Actors Luis Tosar and Blanca Portillo this Monday port of Alicante Re-enactment of the 2006 landing at the port of Valletta (Malta) of 51 sub-Saharan migrants rescued off the coast of Libya. Santa Pola fishing boat Francisco and Catalinain a series produced byr RTVE and Á Punt with title law of the sea.
Governing Alberto Ruiz Rojo and the three-part series recalls the adventure of the fishing boat Francisco and Catalina and was filmed over two months in natural settings between Madrid, Alicante, the City of Light and Santa Pola, including filming on the high seas.
To recreate the landing Recovered on July 21, 2006 in the port of Valletta, western docks of the port of Alicante, established next to the fish market and dry pond a large Red Cross tent and has cooperation. lots of extras To play the role of volunteers and agents of the security forces, according to Efe.
In the morning they rolled Tosar (José Durá) as the fishing boat captain And Blanca Portillo, who served as the Spanish ambassador to Malta. In this morning’s scene, as she enthusiastically bids farewell to immigrants disembarking from her fishing boat, Blanca Portillo welcomes and greets the newcomers as they step onto the mainland at the Alicante docks, “reconverted” to Maltese for a day.
Filming continued with the moment the immigrants were caught. attended by Red Cross staff and when they board the bus before being guided to their destination.
Blanca Portillo, ambassador
Presenting one of the Alicante Film Festival’s awards to Nathalie Poza last Saturday, Blanca Portillo stated that she gave life to the Malta Ambassador of the time, Andrea de Velasco, and said “the one who feels”. The office was responsible for political and public relations affairs. To make Francisco and Catalina bear fruit”.
operated on”world parallel to what’s on board” It has nothing to do with the human aspect of people fleeing out of fear to reach our shores, in a problem where Western countries are “switching from one to the next without taking into account what happens.” there are people in the boats“.
Portillo tells the audience that this television series based on a true story “Think Different” It is based on the principle of “putting yourself in the place of these people who are only in the headline of an issue or a news bulletin” in the face of the phenomenon of immigration.
“When film or television tells true stories, you can add an extra dimension and get closer to the hearts of the characters, which is something we don’t do when we see a news story on television.”
Actor for his role lara alfonso She embodies the cook of the fishing boat, a character who is “a bit of a ‘mother’ of everything,” as she takes care of first the crew, then the boat’s arrivals.
real situation
Between 14 and 21 July 2006, humanitarian action aboard the Francisco y Catalina fishing boat, with its captain José Durá and nine other crew members, shocked the Spanish and European community. shared the boat with 51 Eritrean immigrantsStranded ten miles from Malta, including a 2-year-old girl and a pregnant woman.
As the EU decided what to do as Maltese authorities initially refused to accept them, crew members and evacuees experienced moments of great uncertainty until finally 21 July. the immigrants were finally able to set foot on land and were dispersed among the three countriesmost of them in Spain.
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with the budget €3.8 million, Filming began on May 15 in Santa Pola, and the production company, the local expenditure amount is approximately 2.3 million Euros For two months.
Some of the filming will also take place. City of Light sets in Alicante and when Brussels’ eleven-year sanction for illegal public aid in construction expires, it will be one of the first shots on the ground.