Shooting Ghosts on 66

Shooting Ghosts was awarded the best documentary prize at the 28th edition of the Arizona International Film Festival 2019, the oldest film festival in the USA. The short will have its American premiere in American cinemas on the 12th September 2019 in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Just like the Eagles they are standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and it must have been a fine sight to see, as they then moved into the middle of the road to take the photograph.

Fortunately for them, Winslow, Arizona doesn’t suffer many hit and runs, being a ghost town, one of several filmed by a Valencian documentary team while making Almost Ghosts, the story of Route 66, where you get your kicks.

After 4,000 kilometres of hard travelling on the road, the team, led by Ana Ramón Rubio, the director and scriptwriter, tell the story of the towns and villages that died as a result of the interstate highway that circumvented Route 66 between Chicago and Santa Monica.

Driving through California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois, Almost Ghosts is not only an epilogue, it also tells the stories of people who fought back and tried to save their hometowns.

Apart from Ana, Cristina Vivó, Carlos López Andrés, Celia Riera and Ximo Cardona were the other Valencians who undertook the journey in March 2018, and who all form part of the curiously titled Valencian webseries ‘Todos queríamos matar al presidente’, winner of the Best Thriller prize at the New York Web Fest and best direction at the Baltimore New Media Festival.

The premiere will take place in the section ‘DOC. España’ at the International Cine Festival of Valladolid (Seminci) between 20th and 27th of october 2018.