[Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!

[Sil]

According to reports that came out of the Toronto Film Festival, they had
not been able to secure a large distributor.  The plan was to take it on the
road and show it wherever they could.  There was also a report that it might
go straight to dvd.

On 19 February 2011 16:28, Dennis Harrod <dennisharrod at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Joanie Hess <jethess777 at aol.com>
> To: blaroli at aol.com; GOCAMINO at oakapple.net; saintjames at yahoogroups.com
> Cc: mjeiras at hotmail.com; peregrinos at archicompostela.org; bantonk at msn.com
> Sent: Sat, February 19, 2011 12:08:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rosina <blaroli at aol.com>
> To: GOCAMINO at oakapple.net; saintjames at yahoogroups.com
> Cc: mjeiras at hotmail.com; peregrinos at archicompostela.org; bantonk at msn.com
> Sent: Fri, Feb 18, 2011 11:10 am
> Subject: [Gocamino] Doing it right. How nice!
>
>
>
>
> Hello you all,
>
> Here's a reassuring article:
>
> --------
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> ------
>
> Hugs!
>
> Rosina
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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