The Captain

Film Title: The Captain
Country: Spain
Length: 04’34”
Synopsis: The almadraba is an ancient art of bluefin tuna fishing, which currently survives in very few places. Among them, Conil de la Frontera, a fishing village of 22 thousand habitants, in southern Spain. Tradition and sustainability are the signs of the fishing of the almadraba, and also those of Conil, which today has in tourism one of its main ways of life.
But bluefin tuna is not just an admired gastronomic product. It is culture, struggle, organization, work, heritage … it is a way of being and being before life, that of a town that grew under its protection, Conil de la Frontera.
Conil owes its existence to the sea, to bluefin tuna, and to the almadraba. Conil is not understood without understanding the almadraba and its organization. With the captain of the trap in front, and with the legacy that is still transmitted from parents to sons.
Film Director: Juan Cernadas
Film Producer: Sergio Ceballos
Production Company: INNOVA FILMS
Client: PATRONATO MUNICIPAL DE TURISMO DE CONIL

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