Nueve Sevillas

Gonzalo García Pelayo, Pedro G. Romero / Spain, France (2021 - 137’ - VOSE)

A film director, Gonzalo García Pelayo, returns to Sevilla to shoot a film about his city. In 1978 he had already shot a feature film, “Vivir en Sevilla”. “Nueve Sevillas” would be that film’s son, his bastard grandson. Nine characters define with their lives the spatial and temporal limits of the city and also of the flamenco culture with which it is linked. With the presence of the new generation of artists, from Israel Galván to Rosalía through Niño de Elche, Rocío Molina or Tomás de Perrate, the city and the flamenco artists share affection, conversations and gestures. Through nine walks they teach each other. Nueve Sevillas is at the same time a film about flamenco and about Seville.

Data sheet

Director: Gonzalo García Pelayo, Pedro G. Romero
Year: 2020
Country: Spain, France
Length: 137 min.
Original language: Spanish
Leadings: Yinka Esi Graves, José Jiménez «Bobote», Gonzalo García Pelayo, Javiera de la Fuente, Vanesa Lérida Montoya, David Pielfort, Rudolph Rostas “Janek”, Rocío Montero, Pastora Filigrana
Editor: Sergi Dies
Producers: Roberto Butragueño; Nathalie Trafford; Joaquín Vázquez
Film company: Elamedia Estudios; Hellish Producciones; BNV Producciones; Magnetica Cine

Gonzalo García Pelayo

Impossible to define the career of this film director, music producer and inventive player who, with such a biography, is not only the director of Nueve Sevillas (2020), but also stars in it and is one of the characters who helps to define the city of Sevilla and flamenco. At the time of facing this particular project and the unknown of whether they will have their nine characters throughout the footage, he declares: “ I always define luck as the deviation of expectation”. Filmography: Manuela (1976), Vivir en Sevilla (1978), Frente al mar (1981), Corridas de alegría (1982), Rocío y José (2012), Alegrías de Cádiz (2013), Niñas (2014), Copla (2015) Amo que te amen (2015) Todo es de color (2016), Sobre la marcha (2016), Niñas 2 (2016), Mujeres heridas (2016).

Pedro G. Romero

An undisciplined artist. He has worked as an exhibition curator, critic, art historian, writer, and also as an artistic director for dance with Israel Galván, since 1998. A theater, musical, and now, film director. He is a great fan of flamenco, a condition that he claims over other ways of doing things. His work, besides theaters and art galleries, has been shown in many significant art spaces: Fundaciò Antoni Tápies, CA2M, Museo Picasso de Barcelona, MNCARS, Venice Biennial, Kunstverein Stuttgart, São Paulo Biennial, Bergen Assembly or Documenta de Kassel. He is founder and member of pie.flamenca (Independent Platform for Modern and Contemporary Flamenco Studies).