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Blood sausage

For so many years in spanish villages, the most important celebration in winter time it was the “pig slaughter”. Family, friends and neighbours gather together to kill the pig and fill the pantry for the rest of the year, becoming a great festive event. Manolo and Estrella invite family and friends to do the "pig slaugher" at their place. They use the time to think about the past and the future of this cellebration while cook some blood sausages.

  • Luis Román Alcaide
    Director
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Morcillas
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Genres:
    elder, food, rural, ethnography
  • Runtime:
    24 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    April 8, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Spain
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    hd
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Espiello Ethnographic film festival
    Boltaña
    Spain
    April 8, 2016
    Spanish premiere
Director Biography - Luis Román Alcaide

A graduate in computing and marketing, in 2009 Luis Román starts his relationship with filmmaking while studying a postgraduate course at the University of Toronto. During this period he collaborates with the TIFF and with the World Short Film Festival. Back in Spain he works at the Catalan Film Festival Association (CIVI) and founds the Barcelona Creative Commons Film Festival (BccN) the first of its kind in the world and a global referent for free culture (already 6 editions).
“Morcillas”, is his first short documentary completely self-produced.

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