First trailer for «EL Pastor»
Salamancan filmmaker Jonathan Cenzual already has the first trailer for his third feature film, shot last year in Salamanca. The film, currently in the sales phase through the company WIDE, will be presented to the audiovisual industry at the Cannes Film Festival in a private screening for international producers and distributors.
“EL Pastor” was filmed in October 2015 in the province and city and featured a wide cast of Salamancan actors among its protagonists: Miguel Martín (Celda 211) is the star of the story and is accompanied by Alfonso Mendiguchia (Teatro los Absurdos and La Malhablada), Maribel and Maite Iglesias (La Malhablada), and Juan Luis Sara, among others.
Salamanca, Monterrubio, and La Armuña are among the different locations chosen by the filmmaker; the landscape of the Castilian plateau has always been part of the director's feature films. His previous works: “El alma de las moscas” (2011) and “El Año y la Viña” (2013) were set in the province of Salamanca.
The Salamancan filmmaker has a broad international projection as his films have been distributed in cinemas in the United Kingdom, USA, and South America, in addition to participating in various prestigious festivals such as London, Sao Paulo, Karlovy Vary, Warsaw, Mill Valley, Barcelona, Cleveland, San Louis, or Naples.
The story revolves around a shepherd who lives modestly but peacefully in a house in a village in inland Spain, an environment bucolic enough for him to ignore the offers he receives from a construction company intending to buy his land to build a residential development and a shopping center. Opposing the shepherd's refusal to sell are the land owners' greed for money, who only respond to the logic of their own interests. The eternal struggle of conflicts unfolds in a rural and claustrophobic world with a backdrop of skeletal plateaus and dormitory towns where, like a modern western, everything unravels until what at first glance is a simple 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 at their disposal.
The film's financing process, in addition to traditional channels, has received support from a crowdfunding campaign through social media.
The feature film has the support of the Salamanca City Council through the Salamanca Film Commission, the Salamanca City of Culture and Knowledge Foundation, and the Provincial Council of Salamanca.
The trailer can be viewed via Vimeo:
“EL Pastor” was filmed in October 2015 in the province and city and featured a wide cast of Salamancan actors among its protagonists: Miguel Martín (Celda 211) is the star of the story and is accompanied by Alfonso Mendiguchia (Teatro los Absurdos and La Malhablada), Maribel and Maite Iglesias (La Malhablada), and Juan Luis Sara, among others.
Salamanca, Monterrubio, and La Armuña are among the different locations chosen by the filmmaker; the landscape of the Castilian plateau has always been part of the director's feature films. His previous works: “El alma de las moscas” (2011) and “El Año y la Viña” (2013) were set in the province of Salamanca.
The Salamancan filmmaker has a broad international projection as his films have been distributed in cinemas in the United Kingdom, USA, and South America, in addition to participating in various prestigious festivals such as London, Sao Paulo, Karlovy Vary, Warsaw, Mill Valley, Barcelona, Cleveland, San Louis, or Naples.
The story revolves around a shepherd who lives modestly but peacefully in a house in a village in inland Spain, an environment bucolic enough for him to ignore the offers he receives from a construction company intending to buy his land to build a residential development and a shopping center. Opposing the shepherd's refusal to sell are the land owners' greed for money, who only respond to the logic of their own interests. The eternal struggle of conflicts unfolds in a rural and claustrophobic world with a backdrop of skeletal plateaus and dormitory towns where, like a modern western, everything unravels until what at first glance is a simple 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 at their disposal.
The film's financing process, in addition to traditional channels, has received support from a crowdfunding campaign through social media.
The feature film has the support of the Salamanca City Council through the Salamanca Film Commission, the Salamanca City of Culture and Knowledge Foundation, and the Provincial Council of Salamanca.
The trailer can be viewed via Vimeo: