¡Buen Camino! The past few weeks have seen Lydia traveling almost constantly in order to attend various Walking the Camino screenings and events. We sold out our first two screenings at Newport Beach Film Festival. They gave us a third which did well, so we were rewarded with a fourth and fifth screening. We are …
After a long day of walking (day 2) through the Galician rain, we had a wonderful dinner at Casa Gasamáns last night…again an amazing feast…started out with pulpo (octopus) sliced as thin as carpaccio beef – delicious, followed by scallops in a pool of local olive oil and garlic, we couldn’t get enough – and …
Sally’s Notes from the Camino Walking Tour, Day 3 Read More »
We all woke up this morning refreshed from an amazing night’s night’s sleep in our wonderful beautiful rural “casa,” Casa de Bola. We are all now refreshed and ready to start day two! But first we have to talk about last night’s incredible dinner! We drove through the amazing countryside to arrive and at yet …
Sally’s Notes from the Camino Walking Tour, Day 2 Read More »
Hi! Today was the first day of our “Walk to the End of the World/Walking the Camino; Six Ways to Santiago” Tour! We have six intrepid pilgrims with us: Barbara, Alex, Carmen, Diane, Stephanie and Kerstin – hailing from Oregon, South Africa, Ohio, and California respectively. Everyone had a great breakfast at the beautiful Hotel …
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¡Buen Camino! As you may already know, our recent world premieres in Ashland Independent Film Festival and AmDocs in Palm Springs were both major successes. We proudly took home the Audience Favorite Award (American film) at AmDocs and became the first film to sell out in Ashland, selling out all four regular screenings three weeks …
Newport, Rainier Independent Film Festival, New Ashland Screenings, and More Read More »
After an extended leave of absence, we at The Camino Documentary are excited to announce our new blog approach! Just because we’ve been quiet on the blog front doesn’t mean we’re slowing down. Quite the opposite; we’ve been very busy editing the film and have come a long way on it. We’ll tell you all …
New Plans for the Blog Means New Ways to Keep Up with The Camino Documentary! Read More »
On my way to The Camino Documentary’s floating office this evening, I listened to an interview on NPR with Martin Sheen & Emilio Estevez talking about The Way. It’s so exciting to hear them talk about their film for so many reasons… A: The Way sounds so wonderful, and I just can’t wait to go …
Last month two fundraisers were held in southern California & they were incredibly successful! Lydia’s high school classmate Polly Firestone Walker kindly hosted a screening near Santa Barbara and even increased her own previous donation to become a Funding Producer – we’re so grateful to have her on board. On a similar note, the awesomeness …
Dan Brown, Plus New Faces at The Camino Documentary Read More »
Back in January, we launched our Power of One campaign to raise funds to finish The Camino Documentary. As part of the campaign, we held an online contest: The Give Back, where we promised to donate 5% of the funds raised during the first part of the campaign to a person and to an organization. …
If you’ve been following The Camino Documentary’s progress, you’re most likely aware of all of the fundraising efforts that have been going on! What you might not know, though, is that there is a particularly special group that has been keeping much of the fundraising hopes alive: Lydia’s high school classmates. That’s right, I said …
Fundraising, High School, and Meet us in Santa Barbara! Read More »
