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| The feature film is one of the projects selected by the Cartagena City Council within the project grants cultural after the halt caused by COVID19 | PlanOut Producciones launches its first audiovisual feature film, a film that tells the story of the Cabo de Palos Lighthouse through the eyes of its last lighthouse keepers, while explaining the reasons for their disappearance.
The project has the support of the Cartagena City Council, framed in the aid it has launched to reactivate the cultural sector of the municipality, after the stoppage caused by the pandemic. Cabo de Palos witnessed the most tragic shipwreck of the Mediterranean in the 20th century, as well as the most important naval battle of the Spanish Civil War, among many other stories.
But now, the mythical image of the lighthouse and the lighthouse keepers is about to disappear, when Jes s lvarez, the last lighthouse keeper of the cape, retires, there will no longer be a replacement.
The lighthouse keepers, both in Cabo de Palos and throughout Spain, are on the brink of extinction. SYNOPSIS 2020, the Spanish coasts have 187 lighthouses of which only a few more than 30 are inhabited.
The Cabo de Palos Lighthouse, located in a small fishing village on the Cartagena coast, is one of them.
The lighthouse keepers are the direct witnesses of the history of the cape, pirates, historical shipwrecks, legends, naval battles that have marked milestones and centuries and centuries of history have passed through their eyes.
But now, these guardians of the sea have to say goodbye, but what has led them to extinction? The documentary is directed by Cartagena's Jeanette Conesa, who in 2017 co-directed together with Blanca P rez de Tudela the documentary 'La C rcel Vieja Habla', which obtained great repercussion and recognition both at the regional and national levels .
This time, she embarks on her first feature film both as a screenwriter and as a director.
At the helm of the production is Sergio González, CEO of PlanOut, a tourism services and innovation company in charge, among others, of managing the visits to the Cabo de Palos Lighthouse. The feature film is funded by the Cartagena City Council and PlanOut.
The film was one of the award-winning projects within the 'Cultural Reactives' program of the Cartagena City Council for the support of artists who had been harmed by COVID19.
At the same time, the pre-campaign of a crowfunding on the Verkami platform is already underway, where the project promoters intend to collect the financing they lack for the full realization of the project. The documentary has the participation of José Luis Gandolfo, one of the most illustrious lighthouse keepers of the Cabo de Palos lighthouse; Jes s lvarez, the last lighthouse keeper of Cabo de Palos; as well as the historians Jos Luis Dom nguez, Paco Velasco or Paco Franco, among others.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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