[Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!
Joanie Hess
jethess777 at aol.com
Fri Feb 18 21:08:12 PST 2011
Does anyone know when "The Way" will be released to theaters here in the USA, or to video or TV if the former is not being considered?
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From: Rosina <blaroli at aol.com>
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Subject: [Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!
Hello you all,
Here's a reassuring article:
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Professor's workshop to open with Hollywood screening
by Suzanne Seurattan | February 17, 2011
Hollywood stars Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen are screening their new movie,
"The Way," Feb. 18 during a Workshop on Pilgrimage Studies co-hosted by the
College of William & Mary and Georgetown University’s department of Spanish and
Portuguese. The ticketed event will open a two-day workshop for scholars of the
Camino who are organizing a Consortium of American and Canadian universities to
offer summer seminars in pilgrimage studies on site in Santiago starting in
2012.
Both Sheen and Estevez will take part in the event to be held on the Georgetown
campus. The screening is slated to be the largest of the film on the east coast
of the United States prior to its national release in April.
"The Way" is a fictional account of one man’s journey on the Camino de Santiago
or Way of St. James. The movie was filmed entirely in Spain and France along the
pilgrimage’s actual historic route from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France to
Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
“The picture’s exploration of the Camino and its affect on its pilgrims make
screening this film a natural opening for our Workshop,” said William & Mary
Professor George Greenia, lead scholar for the Workshop and international
Consortium. “We are looking forward to an evening with two great actors of
Spanish heritage who knew the Camino intimately before they began writing and
filming this movie.”
The story follows the journey of a grieving father’s struggle to better
understand his late son. Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to France
to collect the remains of his adult son killed in a storm in the Pyrenees while
walking the Camino. To learn more about the son’s life, Tom decides to embark on
the pilgrimage in his son’s place. Estevez, the film’s director, also plays
Tom’s son.
Greenia has a passion for the Camino. He has taken William & Mary students to
walk the 500-mile Camino francés route across Spain every year since 2005 and
has, himself, logged more than 4,000 miles on the Camino. In 2007, Greenia
received the Cross of Isabel the Catholic - Spain’s highest cultural distinction
for foreign nationals. He is the first person in the College’s history to
receive the honor, which is bestowed by the king of Spain and akin to the Order
of the British Empire or France’s Legion of Honor.
1992. Pilgrimage studies have been taught in some form at William & Mary by
fsince The aculty in modern languages, history, English, religious studies, art
history and classical studies Consortium will bring together more than 30
university programs from the U.S. and Canada.
“As a professor of Spanish, medieval studies, and comparative literature I am
very happy to be part of the workshop and excited by the many possibilities
Pilgrimage Studies and the Camino de Santiago open up for future undergraduate
research,” says Emily Francomano, director of the comparative literature program
at Georgetown University and an associate professor in the department of Spanish
and Portuguese.
In addition to William & Mary and Georgetown, co-sponsors of the workshop are,
to date, the Embassy of Spain; the Autonomous Government of Galicia; The Plaza
Institute; Tiempo Latino; the Bank of Georgetown; and American Pilgrims on the
Camino.
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Hugs!
Rosina
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