[Gocamino] Production surge on Camino stage

[Grant Spangler]

Fourth article from trade mag Variety
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118008862.html?categoryid=3738&ref=ra&cs=1
 
 
Production surge on Camino stage

Producers discover rich road for film, TV shoots

By MARTIN DALE   Friday, Sep. 18, 2009

No other tradition in Spain has generated so much interest as the St. James Way, or Camino de Santiago, says Galician Media Minister Alfonso Cabaleiro.
 
This decade, and especially 2009, has seen a Camino production surge:

CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
(National Geographic, 2009)

Six-part documentary series following Galician pop star Xoel Lopez as he backpacks from Holland's Haarlem to Santiago, using the the region's 12th-century "travel guide," Codex Calixtinus.

CRIMINAL MINDS
(Mark Gordon Co./ABC/CBS) 

A Camino trip in the episode titles "Demonology" is the missing link between a demon-possessed murderer and victim.

ROAD TO SANTIAGO 
(Lazona/Antena 3/ZircoZine, 2009) 

Rodrigo Santiago's $4.5 million couples-in-crisis romantic comedy -- set against the painterly background of Galicia's hills, dales, barns and the Camino -- bowed in April (Warners) and generated $3.6 million in box office, landing it in the No. 4 spot of Spanish films this year.

THE WAY
(Elixir/Morena, 2010) 

In Emilio Estevez's film, Martin Sheen plays an eye specialist who travels to the St. James Way to recover his son's corpse, and finds spiritual redemption on the Way. Shoots Sept. 28. 

THE APOSTLE 
(Artefacto, 2010) 

Fernando Cortizo's $10 million digital 3-D stop-motion pic is set in rural village Xanaz, which preys upon unsuspecting foreign pilgrims. Cortizo is currently courting international distribution for his murder-mystery that he believes will "offer a beautiful window onto the magical atmosphere of Galicia and the Camino." Release date is July 25.

WHERE IS HAPPINESS? 
(Pulsar/Filmanova, 2010)

Carlos Alberto Riccelli's $4 million Brazil-Galicia romantic comedy about a betrayed wife who walks the Way to get her life back on track. Filmanova's Anton Reixa has high hopes for the film -- especially in Brazil where there's tremendous interest in the Camino. Shoots by spring. 
 
Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118008862.html
 
 
Buen Camino,
 
Grant 
 
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