[Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!

[Dennis Harrod]

Joanie:

I was wondering the same thing last night and meant to ask the operator of the 
local art house if he knew anything about it, but he left before I had a chance. 
They have a website, but I can't find anything about release on it.

http://www.theway-themovie.com/

Dennis

 Dennis C. Harrod, Spanish Language Coordinator
316A H.B. Crouse
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244
(315) 443-5491
dcharrod at syr.edu




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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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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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Rosina







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