The film Sea of Earth, starring the Basque musician, Kepa Junquera, was in charge of opening this Thursday, this edition of the OUFF, Ourense Film Festival. The documentary, filmed between February and the end of May of this year, features some of the most unique carnivals in the provinces of Lugo and Ourense. Sea of Earth, directed by the director from Ourense José Antonio Blanco and with original music by Kepa Junkera himself, approaches the Carnivals in Verín, Laza, Xinzo, Salcedo (A Pobra do Brollón), Viana do Bolo and Santiago de Arriba (Chantada).
The work offers us a first-person journey through the most traditional carnivals of Galicia and is one of Kepa Junkera's first forays in front of the camera. The musician guides us through these carnivals and he even puts on the skin of our bear from Salcedo. Kepa Junquera is proud of the work and the result and grateful to all those who make these carnivals possible and collaborated in the production of the documentary “to the towns of Laza, Xinzo de Limia, Viana do Bolo, Verin, Vilariño do Conso, Santiago de Arriba, Manzaneda, Salcedo and to all the people who, with their generosity, made possible this little journey full of emotions that are difficult to explain, which must be experienced”.
At the opening ceremony of the Festival, our bear and his servants went about their business.
