«After many presentations in towns and festivals and broadcast on À Punt, on Christmas Eve we premiered the documentary feature film come from lluny, which will remain permanent on our website. This is how Col·lectiu Mirades has announced the open and online premiere of its well-received work.
It will be, as announced, on Sunday, December 24 and they will launch it through their website and their YouTube channel, so that it will be available to anyone who wants to see or consult it at some point. In May 2022, the production company presented the feature film in Dénia and since then the presentations have been rolling around the 12 towns that have collaborated in its preparation: Dénia, Pedreguer, Gata de Gorgos, Benissa, Orba, Els Poblets, Parcent, Teulada, El Poble Nou de Benitatxell, Ondara, Xaló and El Verger .
Along with the documentary feature film, Col·lectiu Mirades has produced a short film for each of these collaborating municipalities, focusing more on their history and providing their own audiovisual material to all of them.
'Venim de lluny
With come from lluny, its director José Gayà and the producer Pau Soler, together with his entire team, propose a journey throughout the regional history, passing through the different cultures and civilizations that have inhabited these lands from prehistory to today: Paleolithic, Neolithic, Iberians, Romans, Andalusians, the conquest of Jaume I and the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the War of Succession, caciquismo, the pansa and phylloxera, industry, the Republic, the times of the Civil War and the postwar and contemporary times.
By compiling more than 60 interviews and conversations with different historians, archaeologists, writers, archivists, researchers, professors, as well as first-person testimonies from inhabitants of the area, they have been able to outline the history of the Marina Alta, achieving important dissemination work for the Shire.
Another notable aspect of the film is the soundtrack itself. Its main theme, titled Come from Lluny and which has been composed by Miquel Pérez Perelló and performed by Pep Gimeno Botifarra and Carmen Paris, has its own video clip as a tribute to the historical events of the region and the generations that made them possible.
'Venim de lluny' series
The production company has been releasing each of the chapters of the series every Friday since last October 6. come from lluny that derive from the long documentary. Twelve chapters for the twelve municipalities with which they have been able to collaborate in this intense work. In the absence of the last chapter on Teulada, below is a compilation of those already published:
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No hi ha res?
Hello Ignacio, the long documentary Venim de lluny will be with subtitles in English and Spanish for those who do not understand Valencian.
Greetings and joy.
Thank you very much for your reply. I hope they activate the option soon, as of today the subtitles are still not available.
How are they going to make History and Culture known using only Valencian and not providing subtitles? Any video from a YouTuber offers you that possibility and in several languages too. Is this only for the Parish or what? To put it at parties while they think they are important? Sad and retrograde.