The Secretary of Culture, Language, and Youth, José López Campos, attended this afternoon at the Tamberlick Cinemas in Vigo the preview of the new film by director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Rondallas, filmed in the province of Pontevedra with one of the Xunta's grants for attracting film productions to Galicia. The director, producer Ramón Campos, and the cast reunited for this special screening for the Galician audience, which was preceded by a performance by the rondalla El Gran Sol, created specifically for this feature film with musicians from various ensembles.Accompanied by the Director General of Culture, Anxo M. Lorenzo, and the Director of the Galician Agency for Cultural Industries, Jacobo Sutil, the Secretary of Culture congratulated the entire team of this production by Mister Fields and Friends, Bambú Producciones, and Rondallas Movie AIE. Javier Gutiérrez, María Vázquez, and Tamar Novas head the 100% Galician cast of what is Sánchez Arévalo's sixth film, for which he also wrote the screenplay. Other well-known faces from film and television, such as Carlos Blanco, Xosé A. Touriñan, Marta Larralde, Judith Fernández, and Fer Fraga, also worked on it.
Galician Locations
A Guarda was the epicenter of its filming in 2024, which also extended to the municipalities of Baiona, Oia, Tui, and Vigo. To carry it out, it received a grant of 300,000 euros from the fund launched by the Xunta de Galicia and co-financed by the European Union under the Galicia Feder 2021-2027 Program, with the aim of attracting film productions to our Community from both Galician and other Spanish and European producers."Rondallas," which premiered last September at the San Sebastián Film Festival and will be released in theaters on January 1, marks the return to cinema for director and writer Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, following the success of his films "Blue Dark Almost Black," "Cousins," and "Seventeen," among others.It is a life-affirming comedy for all audiences, which tells how a small fishing village comes together to recover its rondalla, after two years of mourning the tragic sinking of one of its fishing boats. The goal is to compete in a contest against other neighboring towns, but above all, to start looking forward with hope again.
