com/elpastorfilm
Jonathan Cenzual Burley returns to Salamanca to shoot El pastor, a story in which a shepherd lives modestly but peacefully in his house located in a village in the interior of Spain; his dog Pillo and his sheep are his most cherished company.
An environment bucolic enough for him to ignore the offers that come from a construction company that intends to buy his land to build a housing development and a shopping center.
Faced with his refusal to sell, there is the greed for money from the owners of the adjacent lands, who only respond to the logic of their own interests.
The eternal struggle of conflicts unfolds in a rural and claustrophobic world, against a backdrop of skeletal plateaus and dormitory towns, where, like a modern western, everything unravels until what simply seemed like a disagreement over a land sale converges into an inevitable and violent end. A bloody metaphor for the greed of those who, to carry out their plans, do not hesitate to use any method.
El pastor will initially feature Miguel Martin (Celda 211), Alfonso Mendiguchia (Teatro los Absurdos and La Malhablada), Maribel Iglesias, and Mayte Iglesias (La Malhablada).
Currently, Jonathan Cenzual Burley is in the pre-production phase and is running a crowdfunding campaign (micromecenazgo) to secure part of the budget; through this campaign, the public and interested companies can become part of the project in exchange for different benefits.
Salamanca Film Commission is supporting the production in terms of locations, logistics, production, documentation, and personnel.
For more information about the project and crowdfunding campaign (public):
http://igg.me/at/elpastor/x/6641013
www.facebook.com/elpastorfilm