On May 27, the documentary Eloxio gives distance, directed by Julio Llamazares and Felipe Vega from León.
The documentary describes a year in the life of the inhabitants of A Fonsagrada, a Lugo region that lives far from urban time, in their own time. Near and far from all our so-called civilization. A praise of distance as a way of life: simple, dignified, forgotten.
The documentary participated in the Malaga Film Festival and was also present at Documentamadrid.
ELOXIO GIVES DISTANCE is a production of Bren Entertainment, a Filmax company installed in Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña). It has been sponsored by SA de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo, General Directorate of Tourism, Department of Innovation and Industry and with a subsidy from the Department of Culture and Sports.
THE DIRECTORS:
Philip Vega He worked as a film critic for various specialized magazines and as editor-in-chief of the disappeared and prestigious Casablanca. In 1977 he shot the short Personal Objects, before making his debut in the feature film with While there is light (1988), with which he won the New Directors Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Among his fiction films we find: The best of times (1989), An umbrella for three (1991), The roof of the world (1995), Great occasions (1997), Summer clouds (2004) or Women in the park ( 2007). As a documentary maker, it is worth highlighting his works Cerca del Danubio or El viaje al Ampurdán, films in which he uses his special sensitivity to immerse himself in the past or discover the beauty hidden behind the landscape from a new angle.
Julio Llamazares he began at a very young age in poetry, whose work is collected in the anthologies Las voz y los ecos and Spanish epic poetry. His prolific literary production includes innumerable essays, reports, critiques, chronicles and stories. He is the author of several novels: Moon of wolves, The yellow rain, Silent film scenes and The sky of Madrid; essays: El entierro de Genarín, 1981 and Los travelers de Madrid, 1998; compilations of articles: In Babia, Nobody listens or In the middle of nowhere; travel literature: The river of oblivion (1990), Tras-os-montes (1998) or Cuaderno del Duero (1999).
Between Dog and Wolf and The Stone Rose, both from 2008, are the most recent titles of his literary production.
For the cinema, Julio Llamazares wrote Portrait of a Bather (José María Sarmiento, 1984), Luna de lobos (Julio Sánchez Valdés, 1987), The Roof of the World (1995), in collaboration with the director, Felipe Vega, and Flores de another world (Iciar Bollaín, 1999). Eloxio da Distancia is his first film as a director.