Valladolid, Oct 26th 2022 (Hispano-Irish).- the Valladolid International Film Week (SEMINCI), in its 67th edition, in which it has as guest country Ireland, and with the Honor Spike to the Irish Director Jim Sheridan (“In the Name of the Father”), will present the documentary by Carlos Burgos produced by Hi-Story Producciones: “RED HUGH O´DONNELL, THE LAST JOURNEY”
Valladolid, 26 Oct 2022 (Hispano-Irish).- A better place to present this Documentary than the prestigious SEMINCI, which for many film experts is the 2nd Festival in Spain after San Sebastián, would be difficult to find. The Documentary that collects the footage of the archaeological excavation that took place in May 2020 in Valladolid, trying to locate the Chapel of Wonders of the disappeared Convent of San Francisco in Valladolid (Spain). In this Chapel there was evidence that Christopher Columbus and the Irish Hero Red Hugh O’Donnell had been buried. The communication campaign organized around the excavations soon made all the most important media in the world echo the news, and Valladolid then became in sentiment the “capital of Ireland”. The New York Times, FOX News, BBC, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Times, RTE, Irish Independent, The Irish Times, El País, ABC,…More than 60 international and national media outlets sent their correspondents to the excavation of Valladolid, thus becoming the largest international media campaign that the city had known in years. Red Hugh O’Donnell had put the city of Pisuerga on the international map. Nothing would ever be the same again. This Documentary has the magnificent top-level contributions of Frank Smyth (Irish ambassador to Spain), Hugo O’Donnell (Member of the Royal Academy of History, Marine and descendant of O’Donnell), Christopher Columbus de Carvajal (Descendant of the Admiral), Declan Downey and John McCavitt (Irish historians), the researchers Juan Carlos Urueña and ÓScar Burón, the directors of the Archives Julia Rodríguez (Simancas) and Eduardo Pedruelo (Valladolid), Eddie Crawford and B.Rohan. Like any documentary worth its salt in touching on Irish history and heritage, it has the generous musical contributions of the first international level. Composer Phil Coulter, Aoife Ní Fhearraigh, Bill Whelan (Creator of the Riverdance theme), and from the Spanish side, our international “brother” of the Irish Chieftains, Carlos Nuñez from Galicia, and Alvaro Carbonell conducting the Celtic Chamber Orchestra from Madrid. Impossible to beat this first-class musical cast that injects us with the Irish feeling, making us fly to that emerald melancholy.
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