Ibai Abad rueda el western 'L'Escanyapobres'

Co -produced from Televisió de Catalunya, ABACUS SCCL, Nakamura Films and May productions, Leridano Ibai Abad Rued The scrawny, free adaptation of the homonymous novel by Narcís Oller.

This new co -production of TV3 is starring àlex Brendemühl and Mireia Vilapuig, and also has Quim àvila and Laura Conejero in the cast.

The director's second film, after The girl from the song, is set at the end of the 19th century, when Europe lives a moment of transformation and capitalism disturbs the tranquility of rural Catalonia with the arrival of the first train, a symbol of the industrial revolution.

The scrawny Remember the validity of this classic message about the gray beginnings of progress: the shadows of wild capitalism continue today. “The first time I read Narcís Oller's novel was at the Institute, as a mandatory high school reading. It was not until a few years ago, with all the financial crisis and with the banks appropriating thousands of houses, which I realized that the theme of that novel, today, was more relevant than ever, I was fascinated by the idea of capitalism arriving in the form of a train for the first time to a remote town of Catalonia Westerns by John Ford or Sergio Leone, ”says the director.

This production is roll in Mutxamel (Alacantí) and Crevillent (Baix Vinalopó), Salas de Pallars (Pallars Jussà), Saira (Segrià), Calaf (Anoia) and Móra La Nova (Ribera d’Ebre) until April 12, with iconic elements of our collective imaginary associated with western, such as the infinite stamps of fields of fields of fields of fields of fields of fields wheat, long railways of the railway to wild lands or caves and mines.

MARIA CODINA is in charge of the photograph of The scrawny, while Andrés Mellinas directs production with Júlia Camarasa as art director. Jorge Álvarez It is in charge of direct sound, and Laia Casanovas and Oriol Donate of sound design and mixtures. The assembly will be the work of Gerard Villa and Bartrolle wave.

As for the director, Ibai Abad (Lleida, 1985), after graduating in the ESCC, directed the internationally awarded short films history of a burial, Tahití and the other life, the latter shot in 360º VR and released in the official section of the Sitges Festival.

Until 2012, he combined art history studies at the University of Barcelona with the filming of some documentaries in Bolivia, Peru and Senegal with the Audiovisual Without Borders organization. His passion for the theater has also led him to write and direct some works released with the Sognatore company in Barcelona.

In 2016 he directed the feature film The girl from the song, a review of the myth of Orpheus and Eurídice shot between Barcelona, London and the Burning Man Festival, in the Nevada Desert of the United States, within the framework of the official Master of Cinematography of the ESCC. When premiering worldwide in Netflix in November 2017, it was placed among the five most viewed films in several countries.