DESENTERRANDO SAD HILL

2017 · Guillermo Fernández de Oliveira · Espaina - España - Spain · 83 min

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9th May @ 18:00 Golem Alhóndiga (Sala 1)

Documentary film about the incredible story of one of the most famous film locations in the history of cinema. A documentary that explores the dreams and motivations of the fans, but also the transformation of art, music and cinema into an authentic experience of quest and transcendence.
In 1966, the Spanish Army built a huge cemetery with more than 5,000 tombs in Mirandilla Valley in Burgos for the final scene of the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The place was completely abandoned after filming and for 49 years the vegetation covered every grave.
In October 2015 a group of fans of the film decided to start digging … and under 10 centimetres of earth they found the original cobbled circle. For months people from all over Europe have travelled to Sad Hill to unearth and rebuild the place. And Sad Hill Unearthed is the result of recording the whole process … even before it started.

Born in Vigo in 1986, he has a degree in Audio-visual Communication and Journalism. He has worked for the last ten years in the advertising sector, and has also participated in film directing and screenwriting workshops at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles (USA) and the EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba).
With his production company, Zapruder Pictures makes his first short films in which he adapts videogames to real image. Filmed in English they accumulate about five million reproductions on their YouTube channel: Max Payne: Valhalla (2012), Modern Warfare: Sunrise (2013), or the award-winning Red Dead Redemption: Seth’s Gold (2015).
His feature film debut is the documentary Sad Hill Unearthed in which he narrates the odyssey of a group of fans to rebuild the cemetery of the final sequence of Sergio Leone’s classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It was awarded the Noves Visions Best Film Award at Sitges Film Festival and nominated for the Goya Award for Best Documentary 2019. After being released in theatres, the film premiered worldwide on Netflix.